iDive 1.9

Aquafadas is happy to announce the availability of iDive 1.9. This version adds several new features and is recommended for all users.

• completely rewritten Capture Module to take advantage of the more modern Quicktime functionalities and incorporate many of the user requested features.
• improved support for on-the-fly compression in the capture modul.e
• new possibility to drop frames between clips.
• new possibility to specify what the camcorder should do after recording.
• improved support for the end of tape detection.
• improved naming of frames when exporting in bulk.
• fixed a number of issues when sorting sources in the Sources list.
• fixed a bug when setting a custom aspect ratio. The movie now plays with the correct ratio and the exported frames are correct.
• added support for the Turbo.264 hardware accelerator.
• fixed a problem in the Date Picker
• various other enhancements and performance improvements.
• improved localization.

• The new capture module has the following features:

-ability to capture DV for FCP/FCE. Ability to add a timecode track and set the timecode source

-ability to capture and compress on the fly in a variety of formats (offline, MPEG, H264,...) and setting a variety of options (bitrate, fps)

-pre roll function to ensure that the capture process starts at the currentluy displayed frame

-play button

-volume control

-capture settings: save your capture, compression and sampling options to reuse them later

-ability to switch the scene detection on/off

-ability to calculate the thumbnails after the capture is complete, to avoid any disruption on less capable machines.

• Ability to create Tape groups and organize tapes in those groups.

• Ability to move tapes between libraries.

• Ability to create hierarchies in the Imported Files node. Ability to move clips in that hierarchy.

• Ability to import files or drag and drop video files in a specific node of the imported files hierarchy.

• New wizard lets you repair libraries, find unconnected tapes and restore your library structure.

• New UI organization for tagging: tags palette and support for favorites.

• New handling of iMovie projects upon export. Clips names are now restored in iDive.

• New functions to copy original or compressed videos to a folder...available under the Clips menu

• Improved clip splitting: you can now split clips even if they only have compressed footage.

• Added the ability to print the tape name in the Contact Sheets.

• Mosaic is now gone and replaced by PulpMotion

• PDF documentation.

• various bug fixes:

- various capture enhancements: better handling of the end of tape, etc...

- ability to split clip when there are no timecodes,

- fixed various movie importing bugs where the resulting clip could have black frames

- various User Interface improvements