Version History

Fast Video Cataloger 9.45

Right click in the bin view will not change current selection if anything is selected.

Fixes issue with drag n drop of folders in the file organizer.

Changed default filtering for rating in the search window to be greator or above instead of the same rating.

Added shortcuts option to assign ratings to selected videos, by default the shortcuts are not bound to any keys.

Fast Video Cataloger 9.44

Fixed crash related to the file organizer window.

Fixed crash in video player due to missing vcredist file in the installer. Only happened on machines without the vcredist package installed.

Fixed issue with renaming the wrong file if you clicked on the title text box in the catalog view to rename, changed the name and clicked right into another title text box.

Ctrl+I search disabled other search fields and there were not enabled when the search was cleared.

Fixed issue when keyword navigating the video catalog in thumbnail mode, when moving up and down with keyboard, if the whole list scrolled it did ignore the change to the next thumbnail.

If removing or deleting videos from the videocatalog list the keyboard focus was lost.

Fast Video Cataloger 9.43

It's now possible to assign keywords from the bin window even if a keyword is not in the current search filter.

Keyboard navigation and selection in the video catalog window have changed. Move focus with the arrow key. When focus moves, the thumbnail window will show for the focused video and not the selected one. Add/Remove from selection with space, select one item only with Enter. Multiselection with the mouse works the same as before: hold down Ctrl to add to the selection and shift for range selection.

When multiselecting in the video catalog window, the video detail window and the thumbnail window will update to show the last selected item.

Bins now have a file context menu to "delete", "Open folder", "open in file organizer", and "Show properties".

Fixed the issue that the reset button in the search window only resets the text on the first click. And the next click updated the search; now the fields are cleared and the search is updated.

Search in the file organizer to show all videos in that folder, including all folders starting with the same characters; now only videos in the folder or subfolders are shown.

File organizer now has a new option to auto-search/filter the catalog in the selected folder. I.e., when you select a folder in the file organizer, the video catalog window is filtered only to show videos in that subfolder.

Selection changes in the file organizer are now faster.

Rename by changing the name in the video catalog\'s details view updated the wrong item if you edit the name and change selection before hitting enter to finish the rename.

Fixed issue where the video wall was animation at max speed until the mouse was moved over it.

Fast Video Cataloger 9.42

Fixed issue with multiselect, introduced in 9.41

When selecting a video from a script, the keyboard navigation was not updated, so it continued from the previous selection.

In the keyword manager, in the keyword group dropdown, if you right-click, you can rename and delete a group.

In the keywording window, the list of recent keywords is now in an expander, and it is not limited in height as it was before.

Fast Video Cataloger 9.41

Fixed a bug that caused changes to the rating in the detail view not to be written to the catalog; changes in the details window worked.

MPV to view images was not closed when Fast video cataloger closed.

In the video catalog window, you can now use keyword navigation with the arrows to move selection, and if you hold down CTRL, you can move the focus and select/unselect videos with the SPACE key.

Changing selection is now done on keyup when doing keyboard navigation in the video catalog window, this should make the program more responsive when navigating. It also mean that adding/removing videos to multiselection will not change the active video. Same goes for navigation in the bins view. We also changed some details in how selection works, so its possible to select a video for playback even if its not in the current video search filter.

"Bin, to selected" always showed the bin picker window.

If an extended property group was closed, that closed state was reset when selected video was changed.

Delete file can now be bound to a shortcut, since this is a pretty dangerous operation i.e deleting the video file it is not bound to any shortcut by default.

Delete from shortcut or file context menu now moves video files to the recycle bin (if enabled in windows) instead of deleting files directly.

Matchall (and ctrl+I search) ignored specific search terms that matches no videos and returned the search as if that term was not used in the search, now they will be included and you will get no videos as result instead.

Match all in the search window, searched on every key press, now it searches when you press enter to speed up searches in large catalogs.

Selecting video files in the file organizer and clicking "Select" did not select the videos if more than one was selected.

Fixed issue where expanded keyword tree nodes where closed when changing selected thumbnail.

Fast Video Cataloger 9.4

You can now see and edit the color tag for a video from the details window. You will find the dropdown right after the "Title:" text.

On the Action page, you can now specify an action that runs when the program starts and another action that runs when the program shuts down.

-run:action_name runs a given action when fvc starts. Note that the action name cannot contain spaces.

New feature to run an action triggered from another program. To enable, check the "pipe action" and select the action to run. When the action is triggered, it will get its argument from the other program.

We have also added a small new command-line program, fvc.exe, that you can run to trigger the action. The arguments given to fvc.exe are the arguments passed to the Action you have selected. You find the source for the program in the echo sample folder.

We have also included a sample action and a new interface that allows you to write data back to the external program. This new feature provides a simple way to connect FVC to other programs on the same machine without requiring the server to be run.

The keyword manager now features a column that displays the groups to which a keyword belongs.

The keyword manager can now filter by keyword types, including video keywords, scene keywords, and actor keywords. We also added a filter for parent keywords.

In the keyword manager, you can now remove keyword groups from a catalog by right-clicking the group name in the dropdown and selecting "Delete".

The Actor window now has two mouse-over buttons: one to add the actor to the cast of the selected video. One button to filter videos, only including those with the actor.

Companion images can now be viewed in the external MPV viewer instead of in the companion preview window. We added similar options to those for MPV videos. You can select to always use MPV, use MPV if ALT is pressed, and choose to use one or multiple MPV windows. The configuration for mpv image settings is located in the MPV folder.

Fixed an issue with adding an actor to the cast of multiple selected videos, where only the first selected video was added.

New server documentation is included in the installer, ServerDoc.chm. Alternatively, you can open it from the server admin application.

The TagInstance struct in the API now also contains the parent ID of the referenced tag.

Fixed crash when using the tag tree in the keywording window and pressing enter with nothing selected.

Fast Video Cataloger 9.3

New Preferences option to open each video in a new MPV window. This will allow multiple MPV windows to be open at the same time, the last one will be the one that tracks selection in FVC.

A new Preferences option allows you to lock Layouts. You can still move windows, but they will not be saved, and the save buttons are hidden.

New Preferences option to hide the top menu buttons. You can hide the Start, Layouts, Views, and About buttons.

In the Bin manager, you can now rename Bins

Added a new shortcut to open the keyword manager, Alt + Q

The context menu for "Add to Bin" now displays the name of the selected bin.

The recent list in keywording can now expand to hide lists below it, and there is a maximum height.

In the details window, the top section is now in an expander.

When using MPV and the API to play a video, the last played from time was used instead of the start of the video.

Fixed an issue with keyword groups not being created correctly, which occurred for catalogs created before FVC 9.2.

You can now right-click on the recent catalog list to clear it.

When updating in the keyword manager, the keyword list scrolled to the end instead of staying at the current position.

Keyword tree in Keywording window was not sorted correctly.

Hierarchical keywords (Parent keywords) search now also work in scene search.

Import tool did not import keyword groups.

Import tool did not tag imported videos correctly.

Embedded Chromium web browser and other components has been updated to latest version.

MPV has been updated to latest version.

Fast Video Cataloger 9.2.1

Right click on thumbnail now has a menu to play from thumbnail in MPV

Connection to a running Mpv instance should now be more robust, the pipe is recreated for each command from FVC.

Fixed issue with thumbnails and other ui elements being slow to refresh when using the Mpv video player and having a layout that had a video player window visible.

Preferences index page now has a drop-down menu to quickly select one of the sizes used by thumbnails in FVC.

When a thumbnail is removed by clicking on the remove button on the thumbnail the size of the thumbnails is not resized even if using the "adjust to fit" thumbnails option, this is to make it easier to remove multiple thumbnails.

Extended video properties should be fast to refresh (still fastest to not expand the properties when you do not need them )

Startup time should be significantly faster for large catalogs with lots of XMP data.

Fixed issue with keywords in the keyword tree in the search window was not populated from changing saved searches.

Fixed issue with more than one keyword not being selected when changing saved searches.

Fixed issue with some thumbnails getting the wrong aspect ratio ( mostly old low res videos) when extracted.

Double click in the playlist opened the video window even if the video was set to play in MPV (but the video did play in mpv)

Fast Video Cataloger 9.2.0

New option to use MPV instead of the build in video player. When enabled the video player window is not used. Instead, an instance of the mpv player is started and will seek when you click on thumbnails. To configure the mpv player we refer to the official pages, the executable is in the mpv folder.

New option to use the MPV player if you play a video and hold down the ALT key. Using this option you can use the mpv player together with the integrated video player.

New video keyword groups, lets you organize your keywords for keywording when using the list view. Put keyword in groups from the keyword manager.

Video keyword group functionality has been added to the api.

List or Tree view can now be hidden from the keywording view, Interface page in preferences. The list and tree view of all keywords are now displayed in an expander. The two options replaces the checkboxes in the keywording window that was added in 9.1

New option to not show buttons on thumbnail when the mouse is over them

New option to not update thumbnail selection as a video is playing, this is to help keyboard navigation. Move between the thumbnails with the arrow and seek to a thumbnail with enter.

Fixed issue where loading an old catalog could end in an infinite loop, this was related to parent keywords.

Fixed issue with actor keywords in some old catalogs.

XMP data should now be read from Quicktime files, error in the installer in 9.1 caused the fix in that version to fail.

If you give cmd line argument -ignorelayout the program will not load saved layout at startup.

If you give cmd line argument -safemode the program will not load any plugins at startup.

Progress bar now shows during ctrl+I search

Fast Video Cataloger 9.1.0

XMP data was not correctly extracted from some Quicktime files (.mov).

Keyword now have a link and a description property, edit them from the keyword manager.

Keywords can be displayed in a tree structure in the keywording window.

Search window can display include keyword in a tree structure.

Forward and backward shortcuts could not be reassigned in fullscreenmode.

Fast forward, if held down, could sometimes jump to the start of the video.

Reimport will update read extended properties from the file and overwrite any edited extended properties in the catalog with the new value from file.

Attract video wall now shows a progress bar for how long is left until the videos are swapped, videos will not swap until mouse cursor is moved outside the window.

Attract video wall should be animating much smother now.

Extended properties in the video detail window should update much quicker (if you do not need the extended properties, close the tab to improve performance when switching between videos.)

In the Search window, the state (visible/expanded) of the transcript search is now saved in the layout.

Fast Video Cataloger 9.0.1

If all bins where removed the bin window was not refreshed to be empty.

Top menus should adjust to smaller window sizes better and expand to two rows of buttons.

Refresh had an issue if the bin window selection was set to the catalog window, this could in some cases lead to changed selections.

If two columns in the catalog window had the same extended property the program could crash.

Selection in playlist was lost on refresh.

Underscore in Bin names should now work.

If a path to a video was replaced with an empty string the repair video tool would not find it.

Saved searches did not set transcript search sentence

Fast Video Cataloger 9.0.0

New features:

Support for transcripts. The Program can now read srt files as transcripts of a video. The transcript is displayed in the transcript window. A tooltip shows the thumbnail closest to the time of the text line.\ Click on the text in the transcript window to jump to that point in time for the text. You can also search in the transcript. In the search window, you can search for all transcripts in the entire catalog.

Support for plugins. Plugins extend Fast Video Cataloger with prepackaged actions. On the plugin page, click download to visit our plugin download page. Add downloaded plugins from the plugin page. Use plugins from the Actions window.\ \ Plugins are a new feature we will continue working on in the next few versions.

The scripting API has been extended, please see the scripting documentation for the details.

Script actions can now be run async on a worker thread, a check box is in the wizard.

Minor improvements

There are two new layouts that can be configured to your liking

Click on the thumbnail to sort videos on color tag in the video catalog window.

Shortcut for Save (CTRL+Shift+S) and reset layout.

Keyword manager window is no longer modal.

Bug and cosmetic fixes:

Preferences has a new layout with the category to the left. This change was made to prevent the reordering of tabs when one is selected.

Fixed error when entering a " in the description search

The Cast window was not correctly updated when a video was selected from the bins window.

Refresh did no keep sort order in the bins window.

Fixed issue where the program stopped loading during startup for some specific configurations of columns in the video catalog window.

XML export now takes the framerate from the video metadata.

Edit actor window will now fully resize the actor image to use the available space.

New checkbox to enable/disable renaming of video files when a name is changed.

Better Error messages in the video repair tool.

Optimized the mouse over thumbnails.

Faster loading of thumbnails in the video when using detailed view.

Hide Edit buttons in Cast window if no actor is selected.

Scripting documentation is updated with a getting started with scripting section and a number of how to articles.

Fixed issue where some keywords with 0 uses could not be removed from the keyword manager.

Most external libraries have been updated for this release including lots of bug fixes.

Tab in keyword dialog now switch between suggestions and keywords, when tabbing to suggestion the text is marked so it can be replaced by typing.

Open folder now also marks the video in the opened folder.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.6.5.0

Fixed a freeze when trying to use MadVR as a video renderer.

Fixed an issue: hovering the mouse over video thumbnails when scanning folders in the add video window could freeze the software.

Fixed the issue where setting the background color only on a color action button also sets the text color to the background color.

