Microsoft Expression Media 2 Mac/Win

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Product Features

• Wherever your files are stored and whomever you collaborate with, Expression Media 2 supercharges the way you organize, find and share your digital media on your computer, offline or on the web
• Make digital asset management easy--just drag and drop to import more than 100 different media formats, including digital camera RAW files
• Support for RAW formats from the most popular cameras and industry-standard metadata formats means your metadata is already there; keep keywords consistent with custom dictionaries
• Take care of basic image editing tasks like rotating, cropping, and resizing from right inside Expression Media 2; color management profiles are preserved throughout, or you can quickly adjust levels, sharpness, brightness or color balance yourself
• Publish and distribute media with cross-platform slide shows, video, and interactive Silverlight-powered Web galleries, or quickly export media into multiple formats for delivery to your client

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0013ITQAS
• Item model number: 45527G
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 5, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,973 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

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With support for more than 100 media formats, Microsoft Expression Media 2 makes managing your digital universe a snap. Wherever your files are stored and whomever you collaborate with, Expression Media 2 supercharges the way you organize, find and share your digital media on your computer, offline or on the web.

Store your files anywhere: shared folders, CDs, hard drives, or DVDs, and use integrated search tools to can find them in seconds.

Add, edit, or export metadata in IPTC, XMP, or Dublin Core formats to make sharing easier. Metatags are automatically updated from Adobe Photoshop edits.

Geotag your images to an actual location anywhere on Earth with Virtual Earth GPS mapping.

Manage Your Digital Universe

Effortless Organization
Make digital asset management easy with Expression Media 2--just drag and drop to import more than 100 different media formats, including digital camera RAW files. Store your files anywhere: shared folders, CDs, hard drives, or DVDs, and use integrated search tools to can find them in seconds.

Seamless Workflow Integration
Stick with the workflow that works for you and Expression Media 2 will fill in the gaps. Support for RAW formats from the most popular cameras and industry-standard metadata formats means that your metadata is already there. Keep keywords consistent with custom dictionaries--just drag and drop to quickly tag thousands of files.

Image Editing
Save time by taking care of basic image editing tasks like rotating, cropping, and resizing from right inside Expression Media 2. Color management profiles are preserved throughout, or you can quickly adjust levels, sharpness, brightness or color balance yourself.

Professional Presentations and Delivery
Sharing is what it's all about. Publish and distribute media with cross-platform slide shows, video, and interactive Silverlight-powered Web galleries, or quickly export media into multiple formats for delivery to your client. Even upload your photos to popular photo sharing sites, or stock photography agencies.

Effortless organization

• Add up to 128,000 files per catalog, with support for over 120 file formats.
• Find files across all hard drives, CDs, or media cards, and save popular searches to use again later.
• Search, browse, or annotate catalogs even when the original assets are offline. Your changes will be synchronized later.
• Geotag your images to an actual location anywhere on Earth with Virtual Earth GPS mapping.

Seamless workflow integration

• Import RAW format files from most camera manufacturers using Windows Imaging Component (Windows) and Core Image processing (Mac OS).
• Add, edit, or export metadata in IPTC, XMP, or Dublin Core formats to make sharing easier. Metatags are automatically updated from Adobe Photoshop edits.
• Add tags and keywords in seconds using drag-and-drop tagging. Custom keyword dictionaries keep tags consistent throughout your workgroup.
• Rename, resize, or reformat hundreds of files at a time with batch-processing and scripting features.
• Share your catalogs with others on your network or by email. New shared catalog support enables multiple users to work with the same catalog.

Image and video editing

• Quickly rotate, resize, or crop your photos or adjust color balance, sharpness, or brightness.
• Preserve existing ICC color profiles for JPEG, TIFF, PICT, and Adobe Photoshop documents or assign new profiles to multiple images based on their color space.
• Browse and annotate video in MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media¨ Video, or DV. Add watermarks or logo keys to brand your content.

