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Extensis, a division of Celartem, Inc.
Portfolio lets individuals, workgroups, or enterprises manage digital assets in visual catalogs. Its new client/server capabilities provide fully scalable asset management for enterprises. Advanced features include scripting for unlimited automation and workflow integration, publishing catalogs on the Web, slideshows and importing fields from other databases.
What's New
Version 8.5.3:
- Preview file optimization
- Large catalog performance improvements
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4.4 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4.4 or later.
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| Downloads:43,438 |
| Version Downloads:3,333 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Image Editing |
| License:Demo |
| Date:02 Jul 2009 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $199.95 |
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Portfolio lets individuals, workgroups, or enterprises manage digital assets in visual catalogs. Its new client/server capabilities provide fully scalable asset management for enterprises. Advanced features include scripting for unlimited automation and workflow integration, publishing catalogs on the Web, slideshows and importing fields from other databases.
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We use bridge/lightroom for processing raw images but even that is as slow as portfolio to add/view data. And slower yet to do searches (if you think Portfolio is bad, bridge/lightroom are way slower and more expensive. So we add metadata but can't use it as a search tool. We're waiting for a better solution.
There are a lot of other wanna be image programs but they are viewers more than anything.
PROS about portfolio:
Portfolio is more like a library catalogue (which is clunky compared to modern times) but EXTREMELY powerful cataloguing program. It can embed and export metadata into images which is awesome and simple. Speed hasn't been an issue with us and we run 1 catalog with over 20,000 images on a PC and another with 7,000 images on mac. The PC can be slow but it's a dog of a computer and it's the network that's slow not the program! If you have speed issues, try upgrading your machine.
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I agree with other comments tho, it's necessary to be able to embed metadata into raw files and be able to rotate them. That is crazy in a pro photo program! It is also for the serious/pro cataloguers who love it, but for photographers it's too time consuming for them or they don't understand the power of the fields. Shame they haven't kept up to date with the user's needs.
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rubaiyat reviewed on 24 Jul 2009
It is slow, unstable (it crashes whenever it hits a file it doesn't like which is often) and unreliable especially with opening different version files.
The killer for me is the constant crashes which force you to restart protracted cataloguing over and over to find the offending file. It is too stupid to flag the file that causes it to go down.
I can only conclude those who seem to find it satisfactory are only scanning a small range of bitmap files, in which case I don't know why they don't just use iPhoto, Lightroom or Aperture.
I do wish there was something on the Mac that was usable. Any suggestions?
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I'm a professional photographer and getting valid, UNBIASED views would be appreciated on forums and I hope this is the case with this forum. However I'm inclined to ignore it as it seems too biased for my liking.
If you want to have constructive criticism fine. I have used all the database software so if you do make comments it's good to be clear and concise and compare the two, not just make sweeping comments.
I'll go elsewhere to find better comments, pros and cons, about the various photography databases out there.
Shame,
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iView Media Pro is a very nice cataloguer, much more user friendly than Portfolio, especially as every new version of Portfolio required you to update older file versions and wouldn't open later versions from other users. This puts it into the unusable category for me, added tot he persistent crashes when it hits files it doesn't like. An amazing time waster in fact.
Unfortunately IMP was taken over by Microsoft, and had an Achilles heels, in that it will not catalog CS4 .ai files with .pdf preview and crashes when it hits one.
I am still looking for a good cataloguer, that covers all my image files, reliably.
That is definitely NOT Portfolio.
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I've been using Portfolio since version 7, on PC. Now I have a Mac, and am trying out version 8 with latest updates.
But this software has become a nightmare, especially in view of the newer Bridge and Lightroom which do a better job.
Portfolio issues:
Keywording is a disaster. Especially when you consider that this is supposed to be an expensive DAM program. This alone is enough to ditch the software. Lightroom does such a graceful job with keywords, with hierarchy unlike Portfolio.
Slugish. On my 8-core 2.8Ghz MacPro it is even slower than on my PC. Go figure.
Expensive to buy and to upgrade. Even more so if you are not a US citizen.
Unstable. Give it a few tasks to handle and it will hang and crash. I keep sending in the crash reports to Extensis, but never get any feedback.
Cannot rotate an original unless it is a jpeg.
Does not integrate well with Bridge or Lightroom.
Did I mention that keywording REALLY sucks and it is outrageously expensive for what it is?
Do your self a favour and do not buy it. It was once useful when it had less competition, but today there simply is no need for a single user to get Extensis Portfolio. I'm so disappointed with the money I spent on this bloated piece of junk.
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Jan_rybar reviewed on 13 Apr 2008
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Back in 1990, this software had a purpose. Nowadays, it simply isn't necessary.
It's slow, buggy and you spend more time trying to work out what's going on with your Mac than using it for its' intended purpose.
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In addition, many areas of data entry are poorly executed. For example, if you should need to move the database to another location, all thumbnails are lost because the program only retains the image file location as the time it was entered; to update means you have to go back through each entry to update the image link. Pathetic!
In lieu of the release of more modern programs like Lightroom and Aperture, Portfolio has really become a very out-dated program that deserves a major development overhaul to be better suited to modern OS's for both Mac and Windows.
Currently using 8.1.1, not >
dijonaise reviewed on 08 Aug 2007
Here is how they operate:
Step 1: Make a lot of grand sounding promises.
Step 2: deliver about 80% of what the customer pays for.
Step 3: Wait 6 months, roll out the promised vaporware and charge a full upgrade for the code already sold to the customer in step 1.
Step 4: Deliver product that doesn't even really work.
Case in point: We are on our fourth generation of the Portfolio Family of products and the main feature that I sold this crap to my bosses with, (cross platform asset server) still, to this day, does not work!
These people will burn you too!
My professional recommendation is to avoid all extensis products as they are primarily a marketing/profit driven company that will not provide a stable, functioning product. Furthermore the products they sell you will be deficient, and when they do get around to delivering the promised features, they will force you to pay more money for what you already bought.
A number of the comments in this list originate from many years back, and many of the issues listed have been fixed long ago. If you are having issues with a current version of Portfolio, we provide a number of ways to get free technical support. You can submit a request directly to our support team: http://www.extensis.com/en/support/index.jsp
We also have forums where you can post questions directly to the Portfolio user community, as well as find out how others are using Portfolio, Portfolio Server and Portfolio NetPublish: http://forums.extensis.com/
Just one other short note: To get the most out of any asset manager requires a bit of thought and planning. If you are interested in learning more about the questions that you should ask before setting up any asset manager, please take a minute to check out the following document: http://dl.extensis.com/downloads/PF/EN/P/Portfolio8_BestPracticesGuide.pdf
Thanks for your interest in Extensis Portfolio!
Jim Kidwell
Technical Product Specialist
http://forums.extensis.com/
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It all seams to me, that Extensis do NOT met requirements of pro-users and I can say that since I am user of this software from "day one"..... my experience with Extensis is no good what so ever !!!