Expression Media 2 Academic - Retail Boxed

Expression Media 2 is a professional digital asset management tool to visually catalog and organize all of the elements associated with your creative workflow.

Process and organize lots of files fast. Rename on import, convert, or tag hundreds of files at a time with sophisticated batch processing, or use powerful search features to instantly find and retrieve your digital media assets. Edit images and keep track of your changes with version control, while folder watching keeps your catalogs up to date. Impress your audience with slide shows, videos, and Silverlight web galleries. When it’s time to deliver, Expression Media can export your assets in exactly the format and size your clients need, with dozens of professionally designed presentation templates. Upload your photos to photo sharing sites or agencies like Getty Images. Images, video, illustrations, sound files, fonts, HTML, and documents�they’re everywhere. Imagine how much more you’d get done if you could just find what you’re looking for. Drag-and-drop to import and add keywords for more than 100 different media formats. Even when your originals are offline you can browse, search, and annotate your digital files. Features:

• Catalog Media Visually - Expression Media enables you to create visual databases of media, called catalogs, containing references of up to 128,000 files per catalog. Store your files anywhere: shared folders, CDs, hard drives, or DVDs, and use integrated search tools to can find them in secondsÂâ€â€�Expression Media will keep track of them all.
• Offline Workflow - Even when your originals are offline, Expression Media's visual catalogs allow you to browse, search, and annotate your assets.
• Organize Quickly - Drag-and-drop organizer allows you to quickly and easily import, organize, annotate and classify large volumes of your digital media files. Expression Media includes file system integration features, such as automatic synchronization and folder watching.
• Browse and Play Media (100+ formats) - Five different views to review images, listen to music or watch movies: List, Thumbnail, Media, Lightbox and Slide Show. Search and sort media by any criteria and even rename media files and folders directly within Expression Media.
• Review, Compare, Edit and Enhance - Select up to six files to compare side-by-side in full screen view. Built-in Image Editor provides a wide array of tools, from cropping and red-eye removal to creating duotones and adjusting color balance and several auto enhancements for quick and easy touch ups of your images. Includes support for built-in color profiles for greater color accuracy throughout the creative process.
• Add and Edit Metadata - Extract or create thumbnail and preview images from your digital files for quick visual cataloging. Import or export, add or edit metadata from those files for fast searching and sorting. Utilize industry standard metadata formats like EXIF, IPTC, and XMP for faultless interchange with other creative applications.
• Print, Repurpose, and Convert - Produce high-quality contact sheets and prints of any size and layout. Easy WYSIWYG printing with annotations, grids, headers and footers. Perform single or batch conversions of images, movies and audio files to a variety of formats, including for use in Microsoft Silverlight experiences (Windows only feature).
• Present and Share - Publish and distribute media with cross-platform slide shows, video, and Web galleries, or quickly export media into multiple formats for delivery to your client. Use professionally designed templates, or modify them to suit your own style with customized timings, grids, transitions and even enhanced audio playback for background soundtracks. Effortlessly distribute your catalogs for viewing by anyone with the freely-downloaded Expression Media Reader.
• Archive and Backup - Archive and backup all your prized digital media files, folders and catalogs to CD, DVD, hard disk or any mountable volume.
• Automate Tasks and Workflow - Nearly every feature can be batched making your workflow efficient and cost effective. The flexible, streamlined automation tools make organizing, editing, repurposing, distributing and archiving digital images nearly effortless. Expression Media also has rich scripting capabilities, and can also be easily integrated with third-party application and tools.

System Requirements for Microsoft Expression Media 2 Academic - PHL-00561

To use Microsoft Expression Media 2, you need:

Microsoft Windows®– based PCs:

• Microsoft Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista® operating system
• PC with 1 GHz or faster processor
• 1 GB of RAM or more
• 100 MB of available hard-disk space
• Support for Microsoft DirectX® 9.0 graphics with Windows Vista Display Driver Model (WDDM) Driver, 128 MB of graphics RAM or more, Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware, 32-bits per pixel
• Windows Imaging Components (WIC) is required. Some WIC codecs are from third parties and may have unique system requirements. Some WIC codecs may not be available for Windows XP or 64-bit version of Windows operating systems
• DVD-Rom drive
• 1024 x 768 or higher--resolution monitor with 24-bit color
• Some product features require Adobe Reader 7.0 or later, and Apple QuickTime 7.3.1 or later
• Internet functionality requires Internet access (additional fees may apply)
• Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration and operating system.

Apple Macintosh computers:

• Mac OS X version 10.4 or later
• PowerPC® or Intel® processor
• 512 MB of RAM or more
• 100 MB of available hard disk space
• Monitor set to Millions of Colors
• Apple QuickTime 7.3.1 or later
• Internet functionality requires Internet access (additional fees may apply)
• Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration and operating system