First off, great application! Many great features and very useful! I've read through the forum a bit and I really appreciate how responsive the developers are--replies to every post. You guys are definitely in touch with your user base and it shows.

A few suggestions for new features...ideas I came across during the first week of use. I'm sure you have some or all of these on a list somewhere already, but anyway...they're on my mind, too.

- would be nice if search included not just descriptions, but also event names.

- star/rating/emblem system for video clips for quick identification of good clips (this seems important for me since the export/convert process is so slow for AVCHD (12x)...makes sorting and finding good clips before export even more important)

- batch name change, batch "add-to-description" (example: for adding the name of photographer to all descriptions of selected clips) or description change.

- what might be nice is a dialogue similar to what you get when you look at the info for a song clip in itunes--with an option to change some well-thought-out categories such as "filmed by", "date", "location", "keywords", "description", etc. The dialogue may allow changes to one file, or a selection of files.

- show duration of clip in the main view, allow calculation of durations in the status bar when multiple items are selected.

- drag and drop from camera to import

- scrolling on filmstrip view with arrow keys

- "smart-scrolling" or "auto-scrolling" that remembers where you were last time you were in an event

- already imported items noted with something like a green circle with check mark

- estimate import time remaining

Anyone else like/dislike these ideas? Any of them already present that I missed? Thanks for a great product that obviously is improving rapidly!

Flamingo new features

Hi Dave,

thanks for the suggestions. We have FlamingoHD 1.5 at the end of development right now and will have 2.0 out be XMas.

From your suggestions, here is what we have planned:
- Search: will include Album names (to be tested) in 1.5. Will cover tags and metadata in 2.0
- Ratings (1 to 5) and Flags (on/off) coming in 2.0
- Idea of metadata templates is in the mix for 2.0. This would allow the setup of a template to be applied to a number of Content items
- Drag and drop Import will be in 2.0

We will publish our 1.5 feature list and 2.0 roadmap shortly. We are wrapping up the last stages of version 1.5 development now.

Thanks for the input. We'll review your suggestions that are not yet in our feature list with the development team.