iView -> EM -> and Now Media Pro!

[Ron Berlier]

John, would you please share with us, if you don't mind, whether you are still using EM2, or have you moved to using MediaPro?

It appears that many folks who have moved to MediaPro are very unhappy with their decison for various reasons.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts-

Ron
Eugene, OR USA

[johnbeardy]

MediaPro, Ron, but only as a backup to Lightroom and just in case I ever decide to really go back. After initially-good findings with MediaPro I upgraded but gradually ran into slowdowns and irritations like the multi-folder selection and very inconsistent folder panels (eg duplication of drives). I don't mind the UI, though I think the menu text should be bigger and I keep thinking the Organize panel icon is a printer. It's pretty obvious P1 didn't test this out enough.

John

[Rich Green]

John,

I agree with you. I've been using the program since it was iView 2.0. and it's been buggy since that time. I've learned, begrudgingly, to live with the annoyances and with each update there are new bugs to moan about, and it's no exception with this new Media Pro version.


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[Rich Green]

Hey guys, just downloaded a media pro update - 1.0.1. One problem I complained about in an earlier post was the inability to view several folders at the same time. Well, it's been fixed.


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[billseymour]

John B.- I'm not sure I understood your answer re Media Pro or EM2. Are you using Lightroom now, rather than EM2 or Media Pro? Is Lightroom close enough to the EM2/iView experience to warrant my looking at it more closely?

An interesting and frustrating journey of iView -> EM/EM2 -> Media Pro. The original wasn't broken, but the successor programs seem to make things more problematic rather than smoother. Thanks. --Bill

[johnbeardy]

Bill

I'm using Lightroom for all adjustment, metadata entry, and finding pictures. Once a folder of pictures is "finished", I then catalogue all the images in MediaPro, which is what I mean by "as a backup to Lightroom and just in case I ever decide to really go back". If I didn't have LR, I'd be able to use MP to find anything.

John

[billseymour]

OK, John, thanks for the clarification. (The "backup to Lightroom" phrasing had confused me.)

I am staying with EM2 for now, watching and hopeful that MediaPro will get straightened out.
Thanks for the response. --Bill

[cdubea]

After jumping in feet first only to find a number of "issues" I'm definitely ambivalent.

I've got a bunch of old images (jpg's mostly) that I had converted to NEF's in Capture.  Media Pro (and Capture One) will not access those images.  As the manufacturer rendering has been removed and there is no 64 bit WIC codec from Nikon, those images were no longer rendered on my Win7 64 bit machine.  A quick alert to Phase One support acknowledged the issue with a bit of a "tough luck" remark

I was able to procure a third party WIC codec that provides that function and now I my NEF's are rendered. 

The level of interaction of Phase One personnel in their forum is frankly a bit disappointing.  Occasionally someone named Drew will chime in that "they are aware of the problem" but that's about all.  I was hoping PO would see the forum as a tool to help them manage the product (ala Hert and IdImager), but alas that seems not to be the case.

About the only thing I'm certain of at this point is PO will see no more of my hard earned money without a thorough and detailed evaluation of any future "upgrades".

Take care

chris