I record home videos on a Canon HG1 HD harddrive camcorder and copy them to my PC. But now what? I've yet to find a single program that would help me manage and organize my clips.
I'd like to be able to sort them easily for later editing.
Any suggestions?
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Storage and sorting can all be handled by how you name your files.
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I already manage my clips manually with file explorer.
Unfortunately explorer is a poor interface for managing video files. The clips are extracted by recording date, which is great. But adding information makes the file names rather ugly:
example: 20090123171924 - Tom Meets Emily for the First Time while their Dogs Growl at Each Other.m2ts
Not to mention that Windows doesn't natively understand m2ts. I use VLC for playback but that doesn't let me browse the clips in a natural manner.
Also clipping off the start and end garbage in a lossless way is non-trivial either. (Possible using ImageMixer but not comfortable.)
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DAM = digital assets management.
Adobe Bridge CS3 and CS4 can sort of be a DAM. It's not quite a full DAM.
Read The DAM Book. It says "for photographers", but the techniques equally apply to video.
It involves software that acts sort of like blogging/bookmarking, in managing files. You end up using tags, in addition to good file ames and folder structures.Want my help? Ask here! (not via PM!)
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Krispy Kritter, i couldn't disagree more. Using file names and directory stucture alone really works only if you have a very small number of files--something I learned the hard way. A collection of any real size requires more careful management. How do you attach a description of the video? What if you want to find all the videos that include a specific person/people? Or in a certain location? Or where the subject was of a person performing a specific activity? Etc.
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I hate to re-ask the same question, but is there ANYTHING that works for organizing clips? I need to start a clip archive for work that will be keyworded, sorted by date, sorted by name, sorted by aircraft, etc. I found Riverfold's Clipstart at http://www.riverfold.com/software/clipstart/ but it's for Mac only. I'm running Windows.
In shirt, I'd love to find something like a video version of iPhoto or a PC version of Clipstart. -
Hey Mightyjak! I found it! Try downloading Videophile II at http://videophile.freeforums.org/latest-public-download-version-1-4-0-beta-t2.html
You can thank me later!
Mightyjak -
For anybody that may be interested, version 1.6.0 was released yesterday...
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I downloaded Vee Hive for my Win 10 64bit system, but it does not play MP4 files. I started several times to download the LAV Filters, but each time I backed out because the web sites used questionable tactics. Is there a SAFE way to load the necessary CODECS into the system for Vee Hive to work?
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You can get LAV filters quite safely from the Doom forum
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I thought it was, but it appears those functions are reserved for the purchased version. I don't mind paying for software that I know works, but I'm not going to pay for something I can't try out, first. I have lots of software I have purchased because I was promised it would do what I want only to find out it was lacking in some important way.
Fast Video Cataloger is fully functional in demo mode. I'm trying it out now and I may end up purchasing it. -
Every single NEW Library has a 30 day trial in Vee-Hive. In theory, you can try it out forever....
I'll update my site to reflect that...
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