By Dale Farris, Reviews Coordinator
Golden Triangle PC Club
August 2006

Program Overview

The Easiest Way to Manage and Share Multimedia

InterVideo MediaOne Gallery is the easiest way to manage and share your digital life with family & friends. The intuitive thumbnail library automatically organizes, updates, and sorts files for the most natural way to browse your multimedia collection. You’ll get a kick out of sharing music, video and photos with simple ways to create audio CDs, DVD movies, Web photo albums and so much more. MediaOne Gallery is the easiest multimedia management software and a must-have for every computer.

Auto-Organize Files with the Media Library

Automatically scans and organizes your digital media by date and folder name

Continually syncs the media library with your PC

Creates thumbnails for easy browsing

Intuitively sort all the files by file type, tag, and rating

Search & Find Files Fast

Enjoy powerful index searching with Google Desktop

Search & find all similar pictures with InterVideo’s SceneMatch 2

Download your favorite media and burn directly to disc

Easily share photos using Hello Instant Messenger

Easily search and find images with similar backgrounds just by just dragging & dropping files onto the search bar

Scene Match 2 has an enhanced recognition rate and can even search for similar video and audio clips!

Author, Burn, & Share Digital Media

One ease-to-use interface to connect all your devices

Seamless file sharing between your Digital Camera, DV Camera, Webcam and other devices

Easy sharing by creating slideshow CD/DVDs, DVDs, data discs, Web pages, and more

Key Features

Media Management
Watch as your media files organize themselves! There are no skills to learn and nothing that needs to be remembered. MediaOne Gallery automatically arranges available media into manageable sizes that grouped into intuitive categories. If intuitive is not enough, then the user can tag them in any way they like.

Internet Media Download
Not even the Internet can elude MediaOne Gallery’s media nose. Any website that can be browsed is sniffed for media content which is then made available for download at the user’s convenience. Of course, any files downloaded are automatically arranged with Media Management.

Device Management
With so many ways to explore the new multimedia millennium, device-dependant programs are just not good enough anymore. Mobile phones with cameras, web cams, digital TVs, USB HDs and MP3 players traditionally come with their own dedicated program. MediaOne Gallery neatly severs the need with the ability to read and import media from any device that plugs into a PC.

Burn CDs/DVDs Directly
User found their files? Of course they did! Now they can burn them as they see fit in an extraordinary number of ways. With MediaOne Gallery, create HighMAT, Enhanced, Mixed, Data, Music, MPV and Bootable Disks.

Google Desktop Search
The boffins at Google have come up with a beautiful utility that hides itself in the users desktop ready to produce files, documents, chat conversations, and in fact anything that every past the users’ eyes from the moment Desktop Search was installed. Google Desktop Search sneaks around the computer sniffing out data and cataloguing for later searches. After typing in a search query, the results of an internet search and a desktop search are presented together with the familiar Google search page. With this utility the user will never have to remember what’s on their hard disk again!

Virtual Drive
Back up disk images to hard disk, and then mount a virtual drive to use it as if it were an extra CD/DVD drive! Multiple virtual drives and can be mounted to play VCDs/DVDs, games and even store images of virtual media library files.

DVD Playback
Play DVD and movie files exactly the same as on a normal DVD player. Except, this one is not normal because there are options to chop up movies into manageable segments, set key frames, and copy sections to new files.

Disc Tools
Burn, erase and copy disks with simplicity and ease using the InterVideo familiar single screen wizard, in just three steps! Select the task, and then follow the instructions on screen to easily complete the task you wish to do.

System Requirements

Intel Celeron 800Mhz processor, P-4 1.6GHz recommended
Windows 2000, XP
128MB RAM, 256MB RAM recommended
150 MB free hard disk space
Windows compatible sound card that supports 48Khz playback (PCI recommended)
Windows compatible AGP or PCI graphic card (overlay support is recommended)
CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-RAM burning device

Targeted Customers

MediaOne Gallery is a smaller, faster, powerful and easy-to-use multimedia player which can play all kinds of multimedia files, such as video, audio, and graphics. It integrates the functions of picture viewer, music, video and VCD/DVD player with high quality. It takes up very small space in your hard disk and main memory, so this means that it can run on your computer more quickly and more steadily than other bulky players.

MediaOne Gallery certainly does not compete feature for feature with Adobe's Premiere Pro 2 nor Apple's Final Cut Pro, but instead it does very well what it has been designed to do. MediaOne Gallery is a superb entry level digital media solution that I suspect will meet the needs of most folks with an interest in burning, authoring, and sharing their digital media files. It is also much more reasonably priced than its more expensive counterparts, and it is a wise choice for bundling on so many new PCs.

MediaOne supports the playlist format *.m3u and can load, save, or remove the playlist as you wish. It supports the multimedia file format: *.ifo; *.asf; *.wma; *.wmv; *.avi; *.qt; *.mov; *.mpg; *.mpeg; *.m1v; *.dat; *.mp4; *.divx; *.wav; *.mpa; *.mp2; *.mp3; *.au; *.aif; *.aiff; *.snd; *.mid; *.midi; *.rmi; *.jpg; *.bmp; *.gif; *.tga; *.jpeg

Price

$49.95 MediaOne Gallery Gold
$69.95 MediaOne Gallery Platinum

About InterVideo

InterVideo is a leading provider of DVD software. InterVideo has developed a technology platform from which it has created a broad suite of integrated multimedia software products that allow users to capture, edit, author, burn, distribute, and play digital video. InterVideo's software is bundled with products sold by the majority of the leading PC OEMs. The company is headquartered in Fremont, CA with regional offices in Europe, Taiwan, China and Japan.

Contact Information

InterVideo
46430 Fremont Blvd.
Fremont, California 94538
510-651-0888
FAX 510-651-8808
www.intervideo.com

You can also order from other retailers or online vendors. Note also that InterVideo software is frequently bundled with many new PCs, so this software may already be loaded on your newly purchased PC.