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What Fast Video Cataloger users say
Rated 4.96 / 5 from 24 verified user reviews
I've been using FVC for about 8 months and I think the product is fantastic. It recognizes many video formats. It is loaded with features which are customizable and it is obvious that a great deal of thought has gone into perfecting them. You can easily find the video and section you are looking for. The video player is excellent and the fast forward/reverse feature is great.
I have thousands of videos created as backgrounds for my music and Karaoke creations, and I'm always searching my files with many wasted hours. This is the perfect solution for me, and I would recommend this software as essential for anyone with extensive collections.
Nice and easy. Has everything you need to work with right there for you. The layout can be a little confusing at first when trying to locate this or that option. Well.....Maybe not confusing.... Just a little cluttered. Overall though you can't beat it. Keep up the good work.
THE FASTEST VIDEO CATOLOGER SOFTWARE
This is the easiest video cataloger software ever! I'm a video creator, and I was looking for a way to organize and catalog all my videos in a searchable timeline and I found this great software. I have 5 terabytes of video files, and it is a nightmare to look for a particular video, but once I installed FVC on my computer, I'm saving countless hours.
Fast Video Cataloger is the perfect tool for creating an organized library of all my videos. It was easy to use and made uploading videos a breeze. The search feature was amazing, allowing me to find any video I was searching for.
For me, it's the best way to organize my videos. I can access to all my videos in a searchable thumbnail timeline. The search speed is so fast, I can find the video I want on my computer in a few seconds. And you know the best part? The database has amazing indexing and search.
I like this software. is very useful and easy to use. I highly recommend this product if you have a lot of videos...
Great app for managing large video libraries and projects
I've been able to catalog and manage thousands of videos from the past 15 years easily and quickly. Keywording is simple and search results based on keywords appear quickly with a click after typing.
The UI is a bit clunky, but it's not difficult to learn - and you can customize it once you figure out your workflow. You can setup up to 8 differently workflow layouts and easily switch between.
I would like to see a personal media option alongside the Actors db so I can input more information about people and places in my personal videos.
But, an incredible value for a tool I've been looking for for a long time.
I have tested Fast Video Cataloger before and now I am coming back to it. I have not seen another program quite like Fast Video Cataloger, and it is adaptable, to fit into my workstream of videos.
The ability to visualize large unorganized collections of video clips is useful when I need to get a grasp of the footage fast and this is as fast as it gets. No lagging or delays for filtering once the catalog is built. With that said I am using FVC directly on my machine.
This is a great piece of software, which enables me to manage tons of videos with almost no effort. If you have to manage a reasonable collection of videos on Windows, there simply is no better or even comparable piece of software.
I had to contact product support by a few times (not for errors in the software, but because of licensing issues after reinstalling the software because of a system breakdown) and they were quick, friendly and helpful.
Great Piece of Software!
Searched for a video catalog software for a long time. This software has almost every useful feature I can imagine. Ít can handle huge amounts of videos and clips. You can easily put keywords into your collection. Search and display functions are very fast (sqlite based database). Use the trial to get a feeling for its usefulness. Highly recommended!
Amazing Customer Support!
These guys care about their product and customer. I get daily email on how to use Fast Videocataloger features and hidden features.
I am a Trainer who records all classes for students to replay as necessary. I am using it to tag and catalog concepts and important ideas on the recordings so that my students can save time.
I like the product very much but... the customer service makes it exceptional.
During my filming ‘career’ from mid 80’s I have collected thousands of videos and videoclips, done both in my profession as teacher and for my private life. Finally, I can easily find any video content, find any scene very quickly, and plan/reorganize for future needs. The software is not only fast, but with very flexible and versatile settings. The author is constantly mailing new useful ideas for working on the Videocataloger, and hosting a Tribe-community platform for his customers. If you have lots of videos and clips to keep up with, and work on a PC, try this out! Highly recommendable!
I have thousands of videos that I accumulated over the past 5 years. My intention was to use clips from the videos to document significant political and cultural events and trends. As I was collecting videos I was learning to use Blackmagic Resolve 17. I became overwhelmed trying to locate and extract clips based on actors, scenes, topics, etc.. FVC 8 has many powerful features that is helping me gain control of my large library. The search features are excellent and allow you to locate any actor, scene, topic, etc. right down to the beginning frames. There is also a feature that I've yet to explore, which lets you organize clips into virtual folders called bins. As I understand it, you can then export info from the bins that will instruct Resolve (and others editors) to import the clips for editing. I'm all in on this software.
