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We also tested Live Capture Plus, Square Box System’s stand alone capture software. When I want to really test a capture utility, I reach out under my desk and bring out “Old Scratchy,” a Mini DV tape full of dropouts, timecode breaks, and even PAL an NTSC footage. I was impressed by Live Capture Plus’s ability to wade through the mess, and not simply give up with error message. It managed to capture e erything. problems and all, breaking th tape into sub-reels when necessary. Liv Capture Plus is for Mac OS X only, and currently works only with DV tapes.

Building the Database
Once the clip is captured and analyzed into individual clips, CatDV Pro then d some heavy crunching, creating both thumbnail images and small preview quality movies for each. These preview movies are small enough to remain on your hard drive for archiving purposes, and stay there once you finish a project and delete your original movie files. An QuickTime codec can be specified for the preview movies, including Offline and iPod video. You then present thes clips together in a catalog, which is comprised of many clips, each havind its own customizable metadata. Most of the data entry is done in this Clip Details window. Aside from the basic clip name, tape, and notes fields, the are six user definable fields.

The first thing that the program asks when you start it is whether you want to create an NTSC or PAL project. If you’re just going to Blu-ray Disc, this question will seem quite strange on the surface, but the reason the program asks has to do with one of the line items on the box. The program includes the ability to write the same project to both Blu-ray Disc and DVD—a very useful feature that has the potential to save you a lot of time (depending on the scope of your disc authoring project, of course).
We found the process to bring assets into program a bit confusing at first. The File > Import > Media option seems a logical choice on the surface, but fails to bring in anything but still images. However, there’s also File > Add Movie. This is the one you want to use for bringing in your video clips. The program is also finicky about file extensions—we had some .m2t (MPEG-2 transport stream) files captured from a Sony HDR-FX7 HDV camcorder via Sony DVGate Plus that had to have their extensions changed to .mpg before we could import them.
The arrangement of the program in its default workspace (there are a few others to choose from) made immediate sense to us. The menu bar is arranged left-to-right in order of how you will be accessing the functions beneath (e.g., Timeline, DVD Menus, Simulate, Burn)

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Multi Camera HD Production Studio
Use your Favorite Software Intensity is fully compatible with both Adobe Premiere Pro on Windows and Apple Final Cut Pro on Mac OS X, as well as After Effects, Photoshop and many more. Intensity also works in 1080i HD, 720p HD, NTSC and PAL for worldwide compatibility.