Avalanche compatible with iView MediaPro

iView MediaPro was, once upon a time, one of the leaders in its category–photos and video management–and was adopted by both amateur and professional photographers. Powerful import functions, total control over annotations (IPTC EXIF), multiple display modes, batch processing, powerful and intuitive search, and, finally, various exports were on the menu of features of this super cataloger. It was taken over by Microsoft, then sold to Phase One…then abandoned. Consequently, many existing iView MediaPro catalogs have remained frozen, never really migrated to avoid the risk of losing their structure or metadata in a poorly managed migration. “Since the first version of Avalanche, we have received multiple requests from our community to help them mirror their iView MediaPro catalog,” explains Claudia Zimmer, co-founder of CYME. “This request first came as a surprise, since iView MediaPro (like Apple’s Aperture) hasn’t been supported by their editors for a long time despite its extreme technical quality. “Our team has worked to preserve all of the distinctive annotations and organizational capabilities that made iView MediaPro so famous and effective. Transferring large iView MediaPro catalogs with complex organization including keywords, catalog sets, events, people, user-defined categories and metadata is now absolutely possible. “We are thrilled to make it possible for former iView MediaPro users to see their carefully archived photos in a new app, such as Luminar, Lightroom, or Capture One, running on the latest Apple hardware and software.” From version 1.5*, Avalanche adds the possibility of transferring the iView MediaPro Photos libraries to Adobe Lightroom, Luminar 4 or AI, and Capture One. *Or Version 1.2 for Avalanche for Capture One.