Smart Album with selects from all sessions
Hello!
I use Sessions exclusively, and they work well for me. But I'd like to be able to have a smart album (or something similar) that contains all the selects from all my Sessions. A sort of "here's all my best shots at a glance" folder.
Can anyone help me achieve this, preferably in an automated way?
Many thanks,
Jim
I use Sessions exclusively, and they work well for me. But I'd like to be able to have a smart album (or something similar) that contains all the selects from all my Sessions. A sort of "here's all my best shots at a glance" folder.
Can anyone help me achieve this, preferably in an automated way?
Many thanks,
Jim
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That's one of the things that catalogs are good for. I add all the Selects folders from my sessions to my master catalog, once I have mostly finished work on the session.
Ian0 -
But it's a manual process right? I have to move them in every time? 0 -
Jim,
You say "All the Selects". Does that mean you religiously make use of a single "Selects" folder in each session? Or do you use some part of the IPTC metadata to identify chosen images?
Are you also making output versions of your final edits to jpg or something similar?
Are your "Selects" intended to be "final - never to be changed again" versions of the images?
Depending on your answers I can think of several different approaches to achieve what you seem to need but to describe them all in enough detail would potentially be confusing and very time consuming with a lot of redundancy if your personal preferences would automatically eliminate some of them before we started!
The simplest "Automated" option I can think of would be to make use of Output files with embedded metadata that provide a search option. I assume that Mac offers at least the same options as Windows in terms of searching files for metadata.
Ian3's suggestion is a very deliverable result with minimum actions required.
One could do much the same with a "Master" session to which one simply adds the "Selects" folder from all newly created sessions. But if you shoot a lot of sessions (or decide to edit what you shoot utilising a lot of separate sessions) the folder management could get a bit unwieldy.
Your other option would be to adopt some sort of "Gallery" application that would gather images for you but offers some form of filtering option to select only the "Selects".
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[quote="Jiiim" wrote:
But it's a manual process right? I have to move them in every time?
Yes, but really not onerous. Once I have finished work on a session, I open the catalog, add a new folder (the Selects folder of the session), and then synchronise the folder. (Make sure that the box to open the import dialog is checked, so that you can ensure the option to include existing adjustments is selected.)
Really only a minute's work, or so. If there are a lot of images, you might then wait a short time for C1 to create previews for the catalog.
If you have a lot to add, it might take a bit of time to set up, but once you are using the system, adding in the Selects folder from the next session is quick and easy.
(One word of warning - once you have images in the catalog, don't edit them in the session again. Do it in the catalog, if you want to work on them some more. The new edits would not be copied back.)
Ian0 -
You say "All the Selects". Does that mean you religiously make use of a single "Selects" folder in each session? Or do you use some part of the IPTC metadata to identify chosen images?
Yeah, I just stick to the default folders for sessions, with a single selects folder for each.Are you also making output versions of your final edits to jpg or something similar?
I process some but not all of the images I select, generally outputting them as Jpgs.But if you shoot a lot of sessions (or decide to edit what you shoot utilising a lot of separate sessions) the folder management could get a bit unwieldy.
Yeah, this is what I'm worried about. Always juggling folders about, when it seems like a suitable task for automation.
I.e. The computer watches my image drives, and then links the contents of every folder names "Selects" into a smart album.(One word of warning - once you have images in the catalog, don't edit them in the session again. Do it in the catalog, if you want to work on them some more. The new edits would not be copied back.)
This is a bit of a pain isn't it? I'd assumed a catalog only referenced a file, so editing would from there would change the file in it's original location.0 -
[quote="Jiiim" wrote:
(One word of warning - once you have images in the catalog, don't edit them in the session again. Do it in the catalog, if you want to work on them some more. The new edits would not be copied back.)
This is a bit of a pain isn't it? I'd assumed a catalog only referenced a file, so editing would from there would change the file in it's original location.
Capture One never changes the file. It stores information about edits separately.
- In a session, edit information is stored in .cos settings files located in subfolders of the image folder.
- In a catalog, edit information is stored in the catalog database.
- If you import a session (or images from a session) into a catalog, Capture One can copy the edit information from the .cos files into the catalog database, but it does not continually sync between the two.
Ian0
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