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Best DAM product out there 
- Version: 2.0.2096.0, 12/31/2009 08:12AM PST
pearsonjc
I agree with the previous poster and have had a similar overall very positive experience with Microsoft Expression Media (MEM). For cataloging and managing digital assets, this is STILL the best I've found (despite the lack of attention by microsoft), and I've been doing comparisons for the last few years. Many friends and family are now using the tool after my positive recommendations. I will use it as long as possible, and am not too concerned about migrating to another tool eventually, since MEM does a good job of providing several metadata export pathways. One often overlooked feature is the free read-only version of the software (both MAC and PC), so that you can, for example, provide to others on an external drive a large collections of assets all nicely organized in the catalog. All that said, of course I would encourage Microsoft to invest more in MEM, or spin it off.
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- Best DAM product out there
Still the best but still needs improvement - Version: 2.0.2096.0, 11/22/2009 11:40AM PST
elandy
Use onMAC - I have used Expression Media (Used to be called Iview Media Pro) since years and despite numerous issues and flaws, there is NOTHING like it to keep track of and manipulate media files. I use it primarily for image files. I have thousands of image files and this is the only way I could keep track of them, send them out, change names, sizes, etc. easily. On the other hand, since Microsoft bought it, VERY LITTLE has been done for it and it needs a lot of help now. They have fixed some serious bugs, but there are still others. I have learned to put up with them and hope they still develop this app. If there were another out there that did the same stuff or near it, I would use it, but there are none. This is a VERY configurable app. If anyone knows of any other that comes close, PLEASE let me know as the bugs in it have gone unfixed for a year now. I am writing this to counter other neg reviews I have read. Yes, its a drag but what else is there? Apeture is not close.
And, to top off the insane arrogance of Microsoft, on a friend's computer, trying to launch this product, it has the gall to announce that the computer's date and time are set incorrectly and the app promptly quits! Unbelievable. Why the hell should an image catalog tool care about date and time settings?
Grrr