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- 8/2/98 iView Multimedia 3.2 Press Release
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- The Multimedia Experiencer and Organizer for the Mac
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- Catalog, archive, play and display all kinds of multimedia.
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- Now with version 3.2 iView Multimedia is the only program
- to offer PageMaker, Painter, and Live Picture users the ability
- to import, display and catalog all their files. This is the
- first and only program to offer this useful ability. Already
- iView Multimedia supports Canvas, Freehand, Quark, Illustrator,
- gif, jpg, tiff, PICT, GX, BMP, Targa, EPS, and dozens of
- other formats. It can also:
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- Play animations Display fonts Export movies
- Play movies Play sounds Export HTML
- Play quicktime VR Play karaoke Export images
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- Photographers, VRgraphers, galleries and museums can all use
- it to create a web site of their entire collections.
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- Download it free from: www.scriptsoftware.com
- System 8 compatible. Uses Apple's Amazing Quicktime 3
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- Who Its For
- Everyone who needs to track multimedia files. Anyone with
- a digital camera will find iView Multimedia essential but
- it is also designed for newspapers, DTP pros, photographers,
- publishing professionals, scientists, educators, students,
- doctors, cinematographers, cartoonists, illustrators, cd
- producers, real estate agents, technologists, magazine
- designers, multimedia producers, web publishers,
- consultants, database developers, designers, musicians,
- sound pro’s, singers, artists, and complete and total
- beginners. iView Multimedia is for anyone who wants to
- find and immediately use a multimedia file.
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- What It Does
- iView Multimedia provides the easiest and most powerful
- way to view and organize all the media on your Mac OS
- computer(s). iView Multimedia is a tool to help you to do
- less and accomplish more. It lets the professional focus
- on their creative work and not on learning a new piece of
- software. If you are tired of searching mountains of
- disks and CD's trying to unearth that special photo, QTVR
- or clip art it is time to try something that instantly
- saves you and your business time and energy.
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- iView can act as your digital image database, your karaoke
- jukebox, your sound library, your scrapbook of clip art,
- your PhotoShop organizer, your movie database, your font
- collection, your quicktimeVR gallery, your animation
- museum, your Illustrator archive, your Freehand album
- and now your Canvas and Quark or PageMaker portfolio.
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- iView Multimedia is a new type of application one that was
- created from the ground up to provide ease of use and power
- while working with all kinds of multimedia files. It combines:
- - a well researched, clear and simple interface,
- - a small application footprint,
- - background processing,
- - tight integration with the most popular media editing
- applications, html authoring systems, web browsers, and
- word processors,
- - minimal use of your desktop space, as most of its
- functions can be accomplished within a single window
- - uses very little disk space to catalog media files.
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- Underneath the simplicity of the interface lies a powerful
- multimedia engine that will let you:
- - import most popular MacOS/PC/SGI Web media formats,
- - instant playback (Movies, QTVR, animation, sound) in any view,
- - with four full featured, easily customizable views of
- your media that use natural methods of organizing your
- media, both within iView's window and the finder
- - fast access to media both inside your computer and
- from the internet.
- - export batch processing (movie making, html gallery building, etc..)
- - batch process adding of ANPA annotation info to files
- - batch name change (very handy for digital cameras)
- - printing of reports, images and thumbnail posters.
- - slide shows with movies, sound and images
- - highest quality color and sound.
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- Catalogs can be searched and saved on your hard disk. A
- catalog can also display/print thumbnail images from volumes
- that may not be mounted. iView will let you view the
- images and prompt you to insert the volume to retrieve an
- image when needed. These catalogs can be emailed to others
- for viewing with or without the original media.
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- IMPORTANT: CD ROM publishers, photographers and others
- can burn iView Multimedia on their CD's and include it
- with their catalogs royalty free. Digital camera manufacturers
- are also welcome to include iView Multimedia free with their
- cameras.
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- iView Multimedia makes extensive use of drag and drop
- which makes it a pleasure to use with the finder,
- Photoshop and many other applications. In fact, everything
- about iView is designed to be simple, useful and
- intuitive. iView eliminates tedious repetitive work and
- increases your ability to get the job done. It makes image
- reuse and playback quick and easy. Now individuals as well
- as publishers, designers, pre-press operators and
- multi-media programmers will never have to search through
- stacks of Zip/Jaz/SyQuest back-ups for files ever again.
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- iView Multimedia costs $25 and upgrades (which come about
- every two months) are free. iViewXT which allows iView
- Multimedia to read and catalog Quark files is $48. Site
- Licenses are available. We also can tailor/program iView
- Multimedia for special projects. Please contact us for details.
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- What People Say About iView
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- I've always preferred bits to atoms. But my Mac started
- looking like my photo shoebox - stuff everywhere. I don't
- need overkill. I simply need an easy-to-use, powerful,
- "shoebox" organizer for my photorealistic renderings,
- hi-res textures, and even digital photos of my family
- vacation. iView Multimedia is my solution.
