Catalyst Production Suite is a group of tools for creating and editing video files. The solution consists of two products: Catalyst Prepare and Catalyst Edit. They can be used to move content from the camera to post-processing and prepare for editing with organizational tools, color adjustment and monitoring functions, and metadata tools. You can also take full advantage of modern touch surfaces. Sony Catalyst Prepare is a fast, easy, and reliable workflow from capture to production that allows professional users to efficiently transfer it from their camera, prepare it for editing, and ensure secure data backup.

Catal Production Suite combines powerful media delivery and fast and focused video editing to form the backbone of your video production. Catalyst Prepare paves the way from camera to publication with robust organizational tools, accurate color correction and monitoring on first pass, extensive metadata support, and more. Catalyst Edit offers a sleek and focused video editing environment that makes the editing process fast and smooth.

With support for 4K, Sony RAW and HD media, Catalyst Production Suite allows you to take advantage of the high dynamic color space and space of your camera, as well as the stunning 4K resolution, from start to finish.

Some features:

View files on the user’s device – in thumbnail or list mode.

View and import videos from professional cameras, including Sony, Canon, GoPro and more.

Use the storyboard editor to organize and edit pre-processing, create storyboards, and export to various nonlinear video editing systems.

View detailed information for each clip, check focus, enter and exit, change non-destructive color adjustments, create storyboards, and editmetadata.

Organizing media content in different collections.

Copy all videos to media, groups, or individual videos.

Multicolor view taken with Sony S-Log or RAW cameras.

Create, export, and import a professional video list.

Export files, filegroups, storyboards.

Display in MP4, DPX, OpenEXR, ACES, ProRes (Mac only) or XAVC formats in different resolutions and frame rates.

Transcode videos into the most popular video production formats.

Upload videos directly to the Sony Ci cloud to share with colleagues.

Archiving media content.

Supports operation with the same color range as the camera.

Sony Catalyst Edit – an efficient and easy editing environment that makes everything fast, clear and easy. With support for 4K and Sony RAW, users can take full advantage of the large dynamic range, diverse color space and the highest resolution of the camera. The flexible timeline allows you to edit 4K, XAVC and Sony RAW files as easily as HD files. Catalyst Edit’s structured multi-channel audio workflow simplifies audio editing. Integration with Catalyst Prepare allows fast and efficient editing with fast video downloads.

Catal Production Suite workflow

With strong family support, you can achieve something amazing. The Catalyst family offers powerful media training, and fast, focused editing that you can rely on when translating vision in your head becomes an experience that moves your audience.

Catalyst Prepare manages all your media training needs:

– View your media directly from the camera, deck or card reader

– Make a complete archive

– Arrange the videos in the trash

– Copies of videos in large numbers

– Recode videos in groups

– Make color adjustments and apply appearance

– Set entry / exit points

– Run multi-channelaudio assignments

– Many upload videos to the cloud via Sony Media Cloud Services Ci

– Cut rough pieces together with the storyboard function

After production

Turn your beautiful photos into a polished end product in Catalyst Edit. To save time, go directly to your Catalyst Prepare library and reduce your projects quickly and creatively. The focused set of tools gives you quick access to all the basic cutting tools, as well as effects, titles and other tools to transfer your production from the imagination to the screen.

System Requirements:

– Microsoft Windows 7, Windows or Windows 10 (64-bit) or Mac OS X (Yosemite) or (El Capitan)

– Mac OS X (Yosemite) or (El Captain)

– 2 GHz processor (multi-core or multi-processor processor recommended for HD; 8 cores recommended for 4K)

– 500 MB hard disk space for program installation

– High speed hard disk drive (SSD) or 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

– OpenCL or higher with at least 512 MB RAM (2 GB recommended for 4K) or CPU with SSE or higher