The border change now changes color when the main FVC window is active.

If you closed the shortcut window with the window cross-close button instead of the dialog close button in the window title, the window would not open again until the program was restarted.

We fixed a rare crash in the integrated video player.

The repair video wizard has better error handling and an extra check to ensure the catalog was properly written during the repair.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.6.4.0

Click on a video player screen with shift pressed to capture a thumbnail.

Add clips to the current playlist by clicking on the video player screen with ctrl down to mark the start of a clip. Then, click again with ctrl down to mark the end of the clip.

Combine shift and ctrl clicks on the video player screen to add clips and thumbnails.

Right-click on a video now have the option to write metadata to the file.

Multi-selected videos will show the action context menu if you have created actions.

We fixed an issue where, in some cases, when using icon mode, the video view was not scrolled to the correct item when you clicked a video thumbnail.

Fixed issue where, in some cases, when the bins window was visible, the current video got unselected.

Fixed a rare crash in the video re-index function.

If you rename a keyword now in the keyword manager to a name that is aleady used the keywords will be merged. Colour and parents will be taken from the keyword you are renaming to.

Searching scenes with keywords that contained a ' character did not return any results.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.6.3.0

When a keyword was created from the keywording window and then selected in a search, that keyword got both selected in the include and the exclude search.

Fixed problem with saving layouts on some multimonitor setups

Fixed an issue with a broken layout message when starting.

The active layout is now printed in the upper right corner, and a tooltip displays the path to the current open catalog file.

In the details view, the right column will now fill the free space.

Extended properties are sorted on group as well as on Properties.

Api updated so that Igui can now return if windows are opened.

Api updated Igui now supports setting the search filter, i.e., you can set a search term to the ui and search that way.

Setting a video to the player from the API did not update the title of the video window.

Manage keyword dialog should now set the keyboard focus in the list of keywords.

We added a new shortcut to the next and previous video in the selected playlist.

Change text color slightly for buttons that have keyboard focus.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.6.2.0

You can now clear the recent keywords list, right-click, and select clear from the menu.

If you save a keyword list in CSV format from the manage keyword window, it also saves color and parent. Same if you do import. Text import and export still work with a plain list of keywords.

New preferences settings hide the name of actors in the attract actor window and set the text\'s size.

We fixed a random crash when dragging and docking the keywording window.

The title of the video player now shows the path to the file playing.

When adding companion images to videos, errors will no longer display a modal dialog box.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.6.1.0

Selected Bin is now saved with the settings, i.e., it is remembered between program runs.

The recent list of Keywords in the keywording window is now sorted alphabetically.

Switching between some layouts could cause extended properties not to have values until refreshed.

The first click into the keywording text block was ignored.

It was fixed so that the Edit Bins dialog always starts with the whole window inside of the screen.

Add images in the actor dialog now starts with showing all files, before it only showed .jpg files.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.6.0.0

New features:

You can now enter a catalog note on the info tab. Your catalog note is saved with the catalog.

We updated the "export playlist" to a step-by-step wizard.

The export playlist wizard can copy all video files in a playlist to a selected folder.

You can select if exported playlists should refer to full paths to a video or just the filename.

You can export a playlist in mpv edl file format.

We added a new type of Action button to which you can assign a custom color.

The bins window now has customizable columns, just like the video view. Right click on the column to add/remove columns.

Customized columns in the bin view is now saved as part of the layout.

Bins window now support extended properties in the view, right click the column header and select, "More..." to edit the columns and add extended properties.

New right-click menu on extended properties to add a property value to the current search or set as the search argument.

The clean tool can now move duplicated videos to a new folder instead of deleting them.

The repair tool now supports replacing a subpath. This function is helpful, for example, when you move a whole folder of videos to a new device.

You can now specify ',' or ';' as the separator characters for exported CSV files. You can find the settings on the general tab in preferences.

You can set the size of the companion image thumbnails shown in the companion image browser, check the companion image tab in preferences.

Companion images now also support long paths, i.e., paths longer than 260 characters. Long paths were previously only supported for videos.

Double click on a bin will now play the video, just like how a double click in the catalog view will do.

Loading and counting of keywords in the manage keyword dialog should now be more than twice as fast as in previous version.

CTRL-click on an actor keyword in the edit actor window will now remove the keyword without the "Are you sure dialog"

Bug and cosmetic fixes:

Command window popup should no longer happen when running actions unless you select that option.

Program hanged if you clicked next in the tutorial while the program was scanning folders for videos.

We fixed an issue with the playback and seeking of WMV files caused by the audio stream. The video just paused and did not play.

If you add a folder and have videos in the process queue, the list of added videos will skip the ones already in the queue.

' in Actor tags should work better now.

We now sort Extended property categories alphabetically, not just their properties.

Horizontal scrollbars did not work correctly in the companion and video catalog windows.

When you selected a video in the bin window, the first click did not update the keywords window.

Companion image browser now load images faster.

The actor window will show up to the first 1000 actors matching the current actor filter. When that limit is reached, the title will say 1000+ to clarify that the catalog has more actors.

Fixed random crash when right clicking on a bin in the manage bins dialog.

Keywords starting with a "_" character did not display that character in the keyword widow.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.5.5.0

You can now have ten extended properties columns. Note that you must reset the layout to get the ten instead of the five.

We have added a new action argument to get the time in seconds from the start for the current video thumbnail ( This is the time format used in vlc ).

Fixed issue with searches for ranges on extended properties. The range did not disappear when the range checkbox was unchecked.

The autohide scrollbar is now a bit transparent to show text that it might hide.

Fixed issue with actor window and other windows not scrolling to the top when you change the search and get fewer results.

Docking undocking the video player no longer pauses the video.

Fixed issue with using ' in keywords, keywords with ' would not work as filters.

Remove and Edit actions did not save the preferences.

Actors right-click now has an option to "Filter videos on" (i.e clear any prio search and search on the selected actor ) and "Add to current search" (i.e do not clear the current search and add the selected actor to the search).

Fixed crash when CTRL seeking on video thumbnails.

Scripting documentation was missing a description of the IVideoCatalogerService interface.

Actor names are now darker to make them easier to read.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.5.4.0

Right-click on a video in the catalog window now has a context menu to run actions.

Right-click on a keyword set to a video now has extra context menu items to add the keyword to the current filter.

The script console now has a right-click context menu to save the current script.

The script console now has a right-click context menu to change the font size.

The video description in the video details window now expands vertically to take more space when there is lots of text in the box.

We moved the reset button in the actor window so it is visible even when advanced options are not expanded.

\"{video_folder}\" argument to actions did not correctly convert from special folders when passing the folder to the external program.

Fixed issues with Pause/Unpause when used from a shortcut (ALT+Space). In some cases, the video was not played.

"Run action on video double-click" did not work if you selected a recently created action.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.5.3.0

Updated the docking framework to fix multiple bugs.

Move a single file in the organizer now shows a popup message when the file is moved to make it clear a file is moved.

Moving files in the file organizer was blocking the UI.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.5.2.0

Updated to net framework 4.8. It should be installed by the installer if needed. If .net is installed, you might need to restart your computer afterwards.

Added support for color tagging videos.

Fixed startup crash in Windows when the system was set to some rare color profiles.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.5.1.0

Fixed issue with Rename and delete being blocked by a locked file if the video has played before, with audio, in the video player.

Fixed issue with the file organizer refreshing the folders randomly (or rather when windows sent a refresh request because of device changes).

Search on file path now recognizes [special folders] i.e search on c:\local_folder\ will find [local]

Added search button to file organizer to search for the path.

Scripting Documentation updated for video player.

Script.Runtime was missing from the default sample script in the console.

GetPlayPosition was added to the video player interface.

The video player interface said ms instead of correctly s.

Mouse over thumb with ctrl down now only seek if the mouse over the item is selected, and it should be quicker.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.5.0.0

New features:

We added a new mode for the video thumbnail where you can edit the text to each thumbnail next to it. Select this mode from the Start menu.

When moving the mouse over the thumbnail in the video catalogwindow, you scrub though the captured thumbnails for the video. Doubleclick to play from that time. This is not accessing the video file so it will still work with disconnected videos.

When hovering over a thumbnail you now get a button to add a thumbnail in between that thumbnail and the previous/next. This should help you to quickly add more thumbnails where it makes sense.

Added a new huge, video icon mode. (Access from start or right click in the video catalog window)

Bug fixes:

For some width of the video catalog window it scrolled to the wrong row.

Fixed potential startup crash, Installer now includes the required crt files for the chromium browser.

Click on \"Video catalog\" button in the view menu only showed the window it did not toggle it on/off.

Close fullscreen when opening a modal dialog and bin picker. To ensure we don\'t get a modal dialog behind the fullscreenwindow.

When deleting a thumbnail the note for it was not deleted from the catalog.

Import videos did not import extended properties, keyword color bins and playlists.

Other things:

Updated the embedded chromium web browser to Cef 107.1.120.

Updated the lavfilters to 0.77.1

Update Docking Framework.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.4.0.4

We fixed an error when checking for circular dependencies when setting parent keywords.

When detecting a circular dependency, we print the inheritance path to the error.

Single frame capture, in some cases, did not handle [cloud] paths.

In some cases, buttons were visible in the file organizer even when nothing was selected.

Fixed the issue where the first thumb was not selected sometimes when dragging the video seek bar.

More than one keyword can now be listed in the recently used list.

Sometimes dragging the play slider on a paused video unpaused the video.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.4.0.3

Preferences now have a reset button to restore settings to default settings.

The video player handles videos without audio better. Some videos without audio that did not play in earlier versions should work now.

The Keywording panel shows used keywords in this session separately.

Added shortcut to toggle scene keyword.

Added info on the number of broken videos in the repair broken video links dialog

Added Name column in the repair broken video links dialog

Added context menu to copy the path of broken video to the clipboard

The video catalog window no longer scrolls to the current selected video when a video thumbnail is selected as a result of the video being played. We only scroll to the selected video if you click one one of its thumbnails.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.4.0.2

Fixed search issue with "search any" and keyword search introduced in 8.4.0.1

Fast Video Cataloger 8.4.0.1

Added a fix to handle infinite loops of parent keywords that could lead to missing search results.

Fix to ensure old saved searches were not loaded when the "save search at shutdown" checkbox is unchecked.

Better messaging and error handling when starting the second instance of FVC

Fast Video Cataloger 8.4.0.0

Features and improvements:

Video Keywords can now have Parent keywords. Assign them from the keyword manager. Searching a parent keyword is the same as searching for all the child keywords. Parent keywords can also be used in exclude searches. Actor keywords do not support parent keywords.

The keyword manager lists the parent keyword of a keyword and the number of children a keyword has. You cannot delete a parent keyword. If you want to delete it, remove it as a parent from its children first.

Scene search can now group scenes to their videos. This option can be toggled from preferences on the user interface tab.

It is now possible to create new video keywords from the keyword manager.

When a thumbnail is selected, the video should now scroll into view.

We added a new option to ignore videos in folders matching a pattern. This option is useful when adding folders with videos where some folders contain preview renderings ( For example, .prv folders created by Adobe Premiere).

We added an option to ignore videos with a specific string in their name.

New option to include folders when filtering the file organizer file view.

If you select a folder in the file organizers file view, you now get the option to add that folder to be indexed.

If you now select a video in the file organizer that is not in the current filter, the video will still be selected, while in previous versions, it was not. I.e., it works similarly to selecting a video from the bin view.

When a video is selected in the File organizer, that selected file now scrolls into view.

The file organizer now has a new "Play" button to play videos that are not in the catalog.

Added a new file organizer option, "autoplay videos not in the catalog". When checked, the program will play a video file you select that is NOT in the catalog.

We added a shortcut to scroll to the selected video.

Fixes:

We have optimized startup time for large catalogs and general performance optimization for large catalogs.

Undocking the video thumbnail window would lead to all thumbnails being scaled to a minimum size.

Thumbnails in a thumbnail search are now sorted on video then on frame time before thumbnail id was used, and that might not be in order if thumbs are added or removed.

The volume slider was not set to the correct position when going to fullscreen mode (the actual volume was right).

Assign to bin from the context menu. Now select the assigned bin as the current one.

Adjusting the thumbnail window height when using the "fit" scale will now update the scale.

File selection in the file organizer is much faster.

Fixed issue in file organizer: The address bar was sometimes not updated when a folder was selected. This led to the file organizer switching folder if the window was hidden and then shown.

Actor dialog sometimes asked if you wanted to save even though nothing was changed.

Fixed bug where the right file window was not updated correctly in the file organizer when selecting \"show in organizer.\"

Fixed a focus issue where shortcuts were triggering for single letter shortcuts when the focus was in the web browser (i.e., instead of typing the letter 'I' in a form, you triggered the shortcut bound to the key I )

Various minor bug fixes.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.3.0.2

Column sorting was not loaded correctly in layouts.

Fixed issue with crash reports not giving proper callstacks.

Store path and date when taking a backup, date of last backup is now printed on the info screen.

Changed a number of Yes/no dialogs to use the proper skinning.