I have been in the video business for over 45 years and during that time I have used many programs that try to be video catalogers and fail. FVC is our chosen software because of its ability to catalog any number of videos across our storage system and presents information in such a way that any of our crew can quickly find and assess a video clip for use in any production. FVC stores all the information required to identify each piece of footage without having to manually look to check content. FVC is simple to use and with the ability to use multiple displays it makes work flow a dream. After using FVC for some time now we just wouldn't bother with other systems.
Service/Support = Excellent. I started out with this software years ago and had a few problems with installation which were addressed promptly. No problems since! Flexibility of software = Excellent. I have created and saved several different layouts and able to make changes on the fly to see data that I need. Having multiple catalogs has allowed me to use the software for multiple applications. Performance = Excellent. I am simply amazed and with no issues/crashes. Updates are frequent as any issues are identified.
An excellent program. A little confusing and not quite intuitive, however after you use it for a while it becomes second nature. The Support is incredible and the capability of the app is amazing.
After trying many tools to organize my videos, I stumbled onto this one 2 years ago and it's simply amazing. It's easy to setup and use and the support is quick & friendly. Once I had everything imported & tagged, the search is super-fast and the scene thumbnails help me find that 1 scene I'm looking for amongst 1000's of video's in a simple way. Can't recommend this enough.
We've been using Fast Video Cataloger for a couple of years now and it's proved an extremely useful tool, particularly for quickly locating B roll shots from multiple terabytes of camera files. It's fantastic when you only have a vague idea where the shot you're looking for is located. You can visually scan really large quantities of material very quickly. It doesn't replace detailed logging in bins in our Avid Media Composer system, but is a great way to quickly narrow down a search to then go to the right Avid project and detailed bin. We have one catalog with over 20,000 files in it and searching that with keywords and filters is pretty well instantaneous. The other major plus of this program is the customer service. It's incredible that you can communicate directly with Fredrik, the developer of the program, and that he responds extremely quickly. Highly recommended.
I have been using FVC since it appeared on the market 5 years ago. It was a good product at the start and has gone from strength to strength over the years. I find it a very easy product to use and outstandingly reliable with the few problems being handled rapidly by their customer support. It is good to still be able to get personal service rather than dealing with some anonymous chatbot. As a software engineer with 40+ years experience I would thoroughly recommend this product as a comprehensive, reliable and feature rich solution to any video archiving requirement.
Easy to install and import movies and family video's. My favourite feature is the scene captures - it will save so much time strolling through the many thousands of short family videos! Well done
Software has so many features. I am still looking at what is available . With more use and going through documentation There is just a lot for most needs. Just so thankful this software was developed.
The software lives up to the fast in its name! I've tried several solutions to manage thousands of videos and this one is the fastest and smoothest. There is a bit of a learning curve but the version 6 UI improvements helped with that. To me it is well with the cost and I highly recommend it for people who need to manage their video libraries.
I am a home video user and was looking for a suitable program to catalog my collection for a while and came across this program during my search. I have Been using video cataloguer for a while now and have to say I’m really pleased with it. The response to questions or help is very fast and friendly, I highly recommend this software.
Just wanted to let you know what a godsend this program is. Well worth the money spent. I have found a lot of clips of videos that I no longer thought I had.
This is absolutely amazing video cataloging software! The software is full of features great features and very affordable. I've cataloged over 1,400 videos with no delay in the speed/performance it is truly fantastic software.
It is a good tool for cataloging big piles of video. It has a bit of a long learning curve though, but maybe that's me. I haven't found any software that does the job better so it was worth diving into it.
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Version Highlights
New Fast Video Cataloger 10
- The whole program has been migrated to .net 10, this includes changes in just about all parts of the program.
- We have added localization to German, Swedish and Spanish.
- There is new build in http-server support that can host videos directly, the server is much easier to setup than before, and it support videos from multiple folders. The rest api has been extended to the full functionality of the catalog and we provided a default web version that can be used for browsing the video part of the catalog as well as adding videos and tags. The server now also support accounts with access restrictions.
- New ai indexing, we added optional facial detection, scene classification and object detection.
- New tool to clean out similar thumbnails in sequence or thumbnails missing any face.
- New searchable html documentation.
- Companion images can now be in zip archives and is much faster to load.
- Added support for Blackmagic RAW (BRAW) video files.
- Native transcription support is now built in, no need for an external plugin to generate subtitles from your videos.
- And, As usual, there are many other improvements and bug fixes.
- New Fast Video Cataloger 9.4
- Trigger actions from outside Fast video cataloger. This enables many new types of custom integrations
New Fast Video Cataloger 9.2
- Use mpv player together with the integrated video player
New Fast Video Cataloger 9
- We added a new mode for video transcripts.
