iDive
The Digital Video Shoebox
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System requirements
Demo limitations
The DEMO version of iDive is not time limited. It has all the features of the full product but is limited in the amount of data that can be processed:
Gives you the view you need on your videos…
What will iDive do for you?
Your shoebox is full of video tapes…
Maybe you even started a second one…Your tapes are here with their gems…but you don’t know where to start.
iDive will do it all for you, displaying automatically a thumbnail +one or more samples for each clip. Just click on that thumbnail to play the whole video.
It’s that easy!
A Central hub for your movies and clips
iDive is the ideal cataloguing solution for all your video files. iDive can catalog any video file that Quicktime can open. iDive allows you also to keep track of your videos on CDs or DVDs.
For the first time also, iMovie users will find a tool that lets them browse through their projects and catalog all those clips captured in iMovie.
Feature-packed export
iDive lets you export your moivies in any Quicktime format but also as iMovie events making the integration.
Organize your footage
iDive has built in support for concepts such as people, places and events. These entities can be used to annotate clip data by drag and drop. You can also rate your clips and view them by rating. iDive automatically gets the date info from your clips so you don’t need to do any work.
Find your clips…instantly!
Filter based searches using dates, people, places and events will help you find clips by content, visually. Of course, we provide the standard search field as well, for text based searches. So finding all the clips with your best friends, or shot over the last year, will take you no more than one click!
Unleash your creativity
iDive talks natively to Final Cut Pro via the export of clip lists making it the ideal video logging companion. Make iDive your tape repository and export selected clips with all their annotations to FCP for recapture whenever you need them for a project. You can also export to iMovie®, Final Cut Express®, Avid and iPhoto….
It’s all about picking the right strategy !
Cataloging your video tapes is important.
In fact, it is often more than that: vital !
Not so much because you really need to tag everything to retrieve it later, but because you absolutely want to know where those precious files are.
Because of the size of video footage (12Gb per hour in DV) you need lots of disk space to save all those tapes. In fact, you might not have the required disk space at hand. This is where iDive can help you. All of this and more is discussed in our strategies page.
But someone told me that iMovie is now a cataloging tool… ?
Well, iMovie is a great editing tool…but you need to understand in what aspects it is different from a catalog like iDive. By understanding the differences, you will be able to see what benefits you have in making them work together. All of this and more is discussed here.
Key Features
Easy capture
Connect your DV camcorder to your Mac, launch iDive, and a few clicks later, you will be starting to capture data directly from your camcorder into iDive’s database. iDive will control your camcorder via Firewire and scan tape after tape to build an index of your DV library. iDive detects the clip boundaries, extracts each clips metadata and takes sample images at intervals for each clip.
If you want iDive can also record the whole clip or only index your footage by taking sample frames at full resolution.
Catalog all your movies, in any format
iDive is the ideal cataloging solution for all your movie files as it features QuickTime files import capabilities and allows to keep track of all videos files, whether they come from a camcorder, were downloaded from the internet, are stored on a hard-drive or on removable media like CDs/DVDs.
Drag and Drop Footage Annotation
iDive overcomes long-winded data entry thanks to built-in user-definable attributes for People, Places and Events.
From a single palette displaying those key classifications, you enter and save your own characteristics. The People, Places, Events attributes are then assigned to clips by simple drag and drop. Digital Video Logging and annotating is now fun, quick and easy.
Visualizing in a truly innovative way : introducing Power Preview
With iDive, you no longer need to play your clips to see what?s behind that poster frame. A single click is enough to assess the nature, content and quality of a clip’s footage. Power Previewing is essential when it comes to tagging since it answers questions about your data, and therefore allows you to annotate your footage quickly.
Unique to iDive, Power Previewing needs no work other than you to define your desired sampling criteria when uploading from the digital camcorder to the computer. In other words, iDive turns loose tapes into an accessible library of digital video that can be enjoyed at any time.
Video Export to iMovie & Final Cut
iDive becomes the ideal companion of your digital video editing software through the export of clip footage via drag and drop.
You can use iDive’s organization and selection capabilities to build clip lists very easily, then drag and drop them into your favorite video editing software like iMovie, Final Cut Express/Pro and have your footage automatically transferred into your editing environment.
Final Cut Pro Users, you can now export annotated clip lists from iDive using the newly introduced XML Interchange format and import them into Final Cut Pro where they will appear as new bins, ready to be recaptured.
iDive becomes the ideal footage selection tool and will easily integrate into your existing workflow, serving your creativity.
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