Filter to hide/show non video files in the file organizer.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.3.0.1

Fixed crash in arg passing.

Fixed crash in the exception handling when initializing a folder tree.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.3.0.0

Features and improvements:

In the search window there is now a drop-down list for extended video properties. The drop down shows all values that property has for videos in the catalog.

XMP extended properties are now sorted into folders based on their namespace, in the search window and the video details.

Smart Bins, when you create a bin now you can create it as a smart bin. A smart bin is automatically populated by a query. It works very similar to a saved search but you can have the search result window open at the same time as the bin result.

File organizer has been completely replaced.

When you select a video in the organizer a text tells if they are in the catalog.

When you select a video in the organizer it will be selected in the catalog.

When you select multiple videos in the organizer there is a button to select all videos in the catalog.

When a video is selected that is not in the catalog, there is a "add video" button.

When a video is selected that is not in the catalog it will play in the video player.

When you select an image, it will load in the preview window.

When you select an image that is in the catalog, a text will show which video and there is a button to select the video.

When you select an image that is not in the catalog there is a button to add it as a companion to the currently selected video.

Possible to drag video files from the organizer or windows explorer into the playlist provided the videos are in the catalog.

Possible to drag video files from the organizer or windows explorer into the bin window provided they are in the catalog.

New cmd line option to add a video to the catalog.

Video player now has a right click context menu to update the start/end point of the currently selected playlist clip. (same as was previously on the right click of the camera icon).

Right click on a thumbnail now has an option to add x second from the time of the thumbnail, this was previously available when you shift clicked the add thumbnail to playlist menu item.

Updated external used libraries.

Fixes:

Extended properties window is a tiny bit narrower to prevent the scroll bar to be hidden by the parent scroll bar.

EDL save is updated to work better with premiere pro

Remove a video now also removes playlist clips with that video.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.2.0.1

Fixed issue with the -play:[id] cmd line argument that sometimes the video was selected but not played.

Fixed crash that happened if you had the video player window docked behind the video playlist window and double-clicked to play a video in the playlist window.

Fixed crash when having Fast video cataloger running without a loaded catalog and then starting another instance with cmd line arguments.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.2.0.0

Features and improvements:

We added many new cmd line arguments. See \"How to use cmd line arguments" section for details.

Support to pass arguments to an already running instance of Fast video cataloger.

Extended properties dialog now has a filter.

In the Playlist window, you can now expand the playlists drop down to an always-open list.

You can now drag a video from the catalog list to the playlist to add the whole clip.

When adding companion images, you can limit the number of subfolders to traverse when searching for images. The setting is in Preferences on the companion image tab.

New videos in the tutorial and an updated "new project" video.

Added print out in about box to let you know if the program is run "as admin". It is not possible to drag n drop to applications running "as admin" and it is not possible to pass cmd line arguments (It's a Windows security feature).

Bug fixes:

Fixed issues with reordering or adding video columns that had been hidden before in order.

Attract covers will not show the same image more than once, even if the same image was added to different videos.

API update: A few ids were returned as 32 bit numbers, which led to the wrong ids returned when more than 32k items were added.

Import failed if the opened catalog had zero videos, i.e. if you tried to import into a new empty catalog.

A folder named GPUCache containing temp files was created in the current folder. These are now created in the temp folder.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.1.0.1

Note the new version format.

Fixed issue with password protected catalogs. The password dialog was never displayed.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.10

Features and Improvements:

We added a new feature that scales the size of thumbnails to show them all in the window without scrolling. This way of scaling thumbs is now the new default, and you can toggle to the old manual scale from the view menu. In preferences, you can set limits for the scaling.

Search has a "Filter on exclude keywords matching" to let you filter away videos matching specific keywords.

Preferences now have a new tab for "interface" settings. Some settings that were previously on the General tab have moved here.

Loading of thumbnails should now be a lot faster. At the same time, we removed the loading images.

You can now assign an action to run when you double click on a video.

Keyword manager now has an import and export function. Importing keywords allows you to import keywords from a comma-separated text file. Imported keywords are initially not assigned to a video.

The Keyword manager can now filter keywords on a text pattern.

Drag n drop of multiple videos from a bin should work better.

It is now possible to drag from one bin to another. Drag the video over the bin dropdown list and then to the target bin.

Added the option to provide login credentials for the windows share when connecting to a remote server. Credentials are only potentially used to play remote videos over the windows share ( or show companion images). If you need credentials depends on how you have set up your server and network.

We have added more icons for the View context menu and some preference tabs.

Improved handling of exceptions thrown from user scripts. In some cases, an uncaught exception in a user program caused a crash dialog popup in Fast Video Cataloger ( but not a real crash ).

Bug fixing:

We fixed a huge issue with the Attract video wall introduced in 8.05.

When in icon view the current selection was lost when a new video was added to the catalog.

We fixed one reason for failure in loading layouts.

The "Force Filename Title" option in preferences did not work correctly when extracting XMP data.

Fixed issue that could cause database corruption if the computer rebooted in the middle of some operations. ( and a reminder, always have a backup)

Timing for how long to display Attract covers images should now more accurately match the timing set in preferences.

We fixed a problem when rearranging video details columns that could cause a layout load error and the wrong columns.

We fixed a bug that you could not select a video from the context menu of a companion video in some cases.

Calling GetBrowser from a script could fail if the browser window was not open.

We improved error handling for the video catalog service. It can now be better to recover from unhandled exceptions on the service side i.e., more stable.

When switching between Detail and icon modes we now scroll to the selected videos. Before the program scrolled to the top.

The Actors list will now only match the first 1000 actors in a search. Before having a large number of actors in a catalog could make the update take a very long time or fail.

Fixed several rare crashes from crash reports.

Updated the Avalon Dock framework to get all the latest bug fixes from there.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.05

Improved performance for catalogs with lots of extended properties ( you should notice a performance improvement when switching videos if your catalog has more than 1000 extended properties).

Added new option when auto assigning keywords from filename, the new option will only consider text inside brackets as keywords, i.e. [this text] or {this text}.

Add new sample scripts.

If you used a hotkey that was a plain key (i.e. no ALT/Shift/CTRL) and had keyword focused in the script console window the shortcut action was still executed. Now the character is written to the text window.

When updating multiple keywords in the keywords manager to set color, the first keywords text also got updated.

Metadata is now also written when multi-selecting videos.

If metadata writing fails because a file is locked by a program Fast video cataloger will keep trying. (this typically failed because the video was playing in the internal or an external video player).

Preparation for color tagging videos

Fast Video Cataloger 8.04

Clicking on one video in the video catalog window when it was part of a multiselection did not change the selection.

When a layout was reset the Video length column was printed incorrectly as a date.

If you added keyword when creating a new actor in the initial dialog they were not added correctly to the catalog.

Add actor and new Actor was both listed as shortcut options, one did not work, Now there is only one working shortcut option.

Changing the width of a column by dragging the splitters did not get saved to the layout.

Added new general preferences to set the default clip start for video playlist export.

The window with the video player was allowed to have zero size, making it easy to lose the video player.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.03

Added a new option to sort keywords on color or name (General tab in Preferences).

Added a new option to not use the GPU for the UI (General tab in Preferences). This is a workaround for GPU driver bugs, only use this option if you have issues rendering the UI. And if it helps, it is recommended you update your graphics drivers.

Added support for dropping a text file with keywords on the keyword dialog.

We fixed a bug where the render time settings in the add video dialog were ignored.

We fixed a bug with XML playlist export where one of the time formats was set wrong (this could lead to import errors in some video editing software).

Fast Video Cataloger 8.02

External components updated: Integrated Web browser (Chrome), Script editor, Video decoder filters, Metadata extractor.

Auto keyword improvements with New option to allow auto keywords to be integer numbers, new option to trim numbers at the start and end of keywords.

When you download using the web browser, it should no longer suggest invalid filenames ( This could happen for files served from servers with provided arguments in the URL ).

Ignore word list for auto keywords was case sensitive, not anymore.

Companion images can now be detected as covers if a part of the image filename sounds like a cover, i.e myimage-cover.jpg will be detected as a cover image. Landscape images are now preferred as covers over fanart images.

Fast Video Cataloger 8.01

New option to always use the filename as title even if the video-metadata has a title.

Fixed issue where keywords set in the add video dialog was not used.

Fast Video Cataloger 8

Actors now have a context menu item for adding as cast to the currently selected videos.

Fixed a bug with scaling on images that did not have correctly written dpi in the header.

Fixed issues that it was sometimes hard to restore the program when it was minimized to the taskbar.

About box has stats on the video catalog.

Several improvements to the repair dialog.

New context menu to import videos in the same folder as the selected video.

Vertical scrollbars now render on top of content and are only visible if you have the mouse pointer in the window. This gives more space for content in the windows.

Fixed issues with small windows. For example, the actor window did not work well when it was smaller than the portraits.

Columns can be sorted in ascending and descending order.

Drag to change column order is remembered in the layout.

Selecting a clip in the playlist view, now select the clip in the catalog.

Thumbnails covered by the selected clip in the playlist are now marked with blue.

Playlists can now be exported in Final cut pro 7 xml format, this can be imported in video editors like daVinci resolve.

Drag n drop in general from the video list should work better, and it is now possible to drag n drop more than one video to other programs.

Improved rendering of thumbnails, it\'s now more compact. Also, the program will try to auto adjust the zoom to make efficient use of the space in the window.

New function to filter videos on the same folder or subfolder as the current video.

Playlists clips now show clip duration

Column sorting now sorts numbers as you would expect (and not strictly alphabetical), including filenames i.e. a filename 1.mp4,100.mp4,2.mp4,200.mp4 will be sorted as 1.mp4,2.mp4,100.mp4,200.mp4).

Newly added videos are automatically placed in a special bin.

New playlist did not clear clips.

Setting the start and end of a playlist with the camera icons did not work correctly when no video clip was captured (shift pressed).

When adding the video list in icon mode, the list scrolled to the top.

Web browser now support a download queue. Max four files will be downloaded at the same time, the next ones are placed in the queue.

Drag n drop now works even if the file browser / bins windows are not open.

Playlists can be saved as edl text files (CMX 3600, but with full path to video files). Tested with OpenShot.

The actor dialog now lets you search with match all or match any (before it was always match all).

Webbrowser is updated.

Webbrowser can now have tabs.

Use the web browser to create actors straight from images.

Use the web browser to download videos and get them indexed.

Webbrowser now has context menus to search for videos, actors etc

When the actor dialog is open you right click on text and get it straight into the dialog, as name, bio or link.

After downloading a file from the web browser, if you hold down shift, the next file will be saved in the same folder without showing a save file dialog.

Files being downloaded are displayed at the bottom of the browser with progress bar.

You can now access the video player from the scripting interface.

Create actor from downloaded image uses the folder name of the image as default name of the actor.

Fullscreen video player now also has a volume control

You can assign up to five shortcuts to set keywords. Edit the keywords from the metadata tab in preferences.

You can now assign a shortcut to the shortcut editor.

Web browser now as an address field, back, forward and a progress bar.

You can now set the URL of the start page from the menu in the browser address bar.

You can now set browser zoom level from the menu in the browser address bar.

Context menu in the web browser could not be cancelled, it did not close until you picked a menu item.

Context menu in the web browser now has an option to use right clicked image as video thumbnail.

Context menu in the web browser now has an option to use right clicked image as video actor portrait.

Context menu in the web browser now has an option to move selected page into actors Firstname, lastname, link or bio (Actor dialog is open).

Context menu in the web browser now has an option to download video and add it to the catalog.

Optimized the combo box for extended properties in video detail edit.

Fixed layout for extended properties box.

Actor dialogs link field now has a go button to open the url in a browser.

Refreshing of the actor list after adding a new actor ignored the current filter.

New option to activate and show the video scene window when a video is selected.

The keywording window now has a button to "Manage catalog keywords".

In the video catalog in detail view you can now edit columns. Right click the column header to get a list of columns to toggle.

Added the ability to show up to five extended properties in the video detail view. Edit the extended properties by right clicking the columns and select more.

Added preference option to Hide the default actions in the action window.

New Wizard to make it easier to create custom actions, you find it in the start screen just above the preferences button.

Moved old create actions away from preferences.

Actions can now have different button styles.

Changed action window to allow more than one action per row.

Actions can now be enabled/disabled based on selection.

Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the action window to not add newly created actions.

Added icons to layout menu and start menu.

Optimized searches. Some types of searches should now be twice as fast ( searching for Actors, Extended properties etc). You probably won't notice a difference unless you have a very large catalog.

Switching video should not also update the companion image much faster.

On multi monitor systems we save where the main window was last used and restore it to the same screen.

Extended api, so allow you to query for a specific companion image giving id.

Extended api to let you get a random selection of companion images.

Memory optimization for the whole program. You should see much less memory usage, faster at startup and in general.

Changed default portrait size to 320 pixels wide.

Improved portrait image quality when importing actors from folders.

Indexing now runs in its own process using a wcf service. This should increase stability by preventing codec related crashes during indexing. It should also make the program more responsive during indexing.

When adding an actor portrait from a file it will show the correct scaling as set in preferences (before it showed an unscaled image).

