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I'll Wait This One Out.

OneHorseStudio
I really don't care about the cosmetic changes. What I really had hoped for was this version to render and view the changes to a NEF file done in ACR. It's really nice that it does it for C1 and I can understand why they prioritized this, but I don't always do my work in C1. I'll stay with EM2 until then.
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  • Jim MSP
    [quote="NNN634375668594641455" wrote:
    I was initially excited about the potential for Media Pro on my Windows 7 machine. However, given others experiences, my enthusiasm is tempered. Can anyone recommend an alternative until some of the issues are resolved in future releases?


    I am running Win 7 as well, but I seem to be doing reasonably well. No crashes (except after the initial import of the 35k photo catalog). Wait until it stops "processing" before you ask it to do something, and it will be fine. I am very pleased with the ability and speed to find a cataloged file. I am still waiting, however, for the media processing speed to improve. Much too slow to render a raw file.
    I am running Media Pro and CO 6 at the same time with no other issues.
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  • NNN634407623648915965
    [quote="NNN634375668594641455" wrote:
    I was initially excited about the potential for Media Pro on my Windows 7 machine. However, given others experiences, my enthusiasm is tempered. Can anyone recommend an alternative until some of the issues are resolved in future releases?


    Idimager is really good with a great support base - ACDSee Pro 4 is another pretty decent product. Good Luck!
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  • Charlie Dunton
    Hi Raffi3,
    Your last post was interesting because in many respects, the folder arrangement you use is similar to the Collections I have set up in Expression Media 2 (I am also waiting MP1 out). I mostly went with the default collections of People, Events, Places, and Projects, and then added sub-folders. If I understand your last post, that's kinda what you are doing. That said, there is one advantage to using a database program like EM2 over your folders. In the case of your folders, the folders are real and contain the real photos while collections are more like virtual folders and contain only database pointers to the real images. The advantage to this is you can have the same photo in many different collections and each instance only increases the size by a few bytes. You certainly wouldn't want duplicate or triplicate or quaduplicate images on you server. That would be a nightmare.

    So that, to me, is one of the biggest advantages to a database. I can have the same photo in many different folders to allow multiple ways to organize and help my memory, which as you point out is really the crux of the matter.

    Cheers,

    Charlie
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  • Raffi Hadidian
    For an Alt, I have been using ACDSee for some time and after some growing pains into Vista for v. 2, v.3 has been solid. And it does tag and is able to search, and is a database that runs in the background and you can access folder structure.

    Charlie, It's good and bad to hear that you setup the collection in the same manner. Good, as it confirms that maybe I am doing it right, and bad, as it may confirm that I am doing it right (No alt), 😊

    I actually can see the benefit of having a "pointer" or a file that refers to the same 1 main image from multi locations, that surely is handy. I have needed that on a number of occasions. Then find it all confusing. I guess I am a meat and potato kind of guy that likes it clean and simple (The reality is I love Humos, Rojak, Panir, (Middle eastern foods, Malaysian, Thai, Indian, etc).....But you know what I mean...

    I see my Street & Motion folder crossing with People(In the public) having a shared catagorical feature, such as Streets, and people in the street scenes. Where does that go, Streets/Motion or People? SO if it is a recognizable persons face, I place in people. but if the person is secondary and the scene/street is more the "focus" I place in Street&Motion. Then I have Skyies and Landscape that also crosses Street motion...this is a bit harder to splice....Honestly, keeping these apart and not having them point from mulitple places keeps me sane.
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  • NNN634407623648915965
    Well - its a great system until you want to find something very specific... what about finding a specific street based on a geo location? Name? If you have 5000 images of streets, how long will it take you to locate a specific one? In a catalog, that can be done in seconds if you tagged them well. To me, the folder method fails when you have more than one subject idea in a scene - what if you have a street with people on it - does it go into the street or people folder? How about a street with an old car and people.. where to then? Tagging is more flexible - the physical location on the drive doesn't matter.. and having items on external media becomes allowable - not so in the folder situation.
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