iView Media Pro 2.0

by Global Marketing

Product Features

• A digital asset management tool specially designed for creative and media professionals
• Organize, view, annotate, print, backup, and repurpose media; automate workflow
• Create slide show presentations, movies, print multi-image reports, and web pages
• Supports up to 128 file formats, including popular image; audio/video; and more
• Converts files into a variety of formats; supports Apple Scripting

Product Details

Supplementary Guide [86kb PDF]

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Product Manual [3.58mb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000TA5ZQ
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 16, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,580 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

iView MediaPro is a digital asset management tool specially designed for creative and media professionals who need to organize, view, annotate, print, backup, and repurpose media, as well as automate their workflow.

You can use media in iView Media Pro catalogs to create slide show presentations, movies, print multi-image reports, web pages, and repurpose into one of several options, as well as calibrate them in order to enhance their color, brightness, or other visual characteristic. iView supports up to 128 file formats, including popular image; audio/video; and digital camera raw file formats. It also converts files into a variety of formats and supports Apple Scripting.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Versatile Cataloguing Program, January 3, 2004

By 

David Enzel (Chevy Chase, MD USA) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)    (REAL NAME)   

This review is from: iView Media Pro 2.0 (CD-ROM)

This program is like iPhoto on steroids. You can catalogue images and music etc. any way you like. You can set keywords, names, locations, dates etc. etc. and search quickly through your cataglogues to find what you want. You can also then print contact sheets, create slide shows and make basic HTML galleries. The software takes some learning but much of it is inuitive. The product manual is clear and easy to read and email support is quite prompt.

I am an amateur photographer and shoot Canon RAW images and iView Media Pro 2.0 handles them quickly and efficiently.

The program also alows you to do basic image editing if you don't want to take the photo into Photoshop or another image editing program. I mainly uses Photoshop but I have tried the red eye feature in iView Media Pro and it worked just fine.

In sum, there is a bit of a learning curve but it's not steep, iView is there to help and the effort is well worth it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb cataloging program for graphics of all types, July 1, 2010

By 

A. E. Siegman (STANFORD, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: iView Media Pro 2.0 (CD-ROM)

I've been using this image cataloging and managing app intensively on a near-daily basis for managing and organizing a large collection of graphics, photos, images and slides, and for assembling innumerable presentations out of this collection, from when it was version 1.0, back around a decade ago, and was called (I think) just iVIew, up to now (2010) when I'm still using version 3.1, the last one issued by the original vendor before they sold it to Microsoft around 2007 and Microsoft renamed it something like Presentation ???.

Without going into gory details, it's just a truly superb, excellently designed piece of software: I've always found it totally easy to use, with a very intuitive and excellently designed interface; yet I've never found anything I wanted to do using it that I couldn't easily figure out how to do -- and I've yet to encounter a glitch or bug in it.

As of 2010, Microsoft has re-sold it to a new owner; I'm watching and hoping they'll maintain all the great things about it, and add even better new details.

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bummer, March 7, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: iView Media Pro 2.0 (CD-ROM)

On paper, iview Media Pro 2.0.3 looks like the perfect image cataloging software, especially for those of us running OS 9.2. Its not cheap, but with what the software promised, it seemed like the way to go. Not.

Its buggy. Constant freezes. Slow. In continuous mode, mp3s can be played during slide show (great) but the slide show can't be turned off unless you force quit (which is accompanied by a freeze and a re-boot. Every time. In interactive mode, mp3s can't be played, although at least now one can exit the program.

I checked my system requirements. All OK (Carbon lib1.6 and Quicktime 6.0.3). I emailed tech support, Got a very quick reply asking if the above were installed. When I said yes, never heard anything back.

Bottom line. This software is not cheap. If it did what it promised, it would be worth the money. As is, it doesn't do that much more than the freeware that comes with most digital cameras.

In hindsight, I should have read the reviews at http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/5534. Not so good.

For those of you on OS X that are enjoying this software, my apologies. I writing this as a caution to those running OS 9. Its upsetting to pay this much for software only to learn it does only a fraction of what its advertised to do.

iview--shame on you.