New features in CatDV 3.0

• Drag and drop of files into main window, and copying thumbnail images to the system clipboard (Windows and Mac OS X only)
• New Create Real-Time Sequence command to create an EDL based on time of day record date, simplifying the synching of multi-camera shoots (Professional Edition only)
• Compatibility with Final Cut Pro's OfflineRT codec (Professional Edition only)
• New Timecode Calculator command.
• Changes made in the clip details window are applied immediately without needing to press a 'Save' button. The detail table and the rest of the window are always kept in synch now.
• Improved handling of media file formats other than DV. Improved reporting of metadata indicating the media file format (eg. Exif exposure details, new Importer column, changes to the Format column).
• Various new columns: Date, Aspect Ratio, Audio Rate, Frame Size, Frame Rate, Importer, Name or Tape, Size or Length. Some of these show existing information in a different form and are useful when grouping, or when a concise display of different types of clip in a grid view is desired.
• The main window now supports two levels of grouping.
• Multi line text shows more of your logging notes in wide list views (eg. 'Full' view).
• Values for picklists such as Tape, Bin and user defined grouping fields are remembered across catalogs. Allow them to be selected from drop down lists in list views and within the details table of the clip details dialog.
• New buttons in the clip details dialog to split a clip at the given cursor point, to review the transition from one clip to another, and to merge two clips together if they were split incorrectly.
• The Rec. Date field is now editable.
• Export as FCP batch list now substracts one from Out points and honours the base clips on selection flag. (Professional Edition only)
• Scan For New Files now searches back to a common root directory and finds all new files anywhere in that tree (if the include sub-directories flag is set).
• New Merge menu command merges two or more selected clips into one. New commands to Clear (delete) and Duplicate selected clips.
• Keyboard shortcuts now work in the clip details dialog, eg. control-up or down to step through the catalog, I and O to mark in and out points, JKL jog shuttle keys (Professional Edition only), etc.
• New command in Order By menu to Reverse the current clip order.
• New Page Setup command (Mac OS X and Windows only).
• New Print Selected Images command.
• New Preferences option to set a custom title on printouts.
• New Source Media Summary View
• New menu commands to simplify marking selected clips as good or not.
• New option when Exporting Movies to disable square pixel aspect ratio correction.
• Improvements to slide show, eg. speed is configurable in Preferences, new option whether to autodouble small images, option to fade between slides (Mac only), the selection in the main window is updated to your location in the slide show, etc.
• New menu command to Attach Media to a clip which hasn't previously had media (as opposed to Update Media Location, which is used when an existing media file has been moved).
• New command to Move Media Files. This will also update the Bin if the bin is currently showing the parent directory. Conversely, editing the Bin name will ask if you want to move the media file.
• Improvements to Live Capture previews generation: new Preferences options to select JPEG preview quality and to control compensation for dropped frames.
• Sorting on the Poster field sorts clips according to overall thumbnail brightness. (If you have several copies of the same image at different resolutions this function will bring all the related images together.)
• Automatically remember the last selected window size and view and use that for new windows.
• Timecodes can now be entered without a colon.
• Tool tips displaying basic details of a clip when viewing catalogs in a thumbnail only grid view.
• Correctly extract the date recorded by JVC DV camcorders.
• Numerous cosmetic improvements, such as reordering some menu and toolbar commands to make them more obvious, especially the Media and Tools menus, displaying a Mac OS X 'needs save' indicator, making it clearer which column header a table is being sorted on, and making it clearer which cell in a table has keyboard focus.
• The Help menu now has links to the CatDV web site, to display the License Agreement and Release Notes, and shortcuts to specific help pages.
• Improved stability in low memory situations (by suppressing display of thumbnails).
• Countless other bug fixes and 'under the hood' improvements.

There are now two different editions of the CatDV client application, the Personal Edition and Professional Edition, each with different feature sets. Unless otherwise noted, the changes above are applicable to both editions of the application. Various additional improvements are specific to the Professional Edition only:

• The Professional Edition can be used as a client to the optional CatDV Workgroup Server to provide access to major new workgroup features.
• Other features specific to the Professional Edition are detailed here, including named filters, regular expressions, timezone adjustments, additional importers and exporters, and customisable preview settings.
• New columns specific to the Professional Edition include GMT Date, Clock Adjustment, Location Timezone, and Aux T/C.