In the world of Digital Asset Management (DAM) there are two distinct types of programs: the File Browser and the Catalog application. Creatives and corporate clients who manage their own image collections need both. Here’s why. File Browser A File Browser can also be called an Image Browser or a Media Browser. The Mac Finder and … Read more
Last month I wrote about the 15th anniversary of the Australian Professional Digital Imaging Guidelines (APDIG). Each of my co-authors had their own reasons for volunteering to create the guidelines. For me, the obsession with digital standards began in the late 1990s. Digital vs Film When I approached existing commercial photography clients about using digital … Read more
I’m a long time user of Media Pro, a visual cataloguing application by Phase One. Starting as iView over 23 years ago it’s one of the longest running DAM apps of its type. It’s also one of the last standalone, single user digital asset management programs. Designed for creatives it’s used mostly by photographers. Like … Read more
Image Management – are we back to the old days? In the early noughties post-production for digital photography would require three distinct pieces of software: 1. Image browser 2. Raw converter 3. Image cataloguer Each application had it’s purpose. 1. Image Browser Downloading and creating a back up of images from the camera memory card is … Read more
There’s a burgeoning market for software to manage photos and edit them. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Apple Aperture, iPhoto and Picasa let you both catalog and adjust your images, whether you’re shooting JPEG or camera raw format. Not too long ago photographers would edit their raw images in one application then manage them in another. The … Read more
SYDNEY Tuesday November 20th Where: (Phase Studio) L&P Digital Photographic 96 Reserve Road, Artarmon NSW Time: 6.00pm – 9.00pm Cost: $55 To book click here. Phase One Media Pro is a professional photo management software that makes it easy to find, organize and share image and video files. It supports files from hundreds of cameras and … Read more
Phase One have updated Media Pro to version 1.3. Along with the expected bug fixes and new camera support this version finally gives the same feeling of speed that iView had some 5 years ago. Phase One have made more improvements that continues to make Media Pro the best digital asset management application for creatives. … Read more
Phase One have released an update to Media Pro. As well as new camera support metadata support has been improved: Better support for exporting annotations/metadata to XMP sidecars. Catalog sets, custom fields and hierarchical keywords may be exported to XMP sidecars. Will always be included when extracting metadata. Two new general preferences increasing flexibility of … Read more
Phase One have updated their DAM app Media Pro bringing improved performance for rendering and importing raw files. By default Media Pro now uses the operating system (Windows WIC or Apple IO) to render raw files for speed. Users can opt for quality by using the Phase One rendering engine. File management integration with Media Pro … Read more
DAM software for creatives Phase One Media Pro updated to v1.0.1. Mostly bug fixes this is the version we should have seen from Phase One. Media Pro is now usable and for many will replace their old iView MediaPro and Microsoft Expression Media applications. Compared to the latter products Media Pro offers: Larger catalog (less … Read more