Bonjour Jim,
My 2 centimes on the subject.
MC for MUSIC : Simple: it has replaced all the other software I was using, MC's the best for me.
MC for VIDEO : I use it for my (limited) collection of AVI files (mainly musical videos) and it's fine for me. The recent addition of frame capture to set thumbnails really helps a lot.
MC for PHOTOS: For several reasons already mentioned here that's the weakest point of MC. In no specific order here's what I find annoying with MC for photos :
- Interface was build for Music first, it is not adapted for photos. I've tried to delete fields like bitrate, duration, etc.. in a customized photo library without success.
- Date and time has to be given special attention for photos as it is one of the main library entry. In particular it should be flexible enough so that the user can select year, month, day, hour, etc.. to tag, organize or rename files.
- A better EXIF support is a requirement. Also a maybe limited IPTC support would be welcomed as it is the tagging standard for photos (used by Imatch, Photoshop, etc...)
- A larger file format support (Cannon RAW, Nikon NEF) would also be nice.
- The Camera support is also a bit weak. It should be able to directly support at least cameras from the major manufacturers (Nikon, Canon, Sony, Olympus, Pentax, Fuji...) through standard drivers. Also a file renaming while downloading feature would be nice (Check Breezesys download)
- Simple creativity Tools for photos are missing such as Printing, Contact Sheet, Web Pages creation, etc...
Jim, maybe we could start a thread in the
www.dpreview.com forums (PC Tools) and offer the folks there to evaluate MC as a Photo Album software. You'd certainly get some useful comments from the Digital Imaging enthusiast crowd.
Christian