Microsoft Expression Media

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name = Microsoft Expression Media



caption = Microsft Expresion Media 2 Service Pack 1 on Windows Vista
developer = Microsoft Corporation
latest_release_version = 2.0.1631.0
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operating_system = Microsoft Windows, Mac OS
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license = Proprietary software
website = [http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/overview.aspx?key=media]

Microsoft Expression Media is a commercial digital asset management (DAM) cataloging program for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It is the next version of iView MediaPro (also see iView Media) which Microsoft acquired in June 2006, and is available as:

* Standalone
* As part of the Expression Studio suite of design applications
* As part of Office 2008 for Mac Media Edition

Expression Media's key function is cataloguing digital assets. Professional and amateur photographers use the program to display and manage a wide range of formats from high resolution raw image formats to complex multi-layered Photoshop files and more common formats such as JPEG and GIF. It can also catalogue a wider range of other media formats including music and video, Adobe PDF, fonts, and rich media formats like Adobe Flash. The user is able to efficiently organize and categorize without being limited to assets' actual folder locations, can add metadata including IPTC annotations, and locate assets which may spread over multiple folder and drive locations, including offline discs.

As well as cataloguing, Expression Media has a range of output functions:

* Print - formats include contact sheets, lists
* Web gallery output
* Conversion to other formats - eg raw files can be resized, output as JPEG, and attached to emails
* Slideshow

Expression Media was released to manufacturing along with other Expression products on 30th April, 2007. The RTM news was announced at Microsoft's MIX 07 conference for web developers and designers. [ [http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2007/04/30/expression-studio-rtm-silverlight-news.aspx Expression Studio RTM news] ] In September 2007, Microsoft released Expression Media Service Pack 1 for Windows and Mac which adds support for HD Photo. [ [http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/941834 Expression Media SP1 ] ]

Trial versions of Expression Media and Expression Encoder are available. [ Expression Media Trial [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=43A220D2-4F04-4115-9F0F-9A4A6599AD01&displaylang=en Windows version] , [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=08BD92C3-AF99-447F-BECC-638259322DEF&displaylang=en Mac OS X version] ]

ee also

* Microsoft Expression Studio
* Microsoft Expression Encoder
* Comparison of office suites

References

External links

* [http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/expression-media/default.mspx Official website]
* [http://k7vi.spaces.live.com/default.aspx Expression Media Team Blog] Official Microsoft DAM Blog
* [http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.expression.media&cat=&lang=en&cr=US Expression Media user forum] Advice on using Expression Media
* [http://www.iview-multimedia.com/forum/ iView user forum] Advice on using iView/Expression Media
* [http://thedambook.com/smf/index.php The DAM forum] Independent DAM user forum