NeoFinder 8.8

What's new in this version:

New and updated features:
- Copy some metadata: Specify precisely the metadata fields you wish to transfer to other items, including XMP, EXIF GPS, Capture Date, Annotations, and more
- Catalog thumbnails out of the latest Pixelmator PRO files (.pxd)
- Catalog metadata out of OGG (Vorbis) audio files
- Catalog metadata out of AMR (Apple Message Recording) audio files
- Elegantly designed and streamlined web gallery template: "Lucid with slideshow"
- Catalog BRAW video files of the newest BlackMagic cameras
- Movie Converter: Specify the frames per second (FPS) of the resulting video file
- Movie Converter: Converts FLV and WEBM video files
- Preserve the sort order and sorting direction for each Album
- Icon View: Preserves previous selections and provides an "Undo" for the last selections
- Catalog the extra PDF keywords, title, and author information
- Contextual menu in the Controlled Vocabulary window includes a search command to locate all items using the keyword in its non-hierarchical form
- Controlled Vocabulary window remembers all "opened" hierarchical keywords for subsequent NeoFinder launches
- Create Movie Contact Sheets of multiple selected files directly from the Finder, utilizing the contextual "Services" menu
- XMP "sidecar" files containing information about the media files they belong to are now correctly assigned during cataloging, renaming, and exporting
- Audio Converter converts raw ".aac" audio files
- Catalogs special Sony video metadata written by the latest camera firmwares in MXF files
- Export as Web Gallery works for multiple selected folders or Catalogs
- Support for the "AV1" open video codec ("AOMedia Video 1")
- Displays video chapter titles in the Inspector with a nicely formatted time stamp
- Displays a confirmation dialog when attempting to open more than nine files in the Finder, allowing users to cancel
- Supports GPS GeoTags written into MOV video files by the ProCamera.app on iOS
- Enables users to write album memberships into media files through the contextual menu of an Album or a file
- Adds the volume name to the result when copying the path name of an offline item using the contextual menu
- Utilizes the latest version of EXIFTool
- Works around multiple QuickLook bugs of macOS 15 "Sequoia" when cataloging custom icons of folders
- Help menu has the option to search for menu commands
- Improves compatibility with ffmpeg versions installed by Homebrew on Apple ARM "Silicon"

Fixed:
- Writing metadata into HEIC files created by iOS 18.x on Apple iPhone PRO and MAX models is much faster now
- Fixes a problem when writing the EXIF Capture Date into a file has failed
- Improves behavior of the QuickEdit panel for file types only supporting certain metadata fields
- Updated several macOS API uses to newer recommended functions
- Fixes a problem reading GPS GeoTags embedded in HEIC files written by iOS 18.1 and newer
- Fixes a problem where some metadata changes weren't immediately written to the Catalog file
- Improves behavior and error message when trying to create a video contact sheet of a file format that NeoFinder not yet supports
- Exporting a very large Catalog into text format uses a lot less memory
- Improves synchronization of the controlled vocabulary keyword list in a shared database folder
- Fixes a problem showing incorrect creation dates for items inside of ZIP archives
- Fixes a problem with the path display in the Photo Exporter in Dark Mode
- Fixes a couple of memory leaks
- Works around a brand new bug of macOS 15.2 where scaling an image with an alpha channel sometimes added a black background
- Addresses numerous minor issues
- NeoFinder 8.8 requires Mac OS X 10.14 "Mojave" or newer, including macOS 15 "Sequoia", Intel or Apple ARM M1, M2, M3, or M4