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A Capture One and Lightroom workflow

Quentin Stafford-Fraser
Dear All -

I've been playing for a while with different ways of getting Lightroom and Capture One to work well together, because I think C1 does a really nice job with Fuji RAW files, though I find LR better for catalog management.

(I also received some useful hints on this and other forums, for which many thanks.)

Anyway, I decided to document what I'd done as a little tutorial video which you can find here. I hope others find it useful!

All the best,
Quentin
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  • Ian Wilson
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    Interesting - thanks.

    Ian
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  • BeO
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    Thanks for sharing, this is a very good video very well explained.

    Did you also figure out how to re-edit a raw file once you've gone through the first cycle?

    more specifically, suppose you are working in LR and decide for an image you would like to do some more tweaking in C1, how do you do that most effeciently?
    If the raw file copy from LR export/c1 import has been deleted meanwhile, can you simply re-export from LR and C1 can identify the raw file, associate the adjustments, made previously from the catalog, upon import? Or is it a new file for C1?

    And how to do it if the raw file is still there, would re-exporting work?

    Thanks and best regards
    BeO
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  • Quentin Stafford-Fraser
    Hi Beo -

    Mmmm... I haven't explored this fully.

    I've just done a quick test: if the copy of the original still exists in the C1 import folder, then if you go to export the RAW from LR a second time you get a notice that you're about to overwrite a file that exists. (Assuming your naming scheme hasn't changed.) So I guess that at least gives a hint that you can switch back to C1 and continue editing.

    I'm not quite sure what, if anything, of the edit information gets stored in an XMP sidecar, if you're using those... but if you choose overwrite the RAW the XMP also gets exported from LR and overwritten.

    If you select the TIFF in LR, this procedure also works, but then you end up editing the TIFF in C1, rather than the RAW - probably not what's wanted.

    One thing I didn't mention in the video, by the way, is that the basic procedure should also work if you select multiple images at once...

    Best,
    Quentin
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  • NNN634286465059947409
    I watched your tutorial video. Very cool. Does this kind of process work for transferring groups of images?
    Sometimes I might want to work with 3 or 4 images at a time.
    Alice
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  • NNN634286465059947409
    Sorry, didn't read the last sentence of your post, which answered my question. I'll just try it now and see for myself.
    Using Windows 7 or 8, depending on which computer.

    Here's a related question: What happens to RAW files that were catalogued in Capture One if the program is uninstalled? Are they still readable, usable in Lightroom? Would it work in reverse--RAW files cataloged in Lightroom, then it is uninstalled, leaving just C1 to process them?
    E.G., If I have tried both programs and decided one of them is sufficient for all purposes. Would I be opening a big can of worms by totally shifting to one of these two after using both for a time?

    Alice
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  • ekyfoto
    NNN634286465059947409 wrote:

    Here's a related question: What happens to RAW files that were catalogued in Capture One if the program is uninstalled? Are they still readable, usable in Lightroom? Would it work in reverse--RAW files cataloged in Lightroom, then it is uninstalled, leaving just C1 to process them?
    E.G., If I have tried both programs and decided one of them is sufficient for all purposes. Would I be opening a big can of worms by totally shifting to one of these two after using both for a time?

    Alice


    Alice, all your RAW files will be availeble for the other application. C1 nor Lightroom actually do touch the RAW files as such (they edit parametrically), they will demosiac the RAW file and show a preview, which you use to develop your image.

    You will be opening a can of worms in the sense that all adjustments made in C1 cannot be read by Lightroom (not at the version Lightroom is at the moment) C1 can read some basic adjustments if you use the catalog migration tool in C1. So in short unless you export tiff's of the developed images in any of the two softwares, you will loose the adjustments of those images.

    Ekyndt
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