After using the program for many years, from Iview stage, and the Expression years, I was really excited to see that a new company had taken it over, and I so wanted to believe that it was a better product, that I just went and purchased the upgrade. I have been very disappointed. Short of them setting the default background colors to dark gray, (looks nice), but it's Expression Media.. under the hood.. On a brand new Snow Leopard Installation, I had MediaPro make several catalogs.. most from 24-125,000 high res jpegs, photoshop and eps files. Side by side, Expression Media performed dramatically better. Media Pro crashed a number of times on me. Save your money till they really put some effort into making this a better program. It is lousy at rendering eps files. I will keep using it, but it's literally Expression, with seemingly more bugs and sporadic crashes. The first catalog I had it make over 128,000, it CHOKED... it works... barely... but it's SLOW... This is beta software, shouldn't be being sold yet as a finished product.. I'm rating it low on features, since they didn't add any... Same for Value and Stability. Overall-2 Features-1 (didn't add any...) Ease pf Use-Excellent... nothing changed.. Value-1-Keep your money, wait on version 2.0 Stability-1- substantially more crashes than with the same images that work fine in ExpressionMedia.
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