MIKE.MCFADDEN  Hi Lexxy,

Movie importing can be slow for certain movie formats (mostly MKV and WMV), but unfortunately there's not much I can do about that. The crashes are probably caused by the WMV plugin. For anyone with a large selection of WMV and MKV files, I'd recommend setting QuickTime Player as the default playback program and only using iVideo for organization. The other movie formats generally import very quickly and work great.

I'm not sure what you mean by groupings, but you can sort by artist or make a smart playlist that displays movies by an artist.

Not being able to edit extended information for multiple movies at the same time was an oversight of mine, and I apologize for that. I will add support for it in the next update.

By the way, importing does not necessarily mean copying. If you have your library set to "keep files where they are", your files *will* remain where they are. iVideo uses the import process to gather information about your movies and save that information to the library. The files themselves are not modified in any way, nor is anything copied.

- Mike McFadden  
(Version 4.1.2)

MIKE.MCFADDEN  I made a few changes to iVideo in response to the problems reported here:

- iVideo is now a 15-day demo instead of limiting you to 25 movies per library. This will allow you to make sure iVideo can handle all of your movies correctly.

- Importing is now handled by a separate helper app that runs in the background, which means iVideo will be more stable during imports.

Hopefully that will result in a much improved experience for some people.  
(Version 4.1)

MIKE.MCFADDEN  As I said in the response to the the email you sent me, that is QuickTime causing the crashes, not iVideo. There are good reviews because the problem you are experiencing is uncommon. (although it apparently makes people highly motivated to write reviews)

QuickTime is generally very stable and can robustly deal with a large variety of movie files, but some people seem to end up with files that QuickTime can't handle well. I'm sorry, but I can't do much about that other than what I already do, which is give you access to 100% of the features in the demo and let you import any movie file you want.

Also, as I told the previous person on here, I am going to attempt to work around this rare QuickTime problem by having importing be handled by a separate app, so that if QuickTime crashes or freezes I can just force quit the background app and go on to the next file. I haven't done that yet because it really is an uncommon problem.  
(Version 4.0.3)

MIKE.MCFADDEN  I eventually plan on having each movie be imported from a separate helper app that runs in the background, so that if QuickTime crashes (or just locks up permanently), I can restore or force quit the helper app without iVideo having to suffer the consequences. Fortunately QuickTime is normally very stable so that those types of crashes are rare (except for those pesky AVI files).

(I know hearing about how stable QuickTime *normally* is isn't much help for you specifically, but it's there in case someone else reads this)  
(Version 4.0.3)

MIKE.MCFADDEN  Hi, I added that AVI warning because I used to get a lot of emails about iVideo crashing on them when importing their movies, and like 99% of the time it was because a stray AVI file caused QuickTime to crash (which then causes iVideo to crash). Like the dialog says, if you know your AVI files work fine in QuickTime, then continue. Other movie formats can cause QuickTime to crash too (which is what I suspect happened here), but AVI files are such a common headache that I decided to tell people beforehand about the problem.

I'm not sure how you can consider anything bait-and-switch when every feature is fully available in the demo and you can import any movie files you want on your computer.

Also, if you would have emailed me you would have found out that I do offer refunds for unsatisfied customers. Maybe most developers don't or something, but I do.  
(Version 4.0.3)