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, precise first-pass color correction 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, Sony RAW, and HD 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. Some features: • Quick view of files on the user's device - in thumbnail or list mode.

• View and import clips from professional cameras, including Sony, Canon, GoPro, and others.
• Use the storyboard editor to organize and edit pre-editing, followed by rendering the storyboard and exporting it to various non-linear video editing systems.
• View detailed information for each clip, check focus, mark in and out points, non-destructive color adjustments, create storyboards and edit metadata.
• Organization of media content in various collections.
• Copy all clips on the media, group or individual clips.
• An overview of the full spectrum of colors captured with the Sony S-Log or RAW camera.
• Create, export and import lists of clips Professional Disc.
• Export files, groups of files, storyboards.
• Rendering to MP4, DPX, OpenEXR, ACES, ProRes (Mac only) or XAVC formats at different resolutions and frame rates.
• Transcoding clips into the most popular video production formats.
• Upload clips directly to the Sony Ci cloud for sharing with colleagues.
• Backing up media content.
• Supports work with the same color range as on the camera.

Sony Catalyst Edit- an efficient and convenient editing environment that makes everything fast, clear and simple. With support for 4K and Sony RAW, the user can take full advantage of the wide dynamic range, varied color gamut and highest resolution of their camera. Flexible timeline lets you edit 4K, XAVC and Sony RAW files with the same ease as HD files. Catalyst Edit's structured workflow for multi-channel audio simplifies audio editing. Integration with Catalyst Prepare allows you to edit quickly and efficiently with fast video downloads.

The Catalyst Production Suite workflow
With strong family support, you can accomplish amazing things. The Catalyst family provides powerful media prep and focused, fast editing that you can rely on to translate the vision in your head to an experience that moves your viewers.

Catalyst Prepare takes care of all of your media prep needs:
- View your media directly from a camera, deck, or card reader
- Make a full-volume backup
- Organize clips into bins
- Batch copy clips
- Batch transcode clips
- Make color adjustments and apply looks
- Set in / out points
- Establish multichannel audio assignments
- Batch upload clips to the cloud via Sony Media Cloud Services Ci
- Cut together a rough edit with the storyboard feature

Post production
In Catalyst Edit, turn your beautiful footage into a polished, finished product. To save time, access your Catalyst Prepare libraries directly and cut your project together quickly and creatively. The focused toolset gives you quick access to all the essential cutting tools as well as effects, titling, and other tools to bring your production from imagination to screen.

System requirements:
- Microsoft® Windows 7, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10 (64-bit) or Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) or 10.11 (El Capitan)
- Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) or 10.11 (El Capitan)
- 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

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