Version 9¶

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.