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Usher is the ultimate tool for managing and watching your collection of videos. View your library in four view modes; watch movies in three ways. You can even use your Apple hardware remote to control playback and choose movies.
Tags and properties let you add metadata, and you can even download cast, director, etc. directly from Amazon.
(Usher 1.x is a free upgrade for any yFlicks user who purchased after March 1st, 2009.)
Tags and properties let you add metadata, and you can even download cast, director, etc. directly from Amazon.
(Usher 1.x is a free upgrade for any yFlicks user who purchased after March 1st, 2009.)
What's New
Version 1.1.4:
- Added a new Batch Rename entry to the Usher menu, for use when renaming multiple videos.
- Converting videos that reside on read-only media now works properly.
- Batch processing now works properly in Lion when Usher is in the background.
- Usher can now delete videos that reside on networked volumes.
- Fixed higher-resolution YouTube downloads. (Hat tip to Garrison B. for reporting this one.)
- Fixed media key support.
- Fixed an issue where subdividing Smart Playlists could cause Usher to crash under certain conditions.
Version 1.1.4:
- Added a new Batch Rename entry to the Usher menu, for use when renaming multiple videos.
- Converting videos that reside on read-only media now works properly.
- Batch processing now works properly in Lion when Usher is in the background.
- Usher can now delete videos that reside on networked volumes.
- Fixed higher-resolution YouTube downloads. (Hat tip more...
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Usher User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:16,102 |
| Version Downloads:747 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Video |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:23 Nov 2011 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price: $35.00 |
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Usher is the ultimate tool for managing and watching your collection of videos. View your library in four view modes; watch movies in three ways. You can even use your Apple hardware remote to control playback and choose movies.
Tags and properties let you add metadata, and you can even download cast, director, etc. directly from Amazon.
(Usher 1.x is a free upgrade for any yFlicks user who purchased after March 1st, 2009.)
Tags and properties let you add metadata, and you can even download cast, director, etc. directly from Amazon.
(Usher 1.x is a free upgrade for any yFlicks user who purchased after March 1st, 2009.)
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rramito reviewed on 20 Apr 2012
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Arjuna reviewed on 21 May 2011
However still to be worked on. Needs a feature to set up different player (such as Movist or VLC) to groups of files, since its own player doesn't work with many files (due to QuickTime engine problems). And hopefully it gets to work with FFMpeg installed – this would solve all problems with unsupported vids.
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glinner reviewed on 10 May 2011
If any of you download a lot of TV content, as I do, Usher is just an awesome tool/media hub.
It remembers the exact playback position in a tv programme, just like TiVo
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Is it Adobe Flash to MOV?
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glinner reviewed on 10 May 2011
It's ability to rip YouTube videos is a great little bonus.
Are there any restrictions? Sometimes I get a message saying the YouTube download failed. I wondered if it might be due to music Copyright, but it seems to work at other times.
I like the way it created a recently added playlist/smart folder thing for each playlist.
I note that some of my videos have become black and white (in the grid preview mode). Is that because I have deleted them, or because they have been watched or are x-weeks old?
I would love the ability to be able to have a hot key to remove all visual distractions, when watching a tv program. I want all other windows to be hidden.
I note that ⌘-U invokes Usher-control-window. It would be neat if I could press ⌘-U again to make it disappear. (So it's like a _toggle_ , rather than an 'on' switch)
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Takn reviewed on 28 Feb 2011
This is a clear winner in my eyes. I should have done this a long time ago.
P.S. Peter/Rob have been very responsive to my questions.
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Thethinslice reviewed on 05 Feb 2011
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Alessandro82 reviewed on 03 Dec 2010
We also have an online ticket system (http://manytricks.com/support) where you can file tickets so that both Peter (our programmer) and I can see them and interact with you to solve the problem.
In any event, I'd love to help solve your problem, if you're willing to contact me directly again, or (preferably, as it leaves an excellent record for us to follow) use the ticket system.
regards,
-rob.
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I would check your spam filter and I bet you will find that your question was answered.
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Quite amusing.
(If anyone is an any doubt, look at his other reviews and see if they make sense to you!)
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In a future update, we may add the ability to manage VIDEO_TS folders, but they'd still have to be played back via a third-party app.
regards;
-rob.
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> In a future update, we may add the ability to manage VIDEO_TS folders, but they'd still have to be played back via a third-party app.
Hopefully you'll also consider similar support for EyeTV recordings/metadata, as previously suggested.
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Usher will manage the recordings, and (if you paste one in) will display a preview image. However, Elgato uses some sort of proprietary codec, and the movies can only be played back in their player -- if you try to play them in QuickTime, it crashes.
So when you watch an Elgato recording in Usher, it will launch the Elgato player.
Quite simply, this is the absolute best we can do for Elgato. Sorry I left it out of the release notes; I'll add it in now.
-rob.
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Yup, QuickTime chokes on native Transport Stream files in EyeTV recording packages (which I've repeatedly suggested to Elgato not misuse the .mpg extension). Having Usher launch EyeTV (or other compatible app) for playback of its recordings is acceptable.
I'll mail more feedback after I've done some testing …
Thanks, that was exactly my problem and it has been promptly solved. So far so good, nice to see this program and this company back in action!
I was hoping Usher would help me do batch updating to a large directory of video files on a hard drive (NAS) not controlled with iTunes. Usher's work flow seems to be
Example.. I have two copies of the movie Faster.
The filenames are "Faster (Apple TV)" and "Faster (iPhone)" to note the resolution during Handbrake ripping.
1. Click on a single movie in the Library pane
2. Right click -> Edit Metadata
3. Select Auto-Properties. (Dialog appears with Could not find "Faster (Apple TV)"...
4. Manually remove " (Apple TV)". Hit search.
5. Click on a match (now finds movie since its title is "Faster".
Am I asking for a miracle here? Is there a faster/easier way to get metadata?
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won't download clips from youtube via browser bookmark, and upon quitting the app and relaunching, no window appears. dragging a video to the dock icon will play the video, but there is no library sidebar.
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Gryphonent rated on 07 Sep 2011
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Steppke rated on 18 Jun 2011
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Stren rated on 12 Jan 2011