Actor window now scales windows on load to make it load quicker and use less memory ( Can be significant if you had images that were scaled down in the catalog as they should have been, for example if they were added with a script).

Feature: New context menu in the thumbnail window to increase/decrease the number of thumbs visible per row in the window.

Updated web browser (cef), scripting component (csscript), database (sqlite), Windows api codec pack and more.

Scriptwindow now have c# syntax highlighting

Scriptwindow now show line numbers (useful if you get an error when running a script)

Script window now has undo/redo on the shortcuts keys : ctrl-z ctrl-y

Script window now has cut, copy and paste on the shortcut keys: ctrl-x, ctrl-c,. ctrl-p

Usability: Changed the type of Window used for Browser, Video thumbnails and scene search results. Now they work just like all the other windows.

Usability: Windows now have icons that match the icons in the view.

Feature: You can now search on unrated videos, just check the rating checkbox in the search window. Right click on the stars to reset them.

Feature: Extended video properties are now sorted in groups.

Feature: Extended video properties can now be filtered

Feature: When extracting metadata from videos we now also extract rating, keywords and description from windows metadata.

Feature: When extracting metadata from videos we now also extract xmp metadata if they are present in the video file.

Feature: For extended video and thumbnail properties, you can now create a list of drop-down options. You do this when you create the extended property.

Feature: Attract video wall, and Videowall now has a context menu to add the video to a bin.

Feature: In the search dialog, we now sort keywords on color.

Feature: Added a freeform note field that you can set on each video scene thumbnail. You can also search on the note field when doing a scene search.

Feature: Video description now has a splitter bar in the middle to let you decide how much space to use for video data and how much for scene data.

Performance: Improved speed of loading and updating extended properties. Most noticeable when using connected to a remote server or when you have lots of extended properties.

Performance: Video wall will load new videos much quicker than before. Also, less time between videos in the attract video wall.

API: Search for extended video properties now accept "null" for aspect to search all extended properties for a value.

Changed wpf docking toolkit and extended wpf toolkit.

Added a test at startup to verify that videocatalogservice.dll exists. If this component is missing, it will not be possible to open or create a catalog. Sometimes antivirus software interferes and prevents this necessary file to be installed. If this happens now, you will get a dialog at startup.

Bug: The DeleteVideoClip() API call did not remove the video clip from the catalog.

Bug: BitRate and Encode_Date get extracted when using file metadata extraction.

Bug: Cover window did not load covers correctly if the companion image window was hidden.

[Bug: Reset layout, showed the wrong color for the view buttons.]{.mark}

[Bug: Thumbnails in Bins were not updated when you changed a thumbnail for a video.]{.mark}

Bug: You can now use Extended thumbnail properties in searches without having a keyword set.

Bug: Fixed a crash in the keyword editor when sorting on color.

Bug: When you changed playback speed, it was impossible to set it back to normal speed without changing selected video.

Bug: On some machines, when adding a video folder, the selected folder was not remembered the next time you added a video folder.

Fast Video Cataloger 7.02

Released; 2020-10-24

Bug: Fixed an issue with extracted thumbnails having corrupt graphics. This was pretty rare but could happen with videos that had two recorded sizes that differed.

Bug: If you selected re-index from the context menu sometimes the indexing process did not start automatically (the videos were just put in the index list and you would have to click start yourself).

Bug: When extracting metadata from a video file the format was set to the title metadata.

UI: In the find duplicate video dialog we changed so you can see paths to the duplicate files and as well as the selected file. Should make it more clear what path will be kept, gives better overview and might save a few mouse clicks.

Fast Video Cataloger 7.01

Documentation is updated and has gone through a spell and grammar pass.

[Bug: Fixed issue with some files reported as dupes when they were not dupes.]{.mark}

Bug: If there was an error during the application startup, the error message was hidden by the load screen.

[Bug: Video rename from the action window did not stop the playing video, so renaming it would fail as the file was opened in the player.]{.mark}

[Bug: Refresh now refreshes the playlist window as well.]{.mark}

[Bug: A few default key bindings were colliding (Help and Refresh).]{.mark}

[Bug: Reset layout, showed the wrong color for the view buttons.]{.mark}

Bug: Fixed crash when going to full screen with the keyboard shortcut before playing a video.

[Tuning: Done optimization message is now printed more clearly.]{.mark}

Fast Video Cataloger 7

Introducing the new server, access it from the "Share" screen.

Updated and added a lot of new icons.

Copy/Paste icons on thumbnails to copy keywords to and from the clipboard.

Check catalog for broken videos now also considers archived videos.

New option in preferences to Save last search (before it always did this).

You can multi-select thumbnails and add all to the current playlist.

Context menu to add to the currently selected bin.

Update of documentation, there were lots of new features that missed documentation.

Performance: When you select a video, the thumbs are displayed faster. This is very evident if you have videos with hundreds of thumbnails.

Performance: General performance improvement of all rendering.

Performance: The list of videos, in detail view, should now render much faster, especially if you have a large screen with the rating stars visible.

Bug: Clear keywords on-scene search result thumbnail did not work

Fast Video Cataloger 6.42

When a bin was created, and the window did not have focus, the color choice was pretty poor (white on white). This is now fixed. A newly created bin should also be selected by default.

Improved the installer so new users should not need to enter their email the first time they run the installer.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.41

Fixed on more issues with ConsoleLog, now it really should be printed without proceeding with scripts.

Changed default suggested folder for new catalogs to the local application folder, previously it was "my documents" but saving anything there can cause a warning in the Windows antimalware protection, causing the file not to be written. You can still browse to save wherever you want. It is only the start folder that changed.

Changed the default "Add video" folder to be "My videos".

When you run the program for the very first time we are now automatically creating an empty catalog for you and start the tutorial.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.40

If you have one of the top menus opened you used to have to first click outside to close it before you could click on other user interface elements. This is now fixed.

The Scale of thumbnails is now stored per layout.

If you right-click on the thumbnails scale slider, there is a context menu to select 50%, 100%, and 200% scale.

If "Extended properties" and "Extended thumbnail properties" are opened or not in the detail view is now stored with each layout.

Using MadVR returning from fullscreen mode should now work correctly.

In fullscreen mode, click on the video player screen to pause/unpause.

If using "Write metadata in videofiles", this should not block the keywording user interface.

Optimized thread pool usage to fix slowdown issues.

Optimized keyword entry so it is more responsive.

Fixed issue with videos sometimes getting a 0 length when indexed.

When you add an actor, it is now put first in the list and is selected. This should make it easier to spot if you want to drag it as a cast member right away.

In the script, ConsoleWrite was done asynchronously before, not it is synchronous. This should make it easier to use as a debug tool.

Error messages when compiling scripts should be a bit more precise, and we always scroll to the end of the message automatically.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.39

Updated .net framework to use 4.62. This update from Microsoft involves a bunch of general bug fixes and performance improvements.

If you hold ctrl when entering a keyword in the keyword search field, it will direct that keyword to the exclude keyword box instead.

Limited the height keywords can take in the keywording box to prevent the input field from scrolling down if a catalog has lots of keywords.

You can now click on the video player screen area to play/pause the video.

Fixed crash after capturing a screenshot to file.

Fixed issue with aspect ratio when using MadVR renderer.

Fixed issues that it was not possible to drag the seek bar in the videoplayer.

Fixed issue with bins not showing up in the dropdown in some cases.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.38

Stability improvements (i.e crash fixes).

Fast Video Cataloger 6.37

Fixes\' urgent issue that was introduced in 6.36 where the UI stopped responding in some cases.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.36

Start pages showed 2019 as well as other minor issues.

The free trial was sometimes not working correctly.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.35

We have significantly improved UI performance when running video indexing in the background while using the software.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.34

In the search window, you can now hide the "exclude keywords" section.

If there is an active exclude keyword, the title of "exclude keywords" is updated to say "active"

We fixed an exception issue with actions running scripts. Some API calls caused an exception if they were not dispatched.

Fixed a number of reported crashes from the crash reporter. If you happened to experience a crash, it really helps if you click the button to upload it to us.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.33

Search has been extended so that you can now exclude videos matching keywords. This works on the set of filtered videos, so for example, if you search for all videos matching an actor, you can exclude videos that have specific keywords. If you search for a keyword and exclude that keyword, the exclusion will take priority.

In the Actor window, you can now search on the Actor Bio and Actor Link properties.

The actor window now only load visible portraits to save memory for catalogs with lots of actors.

Extended script api with a new SearchActor() function.

Updated Console writing can be done from any thread in a script, for example, from a browser callback.

Run script from an action button always gave an error message. This is fixed.

Writing metadata to video files (enable from the metadata preference page) is now done in a background thread and is faster.

Fixed issue when you clicking on the seekbar while a video was playing and that click was ignored.

Fixed video scaling issue when using vmr9 video player on some videos where there was a big difference in the aspect ratio of the video and the video window.

Changed order of vmr7 and vmr9 in the preferences.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.32

Fixed issue introduced in 6.31 where added videos could get [WebServer] prefix in the path even if no webserver were setup.

The program would crash if you clicked on the link in an empty search scene window.

Fixed video playback issue for some older video formats (WMV) where the video did not play if you used the "Direct" video player.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.31

You can now save a windows layout to another layout than the currently selected one (from the View menu).

New features to setup videos to be served from a website. Access from the catalog/info screen and the "Use Hosted Videos" button. This enables you to put your videos on a web server, and then share a catalog with other people so they can easily access your video files. You can then share the relatively small catalog file where they have quick instant access to search and browse without having to distribute all the large video files with them. And you do not need to use this for all videos. A catalog can be a combination of videos hosted and local videos. Please note that not all videos can be served from a web server. We recommend modern containers like mp4 for videos hosted this way. It is also always slower if you have direct access to the video file.

The browser for the start page has been switched to a Chromium-based browser.

The program icon in the taskbar now shows progress when a video is being indexed.

It is now possible to multi-select images in the companion image gallery and remove them from the catalog.

The scripting interface has been extended with a new function to give you direct access to the browser window. This will allow an easy way to either write out results to a web page integrated into the software or to gather data from a web page into your solution.

Script execution can now be asynchronous.

New sample script get_actors.xaml.cs show how you can integrate fast video cataloger with an external web service.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.30

New option to save out a .nfo file next to the video file. The nfo file will contain necessary metadata like keywords, descriptions, and ratings in the Kodi format. This option is only recommended if you want to share the metadata in the catalog with another media manager.

We added a new option to save out metadata inside the video file. This option will save basic metadata like keywords, descriptions, and ratings into the metadata section of the file so that it is available in the windows properties of the file. This also means that it will be available for windows search. Please note that this type of metadata is not supported by some of the older video containers.

Import videos now handle special folders correctly and can detect if a video has been imported already. I.e., if you import videos already in the target catalog, they will be skipped.

It is now possible to assign shortcuts to show and hide windows.

Fixed crash when dragging a playlist entry to change its order that happened if at the same time the playlist window was floating.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.29

It is now possible to delete multiple selected images in the companion image browser window.

If adding or removing images to the companion image browser, the window was not refreshed until another video was selected.

Improved tooltips for the views.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.28

Ctrl+I interactive search now selects the search text when you show it after hiding. Just start typing to get a new search or move with arrows to edit the previous search text.

Even more optimization of companion images and companion image browser window for when you have very many images.

Optimization for when you do not show the companion image and companion image browser.

Fixed crash that happened when you dragged an actor from an undocked window into the cast window.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.27

The companion image browser has bone though a significant performance pass. It is significantly faster, and there is a cache not to rescan images as much as before.

We added a new way to launch actions that do not show the cmd window.

New arguments to actions for selected companion image and video folder.

Added check and error dialog for when the program is not allowed to write to a folder. This can be caused by some antivirus/antimalware software if they are not configured correctly. Now there is a message instead of a silent fail.

Fixed issue that caused the volume to be set to 0 in some cases.

If you right-clicked a video and selected "assign to bin" from the menu, the video was not moved to the bin as it should have been. Also, we did a pass on the user interface of the "assign bin" dialog to make it clear.

[Right-click in companion image browser had some menu options incorrectly disabled.]{.mark}

We fixed an issue in keyword manager that prevented keywords from being completely deleted from a catalog.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.26

We did an update of the docking framework that fixes a bunch of minor issues.

Check duplicate videos were removed from the repair tab (as it now has its own wizard).

New shortcut to refresh search (Shift + Alt + R). This just refreshes the current search, useful if you have added new videos to a catalog after the search.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.25

Autoscroll, in icon mode, the video list will not scroll automatically if a majority of the thumbnail is already visible.

We added new script functions to get the currently selected thumbnail id.

Find duplicate videos was changed to be more of a wizard and hopefully, easier to use.

Fixed: Audio from the help video for "new catalog" was started whenever you went into the "file menus."

Fast Video Cataloger 6.24

"New project" now shows a tutorial video.

Help page for preferences

Script interface now has a function to add a whole folder of videos.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.23

The export button on the playlist was disabled. Now you can export your playlist as a CSV file.

Rename from the "general" window did not work. Should work much better in most cases. (video player used to always locked the selected file).

