Description:
If you are spending too much time categorizing, sorting, and searching for that one particular image or sound buried somewhere in that maze of directories on your hard drive, Jasc's Media Center Plus might be just the tool you need to help you see your way clear. What's central to Media Center Plus is its ability to deal with just about anything--and lots of it. The software imports virtually all image, sound, and movie formats and presents them as thumbnail images (sound files have a generic thumbnail indicating their type). The strongest feature in the program is the ability to add comments and keywords to any thumbnail, then perform searches based on whatever text has been entered in these fields. Anyone who's had to sift through clip-art books looking for that one specific image can immediately see the value in this feature. Other key features include the ability to convert any raster (bitmapped) image format supported into any other raster format, and to not only rename files, but also to do this and number them as batches. Strangely, although Media Center Plus supports virtually every type of raster and most vector image formats, it doesn't support Adobe Illustrator files, nor does it handle QuickTime movies. The omission of these two formats is hard to overlook in light of their popularity among professional content creators for digital media. Media Center Plus can still be a valuable asset to a digital artist though, especially if they are accumulating pictures with a digital camera or downloading images or sounds from the Internet. With its large thumbnails and ability to comment and search for files, it can certainly help you find your way through the labyrinth of media content on your hard drive. --Mike Caputo
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