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Fast video indexer brings order to your digital video collection. With index pictures it is easy to browse your video collection and you get good overview of what a video is about without watching it. Index pictures are a great way to present downloadable videos on the web. Visitors can get a quick overview before they take the time to download the actual video file saving them time and you money. With Fast Video Indexer it is easy to index your entire video collection without manual steps creating index pictures, web indexes or a simple folder with images.
When you start Fast Video Indexer you are presented with the file selection screen. Find the movies you want to index and double click movie files to add them to the process list. When you want to add all videos in a folder right click the folder and select "Add all videos". When you are satisfied with your selection click the "Next" button.
The indexing process will now start and you will see a quick frame progression throught each video. Press the next button to go to the result page, there is no need to wait for the indexing to complete.
The results page lists each indexed video as it is completed with some of its properties like resolution and number of index pictures extracted. If a video show an error message something went wrong. Follow the onscreen instruction or visit the FAQ page for help resolving the issue.
Click on a videos row to display more detailed results including thumbnails if single images were extracted. By right clicking a thumbnail in the video result window you can remove video frames you do not want in your index. When a video is removed the html, playlist and index pictures are regenerated without the removed frame.
At the bottom of the video result window are buttons to view the generated files.
Fast video indexer can extract a images from a movie and same them to a specific folder or with the video. Select the videos you want indexed on the file page and click "Settings" to open the settings page.
On the settings page make sure the "Save thumbnails in" option is checked then select "movie folder" if you want the images in the same folder as the video or "Here:" if you want all images in a specific folder. Saving images in a specific folder is really useful when you are indexing a video collection that you might have on a secondary storage device. "Start after" is the number of seconds into the video where we want to save the first image. If you are indexing a movie you typically want to wait a few seconds to get past intro credits, when you are indexing home videos it sometimes takes a few seconds before the camera is stable and focused. "Save every" is the number of seconds between each saved image after the first.
If you click "settings" you can edit properties that not need to be changed that often. Scale_factor is used for html and image indexes to scale down the images, jpeg quality is the quality setting of the saved jpeg images and least_nof_frames is the number of frames to be saved regardless of the value of "Start after" and "Save every", useful for short videos where you still want at least some saved frames. "CS min width" and "CS min height" is the minimum size in pixels a generated contact sheet can be, think of this as the size of a browser window that the contact sheet is displayed in.
Fast video indexer can generate html web pages, to generate web pages you need to have image generation turned on. To turn on web page generation make sure "save webpage in" is checked.
The gallery template shows movie information at the top and then a matrix with scaled movie frames each linked to the full resolution version of the frame image. This template was the original web template.
Fast video indexer can generate jpeg index images. To turn on web page generation make sure "save webpage in" is checked. Extracting many images from a video to create an index image will consume a lot of memory. If this is a problem you can either reduce the number of extracted images by changing the "Start after" and "Save every" numbers. If the video is large you might also want to change the scaling in the settings dialog.
The Index transform template is the original index template. Each image is displayed with a drop shadow and the time/frame of the capture, the frame is scaled by the advanced settings scale factor. Movie information is displayed at the top of the page
Fast video indexer can generate xml image playlists, to generate playlists you need to have image generation turned on. Image playlists are recognized by the inzomia image viewer which is ideal to view generated video indexes. Playlists are also great if you want to use generated video images with custom web server solutions or other xml tools. The format of playlists are described in the documention for the inzomia image viewer.
When you have indexed your videos you can create a html summary reports of what videos you have captured. On the result page click the "HTML report" button to save a HTML report with the name and length all captured videos. If you have extracted frames from the videos you will also see the first few thumbnails for each video.
You can download the latest version of "Fast Video Indexer" at http://www.fastvideoindexer.com. After downloading the latest version run the installer program and follow the on screen instructions.
Fast Video Indexer is designed to work with the Inzomia image viewer, download it from www.freephotobrowser.com.
If you have problem with FastVideoIndexer please visit http://www.fastvideoindexer.com and read the Faq.
Our video knowledgebase has a lot of articles for how you can use fast video indexer and a lot of other video frame capture related information.
Order Fast Video Indexer directly from our online store.
Email support queries to support@inzomia.com
Web page and image page layout is generated by passing an xml file through an xslt page. In the data folder you can find
web_transform.xslt that is used for html web pages and index_transform.xslt that is used for image index pages.
If you want to customize the generated pages and images you can edit the xslt pages directly.
The xslt pages are passed the following generated xml file for each movie:
<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"?>
<movie>
<title> [movie filename] </title>
<length> [movie length hh:mm:ss] </length>
<size> [Movie size kb] </size>
<width> [Movie width in pixels] </width>
<height> [Movie height in pixels] </height>
<entry>
<file> [movie file path] </file>
<source> [image file] </source>
<frame> [frame number of the captured frame] </frame>
<time> [time of the captured frame] </time>
</entry>
<settings>
<width> [scaled_width] </width>
<height> [scaled_height] </height>
<images_per_row>3</images_per_row>
</settings>
</movie>
At our video knowledge base there is a step by step guide for how you can customize video index templates.
New Template gui. The settings dialog for index pictures and web indexes now allow you to select which template to use.
New Slideshow web template added. Now you can generate a html javascript slideshow for a video. A compact way to preview a movie.
New Fullframe index template added. Now you can show one frame in full resolution in your index pictures.
Bugg fix. The advanced settings "least nof samples" was broken and only changed the first capture time.
Formats: Added .mkv as recognized format when adding videos
Improved speed of frame capture, should be faster and somewhat more responsive during capture.
Added .mp4 as recognized format when adding videos
Template: You can now click the images in the html project reports.
Bug fix: Temporary files generated when "extract images" was unchecked was not removed at program exit.
Bug fix: Index picture generation failed if the "extract images" option was turned off.
Bug fix: Html generation enable/disable was not remembered between program runs.
Added support to capture video frames in the BMP image format. If you want to use this format you can change the image format in the advanced settings on the settings screen. Bmp files are uncompressed and will take ALOT more space, their image quality is slightly better than jpeg.
Fixed a slight error in the html template causing it to generate unwanted text.
The last folder is now remember in the add file window.
Fixed crash bug when the same video was reindexed.
Updated titles in the settings dialog to make it more clear.
Time and Frame can now be used per images in templates
A new index template to render the time of each captured frame.
Added support to generate HTML reports.
Properties are now remembered between program runs.
Fixed issue for registered users that caused an "unregistered" dialog when starting to index videos.
Added support to index mpeg2 videos. If you are using Windows XP you will need to install a mpeg2 video codec.
Generally improved capture engine with better error handling and error recovery.
Fixed issue with generation of html and indexes when the application was minimized.
Fixed issues with capturing more than 1 frame per second. Now it is possible to capture every single frame.
Bug fix release, fixes a problem with the registration dialog that caused it to always be displayed for 15 days even for registered users.