Video management

[BarteS]

Because of the increasing amount of tapes I'm looking for a video manager. You can think of tools like Adobe (Photoshop) Lightroom, which is a photo manager.
In the manager it should be possible to:
-load a movie and define scenes with comments
-search on scene / subject
-display the name of the original tape
-display a low-quality version of the scenes
In that case it will be lot faster to create a movie about a subject which is one multiple tapes, with varying quality / usefulness.

An example by MDinDestin*: Let's say a family member dies and you want to make a video of their life as a gift to others. If all the scenes of relatives were logged in a database you could search by the deceased individual and get a list of every video they're in.

* This topic is about the same as another one, but perhaps with (hopefully) a better, more clear, first post.

[Cybix]

BRILLIANT. A cataloging app for your tapes. It has a snippit of vid, comments, dates, tape number, where the tape is located, etc... who's gonna develop this? :) web based app? HV20.com add-on app? hehe

[Eugenia Loli-Queru]

There's this, for Mac: http://www.aquafadas.com/en/idive-digital-video/index.php

[BarteS]

Thank you! It could well be the final reason that pushes me towards a Mac. Features like an inbuilt capture module and automated timestamping are just the things I was expecting.

[vince]

I believe that Adobe Bridge provides this function to some extend. It comes with some of the Adobe programs.

[kn00tcn]

isnt cineform coming with something like this real soon? they mentioned 'think of it as lightroom for video'

[BarteS]

Adobe Bridge is more focused on (simple) photo management with some tags, some edit functions, some.. It's not able to, for example, split a movie in scenes and tag scenes.

Cineform (FirstLight) will be released in a while but not too much is written about it let alone a preview. As far as information allows it seems like it's heading the same directory as Lightroom too.
To me Lightroom is a editing suite with (still basic) management functions. (There is a better management tool for photos which is iMatch, but I think that one will be discontinued in some years if Lightroom does enrich their management part.) FirstLight will also allow to manipulate the videos in terms of contrast / saturation / ... and some basic metadata functions. But I'm not interested in the manipulating part. There are other (real) editing programs that are probably superior to FirstLight.
But I''ll keep an eye on Cineform, especially because I'm was already thinking about buying one of their product even without the knowledge of the management part.

But I appreciate your replies, thanx!

[Rikki]

Dump all your tapes to HDD, 1tb drives are cheap these days :D