What's central to Media Center Plus is its ability to deal with just about anything--and lots of it. The software imports virtually all image, sound, and movie formats and presents them as thumbnail images (sound files have a generic thumbnail indicating their type). The strongest feature in the program is the ability to add comments and keywords to any thumbnail, then perform searches based on whatever text has been entered in these fields. Anyone who's had to sift through clip-art books looking for that one specific image can immediately see the value in this feature.

Other key features include the ability to convert any raster (bitmapped) image format supported into any other raster format, and to not only rename files, but also to do this and number them as batches.

Strangely, although Media Center Plus supports virtually every type of raster and most vector image formats, it doesn't support Adobe Illustrator files, nor does it handle QuickTime movies. The omission of these two formats is hard to overlook in light of their popularity among professional content creators for digital media.

Media Center Plus can still be a valuable asset to a digital artist though, especially if they are accumulating pictures with a digital camera or downloading images or sounds from the Internet. With its large thumbnails and ability to comment and search for files, it can certainly help you find your way through the labyrinth of media content on your hard drive. --Mike Caputo

Amazon.com Product Description
Media Center Plus is the powerful, easy-to-use organization and publishing solution. It's your one-stop shop for managing photographs and all your multimedia files, such as MP3, AVI, MPEG, and more. Plus you can publish to HTML and print.

Media Center Plus 3 gives you the control you need to make Web content and media management a snap.

If you buy the Anniversary Edition of "Paint Shop Pro" you also get Media Center and Animation workshop - this is the best buy of any Graphics package anywhere.


Most Artist needs to see visual mini-pictures of media files   February 12, 2002
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

Jasc Media Center is Excellent -

Media 3d-animator Artist like myself need software like media center to allow me and other artist in our studio to visually see hundreds of media pictures and textures. Without Jasc Media Center, you would have to open every individual media file just to remember what the texture or picture looks like. Just the same way an Artist uses a Paint Palette with swatches to paint. A Media artist needs to see textures, pictures in Jpeg, bump, html, tag, gif, etc.,. -- in front of them while creating graphic art. Jasc Media Center successfully searches and finds all graphic software and translates format to incorporate into Media center. I can now keep all my media files in one central server or directory and media center can visually organize them for everyone in my group see and use.


Virtually Useless Software...   February 7, 2002
 1 out of 2 found this review helpful

If you are a user who's hard drive is busting at the seams with pictures and clip art, you might want to take a look at this software. Using Media Center Plus, you will be able to organize your multimedia into collections for easy viewing. And you will also be able to create HTML pages of your pictures... Without the HTML pages, however, nobody without this software on their PC will be able to view your pictures, and the HTML pages are HUGE, so you will not be able to fit a lot of them on a limited server anyway.

For me (I have a medium sized collection), I have found it easier and more economical to organize my collections by folders, or even ZIP files. Basically accomplishes the same thing, don't pay a dime for the added functionality!

When I bought this software, I paid $.01 for it (because I bought it with Paint Shop Pro). That is what this software is worth to me. Does the job, but is it a job you really need done? And, is it really worth the money? I have found that the answer to both questions is NO.


Unneeded   November 29, 2001
I love Jasc to no end, its a little company making software with huge uses. However, this software really has no practicle use. This software pretty much catagorizes all of your media, your pictures, movies, avis, mpgs, waves, mp3s and so on. Other FREE software does the same thing! The only thing that separates this from the free software is the fact that it has a web slideshow function. It will automaticly export all of your files into a directory and create all of the HTML for you. Allowing for easy transition to the Internet. There are slideshow functions as well and it plays all of your waves, avis, mpgs and so on.


Unneeded   November 29, 2001
 1 out of 4 found this review helpful

I love Jasc to no end, its a little company making software with huge uses. However, this software really has no practicle use. This software pretty much catagorizes all of your media, your pictures, movies, avis, mpgs, waves, mp3s and so on. Other FREE software does the same thing! The only thing that separates this from the free software is the fact that it has a web slideshow function. It will automaticly export all of your files into a directory and create all of the HTML for you. Allowing for easy transition to the Internet. There are slideshow functions as well and it plays all of your waves, avis, mpgs and so on.