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We have a very special holiday surprise for you!

NeoFinder 8.8 has just been released, full with exciting new features and improvements.

Find out all about it: https://www.cdfinder.de/news.html

Download the update today with the built-in Updater, or get it from the NeoFinder web site: https://www.cdfinder.de/download.html

The complete list of everything new in NeoFinder 8.8 can be found in the NeoFinder Release Notes here: https://www.cdfinder.de/versions.html

As usual, we will post everything about the details here in the next weeks.
Stay tuned!

One major new feature in NeoFinder 8.8 allows you to specify exactly which metadata fields you wish to copy, so you can later paste these annotations and more to other files.

Even more power for you, as that includes things like the GPS GeoTag, EXIF Capture Date, Finder Tags, Finder comment, color label, and more.

We have expanded the NeoFinder Users Guide with more details:

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/13/13.11/ ... adata.html

NeoFinder 8.8 is now able to catalog thumbnails out of the latest Pixelmator PRO (.pxd) files!

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/17/neofin ... hotos.html

Among the large number of audio file formats that NeoFinder can Catalog, NeoFinder 8.8 now adds the popular open source OGG Vorbis format!

NeoFinder reads the embedded Cover Art, song name, album, genre, year, and more Tags for you to see, sort, and search.

We have updated the NeoFinder Users Guide with more information: https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/15/neofinder_music.html

NeoFinder 8.8 introduces a very elegant new web gallery template named "Lucid with slideshow" for the HTML export.

Your photos take the center stage, no distracting metadata or anything.
Click on any thumbnail to start the slideshow with large previews of your photos.

Check out a live sample here: https://www.cdfinder.de/gallery/LucidSlideshow/

More about this in the NeoFinder Users Guide: https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/10/10.1/n ... eries.html

Do you know AMR files?

No, these are definitely not cooking pots...

If you use your iPhone for voice notes, and transfer these to your Mac, that is the Apple Message Recording format that Apple uses for the audio recordings.

NeoFinder 8.8 can now get the basic metadata contained in these files for you, and even a short audio snippet, if you want one.

More in the NeoFinder Users Guide: https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/15/neofinder_music.html

NeoFinder 8.8 uses an updated BlackMagic module to support the latest digital film cameras and their enhanced BRAW video file format.

You get the expected thumbnails and metadata for your catalogs, such as duration, timecode, camera name, and more.

Check out the NeoFinder Users Guide for more details: https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/22/22.5/n ... _raw.html

The new ability to change the names of items in NeoFinder catalogs using AppleScript allows for some very exciting things.

Like a script to replace parts of file names with a different part.

In case your rock band has recorded a lot of live videos, but they show the wrong name of the city in their name!

The NeoFinder Users Guide has more, and the new AppleScript Power example "Replace file name parts":
https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/9/9.7/pow ... eFileNames

The integrated Movie Converter in NeoFinder 8.8 has been expanded to support the conversion of FLV (Flash Video) and WEBM files into MP4 and MKV formats.

Great way to keep those old FLV files alive today.

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/22/22.8/v ... erter.html

NeoFinder 8.8 now remembers the sorting order and direction separately for each Album!

That is especially helpful if you use a manual sort order for one Album, and sort another Album by EXIF Capture Date, for example.
The NeoFinder Users Guide has more ab ... _sort.html

The integrated video converter in NeoFinder 8.8 now has the option to specify the frames-per-second, or fps, or the resulting new video file.

A list of possible values makes it easy to select the right one.


https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/22/22.8/v ... erter.html

The Icon View in NeoFinder 8.8 now preserves previous selections and provides an "Undo" for these last selections.

That is super helpful in case you erroneously click somewhere else, and the whole selection is lost.

Now you can just Undo, or even redo that.

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/1/1.1/icon_view.html

NeoFinder 8.8 has been enhanced to catalog additional metadata out of PDF files.

These are the special PDF keywords (in additional to possibly also existing XMP keywords), the document title, and the author information.

You can check and edit these values in Apples Preview.app, for example.

This shows the keywords as edited in Preview.app:
And these same keywords in the Catalog of NeoFinder:

The contextual menu in the Controlled Vocabulary window in NeoFinder 8.8 now also includes a search command to locate all items using the keyword in its non-hierarchical form.

That will help you convert existing "flat" keywords to a new hierarchical version.

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/13/13.2/n ... words.html

The Controlled Vocabulary window in NeoFinder 8.8 will now remember all "opened" hierarchical keywords for subsequent NeoFinder launches!

That makes it a lot easier to work with these powerful hierarchical keywords.

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/13/13.2/n ... words.html

NeoFinder 8.8 adds another option to the Services menu of Apples macOS Finder.

You can now create video contact sheets for multiple selected files at once!

Just select the files you want, and use that Services menu command. NeoFinder will then offer you to create the Movie Contact Sheet for all these files, and is able to place the newly created image files in the same folder as the original movie file, or in a new, separate folder. Just as you need.

The NeoFinder Users Guide has more: https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/22/22.1/m ... sheet.html

The integrated Audio Converter in NeoFinder 8.8 can now convert raw ".aac" audio files into many other formats, like .m4a, which are usually better suited for playback with other software.

These ".aac" files are actually a flat "AAC" data stream, a very different format as the well-known .m4a song files.

Find out more about the NeoFinder Audio Converter in the Users Guide: https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/15/15.1/a ... erter.html

Who owns the XMP sidecar?

The infamous XMP "sidecar" files contain structured metadata, such as your ratings, keywords, captions, and a lot more.

NeoFinder and other applications create these separate files if the media file itself cannot hold that metadata, such as for some RAW formats, or some video formats.

The problem here is that the ".xmp" suffix is usually used by replacing the actual media file suffix. So for a file named "NMD_2201.NEF" the XMP file name will be "NMD_2201.xmp". Which is OK, until you ALSO have a file named "NMD_2201.JPG" in the same folder. Because then the question is: Which media file does that XMP data actually belong to?

NeoFinder 8.8 answers that question once and for all. It adds and uses specially designed metadata inside the XMP file to assign it to the media file. This utilizes the standard data fields also used by other applications for better compatibility.

This extra information is now also cataloged by NeoFinder, and NeoFinder will honor it when renaming, exporting or copying media files. When files are renamed, NeoFinder will even update that information inside the renamed XMP files as well.

Find out more about the XMP Editor in NeoFinder: https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/13/13.1/n ... ridge.html

NeoFinder 8.8 adds support to catalog thumbnails and metadata of video files encoded with the new "AV1" open video codec ("AOMedia Video 1").

The Inspector will be able to show the proper name of that codec for your video files.

The NeoFinder Users Guide has more about how NeoFinder supports cataloging and managing video and movie files: https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/22/neofin ... ideos.html

You probably want to install the free ffmpeg plugin for NeoFinder to get additional file format support as well: https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/22/22.7/n ... fmpeg.html

Again, sometimes it's just the little things.

Like the display of video file chapters in the NeoFinder 8.8 Inspector.
We have prettified the time display, so it looks really nice now.

What do you think?

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/22/neofin ... terMarkers

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