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iDive

iDive - 1.1.1

Turn a random assortment of disorganised DV tapes into an instantly accessible catalog.

All Time: (4.1)
Version 1.1.1: (4.8)
Selected Version: 1.1.1
Release Date: 2004-09-28
License: Shareware
Downloads (version 1.1.1): 712
Downloads (all versions): 1,142
Price: $69.95

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Product Description:

iDive is a digital video shoebox.

It will turn any assortment of disorganised DV tapes into an instantly accessible catalog. Finding a clip hidden amongst hours of footage will never again be a problem.

Intuitive concepts such as people, places, events can be dragged and dropped onto your footage to simply, and quickly annotate your shots. A stunning visual timeline gives you that extra perspective on time and allows instant selections based on capture dates.

Featuring extensive export capabilities, iDive is designed to become your DV editing application's best friend, by offering easy navigation, innovative visualization and turbo-charged search facilities.

What's new in this version:

Version 1.1.1 is a maintenance release that greatly improves performances, adds some sorting features and user interface enhancements and fixes some issues reported by our users. It is a recommended update for all users. The list of changes is as follows:
  • improved startup time.
  • greatly improved performance when switching between tapes or libraries. Improvements of up to 1000% are achieved on very large databases.
  • support for localized date formats. US dates are now properly formatted.
  • new sorting features. Il is now possible to sort tapes and libraries in the Source list use various criteria.
  • new action button below the Source list to access most common operations on sources.
  • minor bug fixes.
Student/Faculty licenses at $49.95 (or EUR 39.95) are now available from our web site.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.3

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.3 or higher

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Feedback Summary:

Version 1.1.1:
Overall Rating: (4.8) Features: (4.7) Support: (4.8)
Ease of Use: (4.8) Quality / Stability: (4.8) Price: (4.7)
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iDive CommentaryMacWorld reviews iDive 1.8.7 - Version: 1.8.7, 3/12/2008 06:59AM PST

Claudia Zimmer
Star Rating : 5/5

"Amazingly simple drag-and-drop interface, powerful search and filter features"

"Video software can tend to be amazingly complicated to master, but iDive is just the opposite".

"This represents excellent value for money and proves ideal for less confident home movie enthusiasts thanks to its easy-to-use construction."

Here is Macworld's full review for iDive 1.8.6.

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iDive Reviewneat, but need work - Version: 1.7.1, 4/15/2007 09:39AM PST

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cdusher1
just bought it and from reading the forum at their site it still seems to have a few problems that have been around for a while. crashing when importing from tape and useing camcorder controls being one.
there is not enough onscreen contol of the camcorder. interface is somewhat vague in many areas. some things can be right clicked, some can not. takes some getting used to.
neat idea, but still needs some work.
should have fooled around with the demo some more before spending 70 bucks, but it was the demo is very limited.
I'm hoping they square it away. It look quites useful.
recommended with reservation.
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iDive ReviewI just don't get it. - Version: 1.7.1, 7/19/2006 06:47AM PST

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julianps_dotmac
What exactly is this software?

It catalogues films and lets you add notes. Wow.

There are loads of catalogue tools (notably iView) out there that will do this - even (unstable) iVideo can make a go of this.

It can compress but basically uses QTPro functionality for that. It's no Compression Master though so talk of "Pro" quality is misplaced.

It has a Mosaic; what's that then (I know what it looks like - I simply struggle to know why)?

Then is has all this people, places, etc thingy going on. so does Memory Miner and that has a more elegant solution.

So if you add up iView, Memory Miner and QTPro then iDive is cheaper but I still do not understand what it's really trying to do and more importantly, why?
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