What's new in Metadata Hootenanny 2.1
Dec 19, 2011
- Subtitle improvements: uses native movie resolution, auto-updates as sub files get edited.
- Added shortcut to copy current playhead time to text.
- Added keyframe jump shortcuts (k and K forward and back respectively).
- App now remembers tracks view alterations across restarts.
- Fixed unresponsiveness when opening a large number of files.
- Fixed lock-up when deleting sprites in sprite editor. TV.com compatiblity updated.
New in Metadata Hootenanny 2.0 (Aug 11, 2011)
- Added support for iTunes-native metadata in mov files.
- IMDB compatiblity updated.
- Added web compatiblity auto-updater.
- Subprocesses converted to Intel native (for image previews, wired sprites, and flattening movies).
- Added sprite features (on-idle trigger, enter/exit fullscreen, close window, sprite move, scale and opacity actions, sprite transparency, and text images) and bug fixes.
- Added support for QT auto- play, fullscreen, close and quit settings.
- Add support for track transparency.
- Added support for poster frames.
- Added "uninstall" option (app menu).
- Added customizability to playback keyboard shortcuts.
- Fixed bug in reading chapters with trailing null characters (eg written from Final Cut).
New in Metadata Hootenanny 1.9 (Nov 10, 2010)
- Added GUI for adjusting track "frame" position.
- Added AutoVolume option (like dynamic range compression on crack).
- Added option to save chapters text files in MKV/OGM chapter format.
- Added threading to file saving.
- IMDB and tvrage compatiblity updated.
- Fixed bug causing dvdxchap crashes when reading DVDs.
- Fixed bug preventing chapters track setting after saving a reference movie.
- Fixed bug where copying all metadata ignored "Year" field.
- Fixed minor bug reading mov chapters written from other apps (with unicode text encoding).
New in Metadata Hootenanny 1.8 (Jun 21, 2010)
- Added workaround so that Perian subtitles are used for all file types including mov and mp4.
- Added visual indicators for commands in fullscreen.
- Added support for thetvdb,com.
- Added chapters support for arbitrary websites; it doesn't check that it knows it just checks for chapters.
- All drag-and-drop from websites can now be done with copy/paste as well. Added menu commands for Play->Faster and Play->Slower.
- Play->Size menu items are now commands instead of settings (they make their changes immediately).
- Fixed bug where ctrl-click was different than right-click in movie views. Fixed bug where some movie views didn't respond to keystrokes.
New in Metadata Hootenanny 1.7 (Jun 8, 2010)
- Sound volume can now be increased up to 125 times louder than QT Player allows(!) using the up arrow key; the MH control element is limited to 4x; as with all QT plugin apps, the standard QT movie controller can go up to 3x by holding "shift" while clicking it.
- New toolbar item to control movie playback speed. New control widgets during fullscreen playback.
- When there is no cover art, the movie image can now be taken live from the current movie frame instead of the icon.
- Row height adjustment has a new up-front widget (for easy picture size control).
- "Year" category is now compatible with multiple language entries (like the other categories; "Year" is special because it is an addition from the newer QT7 metadata formula and is not backwards-compatible with QT6).
- Cursor now re-hides itself in fullscreen after mouse movement unhides it.
- Mouse actions in movie views (including scrolling) are now customizable in preferences. IMDB and tv.com compatibility updated.
- Bug fix that caused a crash when saving if certain characters (like angled aposhtrophe) were read from the internet (wrong text encoding).
- Bug fix that caused the playhead slider to be displayed in the wrong place after being resized.
- Bug fix that caused the miniature window (green window button) to have non-functional widgets.
- Bug fix that caused "continue playing on exit fullscreen" preference to be ignored. Offline movies no longer lose their place when "played" offline.
New in Metadata Hootenanny 1.6.2 (Mar 16, 2010)
- Cover art/image is now stored in iTunes-compatible format instead of my home-brewed "APIC" format.
- IMDB and TVRage copmpatibility were updated.
- New QT metadata category "Year" now supported.
- Fixed bug that prevented reading metadata from movies.
New in Metadata Hootenanny 1.6.1 (Mar 12, 2010)
- Accented characters can now also be saved to movie files in addition to simply entered.
New in Metadata Hootenanny 1.6 (Mar 12, 2010)
- Cut/Copy/Paste in movie view is now enabled.
- Tracks can now be rotated through the tracks view.
- Production code value of "Unknown" is now ignored.
- Added "Image" column for viewing icon/metadata images.
- Row height is now adjustible. Smart playlists are now accessible through the search toolbar item.
- IMDB compatibility updated.
- Bug fix: endian problem that prevented reading existing movie metadata on intel macs not using Rosetta.
- Bug fix: accented text entry inside table-views.
- Bug fix: left arrow key during playback.
- Bug fix: remember table configuration and font size on restart.
New in Metadata Hootenanny 1.5 (Dec 26, 2009)
- Files are now opened with QTKit, providing pitch-corrected fast forward, and better "save-in-place," which is now more reliable and supports all movie properties, not just metadata and chapters.
- However, opening of files can no longer be threaded because QTKit is not thread-safe when compatible with 10.4 (the interface will be frozen while opening movies).
- Website screen scraping criteria was updated.
- Support was added for tvrage.com. Movies now display "Loading..." while downloading and parsing website info.
- Indication was added for when weblinks dragged in are not (yet) supported.
- Getting chapters from the web now merges with previously existing chapter times (not names), if any.
- Bug fixed where angled quotes in metadata (from web lookups or otherwise) prevented movies being saved.
- "Allow editing chapter times" switch works again.
- Other minor bug fixes.
New in Metadata Hootenanny 1.4 (Oct 5, 2009)
- Various OS-update-induced interface bugs have been fixed.
- Web searching has been removed (just the searching, not the parsing of the found page), in favor of the user dragging their desired found webpage into the app (and screen scraping criteria have been updated again).
- File saving now supports UTF8 string file names (sorry I overlooked that for so long, accent-using people).
- DVD reading got a little polish.
New in Metadata Hootenanny 1.3 (Feb 20, 2009)
- Batch edit metadata, bug fixes.