UwP interviews Chris Parsons about Videux

Chris Parsons · Issue 97, Jul/Aug 2017 · pp. 49–52

Products mentioned: Videux Pro AS, Videux Pro DL, Videux Player LT, Final Cut, Premiere Pro, Avid, Sony Vegas, Lightroom

What is Videux, and who was it written for? In short, Videux is a tool to help videographers get their video collections organized. It’s also a great ingest tool, e.g. the tool that you’d take with you on a dive trip to get your daily footage imported and cleaned up. And it is a pretty slick video player. In a lot of respects, it was written for me. I have a 20 Terabyte server at home, and it is bursting at the seams. My videos are scattered about between that server and some smaller RAID thunderbolt drives. I have a ton of great footage in there along with even more that is not so good. I’ve always found it painful to deal with that. The NLE’s (e.g. Final Cut, Premiere Pro, Avid, Sony Vegas, etc) are not very helpful here. So I designed the program to work for me, hoping that it would also work for other people. While I have not yet gotten my own library as dialed in as I want - I’ve be…