Updated installer to include cef.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.22

The play shortcut was fixed and can now be reassigned.

Double-click on a playlist clip now play from that playlist

Added documentation and new rotate-image script sample.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.21

Now you can add to the playlist from the scene search results.

Playlist has a more compact view in addition to the previous one, right-click in the window to select view.

New video index option to rotate thumbnails 90 degrees if it has a rotate metadata (this is useful for videos taken with iphones).

If you a frame through the capture camera icon in the player that thumb will be selected after capture.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.20

Major Update to the integrated video player. The "direct video player" that should be the safest option for playback now uses evr instead of vmr9 to result in higher quality output and faster playback.

Improvements to the threading should have fixed a few video player-related possible causes for the program to freeze. For example, we should be able to handle a few known driver/codec issues a bit better with blank output instead of a frozen program.

Multiscreen support should now be possible to drag the video player window from the main window to the secondary window with a different resolution.

Respect "pause" state. If you pause a video and then click on a thumb, the video will jump to the selected time but won't start playing (this behavior can be controlled from the video player preference ).

Fast Video Cataloger 6.19

Fixed a crash if the tmp folder on a computer is full i.e. has 65k files.

Updated ScriptInterface.cs to reflect the latest version of the API.

Add video file now accepts multiselection than one selected video file.

Add folder should now be quicker, especially with folders that contain encrypted videos.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.18

Added new scripts and updated script documentation. (export_thumbnails, hello_wpf and concat videos).

The scripting interface was updated with more support to check what is selected in the user interface.

We fixed some crashes related to the selection.

Reindex now also updates video extended properties.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.17

Fixed issues with archiving videos.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.16

Fixed issue where playing a playlist could sometimes skip over an entry.

Reindex videos now work with multi-selected videos.

Selecting multiple videos in a bin now reflects all selection in the video view.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.15

Updated scripting documentation and added two more sample scripts. One script to show how to use scripts to search a catalog and one sample to show how create videos from data read from an Access database.

If you hold shift and click on the Load button in the script console, you will reload the current script. This is useful if you edit your script in visual studio.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.14

Refresh() called from the script now updates more things.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.13

Fixed: Moving files in the file browser failed for special folders.

Fixed: Rename videos did not stop the playing video causing failure if you tried to rename the currently playing video.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.12

It is now possible to rename files from the file explorer, and the path will be updated in the catalog.

Increased timeout for slow indexing. The timeout caused some indexing to end in the middle of the video if done over a slow connection like an external network drive, USB, or VPN connection.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.11

Fixed issue indexing some old video formats. Some versions of RealVideo, .rm was not supported but are now.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.10

Added playlist window and functionality

Extended scripting api with support for playlists, videoclips and more.

Added convert video as new scripting sample

Fast Video Cataloger 6.03

[Internal version]

Thumbnails can now have extended properties. Create and edit them from the "Details" windows. Search from the scene search window.

Updated installer for filters

Layouts now have a context menu to rename layouts

Added Bluray index files (bdmv, mpls) as a known video file extensions

In Add video, change the thumbnail button, so be the same as in the keywording dialog that allows for longer text.

Windows drop-down now has a button to save the current window config to the selected layout.

The installer put the application link in a subfolder in the start menu. This is no longer the Microsoft recommended way, so the subfolder is gone.

Fixed issues with removing more than one selected video from the failed to add video list.

Fixed issues with scanning for companion images

Fixed issues with scanning for missing videos that had a local path

Updates to database format in preparation for future versions

Fast Video Cataloger 6.02

We have updated the framework for docking windows with several bug fixes.

"add video window" did not toggle when clicked on its view button.

The "Scan" button in companion images did not work for videos in special folders.

We fixed an issue with "import actor folders" for videos in special folders.

Fast Video Cataloger 6.01

You can now assign shortcuts to custom actions

Better capture of WMV files. (Increased timeouts before failing when capturing from WMV files as timeout proved too short when reading bad WMV files over the network ).

Webm is now recognized as a video file type.

The tutorial did not show the "add video" window from the start.

Fast Video Cataloger 6

Updated license system, you will need a new key for this version.

Changed the whole GUI to be more modern and efficient.

Special folders let you assign labels to root paths so that if you change the root path later, the catalog will still work. i.e. f:\videos\ get moved to g:\

The New IUtilities interface exposes masking and unmasking to the scripting API. Unmask to the source is a new sample that shows its use.

Fast Video Cataloger 5.27

New option to extract meta info from video files like format, framerate etc

New option to extract meta info from .nfo files.

New option to refresh search automatically after adding a new video.

New search all option with autocomplete for keywords, access with ctrl+i. Also added to the advanced search dialog. These search searches keywords, description, extended properties, titles, and filenames. All terms need to match some property in the video.

A new style of the start page of the program with a new background

Fast Video Cataloger 5.26

Added possibility to do OR searches between search categories. Access this feature from the right-click menu in the search window.

Fast Video Cataloger 5.25

Loading a catalog through an unc path like [\\device\folder\catalog.vcat]{.underline} failed, this is now fixed.

Fixed layout with the buy button to save some empty space.

News about the new version takes into consideration what version you are running.

Improved error messaging when failing to play a video.

Fast Video Cataloger 5.24

Fixed error handling for catalogs with links to missing companion images.

Fast Video Cataloger 5.23

When using a catalog on a network drive, we now load fewer images in parallel. This will reduce the risk of timeout and disconnect on the network drive.

In general, improved I/O performance when running catalogs with lots of media on slow devices while ensuring we do not decrease it on fast machines. We reduced the parallel I/O, making sure we do async io, reducing the thread usage, improved memory usage.

Fixed multiselection of videos, when adding a video to multiselection, the last added video is the one we show thumbs of. When removing a video, we make sure it is not the one we show thumbs for.

Fixed: Drop a file onto the front cover/back cover that did not work.

Changed all folder selection in the program to use the new dialog added in 5.21

We fixed several issues with refreshing the companion image window.

Increased size and quality of companion thumbnails in companion browser.

\<website> from .nfo is not treated as a video link property

Prevent overwrite of the selected layout if a catalog failed to open for some reason.

Video Details window now properly word wraps the description window.

Fast Video Cataloger 5.22

Rename_to_date is a new script sample

Fixed issues that the video detail window was now updating correctly when changing videos (the genre, for example).

Fast Video Cataloger 5.21

Added function to present news in the software, we will use this to let everyone know when a new version is available.

Changed the add folders dialog to be more modern and better.

Fast Video Cataloger 5.2

Official release with updated documentation.

We have updated the docking framework with lots of bug fixes.

Added new "Preview" windows for companion images. Shows the current selected companion image. Move the image with the mouse and zoom with the mouse wheel.

We added a new "Companion image browser" windows for companion images. Here you can view all companion images for a video and more accessible manage them.

We added help to the cast window.

Fast Video Cataloger 5.11

Ctrl + (+/-) Make thumbnails larger or smaller.

Ctrl + Mousewheel Make thumbnails larger or smaller.

A new option to skip videos smaller than x bytes, defaults to 4k. Videos this small are typically broken files and cannot be played anyway. Now you don't need to see them in the list of videos to index.

Fixed a few rare crashes reported by users (please upload crashes if you get them through the crash dialog and let us know what you did to make it crash)

Fast Video Cataloger 5.10

The Video catalog now shows hints when no videos are returned from the filter.

Fixed selection after renaming a genre

Fixed rare crash when dropping files on the add video window

Esc now clears current keywords in the "add video" window

Fast Video Cataloger 5.09

Clean up of add video dialog. Now only the "Start" button is visible until you start adding videos.

Fixed issue with "Importing keywords".

Fast Video Cataloger 5.08

Fixed crash when closing the program and no catalog was loaded.

Fixed actor search on the name.

Added new context menu "search on actor" to clear the filter and to only search on the current actor.

Changed name on the context menu "add actor to search filter" to make it more clear that this option keeps the current search filter and set just the actor filter to the current actor.

Don't autosave the layout if no catalog is loaded.

We adjusted the top menu to save a few pixels space.

Fast Video Cataloger 5.07

We updated video codecs.

Added option in preferences to autosave layout on program shutdown.

Companions and covers were not added correctly

Fixed calculation of how many videos to show in the attract video window

Will now accept videos with 0 thumbnails when adding videos if you set least nof frames to 0.

Saved filters with no keywords did not reset selected keywords when the filter was selected.

Fast Video Cataloger 5.06

Fixed issues with docking, docking to the top or bottom did not set the width of the window correct.

We fixed a number of thread related crashes reported by users.

Fast Video Cataloger 5.05

Added Fast Jump forward/backward shortcut (ALT + Shift + J/K).

Fixed so that jump forward and backward work in full-screen video player.

Fixed crash if a window was dropped in some specific places.

Fast Video Cataloger 5.04

Fixed issues with that the playback speed was always reset to 1 when a video was stopped then started.

Added two new custom speeds for video playback. Set their value from the preferences and select them from the speed dropdown in the video player.

You can now hide sections of the search window that you are not interested in. Right-click and uncheck the search categories you do not want to view. The view setting is saved with the layout.

Thumbnail keywords are now sorted.

Fast Video Cataloger 5.03

Changed the default window layout to include only the most commonly used windows. You can, as before, create your own layout, and no windows or functionality has been removed. We did this change to make it easier for new users to get started.

We added new bins Window. Bins are folders for videos and can be used as working folders for videos or favorite lists. The bins window is not affected by your search of filters, and it can be opened at the same time as the video catalog window.

The scripting console now uses a fixed-width font and no highlight when the mouse moves over the window.

Added two more script samples. An import example reads a text file for keywords and applies the keywords to the currently selected videos. And one sample that sets the rating for all selected videos to one star.

Minor performance improvements.

Fixed crash with keyword dialog on Windows 7.

Fixed CreateVideoTag in the API.

Fast Video Cataloger 5.02

Updated Xceed library including new docking framework.

Added a visual studio solution for scripting. Use this to get IntelliSense help with the API.

Fast Video Cataloger 5.01

Added buttons on thumbnails when you move the cursor above them to "set as video thumbnail" or "delete".

Added Autoselect of the video when you move the cursor above the video thumbnail. If you do not want this function, you can turn it off from the preferences.

Fast Video Cataloger 5.00

Fast video cataloger and all components have been converted to 64 bit.

C# based Scripting support has been added and a new window for editing scripts and for output from scripts. Extended actions to also be able to run scripts.

Improved performance. Changed internal database structure as part of performance optimization. It is not possible to correctly load a version 5 catalog into an earlier version of the software.

Videos can now have custom properties, and you can search on them

Right-click on the genre in the video details window allows you to rename a genre

The layout of search has been changed to give more space for each search category and clear for each category has been added.

Video keywords now have a color property.

A keyword management dialog has been added to rename keywords, set a color, and remove a keyword from everywhere it is used.

And lots of other smaller fixes.

Fast Video Cataloger 4.40

New shortcuts to skip to next/prev video and skip in the currently playing video and some others that were not previously documented.

Auto-tagging feature was broken and is now be fixed.

We added a better error message when a file drag n drop failed.

Fixed crash when dragging the video player window when it was playing.

Fixed crash if the tutorial was closed and then shown again.

Updated GUI components and docking framework.

Fast Video Cataloger 4.38

Added a new file context menu to the Video wall and attract video wall as requested by users.

Fast Video Cataloger 4.37

We introduced a New tutorial.

We introduced a new welcome screen. From preferences, you can still select the last loaded catalog to be loaded at the start.

We have updated bundled codecs.

Fast Video Cataloger 4.36

Scene search now automatically selects and scrolls to the correct scene in the video.

Fast Video Cataloger 4.35

Added text input for search on the scene and video keywords

Support for dropbox and onedrive. The program will recognize video paths on these drives and keep them correct if a catalog is moved to another computer that shares the same cloud account. We do not recommend to put the catalog on a cloud drive.

Fast Video Cataloger 4.34

Official release

Fast Video Cataloger 4.33

The integrated video player has gotten a significant rewrite.

Fix for issues when the player did not play sound.

Fixes some rare hangs of the whole program when the video player got stuck.

Fast Video Cataloger 4.32

Added tooltip counts to failed videos and videos in the list to be added.

Hold ctrl to prevent \"are you sure\" dialog when deleting keywords

Fast Video Cataloger 4.31

Changing the color of the keywording window when scene tagging is enabled, this was a user request to make it more clear if you are tagging videos or both scene and videos.

Fast Video Cataloger 4.30

The repair dialogs can now be resized to see more videos

Added support for action packs.

The Keywording window now changes the background to show clearer if you are tagging scenes or videos.

Companion images for actors will be picked evenly between the cast if you include them in the companion image slideshow.

An updated version of the docking framework should fix a few more layout issues.

All recompiled with visual studio 2017

Fast Video Cataloger 4.29

When indexing videos, the program will look for nfo XML files, and if one is found, it will take tags (keywords), plot (description), and title from the nfo XML file for each video.

Fast Video Cataloger 4.28

Added support for MadVR. If Madvr is installed and you select madvr as video player, it will be used. Madvr provides the best video playback quality, but it is a bit slower when seeking than most other options.

