A 6 - 1 margin against. And I'm another one in the NO column. I've never been able to install it. Seems to me if Sony wanted people to use it, it wouldn't be a PITA. I have a personal policy against using software the PITA catagory.

I'm very worried about my favorite NLE. Let's see what v.7 brings...

Yes 2
No 23

Yes 2
No 24

Yes 2
No 24

Er... I'm not actually using V6 either, but I'm Acid 5 and 6 user and first tried to organize all my loops (approx. 20 000+ pieces) but the app seems so a-w-k-w-a-r-d .... sigh ....

So, not planning to use it with V7 either, which I'm planning to aquire immediately when its released (my HDV-material is accumulating fast).

Yes 2
No 26

I haven't given it a chance but I find Adobe Bridge very approachable and mostly intuitive. Can't same same yet about MM. I would like to see Vegas add well thought out (or as John said - elegant) work flow through MM. I would especially like for it to manage the movement of projects offline AND track where a specific piece of media is stored, and what project(s) it was used in.

Jerry

Yes: 2
No: 27

Ditto for me on johnmeyer's comments.

I experienced several crashes with Media Manager when I first started using it and had to disable it. I also noticed, like johnmeyer, that it's a hog... its bigger than all the other Sony apps put together. I don't know for sure if it was developed by a third party or not, but if it wasn't, it certainly seems sub-par for the usual quality of software designed by the Madison team.

But I also agree with Grazie: I don't want to see Media Manager go away. I just want to see it get better, leaner, and less buggy. I have all the confidence in the world that the Madison team is capable of doing much better.

No, I don't use it either. I also thought everyone else used it. I don't seem to have a problem "managing my media".

I organize my projects with a project directory (folder) tree and subdirectories underneath. Many times I reuse clips from other projects and I just copy them to the new project tree. Slightly wasteful but that's how I organize the project. I audition the clips with the explorer.

Never say never. I'm probably not aware of all the MM capabilities, so a standalone tutorial video might be helpful

Yes: 2
No: 28

I've plugged away at it a bit - but have not sat down and really gotten into it. My workflow seems more media bins-ish. I should really spend some time on MM....

Yes 2
No 29

My workflow is too simple. I have never tried using media manager.
JJK

Yes 2
No 30

tried it twice - crashed twice. enough said.

leslie

Yes 2
No 31

tried a few times and it crashed for me also. That was awhile back and I was using WinxP SP1 I am now on SP2 but have not bothered to try it. I have had better luck with it in ACID Pro .

TomE

Yes 2
No 32

Bogged everything down when loading and got error messages. First thing I turn off now in Preferences...

Yes 2
No 33

What's Media Manager :)

j razz

I've never seen the need for it, given my work methods and needs. The fact that it appears to be such a massive install scares me--okay, it's a database sort of program; why is it so large?

Yes 2
No 34

Yes 2
No 35

Wow, I've been racked with guilt all this time for not getting around to using it. Flabbergasted by the results and I feel better now :)

Actually I am one of those that probably really could benefit from it. I have an archive of about 10,000 AVI clips covering about 1000 marine life species from around 200 dive sites. I need them all categorised by species and dive site (at the minimum). For the time being I keep them in individually-named folders and I add an abbreviation for the dive site at the beginning of the clip itself. eg. d:\anglerfish-painted-Antennarius pictus\DONanglerfish-painted1a.avi Maybe MM can really help me.

I have "replaced" Windows Explorer with Directory Opus. It takes some setting up but it's excellent for things like synchronising data across drives.

Nick

No.
Yes 2
No 36

To me, the point of media management is to help me save time. However, you have to sink so much time into media manager (learning it, tagging clips) that I don't think it would save me time. I don't get it, which means a steep learning curve. And the tagging clips aspect seems to be excessive button pushing to me.

What I want:
--When I log and capture tapes, I should be able to log clips easily. Being able to log clips on the fly would be awesome. Or, I just start the capture and let DV scene start/stop detection do its thing. Then I go in and log footage, off of the captured footage.

--When I log footage, I only want to type in a single line of description. Anything else is too complicated or takes ridiculous amounts of button pushing.
For example:
The capture utility will break footage up into clips based on scene detection.

I type a description for the current clip, and hit enter.

If it's a long interview, I want to drop a marker. I now type the description for the marker, hit enter. i.e. I am interviewing the prime minister, I break the interview up by question or by topic (i.e. views on health care, views on relationships with interns, choking on pretzels, etc.).

Scene detection finds a new clip. Once I hit enter, I now edit the description for this latest clip.

I keep adding markers, so on and so forth.

Auxiliary information may be useful. For example, the capture utility could have a "scene" and "take" field. Takes automatically increment on every new clip. There should be buttons for indicating two takes within a clip, or incrementing/decrementing the take.
A "new scene" button will increment the scene, and set take to 1.

Maybe there should also be a field for the type of shot...
b-roll / not b-roll
establishing shot
interview
user-defined fields

This will allow me to search only through b-roll, ESs, etc. There could be 10 buttons to tag clips like this, and you use the mouse to click this button to tag the clip. This is not entirely necessary though.

--In Vegas, there should be some search utility for me to search through the descriptions for events AND markers AND regions, and ideally text generators too. Instead of tagging, a keyword search would make more sense.

There should be an easy method to limit searches (i.e. not search regions, only search video, only search b-roll, etc.).

Certain search features may also be useful... i.e. finding similar words, in case you accidentally have a spelling mistake.

Yes 2
No 37

Way too much overhead for such a simple function. And certainly not worth a SQL .NET install that conflicts with other .NET applications.

yes 2
no 38

Just to get back on track, a "Yes" got lost somewhere along the way. The count really is:

Yes 3
No 38

I'm still a "no" though.

Don't need it

Yes 3
No 39

George Ware

We need more impassioned users like Grazie and Serena to post to help even out the count a bit. This is most probably a case of the gripers being more driven to post than the folks who are happy with it. But even still, these results are pretty telling.

I would very much like to see Madison unbundle the media manager and have it as a separate, free download. It does get a bit irksome that it is downloaded and installed again with every update. If nothing else, they could probably save a few dozen GB a day on their download bandwidth.

YES 4
NO 39

I was a bit slow to start, now I find it very intuitive.

Darryl