How to organize Videos, Mags and Image Galleries

[zuckerman]

Try ThumbsPlus from Cerious Software. Keep your eyes open for occasional discounts.

Has a nice feature where you can build your own themed galleries, plus lots of professional tricks like MS db compatibility.

Great for batch renaming, tagging and searching. You can also do batch editing, like change a colour cast on a whole directory. Also batch file conversion.

Seems OK on databases of up to 200,000 pics.

Been using this since version 3; now on version 7.

[egg]

Can any one suggest some video cataloging software preferably freeware that I can use to list all the video files stored on a hard drive with the file details (name. location. size. file type e.g avi mpeg divx ) and be able to print out the results .
Tried doing a search on google but only found DVD cataloging programes

[Moviefan]

If you are not a specialist than you can try it with a regular MS Excel worksheet
If you have more skills you should try it with a MS Acces db.

or you can search on the net for some thing more soutable.

I'll be happy to make you a few suggestions, just send me a message.

[i4004]

if quality of video(bitrates, codecs etc.) is not most important, here's what i use

http://www.leeos.com/cdrom_list_creator.html

will work for hdds too, no worries.

i use it to make one big txt file and then use <ctrl-f> to find what i'm looking for...

[illuminated]

There's many ways doing this, and you dont need to download anything, i'll give you two examples that you could use.

#1
Go to your folder where you have all the files.
For example: C:\disney\cartoons\

Copy the link into your browser for example Mozilla Firefox
It will look simular to this:



It might look different with other browsers, i have not checked.

Copy it and save it to a notepad file or whatever you like.

#2
Go to start and type cmd in the searchbar
Enter cd\disney\cartoons

>dir /on /b /s >list.txt

This will create a list of the files in the folder cartoons "list.txt"

Give it a try,
illuminated

[egg]

thanks for your suggestions but I tried another search on google this time for media catalog software and found a program called Media Catalog Studio Lite 5.9 .
I now just need to retrieve the files off my hard drives from my pc that died and sort it, then I hope to be able post my vintage files here

[lds17pl]

Sorry to say but until now there is no really satisfying data bank software for such purposes. Reason was/is web site/web software developers had/have no hunch about data processing by the help of data banks. Unfortunately professional data bank developers don't pay attention to web, too. The first commercial data bank for micro computers (PC) - a simple SQL data bank sold by Oracle - was a quick & dirty development. (Some of you will remember QDOS )

Since this time all (free or commercial) data banks used at micro computer systems are SQL kind based (e.g. MySQL. MS Access) at both online & inhouse purposes. At web usual used software for websites, blogs, forums (including vBulletin) are WAMP or LAMP servers (Windows/Linux, Apache server, MySQL, PHP) with all big lacks SQL based systems have (e.g. at search).

btw: original SQL means Standard Query Language and not the simple data bank model

[Moviefan]

I'm impressed, I'll need a day or two be sure that i understand what you are trying to say.

[DubSalute]

Data Crow is a pretty extended freeware cataloging tool: http://www.datacrow.net/

You can also catalog Films/Videos with it.



One requirement to keep in mind is that you need have Java installed: http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp

[lds17pl]

btw: It was a strange surprise Sun Microsystems bought MySQL because this purchase doesn't make sense - this product doesn't fit to Sun's business. After Oracle bought Sun intention of this deal was clear: to get control about usual used SQL data banks without having troubles with US antitrust office. What a surprise Sun's CEO got a big indemnification