iDive: digital video catalog and dv logging tool for mac osx and ipod video 5G

What will iDive do for you?

Give you the view you need on your videos

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 cataloging 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.

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 gets automatically 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 shooted over 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®….