Microsoft Expression Media (Win/Mac)

The Microsoft Expression suite of professional design tools and innovative technologies will take your creative possibilities to a new level. Whether you are designing standards-based Web sites, rich user experiences on the desktop, or managing digital assets and content, Microsoft Expression applications will help. Microsoft Expression Media is a professional asset management tool to visually catalog and organize all your digital assets for effortless retrieval and presentation.

Stick with the workflow that works for you and Expression Media will fill in the gaps.

Don't wait for progress bars - Expression Media was built to handle thousands of files with ease.

Make digital asset management easy - just drag and drop to import more than 100 different media formats, including digital RAW files. View larger.

Save time by taking care of basic image editing tasks, like rotating, cropping, and resizing, from inside Expression Media. View larger.

Impress your audience with slide shows, videos, and Web galleries. View larger.

Taming Your Media and Enhancing your Workflow
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--simply 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 quickly, seamlessly and easily. With this application, you can handle lots of files, and fast. Do you have hundreds, or even thousands, of files you need to rename, convert or tag? No problem. Expression Media's sophisticated batch processing ability will let you do that in no time at all. You can even edit images and keep track of your changes with version control, while automatically keeping your catalogs up to date.

Presentation is King, Organization is Queen
Expression Media isn't just about productivity, though. It's also about appearance. When it's time to impress your audience with slide shows, videos, and Web galleries, Expression Media can export your assets in exactly the format and size your clients need, with dozens of professionally designed presentation templates. With the Expression Media Encoder, you can convert and publish video to reach a broad, cross-platform audience. And of course, before you can wow your audience, you need to make certain you have the files you need. Expression Media makes digital asset management easy--just drag and drop to import more than 100 different media formats, including digital RAW files, and start working with your files right away. Expression Media quickly creates full-screen previews and lets you store your files anywhere -- shared folders, CDs, hard drives, or DVDs. The software's integrated powerful search tools will find them in seconds. Wherever they are, Expression Media will keep track of them all. Even when your originals are offline, visual catalogs allow you to browse, search, and annotate your assets with ease.

Seamless Workflow Integration
Stick with the workflow that works for you and Expression Media will fill in the gaps. Support for RAW formats from the most popular cameras and industry-standard metadata formats means that your metadata is already there. Keep keywords consistent with custom dictionaries -- just drag and drop to quickly tag thousands of files. Rename an entire folder of files or change their format easily with the software's batch conversion, and use flexible scripting tools to get those tedious and time consuming tasks out your way. Expression Media helps you make certain that your precious digital assets are protected with built-in archiving and backup features.

Among the tasks that Expression Media can take care of are the loads of basic image editing tasks that we all loath, but that must be done. Need to rotate, crop, and resize dozens and dozens of images? No problem. Expression Media will take care of it, with the color management profiles preserved throughout. And you can quickly adjust levels, sharpness, brightness, or color balance yourself. With the Expression Media Encoder, re-encoding video is as easy as converting images, and you can easily apply filters or add watermark logos to your video files, or re-encode video for optimized playback on the Web or Windows Media handheld devices.

Windows:

• Windows XP (XP Service Pack 2) or Windows Vista
• 1-GHz or faster processor
• 1 GB of RAM or more; 100 MB of hard disk space for installation
• DirectX 9.0c
• 1024 x 768 display with 24-bit color
• Quicktime 7.1.5
• Adobe® Reader® 7.0 or higher for PDF file support

Mac:

• Intel-based Macintosh PowerPC or Intel Core Processor
• Apple Macintosh OS X (10.4 or later)
• Apple QuickTime® 7.1.5 or later
• Monitor set to Millions of Colors
• 100 MB of hard disk space for installation
• 512 MB of RAM or more

Product information, specifications, and compatibility are for advisory purposes only, and is the buyers full responsibility to verify with the manufacturer prior to ordering.