Is It Me
Or does it feel like Media Pro is being left to wither on the vine by PhaseOne just like Microsoft did with it ?
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Hi Paul:
I share the same disappointment. When iView went to Microsoft, I did not expect anything good, but I was actually pleased and excited when the news came out that PhaseOne bought it. At least PhaseOne is a serious software supplier for digital photography, so I thought they would invest into the innovation that the product needs to be competitive again. I still think that iView (on the Mac) is a great product. It is flexible and powerful and fast and has the features that I wanted in 2005, when I bought it. However, technology moved on and I think without GPS support, face detection and features like this, the product will not be successful. Which would be sad, because the basis is just great.
Just my thoughts...
Hal.0 -
[quote="Paul Silk" wrote:
Or does it feel like Media Pro is being left to wither on the vine by PhaseOne just like Microsoft did with it ?
It is not just you. I have been saying this, and feeling this for some time. Media Pro was first introduced as the complete db for CO users, with full integration. I bought it because of the initial promises. They redid their website within weeks, dumbing down the promises, and they still haven't delivered yet.
All the effort seems to be into CO, with the objective to "be like Lightroom". A bad mistake, imo.
The promise is there, but I don't think the effort is.0 -
(sorry if i don't speak english very well : i'm french 😉 )
As a user of IVMP and EM, I looked forward to the changes promised by about Phase One Media Pro ...
I tested early Media Pro, but I expect major changes before moving to Phase One ... I get lots of ads from Phase One, but never one about Media Pro?
As French user, I also expect a manual in my language, but it is not on the agenda ...
I am sad to see the fate of this wonderful tool that was IVMP ...
If like me, you plan to migrate to other tools, do not hesitate to offer them on this thread. Maybe it will alert the Phase One team ...0 -
Same feeling, even disappointment, yet it does not lack much to MediaPro perfect: close bugs (batch input metadata), GPS location (among others) ... 0 -
im very disapointed in the way Phase1 is handling MP. It is being ignored and will someday be absorbed into their camera software.
Media Pro is dead in the water....0 -
[quote="Sylvain M." wrote:
If like me, you plan to migrate to other tools, do not hesitate to offer them on this thread. Maybe it will alert the Phase One team ...
I started with DAM using iViewMediaPro, then ExpressionMedia, then PhaseOneMediaPro... Unfortunately, PhaseOne is clearly not able to improve MP. I wrote (in an other post) how long it is to simply modify several metadata into MP according to official IPTC documentation. I don't use MP anymore, but when I quited nothing was done. And now ? Just try to use "Event" tag and tell me please...
No matter for me : I switched for IDimager Supreme and I tried also Daminion. Both work fine, except some bugs because nothing's perfect, but the difference is that Supreme and Daminion teams work hard to improve the products. Any suggestion, bug and/or improvement can be done via the dedicated forums. And it is efficient.
Sylvain, try Supreme or Daminion, sure you'll be surprised. And they are both in french.0 -
[quote="Le_Lion_07" wrote:
.... I switched for IDimager Supreme and I tried also Daminion. B...
How well does IDimager work with CO in sessions mode?
I want to be able to select a raw photo in my DAM, and then open it in a CO Session.
Thanks.0 -
[quote="Jim MSP" wrote:
How well does IDimager work with CO in sessions mode?
I want to be able to select a raw photo in my DAM, and then open it in a CO Session.
Well, I can't answer for CO specially, but PSU (= IDimager Supreme) allows users to define any photo application to be opened directly from it. For instance, I can open a photo in PS CS7, PhotoME, XnView, etc. just by clicking on each icon (up right on the screen).
Hope it can help.0 -
I have tried IDimager this afternoon with CO in a session.
It will have CO open a selected file, but it also has CO open all of the files within the same folder.
This isn't what I want; so I will have to play with it a bit more.
I still like the MP ability to open just a subset of the photos by sticking them in a session folder called "not in catalog set" , which is a time saver if the original folder has many photos.0 -
Not just you!
I just loaded over 1800 images into my catalog. Many images had a black border, some did not. I raised a support case and have been told that it is due to the Phase One rendering option using Capture One rendering and how it relates to lens correction for some lenses. This was the comment I received ...
"In Capture One we recently added an option to disable automatic lense corrections, however we have not yet implemented the same feature in Media Pro. (and it is not clear that we have plans to implement the feature at this time)"
Clear evidence then that not much effort is going into Media Pro.
Has anyone else experienced the black bordered thumbnail and preview images? If so, is there a solution? Can I go back a release to Media Pro 1.3 to solve this?
WHY OH WHY OH WHY cant we just have a simple powerful catalog software that does everything simply and quickly like iView Multimedia used to do. I have watched in dismay as each release of Expression Media was messed up by Microsoft. Now the same sorry state of affairs seems to be happening and I am loosing all trust in Phase One.
Phase One please help!0 -
[quote="richardmccaig" wrote:
Not just you!
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"In Capture One we recently added an option to disable automatic lense corrections, however we have not yet implemented the same feature in Media Pro. (and it is not clear that we have plans to implement the feature at this time)"
Clear evidence then that not much effort is going into Media Pro.
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This confirms most of our feelings; as does the absence of anyone from Phase One.0 -
It is not only you Jim.
I am still monitoring MediaPro, but there is no real progress in features and stability visible. That is why is switched first to Idimager (product terminated last year, RIP) and then to Imatch v3.6. Both tools worked quite well with Capture and Lightroom. Meanwhile I work with the public beta of Imatch v5.0 and this is a miracle, because the stability and features of this beta are better than all other DAM tools. The workflow between IM+C1 or IM+LR is better than MP+C1 has ever been.
Regards, Joseph0 -
[quote="PhaseZero" wrote:
It is not only you Jim.
I am still monitoring MediaPro, but there is no real progress in features and stability visible. That is why is switched first to Idimager (product terminated last year, RIP) and then to Imatch v3.6. Both tools worked quite well with Capture and Lightroom. Meanwhile I work with the public beta of Imatch v5.0 and this is a miracle, because the stability and features of this beta are better than all other DAM tools. The workflow between IM+C1 or IM+LR is better than MP+C1 has ever been.
Regards, Joseph
Joseph,
This is great to hear. I have been waiting for a version of Imatch v5 that I can run and try out.
I have been playing a bit with IDimager's PhotoSupreme which I just downloaded. It appears to be ok; certainly stable so far. I don't see it as fast as MP, and I don't see it as being a front end to my workflow like LR currently is. I also would like the ability to open a single image (or a few) in a CO sessions mode, something that MP can do.
I also did not get the impression that IDimager Photo Supreme is a dead product. Why do you say that?0 -
Actually, the "arche"-IDImager has indeed been burried. Photo Supreme is the successor of it. It doesn't carry the same function set, though. 0 -
[quote="HCS" wrote:
Actually, the "arche"-IDImager has indeed been buried. Photo Supreme is the successor of it. It doesn't carry the same function set, though.
That's too bad.
I certainly can see a number of functions that I would like to have.
There are some workarounds for some, and others are simply not there.
At this point, I don't see it as a replacement for MP in my workflow.
I will probably continue to use LR + MP. A tad clunky, but each has its strengths, especially since I continue to use Capture One about 1/2 the time.0
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