Catalyst Production Suite is a package of tools for creating and editing video files. The solution includes two products: Catalyst Prepare and Catalyst Edit. They help you transfer content from camera to post-production and prepare it for editing using organizational tools, color adjustment and monitoring functions, as well as tools for working with metadata. Plus, you can take advantage of all the benefits of a modern touch interface. Sony Catalyst Prepare is an application that provides a fast, simple and reliable workflow from shooting to post-production, allowing professional users to efficiently transfer it from their cameras, prepare for editing and have confidence that the data is securely backed up.

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 overview 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-cuts, then render the storyboard and export it to various non-linear video editing systems.
• View detailed information for each clip, check focus, mark in and out points, non-destructively adjust colors, create storyboards and edit metadata.
• Organize media content into various collections.
• Copy all clips on the media, a group or individual clips.
• Review the full spectrum of colors captured with an S-Log or RAW Sony camera.
• Create, export and import Professional Disc clip lists.
• Export files, groups of files, storyboards.
• Render to MP4, DPX, OpenEXR, ACES, ProRes (Mac only) or XAVC at multiple resolutions and frame rates.
• Transcoding of clips into the most popular video production formats.
• Upload clips directly to the Sony Ci cloud for sharing with colleagues.
• Backup media content.
• Supports working with the same color range as on the camera.

Sony Catalyst Edit is an efficient and user-friendly editing environment that makes everything fast, clear and simple. With support for 4K and Sony RAW formats, you can take full advantage of your camera's wide dynamic range, rich color gamut, and superior resolution. The flexible timeline allows you to edit 4K, XAVC and Sony RAW files with the same ease as HD files. Catalyst Edit's structured workflow for working with multi-channel audio simplifies audio editing. Integration with Catalyst Prepare allows you to edit quickly and efficiently with fast video loading.

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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