yFlicks: the 'iPhoto for your movies' is 40% off at MacZOT today only

I've tried this too and the software is pretty crap to be honest. I thought the instant preview option would be a good one, but you can't set it to play from a set point in the film... this leads to mouse over previews of films becoming a page full of mouse over previews of the paramount and universal logos, which is, quite frankly, useless.

Smart groups cannot be customised in any way, you're stuck with their three default options (name contains, date added and rating).

And the thing that annoys me the most is that it is not able to "monitor" folders, files must be manually added from the finder.

Pretty much the only thing this software adds is thumbnail previews, if you don't care about that then you mayaswell use the finder.

One major feature missing (in the finder) is the option to set a "play count" like in iTunes for video files. In the finder i've got to manually add files to a folder entitled "Not Yet Watched" and then move them into my archive. I was hoping yFlicks would have an option for this but it does not.

I'll maybe check it out again once the feature list has improved, but i'm certainly not paying anything for should-be-freeware.

I tryed yFlicks and I found it very anoying since I couldn't add some movies to a folder (not smart)! And hovering a digital camara mpeg movie insted of previewing in the thumb, a frame from the movie apears in the original size behind the thumb... doesn't work for me...
And I must agreed with Scott, iVideo is quite buggy. Adding a new keyword and selecting it makes the app crash! :S

Anyone knows other options?

I partly agree with Trevor (#10): yFlicks isn't very helpful as long as it doesn't have tags or keywords. And its smart groups don't even work on all the fields--only on file name, date entered, and rating. It's more of a glorified video clip player right now, with potential if they'd just add a few more management features.
Where I disagree with Trevor is on using iVideo. While it has every feature I'd want, it's incredibly unstable and buggy, and hasn't been updated in nearly TWO YEARS. I'm not spending any time putting my collection in a product like that, which feels like an orphan to me.
So I'm hoping that the talented people at ManyTricks will add tagging to yFlicks and expand its organizing features.

Will this still be useful once Coverflow comes to Finder, in Leopard?

#11: You can import them like with most other Mac OS X apps; drag and drop movies on the Dock icon, onto the app window itself. You can even simply drop your entire Movies folder and see it show up in the Temporary Storage section, completely with folder hierarchies.

Don't forget to play around with the preferences under the yFlicks menu; there's a lot of control in there. There's also the 'Integrate with browser...' option that lets you install the bookmarklet for easy downloading of Flash movies from the communities yFlicks supports.

#9: Woops, sorry Brian. I forget to link MacZOT.com sometimes because we talk about it so much. Just head over there to see the daily sale, in which case today's is yFlicks. I've updated the post as well.

Ok, I got the program but how do I import my movies. There is no import function so I'm not sure if I just need to drag my file to the directory with finder or what.

#5: yFlicks adds library management, full screen viewing, auto-downloading from Flash community sites, live previews when mousing over thumbnails... a ton of stuff I already mentioned in the post. It can even rotate movies that were shot, for example, vertically with a digital camera; something I believe you can only do with QuickTime Pro, and even then, not nearly as easily as with yFlicks.

In short: The Finder organizes files. yFlicks organizes movies *and* lets you view, rate, sort, present and do much more.

Tried to order but no discount is listed and no discount code was mentioned in your article.

yFlicks looks nice, but I won't buy it because it's missing a big feature: keywords. I want to organize my movies using keywords (the way iPhoto can organize photos using keywords), but that's not possible with yFlicks. However, there's a similar app called iVideo that does support keywords:

http://www.waterfallsw.com/ivideo/