| iVideo is a movie organizer designed with both consumers and professionals in mind. Whether you have a few videos you’d like to share, or whether you have thousands of movies scattered across multiple hard drives and endless stacks of CDs, iVideo is up to the job. Every feature in iVideo helps you get the most of of your movies by following this design: organize your movies so you can find them easily, play them using the integrated movie player (or the player of your choice), then share your favorite movies with friends and family.
Organize
- Browse your movies by thumbnail and set new custom thumbnails for them.
- Give your movies keywords, notes, ratings, extended information, and more.
- Keep your files where they are, even if they are in multiple folders or hard drives.
- Set up separate libraries for work and play and switch between them easily.
- Create smart playlists that automatically find movies matching the given criteria.
- Add bookmarks to your favorite online movies, including YouTube videos.
Play
- Watch movies directly within iVideo and easily switch to other movies in your playlist.
- You can also watch them in full screen with a controller and multiple monitor support.
- Play your movies in a different media player with a simple keyboard shortcut.
- iVideo can optionally remember where you were in your movies for later viewing.
Share
- View and create web pages in iVideo with beautiful custom themes.
- Seamlessly share movies with people on your local network or online.
- Convert your movies to work on Apple devices like the iPhone or Apple TV.
Minimum requirements: Mac OS X 10.3.9, QuickTime 7, G3 or Intel
For more information, please visit ivideoapp.com. Thanks! |
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April 19th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Looks promising however, it’s sort of confusing on import. Says progress found 53 videos, and the continue button is flashing. I press continue, and it runs through it’s import scan and now I have 67 videos.
I ran it again, and it went to 72 videos before it seemed to be done, I pressed continue and it did it’s import and now I have 141 videos.
Should I choose import, let it run overnight, and see what I get in the morning?
Also, does it autoupdate with new movies, or do I have re-import everytime?
A feature request would be when a video is selected to be able to play it with the space bar. I see Cmd-P will do that, and Space with pause it once playing, but I think Print when I think Cmd-P
April 19th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Hi harringg,
The search is automatic and will begin importing when all the movies are found. I guess the Continue button is actually a Skip button since it stops the search early and only imports the files it found up to that point. If you want to add new movies later, run a search again and only new files will be found and imported. You can also drag and drop specific files onto the main window if you don’t want to add every movie on your computer.
You can play movies by pressing return or enter. Escape will take you back to the list of movies when you are finished.
April 19th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Hoping for a new version of yFlicks instead. iVideo seems a bit basic and unstable.
April 20th, 2009 at 7:12 am
@Mike
If that’s how it works, I’ll pass. I ran it again last night, it seemed to stop at 342 this time. I left it until morning, it was stopped at 568. I pressed continue, and my total was now 709 when done.
I added a single video to my desktop (iShowU screencast, 10 seconds test video). So now I should have 710 when all said and done.
I went to File->Find my movies and let it run for about 30 minutes, and this time it reported 1139 when done. Do I need to let this scan for a few days before it will get ALL the files on my HDD?
It also gave me errors on import the last time, saying a movie “took too long to import”, it was a 38 MB file that plays fine in the Finder.
MacBook Pro
2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
10.5.5
120 GB Internal drive
April 20th, 2009 at 7:38 am
@gryphonent – I gave up on yFlicks because I found it to be so flaky and unstable. It seemed to re-scan a folder from scratch every time I opened it, then usually crashed half way through. I may give this a look.
April 20th, 2009 at 7:43 am
@gryphonent: Do you think there is going to be a new version of yFlicks? Those guys have known about the issue with crashing when “Enable access for assistive devices” is checked for over a year, and it still isn’t fixed. They’ve been completely absent from their forums for months, and apparently don’t usually respond to emails either.
I’d like to see yFlicks updated too, but they haven’t given me a reason to believe that their company even exists anymore.
April 20th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Personally I’ve given up on yFlicks – there’s a new version promised (but only from second hand info) and the app is unusable for me in its current state. I’ve been using iVideo for a couple of months now and it works fine for what I want. Mike seems to be committed to its development (more so than Many Tricks seem to be with yFlicks at any rate). At this discount, I’d say it’s definitely worth it…
April 20th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
@EnKayTee
Does my workflow seem normal? Should it take “forever”, at least overnight, and still not get everything on my HDD?