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If you ever need to watch a series of video clips and take notes, or if you need to get dailies or raw footage to clients or collaborators for comments, you know what a huge hassle it can be- doing window burns, waiting hours for renders, making DVDs, spending hours encoding, and then there’s the hassle of the review process- having to continually hit pause on a DVD remote and write down the timecode you see on the screen.
Problem solved!
Now, there’s QT Movie NoteTaker!
This is a free, easy-to-use program from DVcreators.net that simplifies the process of taking movie notes. This application lets you load a Quicktime movie, then click a button to stop the movie, enters the movie time into your notes automatically, then waits for you to write a brief or lengthy comment.
You can load a series of movies and each movie will automatically have a header with the movie name, length, and a place to write overall comments. When you’re finished, click a button to save your notes as a text file, or another button to email your notes to someone.
.5 is the current release, we have plans for future versions, feel free to add your comments with requests.
DOWNLOAD
download QT Movie NoteTaker .5 for OS X (3.5 MB)
download QT Movie NoteTaker .5 for WinXP (5.9 MB)
FAQ
How do I fit QT Movie NoteTaker into my workflow?
Situation #1: Your client, assistant, boss or collaborator needs to watch raw captured footage and take notes
- Capture the footage onto a Firewire drive (or transfer it to a Firewire drive)
- Give the drive (or FedEx it) to your collaborator
- Voila! Now your collaborator can easily take notes and get them to you or the editor.
Situation #2: Your client, assistant, boss or collaborator needs to watch edits and take notes
- Export the edit as a Quicktime movie- either in online resolution (if you are delivering via Firewire drive) or web-friendly format, like H.264 or Sorenson 3 (if your client is across the country or world)
- Deliver the Firewire drive or ftp the edit
- Voila! Now your collaborator can easily take notes and get them to you or the editor.
Features:
- loads anything that can be played in Quicktime Player(PJPEG, H.264, MPEG/MPEG2, AVI, Windows Media have not been tested but should work- let me know!
- automatically enters movie name and length in notes
- automatically enters movie time in notes when stop button is clicked
- NEW! Click on any note to jump directly to that point in the movie!
- NEW! Movie time display
- NEW! cool keyboard shortcuts – shuttle transport control – Cmd/Cntrl left, down and right arrow work like J, K, L in your editing software, Shift shuttles rapidly
- recurring notes feature- if you need to enter a certain note multiple times, rather than typing it over and over, or copying and pasting, you can just enter the note in the recurring notes field, and add it with one click to your notes along with the current time of the movie
- save notes with one click
- email notes with one click
- fits in 1280 X 854 PowerBook screen (this is minumum screen resolution)
- will load any movie size – resizes movie automatically to fit your screen (or window)- log HD footage on a laptop!
- Mac OS X / WinXP
- free!
Version History
- .12 – added keyboard shortcut, resizable window, WinXP version
- .13 – movie resizes to fit screen upon load and window resize – now can accomodate any size movie, even one much larger than your screen (HD 1080i on PowerBook, for example)
- .14 – added Cmd/Cntrl arrow shuttle controls
- .5 added better keyboard shortcuts, click to jump to note markers in movie, movie time display
Future plans:
- Movie NoteTaker Pro – a utility for professionals with SMPTE, note collaboration and much more! (coming soon)
