Workflow when using two computers

stewartld

• 27. November 2015 12:58

Hi,

I'm sure that there is a simple way of doing this but I haven't worked it out yet...

I have Capture One Pro 8 installed on my desktop and my laptop (both Mac). My desktop is the main computer I use for editing and storing images but I want to load raw files from the camera onto the laptop in the first instance, maybe make some edits to the images, and then when back to base transfer the files to the correct folder on the desktop machine complete with any edits or changes I made on the laptop.

What's the best way of working this?

Thanks in advance.

Stewart

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  Ian Wilson

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  • 27. November 2015 19:18

  

  Here's what I do (working in sessions).
  
  I have a session (called Mobile but you could name it anything you wanted) on my MacBook into which I load the images in the first instance. I delete the dud ones, move the good ones to the Selects folder, do edits to them and so on. (The selects folder will be at, in my case, <username>\Pictures\Mobile\Selects. Make sure you know where it is.)
  
  To get them onto the main computer (iMac in my case) this is what I do.
  
  (1) Make sure that I have connected to the MacBook from the iMac wirelessly in Finder.
  
  (2) Open Capture One on the iMac (not on the MacBook) and open the session you want to move the images into.
  
  (3) On the Library tab in C1, navigate down the folders to the system folders and find the Pictures folder on the Macbook, and down into the Selects folder you noted the location of above.
  
  The images in that folder should show up in the browser. You can just drag them to the Selects folder in the session on the iMac, or even just use Cmd-J to get them there. They will be moved with all their adjustments and be removed from the MacBook. You can also drag any that you have processed from one Output folder the other.
  
  DO NOT move them from one place to the other in Finder outside of C1, or C1 won't keep track of them properly.
  
  Alternatively you can copy the whole folder "Mobile" in my case (with its session file and subfolders) using removable media such as a USB drive, or wirelessly, and move it into the Pictures folder on the iMac.
  
  If you are using catalogs not sessions, you can import the images from the MacBook session, I think, but I have never used catalogs.
  
  Hope that helps.
  
  Ian

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