We fixed a rare out of memory issue due to fragmentation.

Added shortcuts to jump between videos and in the video.

We fixed a bunch of state bugs with video playback.

Fast Video Cataloger 4.27

Performance improvements to make the software more responsive.

Save search now save the state correctly of scene or video search

Fast Video Cataloger 4.26

Released version

Fast Video Cataloger 4.25

- Added text in search windows title to show the videos and thumbs returned from the search

- Fixed order issue that caused the video window sometimes to be empty

- Save of and/or search mode for thumb search was not restored upon filter load

Fast Video Cataloger 4.24

- Lots of bug fixes and improvements to search.

- Fixed several program freezes.

Fast Video Cataloger 4.21

We fixed several issues with layouts.

Added support to auto-hide windows to the top and bottom of the main program windows.

Fast Video Cataloger 4.2

We changed how search works, no more search dialog. Searches can be combined and saved.

Changed how layouts work, hopefully, more intuitive

Reworked documentation

We improved performance for loading large catalogs.

Drag videos from the video catalog list to other programs.

New support in action includes current thumbnail time (to launch external video player to play from a given time).

Bug fixes

Fast Video Cataloger 4.07

Bug fixes

Internal codecs can now handle old mpeg videos before you needed to switch to "use windows codecs".

Added Right-Click options to the image displayed in the companion image slideshow. Set the external image viewer from the general tab in Preferences.

Fast Video Cataloger 4.06

We added a function to save out paths to failed videos to a text file. Right-click any video file that failed to index and select "export list".

Improved video indexing, many files that failed before should now work, for example, many versions of flash videos that failed before.

Fast Video Cataloger 4.05

Added new export "video as contact sheet", access it from the File menu. The wizard takes you through the process of exporting the currently selected video as a contact sheet image.

We added new "import actors from folders" to quickly build an actor\'s library. The wizard will guide you through the process.

Fast Video Cataloger 4.04

We added new Export, "Video list as csv". Export the filtered video list as a separate CSV file to be imported in Excel or other software. Access from the File menu.

We added new Export, "Actor list as csv". Export the filtered actor list as a separate CSV file to be imported in Excel or other software. Access from the File menu.

Video catalog and Actor windows now display the number of videos in the respective windows as part of the title bar.

Added "Delete" key as a shortcut to the thumbnail window to remove a thumbnail.

Fixed issue where the password dialog was displayed when a corrupt catalog was opened. You should now get a proper error message instead.

Fixed issue where a single actor companion image could not be removed.

Searching for scenes with multiple keywords now only includes scenes that include all keywords, not any of them.

Actions window got expanders to easily separate between common actions that are built-in and custom actions that you create.

The actor window got expander to show/hide filter options.

We added a new option to backup a catalog.

The volume in the video player is now saved between program runs.

We improved performance for catalogs with non-masked videos.

Fast Video Cataloger 4.03

Updated UI for filtering actors and added function to filter on more than one tag

Merged the title bar of the program to make more space for other windows.

Optimized database format for new catalogs

Added new options to optimize and change old catalogs to the new database format. From File / Repair / Optimize. Please note that for large catalogs, this process can take several hours. Note! Make sure to back up your catalog before running this. If the computer reboots during the optimize process, your catalog will be corrupt.

Updated LavFilters to 0.68.1

Fast Video Cataloger 4

This is a public version.

We added a new auto index feature.

Fast Video Cataloger 3.96

Catalogs can now be password protected. Set a password when you create a catalog or set it later from the file menu.

Videos can be masked from the file context menu in the catalog list. Masked videos get a random filename without file extension and cannot be viewed from outside of its catalog. If you mask videos, please make backups of the catalog as it will be impossible to view or unmask the video if the catalog is lost.

Videos can be masked when they are added to a catalog, controlled by a checkbox on the index pages in Preferences.

The program now supports loading files masked by the Video DownloadHelper Software.

Vdh is recognized as a new video file format, i.e., a masked video.

The integrated video player now shows preview frames if you hover over the time bar. The thumbnails extracted from the video are used i.e., how close the thumbs are to the correct time depends on how many thumbs were extracted for the video.

The integrated video player now has an explicit way to create a filter graph to playback videos.

Added a new checkbox to the "add videos" window that will ignore any videos that are already in the catalog. This is especially useful if you add folders with subfolders, and some videos have already been added.

Fixed issues with filtering on actors not working as it should

Keywords are now listed in case-insensitive order.

Fast Video Cataloger 3.95

We added an advanced search option to use "ALL" or "ANY" on the keywords. Previously the keywords were always searched as ANY.

We added a new type of video indexer with built-in codecs. You can switch between the type of indexer in the Preferences. The new one is used by default.

We added new options for debugging the video indexer. This is a development feature not intended for ordinary users.

All components have been updated and recompiled with the latest version of visual studio 2015.

We updated to a new c-runtime, and the installer installs the latest version.

Fast Video Cataloger 3.94

The automatic selection of layout can now be skipped by holding down the left alt key.

Saving a layout no longer shows a dialog box, only a notification.

Fixed issue that caused companion images from old versions of Fast Video Cataloger to not be visible.

Added support for deleting multiple selected video files.

We added new preference option to search for companion images in a subfolder named as the video file.

Fast Video Cataloger 3.93

Added support for automatic selection of layout when a video is selected, when an actor is selected or when a video is played.

Fast Video Cataloger 3.90

We optimized searches basic queries as well as searches for thumbnails.

Add videos is now a menu item

We added Ctrl + F5 for a refresh of the video list.

We fixed issues with adding https:// links to a video link field.

Fast Video Cataloger 3.87

Fixed issues with remove companion images

Better error handling for some cases of failed captures

More fixes for possible stalled video captures

m2t is now a recognized video file format

Fast Video Cataloger 3.84

Fixed bugs introduced in 3.72; Crash in actor slideshow, added actors were not auto-selected, drop images on front and back cover didn't work as expected.

We added a new Import video function

We added a new Import keywords function

Import actors now skip already imported actors to prevent duplicated actors.

Fast Video Cataloger 3.82

Minor incremental bug fix versions from 3.72. No new features were added.

Fast Video Cataloger 3.72

This version was only released to present customers.

Fixed fullscreen mode screen alignment on Windows 8.1 machines with high dpi.

Added option to let the program recognized any type as a video or photo. Note that you need to have the correct codecs installed that support the file extension.

Added new recognized video file types; ts, tr, trp

Added a new "connect" dialog. This is to allow Fast Video Cataloger to connect to a Fast Video Cataloger server. Please note that at this point, the server is only available for selected beta testers.

General cleanup of database code and performance optimizations.

We added new option to the file organizer to prevent the context menu from being shown from files.

Fast Video Cataloger 3.64

Various bug fixes and official release

Fast Video Cataloger 3.62

Thumbnail auto-selection is now automatically disabled when you manually click a video scene thumbnail. We also added a message to make it clear when it gets disabled.

We fixed an issue when the thumbnail did not scroll to the selected thumbnail.

We fixed the highlight color in the video catalog when the window was not active.

Fast Video Cataloger 3.61

We fixed an issue with the goto video from the scene search.

Fast Video Cataloger 3.60

We added animation on all types of thumbnails when you move the mouse over them.

New option in Preferences to enable/disable mouse zoom on mouseover.

Changed color of selected videos in the video catalog window, to make it more clear what is selected.

Bug Fix: Multiple companion images could be added to a video in some cases.

Fixes for Various bugs introduced in 3.56 version (that version was never officially released)

Fast Video Cataloger 3.56

Optimized update in the video catalog list. The program should be much smoother to use when the program is adding videos in the background.

Also, if you add a keyword to a video, set ratings, etc, there is no flicker of the video list, and it is much faster.

Fast Video Cataloger 3.54

Support for HighDPI screens in Windows 8.1. Help screens should work much better, and the Video Player window should no longer be tiny.

BugFix: Searches on title, details, description, and links that included a ' character in the search terms never returned any results.

BugFix: Companion image slideshow always showed a first empty picture for the image display time seconds set in Preferences.

Performance: Update speed of the thumbnail window is much faster (most noticeable on high dpi displays with videos with a lot of thumbnails).

Fast Video Cataloger 3.53

Optimized update in the video catalog list. The program should be much smoother to use when the program is adding videos in the background.

Fast Video Cataloger 3.52

Bugfix: Sometimes, it was not possible to set video ratings from the detail video view.

Bugfix: Improved image quality in the actors attract window.

Added a bunch of new settings to customize the actors attract window.

Fast Video Cataloger 3.51

Bugfix: Play form video wall and attract video wall now selects the video automatically ( earlier, the playing video was not selected, but the frame for the time that was played was marked on the wrong video)

Bugfix: Check for duplicate video files failed to find videos from catalogs migrated from before version 3.36.

Fast Video Cataloger 3.50

3.5 was the publicly released version, released end of October 2014.

Attract video window used to always start with one item visible the first round.

Minor bug fixes.

Fast Video Cataloger 3.43

Ratings can now be set directly from the video catalog window in detailed mode.

Improved performance when keywording, adding and removing thumbnail keywords.

When playing a video and the Video Player window is in tabbed mode, and that tab is not selected, the program will switch to the video player tab.

Fast Video Cataloger 3.41

Added a new video catalog context menu, "Open in File Organizer" that shows the current folder in the File Organizer window.

Minor bug fixes

Fast Video Cataloger 3.40

Floating document windows got their position reset when different videos were selected.

If you closed a left window, it could not be opened again except through Reset windows.

Added a notification message when the layout is switched to make it easier to know what layout you are using.

The selection was reset when you keyworded scenes.

You can now add more keywords when using a "," (comma) between each keyword.

Fast Video Cataloger 3.39

Copy portraits to the clipboard by right-clicking the actors\' portrait or the thumbnail in the Actor window.

In the video catalog right-click menu, the video file operations have been moved to a sub-menu.

A new "delete" file command has been added to the video catalog context menu. The delete command deletes the file from the disk and removes it from the catalog.

Fast Video Cataloger 3.38

Changing volume did not work if the video was not playing.

Change the scale of the volume control to make it easier to control (less part of the volume result in silence)

Fast Video Cataloger 3.36

The add video list now includes sortable columns for video file size and date modified.

FileSize has been added to the video catalog detail list mode

Fast Video Cataloger 3.35

Polish and Various bug fixes

Fast Video Cataloger 3.32

Added "Attract covers" window that cycles through random covers and/or companion images.

Added Attract Actor Window that shows random Actors.

Added an Attract video wall that shows a Videowall with constantly changing videos.

New preference tab for the attract windows.

Added a new tool to check duplicated video files as a tab in the repair catalog dialog.

New preference option to show/hide horizontal scrollbar in the video catalog list, on the general tab.

Ratings have been added to the video catalog list.

Ratings have been changed to show stars instead of a drop-down list.

General performance improvements

About box now shows basic statistics for the loaded catalog.

Fixed bug where the video window disappeared when docked as a document.

Minor bug fixes

Fast Video Cataloger 3.14

Minor bug fixes.

Fast Video Cataloger 3.13

Changed saved profiles, you now have eight user profiles that can be selected with F5 to F12 or from the windows menu. In the Preferences, there is a new page where you can put a name to the profiles. The reset profile will only reset your current profile.

Added New Videowall presentation mode wave, select it from Preferences.

Added a larger video wall size

Optimized program startup

Fast Video Cataloger 3.12

Added a new Video wall view and a preference page for it.

Fast Video Cataloger 3.11

When adding videos, videos with ' in the path was not reported as already added when they were in the add video window.

Archive videos appended a '1' to the moved filenames if the videos were archived with their original names.

Fast Video Cataloger 3.10

Fixed a problem registering the program for some computers with roaming profiles. The program accepted the license key but then quit the program.

Added a horizontal scrollbar if needed, to the video window when in list mode

The wrong context menu was shown when you right-clicked thumbnail in the scene search result window.

I fixed the "go-to video" in the context menu on a search scene to select its video in the video list.

I fixed the "go-to video" to work with multiple selected scenes.

Fast Video Cataloger 2.43 -- 3.00

Various bug fixes

Fast Video Cataloger 2.42

Added .ogv as new recognized video file format.

Lots of various bug fixes.

Fast Video Cataloger 2.41

- New custom action argument variables: {actor_firstname}, {actor_lastname}, {video_file}, {video_title}, {video_link}.

- Actions can now load an URL in a web page and not only an external program (useful to integrate IMDb / google search, for example).

- Changed the actor dialog to be non-modal to allow it to stay open while working with the rest of the program.

- Change the default layout to have \"file organizer\" as the rightmost window. ( since it is hidden, it make it faster to start the program with the normal layout, might be a tip for custom layouts as well).

- Fixed spelling and text in the tutorial.

- Bug fixes.

Fast Video Cataloger 2.40

- Added asf as a new known file extension.

- Use Ctrl + right/left arrow to change video playback speed.

- The video playback speed is no longer reset when you click another thumb (it is when you switch to video, but that is by design).

- Fixed a bunch of bugs in how selection works.

