Media Pro for Aperture Users?
As an Aperture refugee, I'm wondering if Media Pro is the library/organization/metadata tool to use with C1 or if C1 is evolving to make Media Pro unnecessary.
What do you guys see as the Media Pro development arc? Is it still being actively improved and updated? Or is it standing pat and passing it's genes on to C1?
What do you guys see as the Media Pro development arc? Is it still being actively improved and updated? Or is it standing pat and passing it's genes on to C1?
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Take 10 minutes to browse through this forum and you will see that Media Pro has the same problems as Aperture; no future. Thats my opnion (as a long and faithfull user of Expression Media, the predecessor of MediaPro).
As iView Media Pro it was a fantastic tool but after the purchase of it by Microsoft (EM) and later PhaseOne (MP) there has been no development of any importance. Bugfixes mainly, no exciting new functionality.
My choice is Lightroom. I'm in the middle of the migration from EM...0 -
[quote="BobRockefeller" wrote:
... I'm wondering if Media Pro is the library/organization/metadata tool to use with C1 or if C1 is evolving to make Media Pro unnecessary...
Actually, no one outside of Phase One knows the strategy. It sure doesn't look too good for Media Pro. I bought into it for the nice integration between C1 and it.
However, it is starting to give me shivers. I am now looking how to migrate to Photo Supreme. While this doesn't integrate so nicely, it's not that bad. Just have to find a workaround to seeing my C1 edits in the catalog. Other than that, it offers more and is still being actively developed and supported.
A shame that many of us don't get that feeling about Media Pro, because in itself, it's a very nice tool.0 -
I work with MP here for about a year and must say it runs fast, safe and stable – in contrast to Supreme.
Well, the surface is slightly old-fashioned and there are quite a few image editing capabilities, but to manage the images (ext. Hard drive - about 2300000! Photos) on my iMac (2013 i7 32 GB RAM) I had no better program - LR was when reading and editing much too slowly. For the Media Pro a few years on the humpback has, it's still very good. I can recommend it to anyone just - try out and test myself. I hope however that it still maintained.0 -
I'm having trouble finding instructions or references for using Media Pro together with Capture One Pro's catalog. Is that not possible?
Will Media Pro only interchange with and display adjustments from C1 if C1 is using sessions?0 -
[quote="BobRockefeller" wrote:
... Will Media Pro only interchange with and display adjustments from C1 if C1 is using sessions?
As far as i know, that is correct.0 -
[quote="NNN634452465601459995" wrote:
I work with MP here for about a year and must say it runs fast, safe and stable – in contrast to Supreme.
Well, the surface is slightly old-fashioned and there are quite a few image editing capabilities, but to manage the images (ext. Hard drive - about 2300000! Photos) on my iMac (2013 i7 32 GB RAM) I had no better program - LR was when reading and editing much too slowly. For the Media Pro a few years on the humpback has, it's still very good. I can recommend it to anyone just - try out and test myself. I hope however that it still maintained.
I used to say the same to nay sayers in this forum. I have a decent system and my catalog spans some 65K+ raw files and a bunch of processed images and then some video files.
This used to work fine sofar, but recently MP is starting to act up. First a huge log file appearing on my system. Nothing a user can do about it and no clue why it appears. Then stability issues, which are hard to explain from a system sizing point of view (MacPro 5.1 6-core, 48 GB, SSD). I needed to split my catalog, which defeats the purpose of it for me.
I have noticed that photo supreme is not as fast as MP, but nevertheless i see some features in it that give it an edge for me. Apart from that, it is still actively being developed, which gives me some sort of confidence.
YMMV0 -
I bought MP to work with C1 in sessions, which it does quite well. It doesn't play with C1 catalogs, because it predates them and hasn't been updated to allow this. You can, however, import a MP catalog into a C1 catalog. I haven't tried this; so,can't advise how well it works. In theory you could use MP to apply metadata and then import then resulting files into C1.
It looks to me though MP is on life support while Phase One transfers its working organs to C1, but that's just a guess.
One option for you would be to use Aperture to apply metadata etc, since you have it already, and then import the files into C1. There's some advice on this here: , but first you might want to use Scott Davenport's script for writing hierarchical keywords available here - .
One thing that I will say for MP is that provided you build thumbnails and previews in the catalog it is very fast.0 -
[quote="HCS" wrote:
However, it is starting to give me shivers. I am now looking how to migrate to Photo Supreme. While this doesn't integrate so nicely, it's not that bad. Just have to find a workaround to seeing my C1 edits in the catalog. Other than that, it offers more and is still being actively developed and supported.
Say your raw file is called:
2014-07-09-0005.ORF
Export a JPEG from C1P into the same directory as the raw file and name it:
2004-07-09-0005.ORF.preview
Then re-scan the directory with Photo Supreme. It will use the .preview instead of the JPEG baked into the raw file for thumbnail creation, previews, etc. It will rename/move the .preview file if you do the same to the raw file.0 -
Thanks !
In the meantime i've found out about the .preview extension as well. Now i still have to figure out how to automatically get the jpg output from C1 renamed and the rescan to happen. Perhaps i need to (have someone) write a script for this.0 -
[quote="HCS" wrote:
Thanks !
In the meantime i've found out about the .preview extension as well. Now i still have to figure out how to automatically get the jpg output from C1 renamed and the rescan to happen. Perhaps i need to (have someone) write a script for this.
I'm currently batch renaming from the command line using the rename command (not installed by default in OS X, but easy with pkgin). I tell DxO to attach "_preview" to the rendered JPEG, which gives filenames like "2014-07-09-0005_preview.jpg". The shell command using rename is then:
$ rename --yes -s /_preview.jpg/.ORF.preview/s *.jpg
I'm working on a Ruby script to do this—email me in a week or two and I should have something workable.0 -
Thanks, that's great! 0 -
I am an Aperture user who used iView 3.x which I liked in the past. MS Expression which I owned caused many problems on the Mac. Just bought the upgrade to Media Pro 1.4.2 version and also downloaded archived 1.4.1 at a very reasonable price. Is Media Pro actually on it's way out? The comments here seem to indicate many think so. Was hoping to use it in at least a minimal way on possibly a shoot by shoot catalog basis, but it seems for a 500GB catalog and growing Aperture move it might not be wise. I am on a new 2013 Mac Pro and several other systems 10.6.8, 10.8.5, 10.9.2 on the Mac Pro 2013 and all on a 2012 Mac Pro tower with multiple boot drives. Planning on moving to later systems as they prove themselves, 10.9.4, Yosemite, etc. If it is true Media Pro is going to be unsupported, is it at least working on Mavericks 10.9.2 through 10.9.4? Any word about Yosemite? 0
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