this movie outlines the use of some of the most important preferences in Media Pro
you can find the preferences in the Media Pro menu on Mac
and in the edit menu on PC
additionally
there some
settings for how your thumbnails and your previews are built
but these are found in the edit menu on both Mac and PC
let's take a look through some of the most important of the preferences
starting with the general panel
this first item governs what happens if you simply launch the Media Pro application
if you use one single master catalog or a small set of catalogues
then this is the setting you're Probably going to watch
rather than to have it open a new catalog each time the Program launches when you doubleclick
this is going to switch use between
the thumbnail view
And, the Media view the big single image via
for most users this is going to be the way that you don't want to have the doubleclick
work
potentially though you might want to
have it open the image in a lighttable
or, launch the creator application although, I believe that for most people that ends up being
kind of a frustrating experience
tooltips
show you what the
uh... particular tool will do and that's a handy thing when you're learning the Program
show warning when removing items
gives you the chance to either
confirm or cancel when you're going to remove an item from the catalogue
the auto save item here
lets you save your catalog automatically
at some specified time interval
uh... often find that I’m using my catalog just to browse my images and I don't actually
want to always save the changes I make to it but that's really up to you
field names governs
what the meta data fields are called
and whether those match up with
the terminology used in
Adobe Products
or in Phase One or in the ITPC standard
so let's take a look here in the info panel
and you can see that the fields change name
here's the IPTC version
here's the Phase One version
and here's the Photoshop version
in each case
the values in the field remain the same it's just what the field is called
so you should set this up to be compatible with
whichever Program is doing most of your raw file adjustment
dimensions should be set to whichever way you typically like to think inches, centimeters
pixels et cetera.
the inspector key gives you the ability to hover over an item
and hit that key and
see some information about that particular picture
the next preferences are for media rendering there are three tabs: images, raw images
and how fonts are rendered
in the images tab you have
the control over how images are resized, I suggest to you
Probably want to choose by linear
you definitely want color match checked
alpha channel is only important for people who are going to be
outputting images with alpha channels directly out of Media Pro
this transparency color item
governs how images that were saved with transparency are displayed in the Program
The lighttable warning settings govern where the clipping indicators start showing
for highlights and shadows when you're in the lighttable
in the Raw tab, we govern the behavior for Media Pro
and how it renders raw files
There is an entire other movie the describes how do you get the rendering in Media Pro to match
Capture one rendering
the simple version is this if you're using Capture one to
uh... convert your raw files then set this to Phase One, if you're using Adobe’s Products
and you're saving as DNG
you want to make sure that you have use embedded previews if available
Media Pro can also catalog your fonts
I suggest that font name is probably the right setting for thumbnail view
and in Media view the extended character set
is Probably the right setting as well
here's what those to look like
the vocabulary editor lets you create an approved list of values for any of the different types
of metadata fields better shown here so you could for instance in this case have
A list of approved names for credit lines
and you can even have multiple different lists
that can be useful for
uh... different collections of images
if you're working in an environment where you want to make sure
that the data is always entered in, in exactly the same way
you can even hit this constrain button
and what that does is it
keeps the
user from being able to enter in, in this case a credit line
that is not part of this list
if you want to add a new name to the list you just hit it right here and type it in
if you'd like to create an entire new list you hit the plus button up here, give it a name
and then
you now have a fresh blank list
I could have also created that list
starting with one of these other groups as all of the base values
Media Pro allows you to set your own names
for the labels that you can assign when you're browsing your images
and you can also set custom colors by clicking on the color picker
and setting a color here
if you get an arrangement that you like
you can export those settings to a little XML file
and on a second Machine you can
uh... transfer that file over and you can
set those settings
by
simply selecting that XML file by opening it up, this is very helpful if you want to make
a couple of machines
look and behave in the same manner
the final preference panel allows us to set some applications as helper applications
that become only one single click away from anyone of your images
you added an application to it by hitting the add button
and then go find your applications folder
and then find the application that you'd like to add
Select it
and hit open
and then that now becomes part of the list
once that's in the list
if I want to right-click and send an image
over to that application it becomes really easy
the final thing we’ll look at here is the preference for
thumbnails and previews
and it is split off into the edit menu because it's actually a preference
that's about this catalog are only
rather than the way Media Pro behaves
across every catalog on this Machine
I suggest that you build your thumbnails at 640 pixels
which is the largest size that Media Pro allows
and that you use the medium quality which is a good balance
between quality and filesize
if you're using Capture One to render your images
it's important to have this unchecked
you can have it checked if you have a catalog
Of Jpegs
or Tiffs
or DNF that you've made with Adobe software
the media previews
allows you to create the larger version of the image and store it with the catalogue
which is quite useful if you're going to do slideshows, say when you're on the road
you again have three sizes and a choice between low medium and hight, and once again
I suggest to use large
and medium as the setting
this display preview at all times
tells Media Pro
to show the preview and not to show
the original image file
which really
speeds up the display but of course
it's only showing you at largest
A version of the picture that's 1280 pixels
really again this is quite useful if you are going to be on the road and you want
to
show those images
or if you really just want to arrow through your images as fast as possible
while in Media view
if you like a particular group of settings here
go ahead and save it as the default
and note also here as it says in the bottom of this window
creating these settings
only tells Media Pro what to do the next time it builds a thumbnail
it doesn't tell Media Pro to go out and rebuild thumbnails
so that if you found say that
you were originally set on variable
and now you want to be set on 640 pixels
you want to make these settings
and then use the rebuild item command
that you can find up here in the action menu
select all images that have a small sized thumbnail and rebuild them and you'll now
see that they have a larger thumbnail in the catalog