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Any app for cataloging video clips?

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silverlakerCA

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Over the years I’ve shot lots of short clips using various cameras like Panasonic, Nikon and now Fuji - that is in addition to the iPhone.

I’d love to catalog them like I do with photos when I used apps for stills.
What are my options?
Thanks
 
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‎Image Chest

‎Whether you have a small collection of images or a gargantuan library, Image Chest makes organizing and finding your images and movies incredibly easy. And once you add your assets to a catalog, you'll find many ways to tag them with keywords that require far fewer mouse clicks and keystrokes...
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HermitCrab has an app which is under development but the latest build is very promising. There's also VLC and Elmedia player but those are primarily video players with playlist support. HermitCrap (free) supports tags.
 
prometheus12 said:
HermitCrab has an app which is under development but the latest build is very promising. There's also VLC and Elmedia player but those are primarily video players with playlist support. HermitCrap (free) supports tags.
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I can't find HermitCrab or its app. Can you steer me in the right direction? Interesting sounding
 
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Hermit Crab - a video organizer / player for Mac

Hi everyone, I've developed a video organizer / player for Mac. If you have lots of video files on your Mac, this is the app for you. You can download it for free from https://iamhermitcrab.com/ It's currently in an open beta. Please let me know how you think about it!
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r/iamhermitcrab

A community of Hermit Crab users. Official website: https://iamhermitcrab.com/
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The developer used to be super responsive adding new features but he posted he got busy so new features have slowed down.
 
I wasn't happy with Hermit Crab.
However, I might spring for Videux, which really is a great app. My coworker bought it within half an hour of trying it.
 
Is there anything similar to Videux that can store a local sample of each video file (say, sampling 1 frame per second at half resolution) and allow for fast scrubbing of offline volumes? Videux is using h264 for proxies at full frame rate and resolution, which is a huge space waster. Thanks.
 
Take a look at NeoFinder. There is a video "contact sheet" feature that will play thumbnails of cataloged videos. This app is great in general for cataloging any offline or online content.
 
I've been using NeoFinder for years. It doesn't really work as a video cataloging app IMHO. The contact sheet feature creates a single JPG file with a contact sheet of the video, and stores it either alongside the original file (which is useless if you need offline access) or in a central location (which you then need to manually go file by file in order to view the sheets).

What I'm looking for is a browser that:

- Scans folders of video files including metadata
- Displays videos as thumbnails and allows launching each video
- If the files are offline, still display the thumbnails and allow scanning through a lo-res sample of the file

Maybe this is too niche and doesn't exist (outside high-end pro solutions which would be too pricy for me anyway).
 
Maybe GraphicConverter? It can browse photos and videos and produce contact sheets of image thumbnails, but I don't know if it can do the same with video thumbnails.
 
Were you able to find a good solution? I'm looking for the same thing. Would like to the ability to add tags that are specific to the application and not universal (ie; in the finder, spotlight).
 
- Movie Explorer Pro is great, but it is not a personal video cataloger, it's more of a commercial movie database (and an excellent one at that).
- Usher is cheaper that Lightroom but if you already have Lightroom then Usher is not an alternative. Lightroom does almost everything I wrote above, but only scans thumbnails when the media is online unfortunately.
 
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