We've just released Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.7, a minor update to our suite of tools for maintaining, optimizing and troubleshooting your system.

One important change in this version is that it now requires OS X 10.6 or higher. OS X 10.5 users can obtain an older version from the sidebar here.

We've made many improvements to Plugin Manager, including greater compatibility with FxFactory and various bug fixes.

By popular demand, one big new Plugin Manager feature is the ability to create plugin installers. This is aimed at plugin developers who need a quick and easy way of installing their plugins on end users' systems. Installers are self-contained and users do not need Pro Maintenance Tools installed in order to run the installer. A tutorial for creating installers is available here.

These new features are in addition to the hundreds that already existed in the suite including the ability to analyze crash logs, locate corrupt clips, repair corrupt projects and movie files, clear caches and much more. A full changelog for this version is available here and an updated list of error messages supported by Crash Analyzer is available here.

Pro Maintenance Tools is an essential suite of utilities for post production. To find out more, visit the features page, read the user manual, watch the overview video or download the 15-day trial.

We've just released the third public beta of Post Haste for Windows. Post Haste is a free app for keeping project folders organized. It's targeted at video editors, musicians, photographers, designers and anyone who needs to organize project assets consistently and reliably.

This version features drag and drop reordering within the template editor, reorderable parameters in preferences, and folder icons in the filename preview field. There is also the option to set a template as the default, meaning it will be selected every time you launch the app.

You can also now drag Post Haste templates into the template list to automatically import them, which is an easy way of importing your templates from the Mac version. We've also improved stability and fixed several bugs.

Post Haste 1.0 B3 is a free download and requires Windows 7 and .NET Framework. You can either download it from the site or use the software updater built into Beta 2. We're expecting bugs in this beta so please use the links within the Help menu to report any issues you find in this build.

We've just released the second public beta of Post Haste for Windows. Post Haste is a free app for keeping project folders organized. It's targeted at video editors, musicians, photographers, designers and anyone who needs to organize project assets consistently and reliably.

This version features a software updater that will automatically notify you when future betas are released. Other changes include the ability to clear history, a function to restore the default templates that ship with the app, and the ability to reset a field back to its default value by using the Backspace key. We've also improved stability and fixed several bugs.

Post Haste 1.0 B2 is a free download and requires Windows 7 and .NET Framework. We're expecting bugs in this beta so please use the links within the Help menu to report any issues you find in this build.

Earlier this week we released Cut Notes Marker Import 1.1, which now offers the ability to import marker lists created by Cut Notes into Final Cut Pro X.

Here's how to do it:

1. Click the Action button in Cut Notes and tap Email FCP Marker List.

2. Email the marker list text file to yourself.

3. Download the file on to your Final Cut Pro X system.

4. With the project selected in the Project Browser of FCPX, go to File > Export XML and save an XML copy of your sequence.

5. Launch Cut Notes Marker Import and open the marker list text file exported from Cut Notes.

6. Click Open Project and browse for the exported XML copy of the FCPX project.

7. Click Send to Final Cut Pro. Final Cut Pro X will automatically open a duplicate of the existing project with the new markers added.

Cut Notes Marker Import 1.1 is a free companion app for Cut Notes and can be downloaded from the Cut Notes section of the site.

Earlier this week we released Video Space Calculator 1.0.1, which offers several new features based on user feedback.

Audio support

You can now calculate audio sizes as well as video. Swipe to the left to set the number of audio channels and bit-depth. Currently it assumes you are dealing with 48 KHz PCM audio but it is likely that we will add further customization in future versions.

New formats

We now support H.264 at various bitrates and also several Phantom high speed cameras.

Calculate time from disk space

You can now enter a MB or GB total and find out the maximum length of the specified codec that will fit into that space.

Video Space supports over 75 different codec variations and is available on the App Store. We appreciate your suggestions so please use the Leave Feedback link within the app to let us know what you think.

Post Haste is a free app for keeping project folders organized. It's targeted at video editors, musicians, photographers, designers and anyone who needs to organize project assets consistently and reliably.

Simply create a template for the project directory structure using the built-in template editor (or import the structure from an existing project) and Post Haste will copy that folder structure when you create a new project, ensuring that subsequent projects are named and organized consistently.

You can enter parameters such as project name, client and date that will be added to the directory name and template project. These parameters are customizable and can be used to enforce common naming conventions in a corporate environment.