- We added support for plugins.
New Fast Video Cataloger 8.5
- We added a new mode for the video thumbnail where you can edit the text to each thumbnail next to it. Select this mode from the Start menu.
- When moving the mouse over the thumbnail in the video catalogwindow, you scrub though the captured thumbnails for the video. Doubleclick to play from that time. This is not accessing the video file so it will still work with disconnected videos.
- When hovering over a thumbnail you now get a button to add a thumbnail in between that thumbnail and the previous/next. This should help you to quickly add more thumbnails where it makes sense.
New Fast Video Cataloger 8.4
- Video Keywords can now have Parent keywords.
- New type of presentation of scene searches
- Improvement of the video file manager
New Fast Video Cataloger 8.3
- Complete update of the file organizer
- SmartBins helps you organize videos automatically into bins from a set search query
- Extended properties improvements (XMP video data)
New Fast Video Cataloger 8.2
- Start with cmd line arguments
- Controll running program with cmd line arguments
- Filter extended properties
New Fast Video Cataloger 8.1
- General performance improvements
- New zoom to fit mode to let you switch without scrolling thumbnails.
- Exclude keywords in video search
- Improvements to bin management, drag multiple videos between bins
- Improvements to the keyword manager
- c# scripts updated and reviewed and now each have their own vs project.
New in Fast Video Cataloger 8
- Super stable video indexing
- Integrated web browser to download video files straight into the catalog
- Better scripting editor and extended C# scripting interface
- XMP metadata extraction
- Auto keywords – assign keywords from paths
- Export playlists to video editors
New Fast Video Cataloger 7
- Share a catalog in a local network from the new share menu
- Share a catalog over the internet from the new share menu
- Improvements to user interface
New Fast Video Cataloger 6.33
- Search has been extended so that you can now exclude videos matching keywords.
- Search on actor bio and links
- Improvements to the video player
New in the 6.31 version
- Fast video cataloger can play videos over a web server.
- Script execution can be asynchronous
New in the 6.3x version
- Fast video cataloger can now write meta-data to the metadata section of a video file. This allows keywording you set from inside fast video cataloger to be searchable from Windows.
- We have added the option to write a sidecar .nfo file. nfo files are in the Kodi format and allow metadata from Fast video cataloger to be used by other software easier than before
Both of these new optional features are disabled by default, turn them on from the preferences.
New in the 6.1x version
- Add your own extended properties to thumbnails, for example, a description.
- Create virtual video playlists. A virtual video playlist is a combination of segments from videos in your catalog. This feature has been requested as a way to quickly create drafts for video editing. But I am sure you can find it useful for other reasons as well. We also added API support for it if you are writing scripts.
New in the 6.0x version
- We have redone the user interface to make it easier to get started for new users and more efficient for experienced users. We kept all the advanced features from the previous version so you can still save layouts over one or several computer screens.
- We have added a general “Search All” functionality for quick searches.
- We now automatically extract metadata from the video file, like how its compressed, video dimension, and so on. Metadata is stored as extended video properties and can be enabled / disabled from the preferences.
- You can now reassign shortcuts to your liking.
New in the 5.2x version
- Added new “Preview” windows for companion images. The preview window shows the currently selected companion image. Move the image with the mouse and zoom with the mouse wheel.
- Added new “Companion image browser” windows for companion images. In the companion image browser, you can view all companion images for a video and manage them easier.
- Extended script interface. Support for refreshing UI on-demand and to index videos
- Added more video scripting examples and extended the documentation
New in the 5.0x version
- 64 bit, i.e. allow for higher resolution videos and thumbnails.
- Improved performance.
- Scripting support.
- Improved search.
- Custom extended video properties.
- New keyword manager and keyword colors.
New in the 4.3 version
- Improvements to the integrated video player.
- Integrated video player now supports MadVR (To improve video quality).
New in the 4.2 version
- Improvements to the search engine, its faster, much more powerful, and queries can be saved and reused later.
- Keywording and layouts have been simplified and are easier to use.
- Documentation update and hopefully easier to follow.
New in the 4.12 version
- Improvements to the indexing engine. If you had a problem indexing some videos with the previous version please try it again with this update.
- New functionality to export to CSV files.
- New functionality to save a video as a jpeg contact sheet image.
- New functionality to import actors based on a folder structure.
- Tweaks to the user interface to make more space for video content, most notable here is that the title bar of the program is gone.
- Preparation for Windows 10 anniversary update.