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Catalyst Production Suite
The Catalyst Production Suite fuses powerful media preparation and fast, focused video editing to provide the backbone for your video productions. Catalyst Prepare paves your path from camera to post with robust organizational tools, strong color adjustment and monitoring, extensive metadata support and more. Catalyst Edit provides a lean, focused video editing environment that makes your cutting process fast and fluent. With support for 4K and Sony RAW media, the Catalyst Production Suite gives you the power to make the most of your camera's high dynamic range and wide color gamut as well as the stunning resolution of 4K from beginning to end.

The Catalyst Workflow
Catalyst Browse gives you instant access to the clips on your recording media, whether in the field or in studio. With Catalyst Prepare you import your footage from the camera, organize it, enhance it and move it on to post production. With Catalyst Edit you pick up right where you left off in Catalyst Prepare to finish and deliver your project. Together, the Catalyst family provides a seamless and smooth workflow whether you work with RAW, 4K or HD media.

Catalyst Browse
Catalyst Browse provides a quick in-field confidence check. Apply the appropriate color look from your Sony Pro camera for an instant, realistic view of what you've shot, so if you need to make adjustments and shoot again, you know that sooner than later. Check each file, review extensive metadata and copy any clip to your computer drive.

The complex world of media production requires powerful media management. Catalyst Browse, a cross-platform viewing and logging tool for all Sony Pro formats, offers streamlined media management that simplifies your workflow and secures your content.

A Powerful Clip-Management Tool For The Latest Sony Cameras And Decks
Catalyst Browse is a media assistant that lets you browse files from your Sony camera, deck or card reader with detailed views of individual clips; see and edit media metadata; accurately view video using source color space and apply color correction and color looks. Once you've selected the clips you need, you can copy them to a local hard drive or connected NAS, upload to Sony Media Cloud Services Ci, transcode to a variety of formats, as well as create, ingest and export Sony Professional Disc clip lists.

Browse
Quickly browse files on your device using a visual thumbnail view or detailed list.

View
See the details of each clip, check focus, mark in and out points, adjust colors and edit metadata.

Fast Copy
Copy all clips on the media, a subset or only the desired portion of a clip to save time and space.

Wide Color Gamut
Review with confidence the full range of color captured by your S-Log and RAW Sony cameras. Apply color correction and import/export standard ASC-CDL files with other workflow tools to save time.

Clip Lists
Create, import and export Sony Professional Disc clip lists for quick play-out needs.

Transcode and Cloud
Transcode clips to a variety of video production formats. Upload clips directly to the Sony Ci Media Cloud Services for collaborative team review. Supported video formats and devices.

Media Prep
Catalyst Prepare
With the powerful Catalyst Prepare media prep tools, view and back up your entire media image and then import and organize your clips into meaningful libraries. Make color adjustments, apply looks, set in/out points, establish multichannel audio assignments and even cut together a rough edit. Then, access all of this work in Catalyst Edit and get on with the production.

The ultimate preproduction assistant that allows you to easily and intuitively browse storage devices, create and view clips, edit metadata, transcode to a wide variety of pro formats, load media onto production drives and more.

The fast, simple, reliable path from camera to post
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.

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.

Import
Import mode enables browsing of multiple devices. Connect cameras, decks and card readers and preview clips in detail. View clips as thumbnails or as lists with associated metadata. Copy all media, selected media or portions of selected media to production drives and backup drives. Create full camera card backups with strong checksum verification and rest assured that you have perfect copies of your assets before reformatting.

Library Auto Save
Never lose your progress - Catalyst Prepare reliably auto-saves your libraries as you work.

Accurate Copy And Backup
Copy a single clip, a portion of a clip, a group of clips or an entire volume to local or network storage locations, with checksum and hash verification applied on transfer.

Native Format Support
Catalyst Prepare natively supports Sony professional formats such as XDCAM SD and HD, XDCAM Ex, XAVC-Intra, XAVC Long-GOP, XAVC S, NXCAM, Sony RAW, HDCAM SR (SStP), AVCHD, AVC H.264/MPEG-4, DNxHD, HDV and DV. All formats can be mixed and matched when building a storyboard. Multichannel files? No problem: Catalyst Prepare supports files with up to 16 channels of audio. Supported video formats and devices.

Logging
Mark in and out points during playback or scrub the timeline and log marker points to focus on the important part of the clip. Create subclips to capture sections of a longer clip.

Organize
In Organize Mode, create project-specific libraries and folders; rename files and move them between folders; create, render and export storyboards; and upload media to Ci, the cloud-based media production workspace by Sony.

Create and Load Libraries
Catalyst Prepare is a key organizational and creative tool that allows you to arrange media into targeted, meaningful libraries and then launch the creative process with solid rough drafts. Locate the correct media, create subclips and develop rough drafts on a storyboard in a dedicated tool designed specifically for these tasks. A library is automatically created when media is imported. Create new libraries as needed; all imported media will be saved alongside the library file.

Create Subclips
Deliver only material of interest and apply a meaningful name for the editing stage.

Use Existing Media
Access existing media drives directly in Catalyst Prepare; simply add their folders to your library and start leveraging the organization, editing and export benefits right away without having to import.

Upload to Ci Workspace by Sony
Securely upload assets to the Ci Workspace and instantly connect your team to your media files. Ci offers tailored online apps so your team can review, annotate and collaborate on media files across multiple locations in real time. Get the notes you need, as soon as possible.

Storyboard
The storyboard feature allows you to organize and sequence a set of clips into a rough cut. Add clips to the story, change the sequence and edit in/out points for individual clips. From there, render your storyboard out to a single file for review; the perfect solution for keeping your team informed and in sync, right from the start.

Alternatively, Catalyst Prepare allows you to pass projects to post as media with EDL, for significant time savings in the editing suite; in this case, the project is already started, the initial edit is done and the media is present and accounted for, sequenced and ready for post. Supported NLEs include Vegas Pro, AVID Media Composer, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve (via the FCP XML format).

Post Production
Catalyst Edit
In Catalyst Edit, take advantage of all your Catalyst Prepare prep work and turn your beautiful footage into movie magic. Access your Catalyst Prepare libraries directly and cut your project together quickly and creatively. The focused toolset gives you the essential cutting tools you need to turn your ideas into the expression of your creative mind.