Microsoft Expression Media 2 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 seconds—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.
Microsoft Expression Media 2
System Requirements
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
To use Microsoft® Expression® Media 2 with Apple Macintosh computers, you need:
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