Corel snaps off MediaOne Plus

Today corel MediaOne Plus, 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 incorporate photos, videos, and music into what are called "shows," or video compilations. The main MediaOnePlus interface contains a huge 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 combine 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 photographs and videos for easy access and editing. The trays are put in a tabbed interface, and you may create as many sets of media as you'd like. You can also select multiple photos or videos from any photography tray and add them to a "storyboard," the playlist component that creates the Corel Shows. Blend video and images to create original Corel Shows. A variety of features permit you to share your projects and photographs with other users, by e-mail or via the Web. A free companion service called Sharpcast also backs up your multimedia files online. However, the free plan only offers 50MB of online storage, which appears like a drop in the bucket. Correction: I erred yesterday in my evaluation of the Sharpcast online-backup service. 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.