Sure, have temporary catalogues for specific projects or for themes where you need separation (eg you shoot something you don't want the kids to see, wedding jobs until they're closed), but too often I see people tying themselves up in knots by adopting too many different ways of managing their pictures. You'll soon find some pictures are in more than one catalogue, with different metadata/adjustments, while others aren't recorded anywhere. So in general, I'm against breaking up control of your pictures,

John

Yes, and over there they all have names like NN115145445454211545. Sorry, NN115145445454211545 whoever you are, but Bill, John, Peter etc is a whole lot easier!

John

It's the nature of the beast! To some extent, people will just complain about differences that are obvious, like the UI. I do think the menu text could be bigger, and I'll get used to the Organize button that looks too much like a printer. I don't get the speed problems - as I said in my post (top right in news) I'm finding it pretty quick, though since then I have noticed some odd slowdowns.

John

Bill

MediaPro is almost identical to EM2, so yes. And as far as I can tell, existing EM/iV scripts can be made to run - I put a note about how to do it on Windows on my scripts page http://www.beardsworth.co.uk/lightroom/iview/

John

No change - the new behaviour is only an option.
John

Mark

I doubt it is a licensing thing. When you save work in NX2, it updates the embedded preview in the file, and you don't need permission from Nikon to read those previews. I suspect that's what MP is doing on Windows via the WIC, but I guess Apple's Core thingy is decoding the raw data.

John

Probably so, but I certainly think they've made the right move by going back to that name.

John

OK, done. Better my way though!

John

No, it is a separate installation. It can open ExMedia *.ivc catalogues but makes them read-only - you then save into its *.mpcatalog format.

John

It's fundamentally the same product though. I was just about to change the forum's title....

Done.

John

No, before Sync would ONLY write into raw files and you had to go into Action > Extract metadata which would only work on one folder at a time.

Now Sync offers sidecars as well.

John

Yes, that is correct. For you, no change, but it's progress for those who don't want to sync metadata into the raw files themselves and who use editing programs which handle sidecars.

I see what you mean about manufacturer support - I was wondering why my NEFs looked different - but I wonder if the problem is less worrying than you thought. Instead of "manufacturer" they use the Windows Imaging Component (WIC). That worried me at first because I'm on a 64 bit Windows 7 machine and had read somewhere that Nikon hadn't produced a WIC Codec for the platform. However, I took a NEF into NX2, made some changes, and then switched MediaPro to use WIC - my NX2 changes showed up. So I think it's OK.

John

The changes are smaller than suddenly offering support where there was none before. But they are good, important little changes, and mainly about writing , not reading.

In the past, Action > Extract Metadata generated sidecars in iView/ExMedia but you had to choose a single folder - which is pretty useless if your images may be from many folders. There was also the more helpful Sync command, but it wrote metadata directly inside the NEF.

Now, Sync also offers the choice of XMP sidecar, so for those who do not want to write directly into a raw file, it's easier to save metadata from MediaPro so C1 will read it. In the case of NX2, though, I didn't think it read sidecars.

John

Yes, I also liked that - even if I don't like sidecars!

Are you sure? It strikes me as very much faster than before.

John

I notice Virtual Earth has been quietly dropped. Probably because it's from Microsoft, but a shame as that feature was one of the few positives during their ownership.

John