Sony Catalyst Production Suite 2018.1

Catalyst Production Suite focuses 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, 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 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.

Highlights for "Catalyst Production Suite":
- Organize and edit 4K video footage so that you can take advantage of your camera’s full resolution
- Edit Sony RAW and XAVC video footage to produce stunning colors with your camera’s wide color gamut and high dynamic range capabilities
- Manage multichannel audio and video files effectively
- Cut video efficiently with powerful and intuitive timeline editing tools
- Move freely between media prep and video editing
- Edit on either Mac OS X or Windows platform
- Use touch, Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, and traditional devices
- Combine multiple video formats to create projects


Catalyst Prepare
It 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 with checksum verification
- 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 Ci, the Sony video cloud service
- Assemble a rough cut with the Storyboard feature

Catalyst Edit
In Catalyst Edit, turn your beautiful footage into a polished, finished product. To save time, access your Catalyst Prepare libraries directly and import existing storyboards to 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.