Complete newbie with Catalogs question
(Please bear with me -- I'm just an old PC guy who uses Windows Explorer to Move, Copy, Delete, New Folder, etc. I own PS CS6 but have never used Bridge. Have never used Lightroom. Just downloaded Capture One for Sony.)
If I understand correctly (which may be a very poor assumption), the Catalogs function is basically an image management tool. Once I create Catalogs, am I forever constrained to using them for image management? Do I have to use CO to import photos from now on? I guess I just need a "big picture" idea of how to use Catalogs.
If I understand correctly (which may be a very poor assumption), the Catalogs function is basically an image management tool. Once I create Catalogs, am I forever constrained to using them for image management? Do I have to use CO to import photos from now on? I guess I just need a "big picture" idea of how to use Catalogs.
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You can use sessions, multiple catalogs, a single catalog… whatever suits your needs.
And of course you need to use CO to import photos into a CO catalog.
I'd suggest you watch the following webinars to familiarize yourself with how CO works:
A simple start to Capture One 9: https://youtu.be/EGlG_zGVE1k
Organizing your catalog: https://youtu.be/c942DU4pKBI
Exploring session workflow: https://youtu.be/wxnsKPzdAvw0 -
Thanks. I have watched some videos. (General comment: Most online videos of software usage go too fast for me. They seem to be clicking everywhere and stuff pops up and goes away. That is why I referred to myself as "complete newbie" and "old PC guy.") If I can elaborate on the question, if I choose to use CO and related catalogs, am I committing myself to the use of Catalogs henceforth and forever more? I like the image editing features of CO that I have seen. Is using Catalogs an integral part of CO?
PS: My Catalog is generating previews as I type this. 4900 down and 92,700 to go (in 4 hours and 43 minutes). Please don't misunderstand my intent; I really want to like CO, but it seems like a large jump from using Windows Explorer and Photoshop.0 -
What you need to understand is that any adjustment made to a RAW file in CO can only be interpreted by CO. So in a way, yes, if you develop your RAW files in a CO catalog, you need to keep on using CO if you want to make any further adjustments to the RAW file. Or else you'll have to export (process) them to JPEG or TIFF format if you want to edit them outside of CO.
As for tutorials going too fast, YouTube offers the option to slow the video down.0 -
I use a catalog in Capture One, but I leave the images on a network disk. You can but don't have to import images into the catalog. 0 -
OK, so it appears I jumped the gun by selecting all my photos to be in the first catalog. Is there a way to stop the process? This is just way too slow with 96,000 photos on my HD. Thanks. 0 -
Hi,
C1 user here since version 4 beta (not sure, 2007/2008) and never entered into the Catalog-thing.
This is for me one of the advantages of C1 that it doesn't force you into the catalog operation and organisation model.
I'm working exclusively with "Session" as it allows me to define my own image organisation which I do according to the used camera model, according to the 10th of thousand of the image counter of the reffered camera (1-9999; 10,000-19,999 etc. taking into account that the counter of the camera goes always only from 1-9,999) and according to the date of capture (format YYMMDD, with a short worded description of the content or location).
So the structure could be for example: RAW\RX10-01\160511-Animals. This would hold the images from 1 to 9,999 taken with the RX10. A folder "RX10-02" would be the place for the second bunch of 1 to 9,999 - in reality 10,001 to 19,999. And so on.
Has been working very well for me.
Since the secondary files which C1 creates are saved as subfolders of the directory which holds the RAW image files, backup can be done easily by copying the entire "RX10-01" folder, or only the new 160511-Animals folder to an external hard drive (or two of them) in the same structure.0 -
Thanks, Michael1. That sounds like a very good plan for using Capture One (for my use as an amateur photographer). 0 -
At least it's an option.
Perhaps worth to add that even in Session the program start could be a bit slow if there are many images in the opened image folder. Sometimes I'm shooting at sports events and this means sometimes several thousands of images. To speed up access I usually split up the images of such shootings into two or three folders.0
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