Professional presentations and delivery

• Banish static HTML galleries to the past by using our new Silverlight-based web galleries to present your images dynamically and interactively.
• Use the included customizable presentation templates to easily create Web galleries or hard-copy layouts.
• Export and repurpose assets for clients and colleagues in whatever format, size, or resolution needed while preserving originals.

Product Description

Microsoft Expression Media 2 Mac/Win English DVD is a professional asset management tool to visually catalog and organize all your digital assets for effortless retrieval and presentation---just drag and drop to import more than 100 different media formats, including digital RAW files. Even when your originals are offline, Expression Media's visual catalogs allow you to browse, search, and annotate your assets.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars used to be great, now buggy, September 13, 2009

By	L. Wiehen (los angeles) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I used this app many years as iView but since MS bought them, the product is quite buggy. Even features that used to work fine are a problem, I still have a problem when flipping through full size images that one will show up half resolution - blurry and jpeggy, i can step back one image then try again and sometimes it loads properly the first time, sometimes the third. You can imagine how fun that is if every 5th image needs reloading.

My wife now hates this app so i switched back to iphoto which I also don't love.

macbook pro

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is a great app, November 24, 2009

By	G. Cookman "Photo guy" (New England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I started with iView Pro so I have only been using the Microsoft Expression Media version for a little while. I have not had any problems with it. The product does not seem to have changed much. The biggest negative I an find with the Microsoft version is that they have eliminated the hard copy user guide. My Original iView Pro booklet is dog-eared and still is tremendously helpul when I get into areas I have not used before, so if you can find an iViewPro manual, get it.

I bought this product (then called iView Pro) as a result of seeing a professional photographer endorse it on his website. It does favor people who think in a structured manner, but it is a tremendous indexing tool and great central repository. The editing is not terribly powerful but good for a beginner. If you do edit images, make sure there is an untouched back-up somewhere. That is why Lightroom is a much better tool for editing as it never overwrites the image on disk.

It appears that Adobe liked the indexing capabilities of Expression Media because they have incorporated almost all of the same indexing features in Adobe Lightroonm - but implemented in a different way that I do not like as well as Expression Media. That might prompt a question: "Then, why not just buy Lightroom?". There could be an excellent argument for that; however,I have elected to use Expression Media as the entry point for ALL of my images and recordings (which Lightroom does not handle). I keep the originals on one hard drive, and the Adobe Lightroom databases on a separate hard drive. I do not process all of my media at once so the ones I pull into Lightroom are more project related. It is possible to embed some of the indexing information from Expression Media in the image so that it is available for searching in Lightroom.

Expressoin Media has a nice facility for printing contact sheets as well as full pictures (as does Lightroom). You can also print the index information which lightroom does not do. It works well for printing a catalogue based on a selection criteria for media.

There are very simple ways of looking at photographs on a dark background and to compare several images. Lightroom does this as well, but if you are deciding which one(s) you want to send to Lightroom, this is an extremely helpful feature.

There is a runtime version of the product (well...there use to be), so you can create a catalog of pictures pulled from the main catalog, and send them to someone to let them tell you which ones they would like printed. If you create a slide show with music on Lightroom, and convert it to a PDF, the music is lost. Expression Media will create a show that is distributable including the music or other audio.

Both products allow the creation of multiple databases which can be confusing. I have just one Espression Media database (until it fills up - I think there is a limit) and use it to index and locate images and recordings, then I have multiple Lightroom databases for different projects. Expression Media does have some new features that I have not investigated yet.

I am about to pourchase a 2nd copy for my laptop. I will start on the laptop and move images to my desktop for further processing as needed. I really believe you cannot go wrong with this product unless you are organizationlly challenged in which case you probably have a closet full of film negatives you can't ever find anyway so save your money and just dump your images into My_pictures (I would suggest into folders named by YYYY-MM-DD so you have the posssibility of finding them again ;>)