DAVID COFFIN Grabbing stills from video clips is something I do a lot of every now and then, and will do much more as I upgrade to an HD camera. And judging from the screencasts at the developer site, this app's got several features that could come in handy if you're taking a lot of stills from video. The comparison and tagging/naming screens are very nice looking. But $130?!?! This is delusional. I'm already taking multiple stills extremely efficiently with ScreenCapper for less than a tenth that cost. I also have DV Kitchen which has a slick stills-grabbing function with some fancy bells like deinterlacing, and it "throws in" a suberb video compression app, all for under $80. I actually prefer ScreenCapper since it's got the ergonomics of taking multiple stills completely down, with mouse-wheel clip scanning and keystrokes for grabbing, and it's very easy to batch deinterlace and fix the aspect-ratio of a folder full of grabs in Photoshop. And InstantShot + QuickTime comes close for sheer efficiency for free. SnapFlow apparently takes its inspiration (and name) from the excellent ScreenFlow, which broke ground by building an editor into a video recorder; SnapFlow builds the same into a stills-grabber. If I did this all the time, I can see that having a limited but basic editor and organizer built into the grabber would be useful, but again, it's hardly worth $130 for the privilege. All of these points were obvious before I even launched the trail version. Now that I have, I can only add that it froze, then crashed, once, and then brought my entire system down within 20 minutes of firing it up (MacPro, 6G Ram, 10.5.6). Not encouraging
Will watch, and wait for a Promo discount, then MAYBE
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