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                                   DVdate 7.0.9 en - 2008/06/04

               Free version only delivered for the personal or familial use of the video hobbyist

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Disclaimer:

DVDate is a software made by Paul Glagla. It is delivered only for a personal or familial use. Any use by a company, an administration or during any professional activities is forbidden. If you need to use DVdate in professional or commercial circumstances, please ask for a licensed version. On this web page you may learn how to get a licensed version:

http://paul.glagla.free.fr/dvdate_licence_en.htm

If your use it privately for your home videos, you may freely use this version. It is a full  version. I suggest nevertheless that you support my work by visiting the Google adds on my webpages:

http://paul.glagla.free.fr/dvdate_en.htm

You may also find a paypal button on the homepage: 
http://paul.glagla.free.fr/index_en.htm 
if you want to support my work with a donation.

DVdate is delivered without warranty of any kind. Use it at your own risk. If you use it, you acknowledge that Paul Glagla is not responsible for any problems caused by this program, because he is not a professional programmer, and he cannot test his programs on all different systems existing on the market. Many thanks to all users who will report bugs or suggestions to improve it. Let me just remind you that, with experience given by more than 900,000 visitors on my webpages, I can state that my programs work well in the great majority of cases, but not quite 100%. Is this very different from most commercial packages?

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What is DVdate?

DVdate 7.x.x En  is a major upgrade of DVdate 6.x.x series, a successful software appreciated by many digital video users all around the world. It is a very powerful application for all AVI files, and perhaps the best program in the world for avi DV files (the format of most digital camcorders).

The main functions of DVdate 7.x.x are:

- display a list of all AVI video clips loaded in it, for instance all AVI from a folder, or even all AVI files from all hard disks, and display them sorted by alphabetical order, or by file size, file date, or even by the datecode (= date of capture by the camcorder), timecode, duration...

- display many data about each AVI file, for instance codec of video or audio, image 
size, duration for audio as well as for video (they are not always the same). For avi 
DV files it indicates if it's Pal or NTSC, and if it's 4x3 or 16x9 image ratio, and of course the type 1 or 2. It displays also the datecode and timecode of each DV frame. It indicates with the letters iavs if the file is a strange DV type2 having an interleaved stream instead of a video stream.

- preview the video in the integrated player or in full screen. One may browse through 
the frames, with frame by frame precision, or even browse from scene to scene. DV date 
displays in real time the datecode and timecode of the current frame.

- convert the video files for example:
	* from DV type 1 to DV type 2 and reciprocally
	* from Pal to NTSC and reciprocally 
	* from an analogic video to a DV type 2 one.
	* from strange DV type 2 to standard DV type 2
	* from a DV 4x3 to a DV 16x9 (widescreen) and reciprocally

- extract the audio stream to a WAV file.

- inlay the datecode (or other texts containinf indo about the video)  into the video frames. This function (also available for preview with DVdate) is highly personnalizable. You may choose the font, the color, the size, 
fix a time difference, change the display format of the datecode. You may choose to 
display automatically for a given number of seconds the datecode at every scene change, or at every new day. The position of the inlay may be easily changed in the video. The datecode may be displayed on two lines. The timecode may also be inlayed.

- fix the datecode included in the DV frames in order to compensate a time difference.

- fix the framerate of a video file.

- change the FOURCC of the codec of a video.

- change the date of a video DV file and replace it by its datecode.

- rename DV files using datecode or timecode or other data.
 
-edit the list of scenes of an avi file (either calculating them by video content or by gap in the datecode, or by equal intervalls). This list may be edited to add captions, merge scenes, or cut scenes.

- create a scn file, compatible with Studio from Pinnacle, containing the list of scenes.

- export the data contained in a scn file to a text file, or Word, Excel, OpenOffice.org Writer or OpenOfffice.org Calc file, giving for each scene the following data, separated by commas:
		
		* rank of the scene
		* start
		* end
		* datecode of start
		* timecode of start
		* duration
and for Word and Writer also a thumbnail from the video for each scene.

- Split a DV video into clips, one clip for a scene

- create a srt file containing subtitles displaying the datecode 

- Display the RIFF header of an avi file, like Riffwalk - an old program by Microsoft - 
used to do.

-DVdate can be launched from a script file to automate its functions.

Many commands are available in the menus or with shortcuts. The list of all commands is 
available  with F11. Most of them may be lauched by once on a great number of avi files.

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How to install DVdate?

DVdate 7.x.x needs no installation. It does not install any filter on your system, and thus makes no mess around directshow filters. It will only save some data (called the preferences) into the registry  or an ini file in order to restore the settings at next launch, if you want to. 

Simply unpack the exe-file from zip onto a folder of your computer, and double-click on the file. That's all. 

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How to uninstall DVdate?

For DVdate 7.x.x no uninstallation is needed. Just delete the exe-file called somewhat like dvdate_7xen.exe where x is the minor version number.

But BEFORE doing that, it is recommanded to delete the preferencesof DVdate  (if you aske to save them)  from the system. Just type F10 to open the Settings panel, go to tab Preferences and click on delete the preferences. Answer yes, quit and now delete the exe-file.

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How to make DVdate portable?

Type F10 and the tab "Preferences' and check "Portable Mode" in the group "How to save the preferences when quit".

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To get help, check for updates and be informed about my other software, please visit my website
http://paul.glagla.free.fr/index_en.htm

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History of modifications:

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Version 7.0.3 published in English on 2008/04/14

	* first English release in the 7.x.x series

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Version 7.0.4 published in English on 2008/04/15

	* Some texts still in french have been translated
	* Some links in the About page are fixed
	* The scenes editor has been improved: color, empty titles...
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Version 7.0.5 published in English on 2008/04/16

	* Some more texts have been translated
	* Some minor interface bugs have been fixed
	* The template for captions of scenes gives two lines instead of writing everything on one line.
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Version 7.0.6 published in English on 2008/04/19
	
	*The panel of commands and shortcuts is better managed in the menu
	*When playing a video, it stops at the end and goes back to start
	*When converting to 16x9 a video, the next conversions are no more 16x9
	*The preferences are better saved in the registry
	*Some texts are translated from French to English
	*Exporting scenes is now OK when in the Scenes Editor is active
	*When an error occurs in a command, the gauge will hide.
	*Navigating in the video when the Scenes Editor is active is now possible.
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Version 7.0.7 published in English on 2008/05/1

	*The command Rename works now with several files
	*The button Select All updates the number of selected files. It toogles between all or only one selected
	*A  scn file that has been edited can be saved even if one quits DVdate without closing the Scenes Editor
	*More Texts have ben translated in English.
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 Version 7.0.8 published in English on 2008/05/2

	*The command Change the video frequency is fixed
	*The command Change the video codec is fixed
	*The confirmation prompt is now completed in the commands for Renaming
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Version 7.0.9 published in English on 2008/06/04
	
	* The template for renaming can now contain blank spaces
	* The hint on the information panel is better displayed on 3 lines
	* The preferences are better saved and deleted according to the request of user
	* An error happening sometimes when quitting is fixed
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