MovieGallery - 1.5.1

This developer is onto something big here. The programme is extremely user-friendly.

There are a couple of features that I would like to see before I purchase it:

- the ability to share movies larger in size than 320 x 240 (with quicktime 7 giving the general public the use of dual pass mp4 compression, short 2 minute 640 x 360 are a mass public possibility)

- the ability to output movies not in kiosk mode, thus allowing users to download and save the shared movies on their own PC (I share videos with family, grandpa in particular, who loves to watch and re-watch them). This one shouldn't be very difficult to implement quickly.

With any one of these 2 I buy it instantly. In fact I am very tempted to support this claim by purchasing it today.

Since my video collection is almost 300 gigabytes in size (more than 300 hours of video) and composed of more than 640 video files, I have long needed some kind of software to organize this vast collection. After many months of searching the web for the ultimate video playlist software for Mac OS X, I was VERY excited, when I discovered MovieGallery. I can name names, if you wish, but I went through at least three other "quicktime playlist" software titles, before settling on and purchasing a license for MovieGallery. Indeed, it is almost everything I could ask for in video playlist software. As a huge iTunes user, I LOVE the similarity in function and features. You intuitively know how to use it from the moment you first launch it! And I've been having a great time going through my collection to set the PERFECT preview frame for all of my videos. Some of my galleries look really cool now!

My video collection grows more or less daily; so I'm always adding new files to MovieGallery. And one thing that's GREAT about MovieGallery is how it not only alerts you to duplicates, but also gives you options to deal with the alert. iTunes, stupidly, just lets you add duplicates of the exact same file in the exact same location! This means that, if I'm not sure, which files I've added or haven't added to MovieGallery, I can drag and drop entire folders and know that MovieGallery will alert me of duplicates, ensuring I end up only adding the new ones. Try that, iTunes!

I have a system of TV monitors in every room of my condo that display my computer screen. I have my cable TV, my VCR and my XBox feeding into my computer. This means that my computer has become the very center of my video entertainment. This is why I have transferred the majority of my DVD collection to my computer. No more fumbling with and switching DVD's, risking damage. Now I just use MovieGallery to play whatever I want, however I want. With 12.9 days worth of video (stats thanks to MovieGallery's summary feature!), I've become my own "tv programmer" (or whatever they're called): I can set up playlists of my favorite TV shows, full-length feature films or other videos so that they playback throughout the day without any further interaction from me necessary. I can move about my condo and view hours and hours of commercial-free, self-programmed video entertainment! And the thing that makes it all work perfectly is MovieGallery. So many thanks to the developer that made MovieGallery possible for all of the work he put into this software.