- Keywords in the actor drop-down box are now sorted.

- If you have many keywords, you will get a scrollbar to scroll the list of keywords, to not push the \"file\" button out of view

Fast Video Cataloger 2.39

You can now start the program with a catalog file as an argument to load that catalog, i.e., if you double-click a vcat file, the program will load.

In the Preferences, you can now add your own \"actions\", and they will appear in the action window

When a video ha a missing path and the dialog to find the file was displayed, the icon was shown as a wait icon. Now it\'s a normal arrow as it should be.

Zoom is now only printed with one decimal

Actor tags were not sorted at the point they were added.

Added more slow playback speeds

Added General eXchange Format (GXF) as a known video file format

Added MXF as a known video file format

Added LXF as a known video file format

Fixed issue when sometimes the mode (detal or icon) for the video catalog window was not set from start.

Added command-line argument \"-ignoresettings\". If this option is given, no saved settings are loaded, i.e., its like starting the program for the first time. All your settings will be reset. License is still kept.

Fast Video Cataloger 2.38

Fixed Bug, When a video frame was keyworded, and the video was playing the video reset to start.

We added swf, mts, and m2ts as new known video formats.

Changed the color of the selected video in icon view to make it easier to find.

Fast Video Cataloger 2.37

You can now select video playback speed. Note that this is done in a different way than the fast/slow forward solution with holding ctrl/shift and pressing the forward or rewind button.

This actually plays the video with a different clock at either x1,x2,x4, or slow speeds. This type of playback requires the video codec and format to support playback at different speeds. You should expect it to work for most avi and mp4 files.

Fixed a few issues with the column order was not being saved. For example, this failed, change column order, switch to icon view, exit program, then the column order was reset to default.

Fixed a serious bug with selection, the bug caused to program to run slower when a video was playing and you could not play a video from a thumbnail after a scene search.

Fast Video Cataloger 2.36

Fixed several selection issues that broke playing searched frames.

Fast Video Cataloger 2.34

Fast Video Cataloger and its components are from now on compiled with Visual Studio 2013. We have switched to use .net framework 4.51 as well as a new wincrt.

This is a pretty big update, in general, it should make the program snappier, but things might have broken. Please let me know if anything looks wrong. There are also changes to the installer.

Minor changes to the program:

- move \"autosync to videofolder\" to the file organizer Preferences tab where it should be.

- You can now drag a .txt file to the video details description field

Fast Video Cataloger 2.33

The new Preferences option, \"Autosync to videofolder\", automatically opens the folder with the video file when a new video is selected.

Added a button to open a link from the details window, (new option in Preferences to decide if to use the external browser or internal window).

Tooltips for actor add companion file/folder are now correct.

Fixed so that new actor dialog always shows some part of the companion thumbnail list.

When you add a folder with companion images to an actor that folder will be scanned for images every time it is used.

Made companion thumbs load async (takes a bit longer to load but the application is more responsive)

Move companion files dialog had broken style

The details window now uses the full width

Fast Video Cataloger 2.32

Extended catalog format with actor companion images. (i.e., file saved in this version will NOT work in earlier ones)

Add companion images when editing actors

Actor companions are shown in the companion window depending on settings

Preferences now have the option to include actor companion images.

Hover over a companion image thumb, and it will show the name of the actor if its a companion image from an actor

Right-click on a companion image from an actor and you have a new \"edit Actor\" option.

We changed the layout of the add/edit actor dialog. Its now in the same style as the add video window.

Added a shortcut button to \"add video window\" to open preferences on the index page.

Minor changes:

- Style for actors in addvideo was not updated. Looks right now.

- Added more space for \"add video\" list of videos

- Minor changes to some more style (Horizontal scrollbar, menus etc.)

- Add video button state was not updated when all videos had been indexed.

- Fixed style for import actors dialog.

- Fixed error dialog that happened when scrolled to the bottom, viewing in icon mode icons, added new videos, and clicked on one of the newly added videos. (or scrolled down)

Fast Video Cataloger 2.30

Setting a keyword no longer resets selection if more than one video is selected.

Right-click on videos in the list do no longer clear selection if more than one video is selected.

Improved fast forward function ( should be smoother in general, but varies depending on video format)

- New slow forward, Hold ctrl while clicking the forward or backward buttons

- Horizontal scrollbar was messed up after reskinning. (right/left was pointing up/down)

- Added program documentation to a new tab in the program (still accessible through F1 in the external window)

Fast Video Cataloger 2.29

- It is now possible to set the portrait scale (Large,normal,small) for the cast and actor windows independently.

- If you press enter with the cursor in the video scenes thumbnails, it crashed, now the video is played from that thumbnail.

- Should repaint when you switch between videos of different aspect ratios. Hopefully, the scale issue is also solved, however hard to verify as I have not been able to repro it.

- Added f4v as a new known video file extension

- Fixed resize of add/edit actor dialog.

Fast Video Cataloger 2.28

- You can now use drag-\'n\'-drop of files from the icon view mode.

- Setting as \"video thumbnail\" scrolled the video list to the top.

- The \"filter\" options in the Actors window is back ( it was rendered behind the list...)

- The choice of colors for the keywords in both the \"Add Videos\" drop-down, and in the \"keywording\" window is very hard to read. Changed to more comfortable to read colors.

- You can again just click on any thumbnail, and it will start playing the movie from there. ( single/multiple scene thumbnail selection should work better.)

- Small icons do no longer show the video title to show more of the image. ( tooltip has the title.)

Fast Video Cataloger 2.27

- When more than video was marked and tagged. The keywording showed keywords for each video that had the keyword.

- When more than one video is selected, you can no longer remove the keyword.

- Added a new context menu item to cover and companion images to use them as video thumbnails. Extra useful with the icon/grid view.

- New tab in preferences for Actors.

In the new actor tab, you can change the resolution of actor portraits when they are stored in the database. This affects the size of the catalog an also performance. Changing this will only affect newly added portraits.

In the new actor tab, you can set the display size of the Actors thumbnail. This will not affect the size of the catalog or the stored images.

Preferences now have a check on reasonable values for the image resizes.

Fix visual style on the filter videos, \"include video keyworded as\" list

Fast Video Cataloger 2.26

New icon/grid views of videos, right-click to access.

Fixed: Saved layout sometimes did not select the correct video if the sort order was changed from the default.

Fixed: The repair dialog was too small, so some controls where hidden

Fixed: Fullscreen video player control was missing the pause button

Fast Video Cataloger 2.07

This version improves error handling for broken videos/bad codecs. The program now handles a whole new range of errors that previously crashed the program. When these issues occurred now the program simply skips the video and can continue with the next file.

Fast Video Cataloger 2.06

Videos are now scaled to fit the whole window beyond the and not just scaled to 1:1 size. Stretching the video is now the default behavior. You can still select to never stretch a video from the preferences.

Bug fixes, if you select a broken companion image, no image will be displayed in the large window instead of the previously selected.

Bug Fix, companion images with ' in the filename, did not work, and they should now.

Bug Fix, add video time settings were overwritten with preference settings.

Visuals, when a thumbnail is selected, it will always have the same border color regardless if the thumbnail window has focus or not.

Fast Video Cataloger 2.04

This is a released public version.

The help page is now read from a server where you can suggest a future improvement, get support, or report issues.

Fixed issue with adding single frame screenshots

Fast Video Cataloger 2.03

Fixed bug, if you sat a new interval in the add video dialog, it used to change your settings in the preferences.

Fixed bug, if the program crashed and resumed indexing, it used the latest index settings, which might not be the same as when the videos were added.

Fixed bug, renamed video to contain a ' caused the file to be renamed but not the database path.

You can now copy and paste the preview image in the video list. Ctrl+c & Ctrl+v will work if a video item is selected, and the video list window is visible.

Fast Video Cataloger 2.02

Actors are now sorted on first and last name used to only be sorted on the first name.

In the actor window, you can now mark any actor and start typing to jump to the actor with the name you are typing.

In the video window, you can now mark any video and start typing to jump to the video with the title you are typing.

With the repair dialog on the video tab, you can now edit broken video paths directly, simply write the new path, and hit enter. You can also select the path you want to change and click the browse button next to the video path to browse for a new path.

Fast Video Cataloger 2.01

Fixed major issue in Windows 8.

Crashed on startup if installed on a clean machine without a previous version of the software.

Fast Video Cataloger 2.0

Officially released version. All versions from 1.50 up to this release has been internal and for testing.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.94

Some operations scrolled the thumbnail list to the top. This is fixed.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.85 - 1.93

No new features. Only a bunch of bug fixes preparing for the 2.0 version

Fast Video Cataloger 1.84

- If no cover is selected, the slideshow will take that space

- If only covers are selected, the covers will take the slideshows space

- Check for covers were not case insensitive. They are now.

- Cover images are not included in the slideshow

- Detected covers are now set automatically

- Added retry dialog if you tried to open a file that can not be opened (for example, a catalog on a USB that was removed since the last program run)

- If starting the program with a catalog that is deleted, then select cancel on new catalog dialog the program crashed.

- Ctrl + s -> is a shortcut for capturing a single frame where you are. (Not new, but we talked about it, so looked it up )

- Added random slideshow checkbox in preferences.

- Added new repair dialog. You can then remove companion images/videos that are broken or specify a new folder where you look for the files.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.83

- Fixed crash when adding non-images as cover images.

- If you edited a title of a video and then clicked straight to another video title, the wrong video was renamed.

- Added splitter to show covers and companion images

- Drag-\'n\'-drop video files to the companion images

- Drag a folder to the companion window to add all images in it.

- Right-click on a companion image to set the image as front or back cover

- Added function to remove a companion image.

- Added m4p as a known video file extension (rare mp4 file extension)

- \"back cover\" and \"front cover\" are now recognized as cover image filenames.

- Covers and companion images are now removed from a catalog when the video is removed

- Added fade between the images in the slideshow

Fast Video Cataloger 1.82

- Added cover functionality. There is a new companion image window working like the other window.

- Drop actor to cast gives error on test DB.

- Actors images now have a drop shadow

- Actors images are now resized correct when grabbed from video scene thumbnail.

- Fixed focus issue with play window

- Changed icons for the Video Player window.

- Added a bunch of icons to the program

- Changed the layout in fullscreen to make more space for the video.

- Added a new filter button to open up the filter dialog.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.81

- Added volume control to the video player.

- Fixed: Possible to multi-select with ctrl+shift

- Fixed: Drag-\'n\'-drop did not work to the folder view, only to the file view.

- Fixed: drag-\'n\'-drop failed if the filename contained a \' character.

- Fixed: After a drag-\'n\'-drop, the path is updated in the video catalog list.

- Fixed: clear button disabled if starting with things in the queue.

- Fixed: first click on the tag as well as radio buttons in the keywording window did not take (focus issue, first click anywhere inside the window just sat focus to that window)

- Fixed: Removing of tags on whole videos was broken.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.80

- Bugfix: The keyword filters in the drop-down was broken

- Bugfix: Krash if you search using the cast filter.

- BugFix: It was not possible to drag a video from the video list (to drop it onto the organizer)

- Reworked video dialog after the new design.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.79

- Now saves the \"split\" between the folder and file view in the file organizer.

- Drag-\'n\'-drop to copy/move files now work in the file organizer.

- Cast window not supports multiple videos selected in the video list. It now shows the combined cast of all selected videos. It is also possible to add an actor to all selected videos to remove

an actor from all multiple selected videos.

- Fixed issue, if more than one video was selected in the video list, it was not possible to scroll!

- It\'s now possible to select more than one video and set a keyword to all selected videos.

- The keywording window now shows the union of keywords for all selected videos.

- Made the zoom box a popup window instead that is toggled with the zoom button.

- Added a checkbox to the zoom control to show/hide the time text below video scene thumbnails.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.78

- Fixed this issue: If you are scrolling thumbnails, click on one, and start playing a video from that point....and then scroll the thumbnails again, the display gets pulled back to where you started playing when it reaches the next thumbnail. This feels like unexpected behavior and can make it easy to lose your place.

If you scrolled after playing a video, it would not scroll away.

- thumbnail view was not scrolling until you released the button, it\'s more immediate now.

- Added zoom function for the video window. (click the button in the upper right corder of the program)

Fast Video Cataloger 1.77

- Added a \"copy\" context menu item to copy the thumbnail to the clipboard.

- Fixed issue with with no filter at all being selected showing nothing in the catalog list (until you selected a filter). Now defaults to [no filter].

- Updated the About box so the text box resize and the copyright is for the right company

- Context menu on multiple selected videos now disabled the menu items that do not work. Remove on multiple selected videos now removes all the selected videos.

- Fixed drag n drop error dialog could appear when the context menu was up in the video list.

- You now also get the context menu on thumbs if you click on the area outside of the thumbnail.

- It is now possible to get a context menu to remove several scene thumbnails at the same time from the thumbnail view.

- removed the \"remove thumbnail\" from the scene view as it did not do what you expected (the thumb was removed from the video)

- GotoVideo and PlayFromHere in the scene view (searched on tag) did not work when the video with the scenes wasn\'t selected.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.76

- Significant performance increase and reduced memory use for large catalogs.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.75

- Fixed the double windows for undocked windows.

