We’ve been testing KeyFlow Pro at Newsshooter recently. This budget-friendly OSX asset management system is aimed at solo users and smaller collabrative groups, costing much less than other high-end solutions. We haven’t finished our review yet, but in the meantime developer Malgn Technology Co. has just updated it to version 1.2, which is free to existing users.
The software builds and maintains a library of all your video and audio projects and can cope with different codecs, file types and, crucially, storage locations – so you can build a single catalogue of all your work that’s tagged and findable six months later when your client suddenly wants a re-edit.
The latest version of the software adds some useful features including JKL shortcut keys for the built-in video player, improved support for timecode and tweaks to the software’s proxy encoder.
We’ll be reviewing KeyFlow Pro here in due course but if you can’t wait to try it for yourself it’s available on the Mac app store now for $299 US. There’s also a 30-day trial version that you can download from the KeyFlow Pro website.
Here’s a full list of the 1.2 version updates from the KeyFlow team:
– Support for FCPXML interworking
– Added ‘Send to Final Cut Pro X’ option in the contextual menu
– Improves Video Player
– Support for Timecode and Frame number
– Current Playback Status Overlay (e.g. Play, Pause and 2x)
– Support for J-K-L shortcut keys for playback control (up to 16x normal speed)
– Support for frame by frame control
– Added Timecode Viewer (Ctrl+T)
– Improves Audio Player
– Support for Album Artwork
– Improves Low-Res Video for Preview
– Insert Timecode Track (If source video has a timecode track)
– Downmix Multichannel Audio
– Improves Hi-Res Video Encoding
– Support for All types of ProRes Codec using AVFoundation (except ProRes 4444 XQ)
– Improves Encoder settings
– Added Video and Audio Bitrate options
– Redesigned KeyFlow Pro Library icon (It will be applied to a newly created library)
– Various bug fixes and improvements
To get a good idea of what KeyFlow Pro is capable of check out the Matt Geller video below from LACPUG:
