He developed the software to manage the scan, translation subtitles and voice recordings he juggled in his day job producing multimedia CD-ROMs (remember those?). Turns out this is just the tip of the iceberg, but that is where you plant the flag.īased in London, iView Multimedia ( ) was founded in 1996 by Yan Calotychos. And all without keywording, since the Player, like MediaPro, can search on the original image's path name - and our path names always include the date and a descriptive slug. The competent Player also let her search for Thanksgiving images or Scrapbook pictures or any Exif field she might have wanted (like the capture date). The nice thing was that we just had to burn a CD with our 64-MB catalog and the free iView Catalog Player (for Mac or Windows, or both) to share this treasure. 'I forgot we had some of these,' she confessed. What she especially liked was being able to scan through legible thumbnails of every one of our images not on film. In the midst of our review of MediaPro, iView Multimedia's asset manager (and a little bit more), we asked our better half Joyce to take a look at a catalog of over 12,200 images we've collected since 1993 in PhotoCD and JPEG formats. The Imaging Resource Digital Photography Newsletter NOT TOO SHABBY FOR US, EITHER iView MediaPro - What the Pros Use By MIKE PASINI
