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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