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Expression Media 2 - Quick Start GuideLearn how to catalog, find, and share your stuff at warp speed.Using Expression Media 1Welcome to Expression Media 1. Take a quick journey with this software’s ability to deal with multiple file formats, to preview files within the software, rank and rate files, add metadata and copyright protection, and output to an HTML gallery. |
What's Expression Media all about?by Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training As digital files emerge as our primary source of media, long-term preservation and management of digital media is increasingly important. With the rapid growth of digital media, both in personal and professional use, there is an ever-growing need for quick and easy ways of searching across several hundred or thousands of media files. Expression Media makes this easy. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Information Management with Expression Mediaby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training As digital files emerge as our primary source of media, long-term preservation and management of digital media is increasingly important. With the rapid growth of digital media, both in personal and professional use, there is an ever-growing need for quick and easy ways of searching across several hundred or thousands of media files. Expression Media makes this easy. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
How Expression Media worksby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Expression Media stores information about your media files in catalogs. A catalog is a searchable and organizable visual database that contains: Get more Expression training from Total Training |
File and Folder Managementby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Expression Media has advanced file and folder management to enhance your workflow and provide direct control over your file system. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Advanced Slide Shows & Movie Creationby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Expression Media allows users to run flexible slide shows requiring no set up. Slide shows can display up to 16 images or movies running at the same time, with background sounds, global and individual timings and transitions. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Color Profile Managementby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Expression Media supports ICC color profiles for image files, in the JPEG, TIFF, PICT, PDF, and Adobe Photoshop formats. This enables Expression Media to provide color profile management from input source and Expression Media catalog, to proof and final printing. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Printing and PDF Makerby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Expression Media offers flexible customization of printing, allowing you to define the annotations, media size, headers, footers, and page grid. It also allows printing at any page size, including large format printing and contact sheets. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Web Page Publishingby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Professional HTML galleries can easily be created from your Expression Media catalogs. Expression Media automatically generates the entire web gallery with index pages and associated media pages using the media and annotations from your catalog. The process can be further simplified by saving frequently used settings and workflow automation tools such as scripts. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Archive Files & Catalogsby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Expression Media's Backup feature enables you to prepare CDs and DVDs for burning using the built-in disc burning technology on Windows XP and Mac OS X. Backup is also ideal for archiving digital files onto disk partitions, removable disks (e.g. Zip), or hard drives on a network. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Dynamic Importby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Batch rename files, apply multiple annotations and copy media files to folders automatically on import from camera, disk, or volume. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Streamlined Annotation Workflowby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Define sets of keywords with controlled vocabulary, simultaneously input multiple annotations, and embed annotations fully compliant with the IPTC/XMP Core. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Pro Light Tableby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training View & label multiple images side-by-side in full screen mode without any desktop clutter. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Powerful Organizationby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Capture Sets, Sub-Folder Watching, and extended preview and thumbnail support. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Customize Your Catalogsby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Configure the interface to display only required metadata fields; personalize terminology, save layout options. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Visual Searchby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Search efficiently and effectively direct from Expression Media's main window, without having to navigate further "Find" dialogs. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
NotePad Feedback Toolby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Notepad enables two-way communication between creative professionals and their clients. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Advanced Web Gallery Optionsby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Create unique web pages incorporating CSS and other technologies, and upload to a web server via direct FTP. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
XML (XSLT) Import & Exportby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Export a catalog and its metadata in industry standard XML format to use in other applications. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Other Features & Enhancementsby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Over 30 other new features and enhancements to help you organize photos and other digital media, including new file format support, e-mail direct from a catalog, progress indicators, more powerful batch rename options, improved publishing and repurposing, and more ... Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Customize the Interfaceby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Expression Media is easy to customize... Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Creating Catalogue Setsby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Catalogue sets are a quick and easy way to create sub groups within catalogues... Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Renaming Assetsby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Renaming assets is an important part of workflow and Expression Media makes the task an easy one... Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Thumbnails and Previewsby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Resizing previews and thumbnails in Expression Media is a quick fix – here is how to do it... Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Media Supportby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Expression Media supports over 100 different file types... Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Labels and Ratingsby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Labels and ratings provide the user with the ability to group assets into sets and also they also help to rank them in terms of quality... Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Keywords and Metadataby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Keywords are part of metadata, or data about data. They form the one of the most important parts of Expression Media and provide the means to group and search for images... Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Synchronize Metadataby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training All the keywords, ratings, and other annotations are stored in the catalogue. If you wish to transfer the asset to another location or send it to a client, that data will not be transferred unless it has been embedded into the file header of the asset. This is known as 'Synchronizing metadata'... Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Backupby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Having taken a great deal of time to create your catalogue, it has become as valuable, if not more valuable, than many of your assets. When making changes to it, remember to save them... Get more Expression training from Total Training |
XML Exportby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training XML is becoming the standard for exchanging data with multimedia applications. Expression Media has the ability to export an XML record of a catalogue that may be imported into Expression Web, Dreamweaver or other similar applications... Get more Expression training from Total Training |
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