Corel MediaOne Plus Today, multimedia software publisher Corel released Corel MediaOne Plus--a brand-new software program designed to let you organize, edit, share, and create projects with your digital videos and photos. The software provides users with an all-in-one solution for managing their digital photos, all the real way from their cameras to finished projects like greeting cards or scrapbooks. It also lets users combine photos, videos, and music into what are called "shows," or video compilations. Silence [Romania].
The main MediaOnePlus interface involves a sizable viewing and editing area on the right, with four-pronged navigation on the left: Home provides the organizational features; Enhance includes basic image editing and effects; Show lets you incorporate photos, videos, and music into your own remixed creations; and Create offers a variety of photo products like collages, albums, and magazine covers. A photo-tray feature on the bottom of the interface lets you create on-the-fly media lists of images and videos for easy access and editing. linthepiratebay. The trays are located in a tabbed interface, and you will create as many sets of media as you'd like. You can also select multiple images or videos from any photo tray and add them to a "storyboard," the playlist component that creates the Corel Shows.
Blend images and video to create original Corel Shows. A variety of features let you share your images and projects with other users, by e-mail or via the Web. mediagetbusy. A free companion service called Sharpcast backs up your multimedia files online also. However, the free plan only offers 50MB of online storage, which appears like a drop in the bucket.
Correction: I erred yesterday in my analysis of the Sharpcast online-backup service. An early look at Firefox 5 on this page. The free plan provides unlimited storage for digital photos. After 30 days, photos shall be resized, but all are kept at print quality for sizes up to 5 x 7 inches.
The 50MB online-storage limit for the free Sharpcast plan is for multimedia files, not including photos. I apologize for the error. The most interesting facet about MediaOne Plus may be its history. helperdolphin here.
The new software is an updated version of Corel Snapfire actually, a free media-management application released by Corel in the fall of 2006 first. Gateway m6809m drivers. The company will no support Snapfire. While Corel has added a variety of new features to the software--including the ability to add background music to Corel Shows, nine new projects like certificates and greeting cards, and more image-editing options--the bulk of the interface is very similar to Snapfire. I'm not certain how long the Snapfire site will be available, but it's currently active and hosting the Snapfire installer. A better path to files read more. In an age when freeware like FastStone Image Viewer provides excellent image-management features, and sites like Flickr, Shutterfly, and Webshots (disclaimer: Webshots is a CNET affiliate) offer users a lot of free bandwidth for hosting images, will users pay $50 for a multimedia-management program, especially when the core functionality was only recently offered for free? I suppose the success of MediaOne Plus hinges greatly on that question.
Read the official review of the Corel MediaOne Plus trial version on CNET Download.com, or try out the free trial version, and write your own review. foalwishing.