We've had a lot of requests for a Windows version of Post Haste and we're proud to introduce the first public beta of Post Haste for Windows.

This version is a beta and is not recommended for production use. It requires Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4.0. You can download it from the link in the yellow box here.

It's worth noting that the template format is identical to that of the Mac version, meaning that you can easily import your Mac templates into the Windows version.

We're expecting bugs and other problems to crop up so please use the Bug Report link within the Help menu to report all issues to us. This version doesn't yet have an built-in updater so please keep an eye on this blog to be alerted to future updates.

Last week we released Pro Media Tools 1.1.2, a minor update to our suite of tools for managing and optimizing media workflows.

New QT Edit Quick Task to create timecode tracks from timecode metadata

This Quick Task will add a new timecode track from timecode metadata stored in the user data section of a movie file. This can help solve issues where timecode from Adobe Media Encoder is incorrect.

Improved metadata support in QT Edit

QT Edit now supports additional metadata types and several issues with updating modified metadata have been fixed.

Edit Detector range selection

By popular demand you can now select a range of edit points and delete them or export them to a marker list.

Video Check printing

You can now print the results from Video Check, which is useful for creating QC reports.

The full changelog is available here.

Pro Media Tools is an indispensable suite of applications for editors, assistant editors and post production professionals. To find out more, see the features page, watch the overview video or download the free trial.

Last week we released Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.6, a minor update to our suite of tools for maintaining, optimizing and troubleshooting your editing system.

Significant QT Repair improvements

We made significant improvements to QT Repair, particularly when removing edits from trimmed QuickTime movies. It's now considerably faster at repairing edits, performs better on large files and we fixed an issue that could cause out of sync audio on larger files.

We also added an option in preferences to not backup the file before starting a repair. We don't recommend this as a general rule but it's useful to avoid lengthy copying times if you already have the file backed up.

Improved FCPX support in Plugin Manager

Plugin Manager has had significantly improved FCPX support. It now displays the proper plugin names for FxFactory plugins and installs Motion templates and plugins you drag in to the correct directories based on their file type.

Motion projects can now be repaired

Project Repair now has the ability to repair corrupt Motion projects.

We also added an option to strip keyframes from Adobe Premiere projects when repairing them. This is useful when a project fails to load at startup and mentions keyframes as the cause.

The full changelog is available here.

Pro Maintenance Tools is an indispensable suite of applications for video editors. To find out more, see the features page, watch the overview video or download the free trial.

Yesterday we released Editmote 1.1 - a major update to our iOS app for remotely controlling your editing system on a Mac.

We've listened to your feedback and are now offering the ability to customize the buttons. Editing the buttons is simple - just go to the Actions menu and tap Edit Button Layout. Tapping a button presents a list of potential actions to assign to that button. To hide a button, set its action to (none). When finished, tap the Done button to finish customization.

We've added several more button types including marker navigation, but we've also added 10 custom user-defined buttons that you can set to whatever keyboard shortcut you like in the Editmote preference pane.

Another major new feature is native iPad support. This has been a long time coming because we felt that simply having the same fixed layout with bigger buttons wasn't particularly useful, so we wanted to wait for button customization before implementing native iPad support. The iPad has significantly more buttons slots than the iPhone version so you can have a lot of controls at your fingertips.

Editmote is available on the App Store and 1.1 is a free update for existing users. Please note that you will be unable to connect to the new version until you have upgraded your Editmote Preference Pane to version 1.1.

Post Haste is our popular application for organizing projects. It creates project folder structures from customizable templates and has been very useful at keeping freelancers and small production houses organized while enforcing naming and organization conventions for larger companies.

However, we are video guys and so is Paul Conigliaro, the original creator, so Post Haste has been video-centric. The app itself is very versatile and can be used by anyone in any industry, but we realized that it was very daunting for people who are not in the video industry to launch the app and see default presets that didn't apply to them. This gave the false impression that Post Haste would not be able to serve their needs.

Earlier today we released Post Haste 2.0.6 and with it we added new presets for Photography and Web Design, as well as changing the wording on our site to be more general-purpose. We will be adding more default presets over time and you can of course create as many custom presets as you like.

We are not changing the Post Haste application at all, we are just changing the marketing and will still be serving the needs of video professionals as always. We're excited about the future of Post Haste so stay tuned for more announcements.