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iDive 1.4: Digital Video Shoebox


Innovative Catalog for video files

Aquafadas has announced the release of iDive 1.4, the latest version of its award winning software. iDive is the "digital video shoebox" which allows users to import, catalog, and tag their digital videos for easy searching and organization of movies.

One of the new features of iDive 1.4 is the ability to import movie files in various formats from the computer's hard drive, CD's, and DVD's. It can now import any QuickTime movie format and is able to catalog iMovie projects, giving users the ability to organize, annotate, view and retrieve footage that has been captured using iMovie.

"Imagine knowing the contents of hours of digital video at a glance. This is what we achieved with iDive," explained Matthieu Kopp, Director of Aquafadas Software. "iDive applies its groundbreaking Power Previewing to all the files imported and referenced in the catalog, allowing you view and annotate movies even if the original media is offline, for example on an absent DVD. The intuitive and easy to use annotation categories let you apply the same organization logic to all your video files, whether they were captured from a digital video tape, or are QuickTime files of varied origins. Also, for the first time, iMovie users will have a tool that lets them browse through their projects and catalog the clips captured in iMovie."

Compression has also been extended in this release and iDive 1.4 offers new presets (H264, DV for FCP/FCE) as well as more user control and flexibility when compressing clips.

Another change from older versions is the interface. This release has a new source window with more details of movie data, new menus and sorting capabilities, numerous productivity enhancements and redesigned icons. The new iDive also features Trash, Last Import and All libraries nodes, the latter being used to run searches of all the libraries in the catalog.

Whether for editing movies in iMovie or Final Cut, or for managing a growing collection of Quicktime movies, iDive provides the right tools to organize, view, and search movies, and to communicate with other applications. And even for those who never find the time to do anything with their digital videos, iDive can provide a different and refreshing view of any shoebox full of tapes waiting to be organized. iDive won an O'Reilly Mac Innovation Award 2004, International Category.

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