Now that I’m done “giving away a free iPhone”:twitter.com/manton/st… I can move on to the next phase of my marketing plan: release new and better software! Crazy, huh? Clipstart 1.2 is nearly ready and I’m very proud of this release. There’s so much new stuff I could have called it 2.0.
Batch export. Select multiple videos and convert them to H.264, or optimized for iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV, and optionally run a script on the results. It can even create an HTML 5 web site and export in Ogg Theora format for Firefox and Opera users.
Twitter upload. Works with Yfrog to upload a video and post to Twitter. To include a custom tweet, use the “Upload with Options” command, just as you would add a description to a Flickr, Vimeo, or YouTube upload.
New tagging interface. Easy way to tag multiple videos from the keyboard. You can also now drag videos to an existing tag to apply that tag to the selection.
iSight capture. I wasn’t planning on adding this until later, but I think it complements the Twitter support well. Capture from the iSight and it records as H.264 and adds the video to your Clipstart library.
New toolbar and button style. I shouldn’t have used the round rectangle scope button style in Clipstart 1.0, so I decided to roll my own that fit well with the toolbar. It’s still not a standard toolbar but I hope to transition to one in a future version of Clipstart.
Change date for multiple videos. You can update the date for multiple videos at once, with the flexibility of changing specific portions of the date, such as just the year or month. Great for correcting dates from cameras.
AppleScript support. Just the basics for now, but you can get a list of videos, with tags and other metadata for each.
Plus some other fixes and Snow Leopard compatibility. I plan to release it in the next couple days, just in case Snow Leopard is released on the 28th as rumored. If you are interested in trying a beta and submitting some last-minute feedback, drop me an email at “support@riverfold.com”:support@riverfold.com.
