Existing users of Iview Media Pro and Expression Media will find some real benefit by upgrading
to Phase one Media Pro particularly in the fact that you can create
much larger catalogs in terms of catalog size than those older versions allowed
this movie outlines the Process for upgrading your older catalogs as you move to Phase One
Media Pro
this is a general movie for all Iview and Expression Media users
if you also happen to be user of Capture One software to work on your raw files
there's another movie you want look at as well that describes the integration between
these two Programs
I suggest that this Process begin
by gathering all of the existing catalogs together
and creating a comprehensive directory of those
I’ve got to be a folder called “catalogs” in working folder
and if you've got one single master catalog that can go in a folder called master catalogs
uh... if you have multiple master catalogs all of those can go in here as well
and then any Project catalogs that you believe might still be useful to you ought to also
be gathered together
this is really helpful to do with this step because these catalogues are essentially going to
get decommissioned so we’ll want to
have them all together and be able to archive them off in their current form
as we move to the new software
and the new workflow
I suggest that you put all of your
Expression Media catalogs in a parent folder
called Expression Media catalogs and make new folders
where you're going to save the new Phase one Media Pro catalogs, now let's open and convert
after you've downloaded and installed the software you can launch in and you'll get
this screen coming up this gives you the option to either run it in demo mode for about a
month
or to activate the software
using a license code that you purchase from Phase One
in the demo mode you get and absolutely fully functional version of Media Pro
it's just that the software won't launch
after the trial has expired, let's go ahead and run this in demo mode and open up a catalog
what's the softwares launched I can find a catalog in a couple of different ways I can
open a catalogue here
and navigate to my
working folder, catalog folder
in this case as we saw my Expression Media catalogs
and let's open the master catalog
you can also click and drag one of the Expression Media catalogs onto the Media Pro icon and
let it go
this warning comes up right away
and it tells me that this is not a Media Pro catalog and I need to say that as a
different format catalog, it's an entirely different format although as you can see the
interface
uh... works in much the same way and all of the information we've created an Expression
Media
or Iview
continues to be there
but we need to save
as a new file type
I’m going to hit ok and do that saving immediately
note that we're using the “save as command” here
let's go find a new folder for the master catalog I’m going to save it
with the same name
just hit ok and go
and it's going to save
at this point I suggest that you close this catalog and work through the rest of the catalogs
that you wish to upgrade
at the end of the process you get something that looks like this
uh... folder full of
Expression Media catalogs
and an identically structured
set of folders
uh... Media Pro catalogs
at this point the Expression Media catalogs can be archived
and I’d suggest that they need to be saved out somewhere
possibly to DVD or Bluray disc, possibly also to are hard drive from this point on all the
work will be doing will be done to the Media Pro catalogs
although were essentially done with the upgrade Process
there is one of the Procedure you might want to do right away if you build your thumbnails
at a low quality or small size
or not used imbedded previews because you wanted to save space in the catalog because
you were hitting that one point eight gigabyte limit
this might be a great time to go ahead and select a bunch of images
set your thumbnail size
to the largest size build your thumbnails at least medium quality and make the large
previews at this point as well
you could for instance go into the rating panel and select your four-star images
and then command select
Three, two-star images as well or that's control select on the pc
and these are going to be the best images in the collection
I’ll then do a “command A” or “control A” on PC
to select all images and now I can rebuild the thumbnails in the action menu
this is going to now create
full-screen previews
as well as the 640 pixel medium quality thumbnails in the catalog
you may also wish to update your view options
so that the look of your catalog matches this new Media Pro interface
and will cover that in a different movie on the user interface