by Guest » Sun Dec 18, 2005 5:14 pm
For photos, I've found that Adobe Photoshop Elements is by far the best organizer out there. For a freebie, Google's Picasa isn't a bad offering, but I always get annoyed using it.
For videos, I too have been looking for something like this for a long time. I have probably 100's of video clips downloaded from the net, plus stuff I've ripped myself, and no easy way to tag and organize them... folders and filenames will only get you so far. I used to use MM to do it, but in the end I decided I'd rather have my music database separate, plus it's an imperfect solution being designed for music anyway.
What's needed is something that can scan your hard drive and let you add metatags to the files. Even if it's application specific metadata I'd be happy, as long as the application is good.
Perhaps the mediamonkey developers could spin off MM into something suitable? It'd require some database and interface changes, but the general idea shares so many similarities I'd think it could use a lot of the same code base (I don't know, I'm just guessing). If you could tweak the available fields and organizational trees to be more relevant to video and make it a separate application, it'd be perfect.
As a bonus if it could manage my DVD's as well, that'd be awesome. Most DVD organizers seem limited by the notion that all DVD's are movies. As nice as automatic IMDB lookups are... it's a really bad paradigm for when I'm trying to add TV shows on DVD, or want a record of the DVD extras.
So if anyone has some real good solutions to the problem (or if the OP finds one) let me know too!
For photos, I've found that Adobe Photoshop Elements is by far the best organizer out there. For a freebie, Google's Picasa isn't a bad offering, but I always get annoyed using it.
For videos, I too have been looking for something like this for a long time. I have probably 100's of video clips downloaded from the net, plus stuff I've ripped myself, and no easy way to tag and organize them... folders and filenames will only get you so far. I used to use MM to do it, but in the end I decided I'd rather have my music database separate, plus it's an imperfect solution being designed for music anyway.
What's needed is something that can scan your hard drive and let you add metatags to the files. Even if it's application specific metadata I'd be happy, as long as the application is good.
Perhaps the mediamonkey developers could spin off MM into something suitable? It'd require some database and interface changes, but the general idea shares so many similarities I'd think it could use a lot of the same code base (I don't know, I'm just guessing). If you could tweak the available fields and organizational trees to be more relevant to video and make it a separate application, it'd be perfect.
As a bonus if it could manage my DVD's as well, that'd be awesome. Most DVD organizers seem limited by the notion that all DVD's are movies. As nice as automatic IMDB lookups are... it's a really bad paradigm for when I'm trying to add TV shows on DVD, or want a record of the DVD extras.
So if anyone has some real good solutions to the problem (or if the OP finds one) let me know too!