Version 10¶

Fast Video Cataloger 10.0¶

Infrastructure¶

We have moved from Net framework 4.8 to .Net 10. This should make the whole software much quicker and prepare us better for the future.

New file organizer component, should fix a bunch of bugs and be faster than before.

New sqlite server backend, note that the encryption has changed so it is not possible to migrate a password protected catalog from version 9.x to 10.x. You first need to remove the password in 9.x, then load the catalog in 10.x and add the password again.

Localization¶

Whole program is now localized in German, Spanish and Swedish. Select language from the General tab in preferences. Let us know where translations can be improved, we are not native Spanish or German speakers, so some of the translations might be off, we will fix as soon as people report to us.

Server¶

A New hosted server option that also host all companion images and videos was added. Use the wizard from the Server menu (Renamed from Share). This is the new recommended version to share a catalog over the internet,

New user accounts for hosted server, when hosting a catalog you can setup account on the catalog and you can give them different access rights.

Improved rest api, the whole scripting api is now available through the rest api.

Improved server admin application, to manage your server.

Static html version for the static server, the web site version allow viewing a catalog, tagging videos and uploading new videos. This web version does not have all the features of the desktop application and since it is running in a web browser it will not support all video formats that the desktop application does.

Documentation¶

Documentation has been completely reworked, all documentation is now web based and searchable. As before you find it in the documentation tab.

Indexing¶

Face detection, we have added facial detection. Actors can be detected in videos if you enable the feature. There are a few things to consider for facial detection to work well like good portraits and enough thumbnails in the video.

Scene classification and object classification, we added scene classification and object detection. It can be done as part of the indexing process or from the maintenance screen. Detected scenes and objects are added as keywords.

Automatic faceless thumbnail removal, a new option to automatically remove thumbnails without faces during indexing. Enable "Remove thumbnails without faces" in the Video Indexer preferences tab. An additional option lets you keep faceless thumbnails that have scene or object classifications. The default thumbnail size has been increased from 160 to 320 pixels for better face detection accuracy.

Remove similar thumbnails, a new tool to deduplicate consecutive thumbnails that look visually similar using perceptual hashing. Available as a batch tool from the right-click context menu, the maintenance screen, and as an automatic step during indexing. Enable "Remove similar thumbnails" in the Video Indexer preferences tab and set the desired similarity threshold.

Native transcription, we moved the whisper transcript support from the plugin that we had in version 9 to be part of the program. The process is also optimized and should be much faster and the whisper ai model is included with the installer.

Companion images¶

Companion image zip support, you can now add entire zip files as companion images.

Faster threaded prefetch should help load images quicker.

Actors¶

Drag n drop an actor on another actor to merge the actors.

Video formats¶

Blackmagic RAW (.braw) support added. BRAW files can now be indexed, played back and included in catalogs alongside the previously supported formats.

Maintenance¶

Recover catalog, a new command on the maintenance menu that rebuilds a damaged catalog into a new .vcat file. The original catalog is not modified. You pick where to save the recovered copy (the default is the source name with a .recovered.vcat suffix, but you can place it on a different drive, which is recommended if a disk-full condition caused the corruption). Recovery can take hours on large catalogs and some data may be lost; a summary of what was recovered is shown when it finishes.