Editorial

Staff · Issue 97, Jul/Aug 2017 · pp. 4

Products mentioned: Videux

Editorial Peter Rowlands peter@uwpmag.com Videux video software I was delighted to be asked to be a beta tester of this new software Videux (pronounced Vid-Oh) which had been developed by a team fronted by underwater photographer Chris Parsons. As our interview with him later in this issue reveals, he had terabytes of video footage filed in various drives and folders and he needed a way of cataloguing and quantifying them all. Not being able to find anything suitable on the market he used his coding skills to create the software and soon realised that it might appeal to a wider audience both above and below the water; and how right he was! Furnished with an early beta copy, without any form of instruction manual, I was up and running creating a catalogue of ALL of my footage in a matter of minutes without cross copying, duplicating or otherwise moving very large files. I am a very occasi…