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Remote rating collaboration between 2 macs via Dropbox?

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Present situation:
    1. We receive a hard drive from our photographer with about 150 shots from a 10 day shoot. Around 150 images in each shot.
    2. Team Member A will conduct a long-edit on his mac where, in a folder of 150 shots, about 10-20 are given a 3 star rating.
    3. The hard drive is then passed to Team Member B who makes the final choice on his mac from the 10-20 and gives that shot a coloured label to denote as such.
    4. Drive goes back to Team member A for final consideration before the images head off to the retoucher.

This works as the one single drive can physically be passed between the two macs in the studio. The new complication however is that Team member B will be based in another country which leaves us depending on the internet.

We have a Dropbox Teams account with more than enough space to accommodate the drive. I wondered if I were to simply copy the Catalog / Session folder in to a shared Dropbox folder any Capture One labelling / rating would be synchronised between the two macs.

We'd take care for only one mac to have Capture One open at any one time. But other than potential conflicts is there any reason why this wouldn't work?

I'd be interested to know of any other solutions to this problem too.

Many thanks,
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  • Grant Hodgeon
    Or you could blast out JPG Previews and make selects w/ proxy files. Dropbox and syncing wouldn't take very long, that way.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    Do you know if it's possible to do this with just one step?

    The folder structures are as follows

    - Day 01
    - Shot 01 (150 images)
    - Shot 02 (150 images)
    - Shot 03 (150 images)
    - ...
    - Shot 10 (150 images)

    - Day 02
    - Shot 01 (150 images)
    - Shot 02 (150 images)
    - Shot 03 (150 images)
    - ...
    - Shot 10 (150 images)

    etc. for 10 days.

    It would be cumbersome to open each shot folder and export the contents folder by folder.

    Thanks
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  • Grant Hodgeon
    lewiscooper wrote:
    Do you know if it's possible to do this with just one step?

    The folder structures are as follows

    - Day 01
    - Shot 01 (150 images)
    - Shot 02 (150 images)
    - Shot 03 (150 images)
    - ...
    - Shot 10 (150 images)

    - Day 02
    - Shot 01 (150 images)
    - Shot 02 (150 images)
    - Shot 03 (150 images)
    - ...
    - Shot 10 (150 images)

    etc. for 10 days.

    It would be cumbersome to open each shot folder and export the contents folder by folder.

    Thanks


    Yes, it's very simple. Use the 'Image Folder Location' token in your JPG Preview Export sub-folder dialog and create a smart album for 'all images' if there isn't one already. Select all your images and process.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    Thanks, the part I'm struggling with though is
    Select all your images and process

    I can only select all the images in one folder at a time. But I want to select Day 01 and export all cub-contents and retain the sub-folder structure.
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  • Grant Hodgeon
    lewiscooper wrote:
    Thanks, the part I'm struggling with though is
    Select all your images and process

    I can only select all the images in one folder at a time. But I want to select Day 01 and export all cub-contents and retain the sub-folder structure.


    I might be mistranslating what you're looking to do.

    Do you have a screenshot of your capture folders/contents that can clarify what you're looking to replicate?
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  • brianmerwin
    Here's the thing - it sounds like OP is trying too hard to maintain that folder structure, but thanks to the new selection features, that's mostly not necessary. It's also not really necessary to pass that drive back and forth. (Honestly this can all happen inside of a shared Dropbox/Google Drive folder so long as you're good about not having multiple users poking around in the folders at the same time).

    Typically how I handle this situation looks like this:


    • Process low-res JPGs (using naming tokens so that the folder structure is kept intact, and include metadata so star and color ratings are also intact).

    • Instruct whoever is making selects to either use Adobe Bridge (or Photo Mechanic, or something else that can do metadata tagging) to tag images with star ratings/color tags (whatever makes you feel good), OR just keep track of file names.

    • Send the entire folder full of low res JPGs with metadata/sidecar files (or just the list of file names) back to the retoucher.

    • The retoucher, now armed with a list of the selected file names, launches the Capture One session.

    • Switch to the library tab.

    • Select the "All Images" smart album.

    • Use the "Select by Filename" function (Edit -> Select By -> File Name List) and paste in the list of image selects provided by the client (or whoever has the final say) and BAM.

    Now you've selected all of the images that have been approved for final retouching and you can do whatever you need to. Give them a color flag, add them to a collection if you want, process them out and over to Photoshop.
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