iView MediaPro 3 (Win/Mac)

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iView MediaPro 3 (Win/Mac)

Manufacturer: Microsoft
Product Group: Software
Binding: CD-ROM
ASIN: B000BXFWP4
2005-11-01

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Product Description

MediaPro is a digital asset management and cataloging solution for photographers and other creative professionals. It enables you to create a customized, centralized and searchable repository through which you can manage a wide variety and high volume of digital files. MediaPro supports more than 100 different file formats including images, audio, video, fonts, illustrations, DTP, HTML and digital camera RAW files (including DNG, Nikon, Canon and Kodak). Pro photographers and other creative professionals using MediaPro can quickly and easily import, annotate, organize, archive, search and distribute their digital files, shortening time from capture to distribution, thereby saving time and lowering costs. Information management File & folder management Advanced slide shows & movie creation Color profile management Printing and PDF Maker Enhanced image editing Web page publishing Archive files & catalogs Streamlined Annotation Workflow Dynamic Import Visual Search Advanced Web Gallery Options XML (XSLT) Import & Export Powerful Organizational Tools: Capture Sets functionality Sub-folder Watching Extended thumbnail and preview support Show Labeled and Show Rated menu options Customize your catalogs System Requirements: Windows Pentium III 500MHz processor or equivalent Windows 2000 or XP 128 MB of RAM 30 MB of hard disk space for installation DirectX 9.0 or higher QuickTime 6.x Internet Explorer 5.5 (6.x) High color display adapter at 1024x768 resolution Macintosh PowerPC G3 or later (G4, G5 recommended) Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later 13 MB of hard disk space for installation QuickTime 6.4 or later Monitor set to Thousands or Millions

Customer Reviews:

MS ruined it.......2007-04-28

This was a great product until MS bought the company and started writing code for it. Now it crashes and freezes up. Finally i took it off of my computer as it messed that up. I switched to Adobe Lightroom.

iView Media Pro 3.......2007-04-04

Finally a product that solves my Digital Asset Photo management needs. I have tried three previous products w/o luck until this one.

iView to become Microsoft Expression Media.......2007-01-28

iView is a quick study. It does take some time to build a catalog, mostly because it generates or imports thumbnails of each image. Once that's done, you can view and catagorize the images with amazing speed. The "light table" function is especially helpful, since you can look at up to six images side-by-side in full-screen mode, zooming and panning all simultaneously or independently, it's your choice. The light table feature could use a right-click menu so that you could see a list of your pictures and, while still in light table mode, switch out pictures. As it is, you can only use the arrow keys to go to the next (or previous) photo. The slide show module does have such a menu. In slide show, however, you can't zoom or pan. A major strength of the slide show is the ability to play audio annotations. When you consider that iView handles .pdf documents and many common movie formats, a slide show with your audio annotations for each file makes for a very powerful presentation tool. To top it off, iView offers a free reader, so others can view your slide show (or catalog) without having to buy iView Media Pro. To top it all off, iView catalogs can be shared by network users. All-in-all, a very useful program.

Now, forget the name iView. Microsoft bought iView in 2006 and is rebranding it as Microsoft Expression Media. It will be part of a broader Microsoft Expression Studio of digital creation and editing programs. In Q2, 2007, the name iView will be dropped. It is available online (under both names) for $199. For that price, you get a free upgrade to Microsoft Expression Media when it is released, and the option to buy the whole Studio at a discount. Make sure your source makes the same upgrade offer.

It's going to be an interesting year in this field, as Adobe has a competing project, Lightroom, in the works, and there is also Extensis Portfolio. I'd check them all out to see which best suits you.

As for me, iView is the best fit.

Amazon sends opened software.......2007-01-12

I purchased iView MediaPro 3 from Amazon and found the first shipment had been opened, and probably used..I called to report this and Amazon said to return it.
I sent it back to find the next shipment to be also previously opened.
I finally gave up and just used the software anyway.
I does Not work in Intel based Macs.
It does work on my old G4.

A Photo management powerhouse !!!.......2006-11-10

I'm a longtime Mac user and for re-naming and archiving and cataloguing thousands of images iView Media Pro is the best, I really like the feature that let's you produce and publish on-line galleries of your images, without any code or html experience, using only a very simpe interface and you're ready to go.

For the full-time photographer or amateur, I highly recomend it.

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