AtomicView to Media Pro
I'm always hunting around for a new DAM, I had used iView back when it was written by Julian Miller ( it was always great to toss out wishlist features ideas and see them implemented almost instantly )... seems like a long time ago. Since Phaseone offered a upgrade from older users ( yes I'm older ) it was easy to give it a test. It does seem to have languished at MS, so hopefully it will get more attention at Phaseone. I still keep an old iView version active on my dock because it's the fastest way to create a contact sheet. I drop a folder onto the icon, hit print, set the grid, and save as a PDF... nothing beats this for speed and I've tried many products.
recently I was very intrigued by AtomicView, super fast but.... they seem to have disappeared, no updates and the forum is down. So.... I was wondering since it somewhat coincided with the MS>Phaseone transfer of MediaPro. Any chance the the folks at Antzero are now working on MediaPro?
recently I was very intrigued by AtomicView, super fast but.... they seem to have disappeared, no updates and the forum is down. So.... I was wondering since it somewhat coincided with the MS>Phaseone transfer of MediaPro. Any chance the the folks at Antzero are now working on MediaPro?
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Nope... Antzero website is alive and well: http://www.antzero.com/antweb/?lang=en&m=0&p=0 - but any company that just shuts down their forums due to spam..... no thanks.
Never liked the strange interface though... Enjoy.0 -
thanks, I knew that their site was still around, but with the forum down it seemed odd and it was at that time that updates also stopped.
The interface takes a little time to get used to, but once over that hurdle it does have great functionality.... features that I'd like to see in Media Pro. Or, if AV continues to improve and get updates that would work for me too. Either would be OK.
Media Pro doesn't seem to have grown very much from the time that it was under the ownership of Script Software and there's quite a bit of time between then and now. And then AntZero comes along and creates an entirely new engine. Big business is way too sluggish... too many meetings, conferences, and focus groups.0 -
its always a fine balancing act between the large companies and individually owned companies... sometimes you can get a winner with a "lone developer" software (Idimager is fantastic while Thumbsplus is terrible) and sometimes the same can be said for larger development teams. In the end - it still comes down to many factors: a strong developer team, a solid CORE of functions, a great workflow and a usable user interface. There are many products that come close but then fail in other aspects - where they fail tends to dictate their popularity in the market.
To my mind - Lightroom has the greatest potential to wipe out the market in terms of competition. If they would just a) add the ability to access images directly from windows/other applications (bypass the import), revamp their Manage tab to include some more advanced DAM functionality (scripting, geotagging) and increase the speed of reviewing thumbs/images, they should be able to shut down most of these other applications. They've been ignoring the DAM side of their appl which is perhaps the weakest link for serious photographers..0 -
>antzero/atomicview is out since 04/2011
bummer, I really liked the possibility of the underlying technology.0 -
>Lightroom has the greatest potential to wipe out the market in terms of competition.
I haven't used Lightroom, except for testing in an early phase.
I thought that it was very restrictive as to how and where files were saved?
also, will it read all files, not just raw: AI, PDFs, fonts etc?
with the latest news that AtomicView is gone, I'm really hoping for Media Pro to be the answer. I have many catalogs, AV had a great method of accessing the different catalogs in a panel it would be nice if MP could do the same in the future so that it would be easier to switch between catalogs.0 -
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>Lightroom has the greatest potential to wipe out the market in terms of competition.
I haven't used Lightroom, except for testing in an early phase.
I thought that it was very restrictive as to how and where files were saved?
Its not restrictive.. there are tons of export options. Give the free demo a try and see for yourself. The nice thing - the thousands of tutorials/help videos and documentation for it. Not to mention entire bookstores full of helpful books...0
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