Oct
Sony has introduced two new applications as part of its Sony Creative Software product line. Both are intended for media management, so they will be especially useful for professionals such as DITs, or anyone who performs reviewing, transcoding, ripping or metadata editing tasks.
Catalyst Browse
It is completely free software designed specifically for Sony’s latest cameras and recorders, including the CineAlta, SR, XDCAM and NXCAM series, as well as the newly arrived PXW-FS7.
These are the tools and capabilities of Catalyst Browse:
- Navigation: using a thumbnail view or a detailed list.
- Review: you can check focus, mark in and out points, adjust color or edit metadata.
- “Ultra Wide Color Gamut”: review the full color range captured in S-Log or RAW. In addition, it is possible to apply looks and import or export ASC-CDL files.
- List creation: with the ability to import and export lists of “Sony Professional Disc” clips for quick playback.
- Transcoding
- Uploading to the cloud: using the Sony Ci platform.
Catalyst Prepare
With Catalyst Prepare we will have extended functions and support, since its main difference is that it is not limited to Sony files, but works with a wide variety of cameras such as Canon or GoPro.
It also offers tools for media preparation:
- Import
- Organization: by means of labeled collections.
- Backups: perform backups with Checksum verification.
- Editing: editing metadata, marking inputs and outputs on clips, nondestructively adjusting color or creating a storyboard.
- Creation of a first cut: using the storyboard editor for this purpose.
- “Ultra Wide Color Gamut”: setting the source color space and correction color space independently, with a choice of Rec.709, Log or ACES to work with.
- Export: from a file, a group of files or a story board in formats such as MP4, DPX, OpenEXR, ACES, ProRes (Mac only) or XAVC.
- Cloud upload: using the Sony Ci platform.
Both Catalyst Browse and Catalyst Prepare work on Windows, which can also be touch-enabled, and Mac OS X; and work with OpenCL acceleration.
From this link you can download Catalyst Browse for free, but for Catalyst Prepare you will have to wait until the end of the month, when it will be released for $199.95.
