Fast Video Cataloger 10 released

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Fast Video Cataloger 10 is a video clip management software (DAM) for 64 bit Windows designed to handle thousands of video files on a standard PC. The program extracts a wall of thumbnail images representing scenes in each video. This provides a visual search through inside video files instead of watching the duration of clips. Each thumbnail doubles as a playable bookmark for that scene and can be enriched with keywords for filtering and searching. Thumbnails can easily be added, removed, or annotated with keywords.

All new AI features run locally on your own machine. No footage is uploaded and no cloud service is involved — your files never leave your computer.

New in the 10.x version of Fast Video Cataloger:
- Face recognition — add a portrait of a person and the program returns every clip they appear in.
- Built-in speech-to-text using Whisper. Transcripts are timestamped and searchable across the whole catalog.
- Automatic scene and object tagging during indexing, combinable with manual keywords.
- Built-in web server with user accounts, so a team can browse, search, tag and upload from a browser.
- Native BRAW support, including color science, white balance and exposure metadata read directly from the file.
- Rebuilt on .NET 10. German, Spanish and Swedish localizations added.

What's New: https://videocataloger.com/fast-video-cataloger-10-released/
Download link: https://videocataloger.com/download/
Documentation: https://videocataloger.com/docs/

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Fast Video Cataloger 10.4 has been released. The main addition is visual search: scenes can be found by describing them, with nothing tagged first. As before, the AI features run locally on your own machine and no footage is uploaded.

New in 10.4:

- Visual search. Type a description of a scene, for example "drone shot over a city at night", and the scene results list the best matching thumbnails first. It compares the images, not keywords, so it also works on footage that was never tagged. The text search needs an optional model download; the index is built while videos are indexed, or in a separate pass for an existing catalog.
- Find similar scenes. Right-click a thumbnail to rank the scenes in the catalog by how much they look like it.
- Trained tags can be corrected. Mark a wrong match as "Not this" and the tag stops matching similar frames.
- Re-read metadata. Reads a file's metadata again (XMP and other embedded metadata) without re-indexing the video.
- Speech-to-text: the spoken language can be set, files with several audio tracks are transcribed from the track in that language, and a transcript can be made from a separate audio file.
- Blackmagic RAW: camera metadata is stored as extended properties, and the catalog server can index BRAW clips.
- Backup, Recover catalog and Optimize show progress and can be cancelled.

What's New: https://videocataloger.com/fast-video-cataloger-10-4-is-now-available/

Version history: https://videocataloger.com/docs/user-guide/version-history/version-10/

Download link: https://videocataloger.com/download/

Documentation: https://videocataloger.com/docs/