What is new in Fast Video Cataloger 10.1
Fast Video Cataloger 10.1 is now available for download. Here is what is new in this version.
We have added support for external input devices. You can now control Fast Video Cataloger with an Xbox (or compatible) game controller or a MIDI control surface such as the Behringer X-Touch. Buttons can be bound to any command, and you can scrub through video with a jog wheel or an analog stick — turn the jog wheel slowly for frame-by-frame steps, faster to cover more of the video. Analog sticks can also be used for shuttle (playback speed follows the stick), and faders can be mapped directly to the video timeline.
Keyboard shortcuts and device controls are now configured together in the Shortcuts window, one list with every command and what triggers it. To bind a device control, click the command and touch the control on your device. An Xbox controller works with no setup and comes with a ready default mapping; see the new “Use Input Devices” page in the user guide for details.
There is a new Add To Playlist command that adds the selected videos to the current playlist. It has no default key, so assign it a keyboard shortcut or a controller button in the Shortcuts window.
New shortcuts to step the video one frame at a time: Ctrl+. (period) pauses and steps one frame forward, Ctrl+, (comma) one frame backward.
Keyboard shortcuts now work in the fullscreen video player. Previously only a few did; now the whole set is available, including play/pause, capture frame, frame stepping and keyword assignment.
Selecting the next or previous video now keeps the playback state: a playing video keeps playing and a paused video stays paused on the new video.
Scripts can now use face recognition through the new GetFaceRecognition function in the scripting interface, so you can build your own face-matching automation. We also added StopIndexing and GetVolume/SetVolume, and RunCommand now accepts language-independent command names so scripts keep working when the user interface language changes. Seven new sample scripts are included, among them Learn Actor Faces, Find Scenes with Faces and Auto Index Folder.
Layout Reset now restores your saved layout instead of the factory default, so you can close temporarily opened windows and get back to your workspace with one click. Hold Shift and click Reset for the factory layout. There is also a new Close All button in the View menu (Ctrl+Shift+Q) that closes every window, leaving an empty work area — handy when building a custom layout from scratch.
And, as usual, there are many other improvements and bug fixes — the full list is in the version history in the user guide.
Download the latest version from our download page.