- Fixed rare crash when you opened up the \"windows\" menu

Fast Video Cataloger 1.74

- You can now set the size of thumbnails for the file view.

- Better error handling for Corrupt portraits (Fixed a crash).

- Fixed a freeze when you dragged around the actors\' window to dock it.

- When you drag an actor from the actors\' list to the cast window, you now see the portrait as an icon.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.73

- Added a drive drop down to the file organizer as in windows explorer. (We had space).

- Save type of view in the \"file window\" like thumbnails, reports, etc.

- Save the selected folder in the \"file organizer\".

Fast Video Cataloger 1.72

- Folders are not created if drag'n drop is canceled on the dialog

- You can now drag n drop several video files and companion files. To select more videos, hold down ctrl or shift.

- Rename of video now changes the title and path of the thumbnail window

- Changing the \"autohide player controls\" state does no longer ruing the player window.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.71

- This is an attempt to fix the \"memory exception\".

Fast Video Cataloger 1.70

- Fixes issue with adding videos introduced in 1.69

Fast Video Cataloger 1.69

- Hopefully, we fixed the licensing issue with the controls. The trial dialog should be gone.

- Added import function for actors. Click the \"import\" button in the actor window.

- Improved the crash dialog. If the program crash and you get a dialog with some info, please send it to me.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.68

- Added option to autohide buttons in the player window (preferences/player

- Controls used in the file organizer are now registered, so you should never see the trial dialog again.

- Fixed: If you have a file extension specified in preferences for companion files, the program will find all instances of that file-type regardless of whether it is in the same folder as the file you are trying to drag and drop.

- Fixed renaming so that it should no longer matter if the clip you are renaming is selected or not.

- fixed: \"New folder\" button was clipped if the window was small.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.67

- It\'s now possible to drop files over the file view.

- Fixed the freeze (or non-responsiveness) when dragging a file from a network device. You now get a standard progress dialog.

- Added button to create a folder.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.66

- Fixed freeze when dragging/arranging/docking the \"file organizer window\".

- Fixed issue when the file organizer was drawn above other windows by mistake.

- New dialog when dragging videos to the file organizer to better show what is going on.

- Changed logic when dragging videos so that if a video was moved as a companion file that is handled, the whole moved folder doesn\'t leave empty folders and more.

- Updated the whole \"Docking framework to the latest version\". This fixes a number of minor issues. Please let me know if it introduces new errors.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.65

Added file/"view as" to the organizer.

Also, when a video is moved by drag n drop and leave an empty folder, that folder is deleted.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.64

The file organizer is redone with a third party component to be much more like windows explorer.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.63

Old catalogs are now automatically converted to the format of the new catalog, so it is possible to add videos to them.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.60

Big change to how thumbnail are updated.

Reverted the memory save implementation from 1.56. The update is now done asynchronously. This will work fine with new databases, but you will see a "flicker" every time you switch video on catalogs created prior to version 1.60. This solution should be faster and will not cause scrolling issues as the previous version. A bit more memory is required, however.

The file organizer added. Drag videos from your catalog to folders to move the video file to that folder and update the catalog. In the preferences, you can set the program to simultaneously move all or a select number of companion files with the video. You can also select to create a new folder for the moving video.

When a file is moved, it can get an auto tag. The auto tag can also be set as a "hide" filter. The "hide" filter hides all videos that have your auto tag set. This works after your original filters. For example, if you have filtered on "effect videos", and the auto tag hide feature enabled. As you move files to folders, they will be hidden from the video list.

As videos are being indexed, the status is displayed on the front page.

Fixed bug that the actor and cast list was not refreshed when an actor was created from a video thumbnail.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.58

The tagged box and keyword suggestion box now scales to the width of the window.

Fixed better resize handling for the Actors window.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.57

Fixed crash, When editing the title of the video. (clicked out to another row)

Fixed editing of the wrong title when one video was selected, and you edited the title of a video that was not selected.

Renaming the title from the "video details" window will now also rename the file.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.56

Totally changed back the editing of titles from how it was done in 1.55, so now it's back to the old 1.54 behavior. That 1.55 solution caused severe performance issues.

However, implemented, click on the title to rename the file again.

As the video is playing, the selection follows the time of the playing video. This makes it easier to follow the thumbnails as the video is playing.

When you are dragging the seek bar for the video, it's no longer being updated by the playing video until you release it.

Did a pass to improve the memory used for videos with a lot of thumbs? Hopefully, this will prevent the immediate crash when you selected a video, and that video should display quicker when it is selected.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.55

Columns you can sort on are now highlighted, and a small arrow shows the sort order.

You can navigate individual fields, i.e., it's possible to scroll around in the video list to the left and right if all rows don't fit the window size.

You can edit the title of the by two clicks in the name field, this will also change the filename of the video, and the database will be updated.

Links are presented as hyperlinks, can not be clicked.

The marked thumb had a white area around the time. This is now removed.

The actor portrait pasted from the clipboard is also saved in the catalog.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.54

Actor tags are now sorted alphabetically in the dropdown.

Added a new button to the "edit/new actor dialog" where you can paste a portrait image from the Windows clipboard.

In the new/edit actor dialogs tag field enter will add the current tag text as a new tag, clear the text and keep the cursor in the field.

The Colour marking of keyworded scenes is now larger and in green to better standout.

Sort order of video columns is now also stored with the saved layouts.

Thumbnail view no longer scrolls to the top when keywording a video or removing a video scene thumbnail.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.53

Added context menu to the actors, same as was present in the cast list.

Added a context menu item to remove actors from the catalog. If the actor is used in any video, he will be removed from all the videos as well.

I added a new radio button to tag selected scene thumbnails as well as the whole video.

Fixed saved layout issues. If, for example, keywording was selected from a scene, you got two keywording windows.

Changed the filter dropdown box text from "tag filter" to "keyword filter".

New archive media will be available in the filter without restarting the program.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.52

The actor list is now also a dockable window.

The menu for edit actor has been removed and the "ctrl+e" shortcut, as the list of actors modal dialog is no more.

The "add actor" command has moved to the file menu.

The actor area of the cast window now stretches to fill the window.

It is now possible to use drag n drop from the actor to the cast window.

The "add video" dialog is no longer modal, i.e., You can have it open as you use the program to view your catalog.

Add actors to the cast of the videos to be added. Just drag them from your actor list. If you want to remove an actor, just right-click on the actor and select remove from the context menu. The buttons to add/remove actors have been removed from the dialog.

Scenes that have attached keywords are now marked in the thumbnail list with a blue background color behind the time of the scene. If you hover your cursor over the time, you will see the keywords set to that scene.

When changing projects, the keyword suggestions are updated.

Keyword suggestions are updated right away when a new keyword is entered.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.51

\<Never released publically>

The layout, Window placement, video list column order, and size, are now saved between runs.

You can reset to the default layout from the Windows menu.

You can also save the current layout as a "user layout" that you can load later, also from the Windows menu.

A new radio checkbox allows you to switch between tagging a whole video and a single scene thumbnail.

When you remove the last use of a keyword, it is now removed from the catalog. I.e., it will also disappear from the suggested keywords.

There is now a new button to rename a video file. The video file will be renamed and the catalog updated to point to the new name.

In the Actor dialog, you can now drop image files for portraits.

Fixed crash when you had videos on a device that was no longer available and clicked browse in the "pick new path" dialog.

If you switch between videos, the list will now scroll to the top.

We fixed a crash when trying to play a video of a removed USB device.

Path mapping from the preferences got broken in 1.50, now fixed

We fixed automatic path mapping when only the drive letter was the difference.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.50

The user interface has been completely reworked. The visual style has been changed to have what I think is a more professional look. Most windows are now docked so you can create your own optimal layout, including layout over more than one monitor. To drag a window, hold down the left mouse button over the header of the window, and you can drag away the window and place it where you want it to be. You can also close windows you do not currently need, and I have added a new windows menu to show windows that have been closed to bring them back.

In read-only mode, you can view catalogs, but you can not add new videos or actors to the catalog.

When the trial version for Fast Video Cataloger has expired, the program will go into read-only mode.

The expired version can now be used as a catalog reader without any time limit. You can now have the program installed on as many machines as you want, and you can share catalogs with people who don't own Fast Video Cataloger.

I have changed the enlarged video mode to be a completely new fullscreen mode. You can access it from the "fullscreen" button or use the Alt + Enter shortcut.

Video files with \' in the filename can now be added to the catalog, used to fail silently.

Adding videos to a write-protected database now gives a meaningful error dialog.

We fixed a crash when sorting on dates in the video list.

Path remapping is now case insensitive. If you, for example, mapped c: to d: but had a path staring with C: it would not work.

I had to change the shortcut keys for play/pause/stop to not conflict with key navigation.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.31

Improved video capture to handles more bad files. There is now a timeout that will add a video even if video playback stalls during frame capture. Before, these corrupt files would cause capture to freeze, and you would need to click skip to get to the next video.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.3

I have added a new video archive function. With archiving, you can tag videos to specific storage media. You can also move the video files to the media as they are tagged, for example, if you want to archive videos to an external drive.

You can easily browse all videos on a specific media through the expanded search function that now also supports archives.

When you play a video, and the path is no longer valid, you will now get a dialog asking you where the file is now. When you have provided the new path, the program will play the video, but it will not update the catalog. This is useful if you share a catalog through a network drive and want the videos to be played from the shared folder as well. Or if you have your catalog on an external drive and the drive letter is different on different computers.

In preferences, you can provide a local mapping for how to translate a path to a new path. This mapping is only local to the computer where you set it up and will not alter the catalog. This is very useful if you are sharing a catalog between different computers where the root paths to your videos are different. I do recommend that you build your entire video catalog from one root folder. I store my catalog at the root and then have different subfolders for where I keep the videos in the catalog.

When you play a video by clicking on a thumbnail, that thumbnail/scene is selected. This means that the last scene you played from will be the one you tag in the keywording window. In an earlier version, when it was not selected, the tags would hold for the whole video.

I also fixed a bug where you could not remove a keyword set to a specific scene.

When searching for scenes, the suggestion box will now only show tags that have been used for tagging specific scenes and not for whole videos.

The drop-down list used to filter videos now only contains tags used to tag whole videos. It will not show tags that so far have only been used to tag individual scenes.

These changes avoid searches that would not empty results and makes it easier to find relevant tags.

The video list now also contains the video file path, time the video was added, and link. These are to the right of the other columns, so you will need to resize the video list window to be able to see them. You can change the order of the columns with drag n drop, and you can change the width of each column.

The seek bar below the video now also has two text fields with the current time to the left of the seek bar and the total time to the right.

Fast Video Cataloger now recognizes xmf and ogm as video formats. To be able to use these formats, you will need to have codecs installed or, more precisely, you need a directshow splitter that recognizes these container formats.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.2

Removed the tabs from the front screen and moved the functionality to buttons on the right. Because of this, it is now possible to see the info about video/actors/tags at the same time as thumbnails. And when you hide them, we have more space for thumbnails. I also think the flow of the program is much more natural.

• Added the new "keywording" page. This is the new unified way to tag videos as well as thumbnails.

• It is now possible to tag single thumbnails as well as whole videos. If no thumbnail is selected, the tags are added to the whole video. If a thumbnail is selected, the tag is applied to the selected thumbs. Add and remove from the selection by holding ctrl when clicking just outside the thumbnail image.

• We fixed a bug when removing tags.

• When entering a new tag, you can add it right away with entering, and the cursor is still in the tag window, making it faster to add tags by typing.

• Added a new tab and view for searching tagged scenes/thumbnails. Now it's possible to get thumbnails from many different videos on one screen. For example, you are an effect artist with tagged scene thumbnails of explosions across many different videos. Now you can get all explosion shots on one screen and play the different videos right away.

• Search strings accept space for multi-word tags. Use + or "," as a separator between keywords. If you search for more than one keyword, your result will include all hits for all keywords (OR search).

• Search on tags window for source tags did not have a scroll bar making it hard to add tags if you used had a lot of tags to choose from.

• Search dialog can now be resized.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.1

• We fixed so that the name and description of an actor can include the quote (') character.

• The Add video dialog can now be resized to show more of long video paths.

• When you add videos, you now see if the video is already in the catalog. Right-click to remove videos you do not want to add again. If you add a video that is already cataloged, the video data will be merged. I.e., it will have all the thumbs of the newly indexed video and all previous thumbnails, it will have its previous tags and any new tags you add.

• You can now select more than one video to remove with right-click

• You can sort on the columns in the video to be added table. Useful, for example, if you want to remove all videos that are already in the catalog.

• When a video fails to index, the reason for the failure is set as a tooltip in the list for the failed video. Hover over the video path to see the error.

• Added a new button for failed videos to open a help page. This will only be visible if a video fails to index. To show the help page, you need an internet connection as the help is taken from our servers.

• Failed videos now have a context menu where you can play it in an external player, edit it with an external tool, or just open the video\'s folder.

Fast Video Cataloger 1.0

The first release of the program