Hello everybody.
I am a long time user of iView MediaPro> MS Expression Media> CaptureOne Media Pro and I'm experimenting with replacements, due to unavoidably having to upgrade my Mac to a computer which came installed with Mohave. This means the end of the road for the 32-bit MediaPro due to the total lack of development by both Microsoft and Capture One, and no support for 32 bit apps in Mojave. So I am looking for a replacement is a long time user of that particular program. So there's a lot of 'muscle memory' around that app.
I see certain similarities between mediaPro and ACDSee for Mac, which attracted me. What I can't figure out how to do is one of the most basic functions of any photo management program: How to get my pictures into it.
Do I create a database and then add photos to it?
The other way around?
When I launch, I see my entire computer files structure, and options to import files- but it looks like it is creating new copies of those files. Again, I don't want that.
Dues ACDSee for Mac create a monolithic fie containing both its own copies of photos and cataloguing information, รก la Apple Photos or iPhoto? If so, it is a nonstarter for me. My photos are organized in a conventional folder/file structure. I am not interested in changing that. What I need is an interface to browse, sort, organize, and edit images in place (where they are now). As I said, I am not looking for a system that creates its own redundant copes of existing photos. I just want to be able to navigate what I've already got.
Looking at the user guide, instructions are given on how to import files from a camera or other device, but not how to import files/ folders/subfolders like I am talking about- at least, not without creating new ones.
I also had different catalogs for different broad categories of photos. Does ACDSee Mac support that? I don't want one huge database for everything photographic. Archived family photos are a different thing to me from photos I took for jobs. I never look at those together.
I can see into one particular folder, for example, but when I put a file name that I know is there, I get a box saying 'nothing found'.
Anybody here come fron iView/Expression/MediaPro, and can help me adjust? There are no videos for this specific product. With my trial, I was sent an email with a link to what turned out to be a closed YouTube channel.
Hoping I can get some help getting started. There is one day left on the promotion at the steep discount. So far, I'm not sold, and may be forced to go back to old Aperture which I at least understand. I realize any app has a learning curve, but...
I am a long time user of iView MediaPro> MS Expression Media> CaptureOne Media Pro and I'm experimenting with replacements, due to unavoidably having to upgrade my Mac to a computer which came installed with Mohave. This means the end of the road for the 32-bit MediaPro due to the total lack of development by both Microsoft and Capture One, and no support for 32 bit apps in Mojave. So I am looking for a replacement is a long time user of that particular program. So there's a lot of 'muscle memory' around that app.
I see certain similarities between mediaPro and ACDSee for Mac, which attracted me. What I can't figure out how to do is one of the most basic functions of any photo management program: How to get my pictures into it.
Do I create a database and then add photos to it?
The other way around?
When I launch, I see my entire computer files structure, and options to import files- but it looks like it is creating new copies of those files. Again, I don't want that.
Dues ACDSee for Mac create a monolithic fie containing both its own copies of photos and cataloguing information, รก la Apple Photos or iPhoto? If so, it is a nonstarter for me. My photos are organized in a conventional folder/file structure. I am not interested in changing that. What I need is an interface to browse, sort, organize, and edit images in place (where they are now). As I said, I am not looking for a system that creates its own redundant copes of existing photos. I just want to be able to navigate what I've already got.
Looking at the user guide, instructions are given on how to import files from a camera or other device, but not how to import files/ folders/subfolders like I am talking about- at least, not without creating new ones.
I also had different catalogs for different broad categories of photos. Does ACDSee Mac support that? I don't want one huge database for everything photographic. Archived family photos are a different thing to me from photos I took for jobs. I never look at those together.
I can see into one particular folder, for example, but when I put a file name that I know is there, I get a box saying 'nothing found'.
Anybody here come fron iView/Expression/MediaPro, and can help me adjust? There are no videos for this specific product. With my trial, I was sent an email with a link to what turned out to be a closed YouTube channel.
Hoping I can get some help getting started. There is one day left on the promotion at the steep discount. So far, I'm not sold, and may be forced to go back to old Aperture which I at least understand. I realize any app has a learning curve, but...
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