This is for version 1.1.1
Still needs a lot of work, I don't see much improvement over the previous version. Phase One claims that it runs faster which I don't is the case. I ran this version against Expression Media 2 on my Mac Pro and honestly I could not tell the difference! The only thing I noticed it got fixed is now shutter speed and aperture is showing correctly. I am still not happy the way this application opens high resolution images, when I double click on the image it takes 2 seconds or more to render completely!! Media Pro opens the image pixelated and after 2 seconds or more image becomes clear. Very annoying. For the stability I cannot comment but it did not crash on me while it was loaded on my computer. Lastly still missing three features on the image editor. I can see that Phase One is working on this application but their progress is very slow and I am not sure if I am willing to spend more money on version 2.

Phase One is requiring me to buy an Intel Mac to run its version of MediaPro. Until I do, they have lost a Media Pro 2 up date sale, There is NO program like MediaPro. I have used it for years. Why they could not use Universal Code is beyond me, Graphic Converter does. I hope Phase One doe not eventually update MediaPro out of existence. I use MP as an asset manager. My editing is with Adobe PS and Bridge. For me using MP's Catalogs is invaluable for sorting out images and organizing every image I have, which is a few thousand. I run a G5 on MOS 10.5.8 and everything I have works and works well. Buying an Intel Mac is not cheap, what with required software updating. Yes, the day will come, but not for quite some time.

I'm am very happy to discover that PhaseOne has taken over this once excellent product from Microsoft. They seem to have done a quality job with the transition so far, and brought back a unique and valuable software package from near death.

I am not a professional photographer, but I wanted a digital photo archive that could do many things iPhoto can not. Among them: share the database with others using a Windows version of the client. So far, I have found the current version of Media Pro to be stable, powerful, intuitive, and (even) aesthetically pretty classy.

This is my first review for MacUpdate, motivated by the relatively poor and (in my opinion) silly and/or off-base reviews of Media Pro that have come before this. I am really pleased with what PhaseOne has done with Media Pro so far, and I suspect many others are to.

I Love Iview Media Pro and Expression Media works really really well. Mac 10.6.8 and all versions prior to that and both Intel and non-Intel. I feel that I could not use my computer without it. I have thousands and thousands of photos. See my site LandyVision dot com. And I feel I could not use bear to work with my photos without it as a CATALOGUER. It is too bad that Phase one is too focused on using it as a tool to suppor their own stuff rather than developing it further as the best cataloguer ever. This does so many things, so well, and so easily (once you understand it) that it is mind blowing that probably 4 or 5 years after the Iview inventor, Yann Calotychos stopped developing on it, nothing significantly new has been added to it and still it is unsurpassed as a cataloguer. If anyone knows of a better or even slightly less good, please post it here because my fear is that Phase One, like Microsoft will just let it die by trying to make it into a support for their software. Any company which does that obviously does not recognize the value of the gold they have and is only going to kill it, just as the Phase one version of it does not work as well as the Expression Media version which was last updated years ago. Please Phase One, listen to us old Iview users and lovers and we will guide you to great success with this. There is no other app like it and its GUI is nothing like your GUI's so you don't understand why it is so great. Your GUI's, if you pardon me are counter intuitive and very unfriendly, so don't continure adapting Iview to you, instead contact Yann and ask for his help to make a great app for you.

Why does this say it's free and their website says it's $59?

I may be mistaken, but version 3 may have destroyed the bundled Batch Annotation Script "Event Date from Capture Date". It no longer works, and I have a feeling it is because the meta field "Event Date" has been changed to "Date Created". Is anyone else aware of this problem or am I the only one? I used this feature for every single photo I catalogued in version 2.6.x, and now it's broken, and I can't revert my catalogue back to 2.6 complaint. Shucks :-(