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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.
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 1.2.x adds the ability to capture full DV footage alongside the frame samples. It provides a comprehensive clip splitting functionality as well as fully flexible clip compression. This update brings numerous other improvements, from user interface, as well as a number of bug fixes. Version 1.2.1 is a maintenance release improving display performance and fixing a number of bugs (see release notes).
The list of changes is as follows:
- ability to capture the full video footage in DV format.
- added drag and drop of movies to any application supporting movie files (iMovie, FCE,...)
- overhauled clip inspector window showing all possible views of a clip: samples, original DV, compressed movie.
- ability to split clips either using the frame samples or the associated footage. Easy navigation between segments of a split clip. Full undo during the clip splitting process as well as a global restore operation (undoable as well).
- ability to compress footage using any of the supported quicktime codecs.
- new compression window for both samples and footage. Reworked workflow after the capture of a sequence bringing up that window and launching the various compression processes with good progress indication. Ability to cancel the compression of footage.
- new rewind and record button lets you rewind tapes before recording as a 1-click operation.
- support for 16:9 aspect ration in all displays (samples, thumbnails, icons, lists and movies).
- added a progress bar when exporting clip lists to disk.
- dramatically increased performance and reduced memory footprint when exporting large clip lists to XML.
- user interface refinements.
- added the ability to join the iDive mailing list, with news, hints and tips and special offers.
- fixed a bug where the export in Batch Capture Format would not produce a readable file when performed in the french localized version.
- fixed a bug that caused the capture dates to be missing when exporting clip lists to a Text file.
- fixed a bug where the backup files of the XML indexes were not properly generated.
- fixed a bug where the filter would not be maintained when switching source.
- fixed a bug where the registration information could be lost after a machine restart. The new registration mechanism saves the information in the Application Support directory as well as in the User Preferences. Migration from pre 1.2 release is automatic.
- fixed a number of selection glitches when switching source, switching views,... The current selection is now maintained in those operations.
- fixed a number of sorting glitches in list views. Sorting is now properly maintained when switching views, Sorting is also properly applied when switching on a table column header.
- very cool new icon by Bryan Bell.
- updated documentation.
- extended XML export so that it reconnects the clips in FCP with their footage if available (v1.2.1).
- the join mailing list action now uses a dedicated dialog and sends the information via HTTP forms rather than by email (v1.2.1).
- improved the display performance in clip view (v1.2.1).
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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| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
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neat, 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.
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.
I just don't get it. - Version: 1.7.1, 7/19/2006 06:47AM PST
(0 of 4 users found this comment useful)
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?
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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"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.