--- description: Review of Fast Video Cataloger Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice Ireland. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Fast Video Cataloger | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice IE --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Video Management Software](/directory/4337/video-management/software) > [Fast Video Cataloger](/software/484797/Fast-Video-Cataloger) # Fast Video Cataloger Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/484797/Fast-Video-Cataloger > If you shoot or edit video you already know the problem: the clip you need is somewhere in three terabytes of footage across four drives, and finding it means opening folder after folder and scrubbing. Fast Video Cataloger is a Windows desktop application that fixes exactly that. It indexes your footage wherever it lives — internal drives, NAS, external disks, even drives that are currently unplugged — and builds a visual thumbnail timeline for every clip. You see a whole video at a glance, click any thumbnail to play from that exact moment, and search your entire library in seconds. Who it's for Working video editors, videographers, DITs, documentary and archive teams, and anyone whose footage library has outgrown folders and filenames. It suits individuals and small teams rather than enterprises: there is no server to administer and no IT project to run. Install it, point it at your footage, and it starts indexing. What makes it different Everything runs locally. Version 10 added AI that works entirely on your own machine — face recognition to find every clip a person appears in, speech-to-text search to jump to the moment a phrase is spoken, and automatic scene and object tagging. Nothing is uploaded and there are no per-minute AI charges. Cataloging is non-destructive: indexing reads your footage and leaves it exactly where it is. If you do want files tidied up, a separate File Organizer can move and rename them to a structure you define — on your own storage, only when you ask it to. Blackmagic RAW is supported natively — .braw files are indexed and played without transcoding, with no separate conversion step. Ownership and support Buy it outright with a one-time licence or subscribe, whichever suits you, and there is a free trial either way. Support comes from a small team that knows the product properly — the developer reads the support queue himself — backed by extensive documentation, video tutorials, a knowledge base and a user community on Discord. Fast Video Cataloger has been in continuous development since 2010 — worth knowing when you are buying a licence outright and expecting it to still work in five years. > > Verdict: Rated **5.0/5** by 3 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **5.0/5** | 3 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 3.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 5.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 5.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 5.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 100% | (10/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: VideoStorm Sweden - **Founded**: 2012 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$197.00 - **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: $197 + optionally $47/Year for support and free updates - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50 - **Deployment & Platforms**: Windows (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise) - **Supported Languages**: English, German, Spanish, Swedish - **Available Countries**: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States ## Features - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Asset Library - Asset Sharing - Bulk Uploading - Closed Captions - Collaboration Tools - Commenting/Notes - Content Library - Content Management - Drag & Drop - File Management - Filtering - Image Library - Inside the Video Search - Labeling - Metadata Management - Multimedia Support - Multiple Format Support - Privacy Options ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Chat ## Category - [Video Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4337/video-management/software) ## Related Categories - [Video Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4337/video-management/software) - [Digital Asset Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/1634/digital-asset-management/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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Using an AI assistant I have built twenty-eight working scripts against that API - bulk actor imports, face learning, catalog audits, and a pipeline that moves footage out to DaVinci Resolve for cleanup and brings it back with the catalog intact. You describe what you want in plain language, test it in a dry-run version first, then refine it. Anyone who can describe a workflow can now automate one. Support is the other thing, and it is unusual. Fredrik owns the company and writes the code, so you are talking to the person who can actually fix the problem. On 1 August I sent him a report about two scripting-API faults - a function returning a stale value, and invalid input being silently ignored. Both were fixed in the release that came out five days later. That was not a one-off. Twice now something I needed from the API was not there, and it appeared within days. Everything runs locally. Face recognition, transcription and automatic scene tagging all process on your own machine - nothing uploaded, no per-minute AI charges, and your footage never leaves the building. On price: this is not a subscription. The version you buy is yours and keeps working indefinitely. Moving up to a new major version needs an active maintenance package, which I have chosen to keep renewing because the releases have been worth it - version 10 alone added local face recognition, speech-to-text search and automatic scene tagging. What you do not get is a cloud bill, per-minute AI charges, or software that stops working when you stop paying. > > **Cons**: It is Windows only. The interface is dense and there is a lot of it. My first weeks went on learning where things are rather than getting work done. I would qualify that now: I keep an AI project set up with the FVC manual and documentation attached, and when I hit something I do not recognise I paste a screenshot of the window into it and get the steps back. If that had existed when I started I would not be listing this at all. I used Windows when it first shipped and found the first week unintuitive too - unfamiliar is not the same as hard. My real criticism is the Keyword Manager. You cannot merge two keywords, you cannot rename or delete a keyword group once created, and keywords differing only in case cause trouble. For anyone building a large vocabulary these are real gaps. I reported them recently, and based on how every other report has gone, I am confident Fredrik will deal with them. > > I have around eleven thousand video files - political and cultural material I have been collecting for years to cut clips from. I bought Fast Video Cataloger in 2021, at version 8, because I had reached the point where I knew I had a clip somewhere and no way to find it. Five years and three major versions later it is still what I use every day, and it is the only piece of software in my workflow that has kept pace with what I ask of it. The thumbnail timeline is what sold me and still is. Every video becomes a strip of frames across the window, so you judge a whole clip at a glance and click into it at the exact moment you want. No scrubbing, no opening files one at a time to see what is in them. Version 10 changed how I search. Face recognition finds every video a given person appears in, and when I cannot remember someone's name I select a picture of them instead. You can drag several people into the filter at once and get everything featuring any of them - for an archive built around recurring public figures that is worth a great deal on its own. Speech-to-text makes what people actually said searchable, so you can go straight to the moment a phrase was spoken rather than hunting for it. Scenes are tagged automatically as videos are indexed. All of it runs on my own machine, with nothing uploaded and no per-use AI charges. Two more things I would not want to lose. Scene playlists let you string segments from different videos together and play them as though they were one file, which is how I work out whether an idea holds up before doing any editing at all. And the catalog keeps working when the drives are not connected - I can search, browse and plan against footage sitting on a shelf, then plug the drive in only when I need the file. ----- ### "Exactly What I Needed in a Video Cataloging App" — 5.0/5 > **Tom** | *7 January 2026* | Arts & Crafts | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: You can select either a subscription or perennial license. Once I got familiar with the basic commands, the workflow was smooth and quick. References to the manual were seldom needed, as the path to getting things done was pretty easy to intuit. > > **Cons**: The UI is a little too compact for my vision, but I was able to adapt pretty easily. I found no other cons in my usage. > > My need was for an affordable, simple and effective way to organize my video clips for accurate and fast retrieval. FVC provided what I needed without burdening me with a large set of features that I will never use. ----- ### "that is REALLY something you should try" — 5.0/5 > **piotr** | *12 September 2023* | Logistics & Supply Chain | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: scripting - you can get whatever you want from the program\!configuration - it is really impressive > > **Cons**: not easy to start with - yes, it needs time to understand > > Very happy :)the most import thing is the author of the program is open to any suggestion from our side - if you need anything new and it turns out to be really nice idea then next realese and it is there :) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/484797/Fast-Video-Cataloger) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data