Catalyst Prepare - media production is growing more complicated. Turnaround times are getting tighter. You need a tool that eases the workload on your editor, ensuring that projects meet their deadlines. With Catalyst Prepare, you can quickly identify the right footage to deliver, in the correct format, with your desired folder and clip-naming structure, even when using a variety of popular cameras. Jumpstart the editing and review process by creating a rough cut storyboard with a quick initial color grade, then render it out directly or export an EDL for use in popular NLEs.

Features:
Fast
• Verify shots immediately on set, including Sony RAW and S-Log clips
• Solve your "camera media wrangling" issues with a single application
• Deadline pressure? Quickly review and identify subclips for copying, eliminating the long transfer times needed for entire clips

Simple
• Work in the same simple, consistent, fresh user interface on both Mac OS X and Windows platforms
• Simple, powerful interface with a quick and easy learning curve
• Secure, integrated clip upload to Ci Workspace enables cloud-based, collaborative review of work with your extended team
• Intuitive design provides the tools you need for each step, ending cognitive overload, clutter, and confusion

Reliable
• Back up your camera media with confidence from integrated checksum verification
• Media libraries are saved automatically and continuously, preserving critical edits
• Precise managed color workflow ensures accuracy and consistency for Sony RAW and S-Log sources


Changelog:
Added a Vectorscope tool to the Adjust Color workspace.
Added Brightness and Contrast sliders to the Adjust Color workspace.
Added support for exporting DNxHD clips.
Added support to combine to one file when copying a spanned AVCHD clip.
Added support for reading SD MPEG-2 clips.
Added support for writing XDCAM EX clips to SxS memory cards.
Added support for transcoding to interlaced XAVC formats.
Added support for showing additional metadata values in the Media Browser.
Fixed a bug that prevented the application from reading some files recorded by the PXW-FS7 camera.
Fixed a bug that could prevent color correction settings from being applied to all clips in a clip list.

- Microsoft® Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 (64-bit) or Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) or 10.9 (Mavericks)
- 2 GHz processor (multicore or multiprocessor CPU recommended for HD; 8 cores recommended for 4K)
- 500 MB hard-disk space for program installation
- Solid-state disk (SSD) or high-speed RAID for 4K media
- 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended; 16 GB recommended for 4K)
- NVIDIA, AMD/ATI, or Intel GPU with support for the following:
- OpenGL 2.1
- OpenCL 1.1 or later with at least 512 MB of memory (2 GB recommended for 4K) or a CPU with SSE 4.2 or higher