Digital Photographer's Software Guide - Bertemes - Net

Version: N/A (2008)
OS: Windows XP and Vista; Mac OS X 10.4.6 or higher
RAM: 512MB (more recommended)
Supported file formats: Major image, sound, and video formats; PDF, Illustrator, Photoshop,
InDesign, Word, PowerPoint, and QuarkXPress formats
Price level: Standard $2,400, Pro $8,000, Web $12,000
Address: FotoWare a.s, Holbergsgt.21, N-0166 Oslo, Norway
www.fotoware.com
MediaDex
Vendor: Digital River
Purpose: Catalogs, organizes, finds, and shares digital media files
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Description
MediaDex is a digital asset management tool for creative professionals and serious amateurs.
It lets you catalog, organize, find, and share digital assets such as images, layouts,
multimedia, video, audio, and text.
MediaDex is a particularly powerful solution for photographers, with support for RAW
files, Exif, IPTC, and XMP metadata formats, as well as professional ICC-approved
Image Color Management (ICM). Cataloging is assisted by a drag-and-drop option,
with bulk cataloging supported. There is no limit to the number of files you can archive.
MediaDex creates a record for each cataloged digital file and provides a readout of the
information associated with it. Search facilities allow you to search by keyword or any
other metadata information. For sharing images, MediaDex has custom slide show creation,
WebAlbum publishing, and customizable printing layouts.
MediaDex includes Pixel Image Converter, a feature that allows you to convert any cataloged
image, on-the-fly, into any of these formats: JPEG, TIFF, BMP, ScitexCT, PNG,
PCX, and PDF.
Comments
Based on Canto’s Cumulus Single User product, acquired from Canto in 2005,
MediaDex can create catalogs as large as 4GB in size. It is still recommended by Canto,
but may have suffered by no longer enjoying the same brand name.
MediaDex 2.0 added new image pre-processing tools, enabling conversion of files
on-the-fly into a different color space or file format. With this release, the maximum
catalog size went up to 4GB. However, anyone upgrading from an earlier version would
need to spend a lot of time transferring files from one system to another in order to
benefit from the new features. Hopefully, this can be avoided in future upgrades.