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Map CatDV Fields to Final Cut Pro Metadata Keys

We now support for the mapping of CatDV Fields to Final Cut Pro Metadata Keys

Requirements

As a starting point, you will need to ensure you have the following installed/configured:

CatDV Pegasus Server 10.7.0 or later

Note

Currently, we only support of String type Final Cut Pro Metadata Keys. See here for a list of the keys and their types: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/professional-video-applications/metadata-keys-and-sources

Configure CatDV Fields

Go to your CatDV Server Admin page

Go to “Customisation” and click on “Fields”

Create a field group called “FCPX CatDV Custom Fields” or whatever name you wish to give the group

From there, start creating CatDV fields with type = text like in the image below

For our example, we will focus on the created CatDV user field nle.custom.Clip.Camera.Label

Configure Custom Resource

At your customisation page, click on “Custom Resources”

Add a new resource type = “FCP X Field Map”

To map existing CatDV user field to FCP X ones, you will need to enter it this way <catdv.field.identifier>:<fcp.metadata.key> like below: You can have multiple mappings – one per line.

Once you are happy with your mapping, you can click “OK”

Editing the CatDV Fields

Go to a clip and edit the custom CatDV fields before we import to Final Cut Pro

Importing Fields to Final Cut Pro

Launch your Final Cut Pro editor

Once launched, click on the CatDV FCP Panel icon

The panel will launch, log in to your CatDV Server A screenshot of a computer Description automatically generated

Go to the clip that you edited, and drag it into your Final Cut Pro by dragging it

Once it’s dragged into Final Cut Pro, click on it to view the clip info

You will see that the Final Cut Pro metadata keys are filled with the values from the CatDV fields

To view additional Final Cut Pro metadata keys, follow this guide: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/final-cut-pro/ver397297af/mac

Direct Mapping of Fields

We also support for direct mapping of the Final Cut Pro metadata keys.

All you will need to do is set the CatDV user field’s identifier to the Final Cut Pro metadata key If you do this way, you do not need to map the field over at the “Custom Resource” page

Edit your CatDV clip to test this method out

Drag the clip into Final Cut Pro and check the clip’s info. It will populate into the intended field