UPPSALA, Sweden — Inzomia, a video software developer, has released Fast Video Cataloger, a video asset management system for Windows that lets video professionals catalog, search, and find video clips in a timely manner.
The company said Fast Video Cataloger scans each of the video files and builds a series of evenly-spaced thumbnail images of the video. Each thumbnail acts as a bookmark. The user clicks a thumbnail, and the video is immediately launched at that point in the video, the company said.
According to the company, cataloging of new videos is automatic, fast, and runs in the background while the user does other work on the computer.
The user can point to files or folders that contain videos, and Fast Video Cataloger will scan each video, build thumbnails, and add the information to its catalog. Fast Video Cataloger delivers several ways of categorizing and retrieving video clips.
Users can add tags to any videos, as well as information about the content of the videos. Keyword searches will identify all videos that contain relevant footage.
"You can even manually add new thumbnails to your video as you watch it," the company said.
"With its combination of tagging, rating, categorizing, describing, and linking, Fast Video Cataloger makes it simple to find and retrieve video clips. Fast Video Cataloger does not require any special server configuration or support from the IT Department. The software runs on any modern Windows PC. Because Fast Video Cataloger runs locally, there are no huge video files to upload, and no file format conversions are needed."
The company said that professional videographers can use Fast Video Cataloger to scan their earlier work to find clips to include in proposals to new clients. Fast Video Cataloger runs under Windows 7/Vista/XP with .NET framework. A single-user license costs $197.
Multi-user discounts are available.
A trial version of the Fast Video Cataloger is available here.
