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Useful tools for editors. Part 8.

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Video Toolshed is a website set up by a post production house in the Netherlands. I was reading over a blog at Avid.com and there was a link. To quote what they say on the site: “VideoToolShed was founded by Edit ‘B, a small post production boutique that has been working with digital video since 1994. Besides the video part we program multimedia, not only the tools you find here but a lot of (kids) games. During the last ten years we have developed our own software to help us solve a variety of problems. This site is a result of our efforts.”

Those results are a number of tools available for download. They include:

ALE cleaner

Win/Mac
A simple program to make batch redigitizing of decomposed sequences way faster. Euro 29,-
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FCP aux TC logger BETA

Win/Mac
Logger for FCP so you can have decent AUX tc. Uses a standard serial port and a standard audio port. (So you need a rs422 deck.)
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FCP text generator

Mac
A plugin for Final Cut Pro, giving your decent text. Controllable by XML trough Subbits. And it is FREE OF CHARGE
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LTC logger

Win/Mac
Easy way to log clips from your camera or deck. It can detect camera stops while you’re shooting, or find tc breaks. Either way, it can work unattended if you want it. No additional hardware required, just an audio input on your computer. Euro 69,-
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LTC reader

Win/Mac
Simple util that can display timecode on your computer and put it into any application with just a keystroke. Euro 19,95
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ReCut

Win/Mac
A fast scene/shot detector, The perfect addition for your NLE or Color correction tools. Euro 89,-
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Saver

Win/Mac
Little utility that makes backups of your file while you’re working on them. Euro 9.95
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SCCoffset

Win/Mac
Utility to view captions before authoring, and (if you like) make an offset in a scenarist CC file. It doubles as a MpegII Elementary stream / AC3 player, and gives you readable text instead of the funny words you find in the file if you open it with a text editor. Euro 19.95
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SubBits subtitler

Win/Mac
The ultimate subtitle editor/generator. Edit, time and generate subtitles for output to video, DVD or broadcast. AVAILABLE FOR A SPECIAL INTRODUCTION PRICE! Just 99 Euro for a short period!
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VideoMacro

Win/Mac
a utility that runs user-definable macros, specially designed for non-linear editors. Euro 9.95
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Vitc reader

Win
Free small mediaplayer that can read VITC timecode from digitized clips, and reads header info from Mpeg I or Mpeg II files.
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That is quite an impressive and handy list of tools for non-linear editors. I haven’t used any of them myself. I have played with the VideoMacro utility and can certainly see some uses for it. The utilities are for sale in euros so I’m not exactly how we would purchase them here in the states. Maybe they accept Paypal as I’ve purchased shareware sold in Euros through them.

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One comment to “Useful tools for editors. Part 8.”

  1. Comment by Bouke:
    Friday, December 29th 2006 at 7:20 am

    Thanks for the promotion!

    Buying one of the products aint that hard, we’re using Esellerate so a credit card will do. After purchace you get your serialnumber by mail, as well as an invoice.
    Just click the links…

    Bouke
    VideoToolShed