Software suggestions for organizing, cataloging and browsing decades of home movie clips

[m021478]

Looking for an effective method of organizing and accessing all of my home movie video clips. I've got more than 70,000 video clips taking up over 5TB of storage space on an external hard drive.

I used to use a wonderful app called iView Media Pro to organize my video clips, but it has long since been discontinued. I tried an app called Usher by Many Tricks which worked pretty well, but it too is no longer being developed. I've trying using Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Bridge, and a handful of other apps to attempt to organize and catalog my home movie clips. Nothing has really made any lasting impact on the structure and organization of my video clips to be honest.

I typically just wind up using a folder hierarchy in the Finder to organize my clips, along with 'Quick Look' to view the clips as needed. There must be a better approach.

Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[dandeco]

Did you try using Apple's own iMovie? It has some pretty nice clip/event organization features, AND some really nice editing features as well.

 

[m021478]

Did you try using Apple's own iMovie? It has some pretty nice clip/event organization features, AND some really nice editing features as well.

I have of course tried iMovie, as well as Final Cut Pro. FCP has better clip/event organizing features than iMovie for sure, but its still not exactly what I'm looking for. I'm basically looking for something just like the Photos.app, but exclusively for video (and not linked with iCloud Photo Library in anyway, like the Photos.app is)

 

[mikzn]

I have of course tried iMovie, as well as Final Cut Pro. FCP has better clip/event organizing features than iMovie for sure, but its still not exactly what I'm looking for. I'm basically looking for something just like the Photos.app, but exclusively for video (and not linked with iCloud Photo Library in anyway, like the Photos.app is)

I use Photos and created a separate library for videos

You can also keep folder structure if that is important - I think it is for your purposes? - deselect - disable the "Copy Items to the Photos library"