- Rand Miller
- Co-creator of MYST and RIVEN
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- I'm a freelance cartoonist. My work appears in
- advertising, design, magazines, books etc. When I
- discovered iView Multimedia, I told a fellow cartoonist
- about it and, despite his already owning a market leading
- commercial package, he immediately registered iView
- because it impressed him so much. We both think that Yan
- and Julian have created a strong and attractive design,
- and we like the simplicity and ease of use of the
- programme. Your publicity should stress the amazing
- quality of the printed thumbnail catalogues - a factor
- that would certainly be a major selling point to
- professionals in my industry. In fact, having looked at
- various similar programmes, including some of the market
- leaders, I am convinced that the print quality of your
- catalogues is the best I have seen.
- Martin Shovel
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- Just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy IView
- Multimedia. It's been a tremendous help in organizing the
- thousands of digital photos taken at all of the 1997
- Oakland Raiders games. Great job.
- Rick Tracewell
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- In my work as a digital illustrator and programmer, I find
- it particularly useful, while working on the next image,
- to keep an iView Multimedia document that displays thumbnail
- pics of the rest open on the other monitor. It's so easy to
- inspect the full-size image without having to open
- another window in an image editor. It's evident that you
- guys are impressively creative software developers! Keep
- up the good work.
- Tereza Snyder
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- I've just downloaded your shareware 'iView Multimedia' and
- it is great! You have done a great job with this program. I had
- been looking for a graphic organizer/database for about 5
- months and last night decided to scan the shareware
- goodies at shareware.com where I came across it. Living in
- Malaysia (originally from Louisiana and have been here for
- 9 years) it is very hard and sometimes next to impossible
- to find Mac support and software. I usually have to swing
- down to Singapore to shop for the Mac goodies. You've
- saved me a trip!
- Brian Doucet
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- Thanks for iView Multimedia is absolutely the greatest
- viewing and cataloging app I have ever used. I couldn't be
- happier with it and your support. A brilliant piece of
- work. I use it daily.
- Many, Many Thanks
- Conrad Koerper
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- Thank You, Thank You, Thank you ! I'm a student, an
- independent product reviewer, and starting my own
- business, so the time and work your program will save has
- taken a big weight off my shoulders. I have a multimedia
- presentation to produce for some big companys and have
- looked at several works promising much, but comming up
- short. Your appeal to the public for input and to
- improving a great product is all to rare. This attention
- to your customer needs will insure your success. Your
- site, and method of doing business is very refreshing. If
- I do review your products in the future I'll contact you.
- As for iView Multimedia, a (10) with 5 mice. Thanks Again.
- Mike Nikolin
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- iView is the BEST (I've tried them all) keep up the improvements.
- Ronald Sager
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- iView Multimedia is amazing--what a tremendous help
- to a graphic artist. How do you get it to go so fast?!
- Jane Prince Smith
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- iView Multimedia is absolutely brilliant! Lots of praise
- at the price and the quality of the product.
- Colin Smedley
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- I love it!
- Greg Coy
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- This site did a review of 5 image databases:
- http://www.commtechlab.msu.edu/humans/taitkyle/media/
- iView received the top rating of 5 stars.
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- iView is in the 3rd party support for Quicktime on Apple's Site
- http://www.apple.com/quicktime/preview/info/news/3rdparty.htm
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- Additions in 3.2
- - Instant opening of catalogs.
- - Much improved preview rendering, by sharpening color previews.
- - Support for apple's navigation services (requires 'allegro' system 8.5 or
- system 7.5.5+ with "Navigation" library)
- - Added support for PageMaker + Live Picture FITS + Painter previews
- - Catalog Info was replaced by "Set Password" & "Count Totals" (scratch +
- media size counters)
- - Stretch to fit frame option on movie export
- - Added pathnames in text export
- - Added volume selective search on "find missing items..."
- - Password font encrypted
- - Added more fields in printouts
- - Added option to disable loading/rendering of large images (>5MB).
- - Import preview size is now based on selection on main window
- - Added "Alias" drag flavor
- - Added set of fast move commands for marked files.
- - zoom/unzoom keys (command +/-)
- - html export changes:
- output files types changed to htm with browser creator
- added support for embedded movies
- added launch option
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- Bug fixes in 3.2
- - Fixed problem with PC file extensions
- - Fixed import problem on pre8 systems when dropping long finder lists of
- files
- - Fixed import problem with corrupt fonts
- - Fixed problem when marking files in slide show
- - Fixed possibly corruption of catalogs when deleting files.
- - Fixed minor problems in filter dialog
- - Fixed slide show problem with floating palettes from 3rd party apps.
- - Fixed occasional problem with mpeg(movie) playback (preroll - iceflow
- #13)
- - Font Importer fix: ignore empty suitcases
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