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Expression
Media 2
Assets
at your Fingertips
Microsoft®
Expression® Media is a professional asset management
tool to visually catalog and organise all your digital
assets for effortless retrieval and presentation. Imagine
how much more you'd get done if you could just find
what you're looking for. Expression Media makes digital
asset management easy—just drag and drop to import
more than 100 different media formats, including digital
RAW files. Even when your originals are offline, Expression
Media's visual catalogs allow you to browse, search,
and annotate your assets.
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Features
Include:
Catalogue
Media Visually
Expression Media enables you to create visual databases of
media, called catalogs, containing references of up to 128,000
files per catalog. Store your files anywhere: shared folders,
CDs, hard drives, or DVDs, and use integrated search tools
to can find them in seconds—Expression Media will keep
track of them all.
Offline Workflow
Even when your originals are offline, Expression Media's visual
catalogs allow you to browse, search, and annotate your assets.
Organize Quickly
Drag-and-drop organizer allows you to quickly and easily import,
organize, annotate and classify large volumes of your digital
media files. Expression Media includes file system integration
features, such as automatic synchronization and folder watching.
Browse
and Play Media (100+ formats)
Five different views to review images, listen to music or
watch movies: List, Thumbnail, Media, Lightbox and Slide Show.
Search and sort media by any criteria and even rename media
files and folders directly within Expression Media.
Review, Compare, Edit and Enhance
Select up to six files to compare side-by-side in full screen
view. Built-in Image Editor provides a wide array of tools,
from cropping and red-eye removal to creating duotones and
adjusting color balance and several auto enhancements for
quick and easy touch ups of your images. Includes support
for built-in color profiles for greater color accuracy throughout
the creative process.
Add and Edit Metadata
Extract or create thumbnail and preview images from your digital
files for quick visual cataloging. Import or export, add or
edit metadata from those files for fast searching and sorting.
Utilize industry standard metadata formats like EXIF, IPTC,
and XMP for faultless interchange with other creative applications.
Print, Repurpose, and Convert
Produce high-quality contact sheets and prints of any size
and layout. Easy WYSIWYG printing with annotations, grids,
headers and footers. Perform single or batch conversions of
images, movies and audio files to a variety of formats, including
for use in Microsoft Silverlight experiences (Windows only
feature).
Present and Share
Publish and distribute media with cross-platform slide shows,
video, and Web galleries, or quickly export media into multiple
formats for delivery to your client. Use professionally designed
templates, or modify them to suit your own style with customized
timings, grids, transitions and even enhanced audio playback
for background soundtracks. Effortlessly distribute your catalogs
for viewing by anyone with the freely-downloaded Expression
Media Reader.
Archive and Backup
Archive and backup all your prized digital media files, folders
and catalogs to CD, DVD, hard disk or any mountable volume.
Automate
Tasks and Workflow
Nearly every feature can be batched making your workflow efficient
and cost effective. The flexible, streamlined automation tools
make organizing, editing, repurposing, distributing and archiving
digital images nearly effortless. Expression Media also has
rich scripting capabilities, and can also be easily integrated
with third-party application and tools.
System
Requirements:
Windows
Microsoft Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista®
operating system
PC with 1 GHz or faster processor
1 GB of RAM or more
100 MB of available hard-disk space
Support for Microsoft DirectX® 9.0 graphics with Windows
Vista Display Driver Model (WDDM) Driver, 128 MB of graphics
RAM or more, Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware, 32-bits per pixel
Windows Imaging Components (WIC) is required. Some WIC codecs
are from third parties and may have unique system requirements.
Some WIC codecs may not be available for Windows XP or 64-bit
version of Windows operating systems
DVD-Rom drive
1024 x 768 or higher--resolution monitor with 24-bit color
Some product features require Adobe Reader 7.0 or later, and
Apple QuickTime 7.3.1 or later
Internet functionality requires Internet access (additional
fees may apply)
Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based
on your system configuration and operating system.
Macintosh
Mac
OS X version 10.4 or later
PowerPC® or Intel® processor
512 MB of RAM or more
100 MB of available hard disk space
Monitor set to Millions of Colors
Apple QuickTime 7.3.1 or later
Internet functionality requires Internet access (additional
fees may apply)
Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based
on your system configuration and operating system
Educational
Pricing:
| Expression
Media 2 |
ex.
VAT
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| Media |
£21.06
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| Full
pack |
£34.00
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| MOLP
A |
£22.00
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| MOLP
B |
£21.00
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| School
SELECT* |
£12.80
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School SELECT pricing is only available to schools (under
the LGA agreement)
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