After lots of work and testing, we are really happy to finally announce Fast video cataloger 7 with new support to share video catalogs in a local network or over the internet.
Video server
The big new thing in this version is that it includes the Fast video cataloger server. The server allows you to share a video catalog in a local network or over the internet if you host your videos on a web server. You can easily go between using a local video catalog to a video catalog hosted by the server. The server is run as a windows service so it can keep running in the background even if you do not have the Fast video cataloger program running. When a catalog is shared several people can access the catalog at the same time. If anyone adds a video to the catalog it will be indexed locally and uploaded to the server.
We have worked on the server for a number of years now with internal beta versions and lots of testing, I am super happy to finally be able to share this work with all users.
You start the server from the Share menu.
Rest API
We have a rest API for use from web pages. the rest API has functions for reading and search a catalog. When you share a catalog over the internet you have the option to generate a sample web page that uses the API. The API allows you to build web solutions that get video data from the Fast video cataloger server.
Updated style
We have gone through the program and added icons. It does look prettier but the real reason we did it is to make it easier to find the windows you need as there starts to be quite a lot of windows now in Fast video cataloger.
Copy & Paste keywords
We have added two new icons to the thumbnails when you hover with the mouse. Click the buttons to copy and paste keywords to the scene. You can separate the keywords with a ,. And, it uses the standard Windows clipboard so you can mark text in another program and click the paste button to make that text a keyword for the scene thumbnail.
Performance
When you select a video the thumbs are displayed faster. This is very evident if you have videos with hundreds of thumbnails. We have also done a big performance pass on rendering, it should run smoother especially on large screens.
And lot of other smaller improvements. Download the latest version or upgrade from inside the program.