Importing to CaptureOne - Create albums from folders

NN635407615829703750UL

• 12. Juli 2014 11:39

Hello.

I am just in the move from Lightroom to CaptureOne and having some lack of understanding
as how to organise and import my photos to capture one.

What I want to do is import RAW files from my harddisk to a CaptureOne catalog (I do not intend to use sessions)
as referenced photos, not copying them to a CaptureOne catalog. I want them to stay in the folders they are stored in.

The pictures are organised by subfolders representing the events i have taken them. I want
them to be organised the same way as albums within CaptureOne.


Since I have about 900 folders with about 38000 images, I do not want to create each album manually within Capture one.

Long intro, short questions: How can CaptureOne albums be created automatically based on the file system folders during the import with album names reflecting file system folder names?

Any advice welcome

Andy

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  Paul Steunebrink

  • 17. Juli 2014 08:14

  [quote="NN635407615829703750UL" wrote:
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  Long intro, short questions: How can CaptureOne albums be created automatically based on the file system folders during the import with album names reflecting file system folder names?

  
  Short answer: no.
  Long answer: what do these albums add to your workflow? Albums are great to organize images from *different* folders (among others). The Library tool show the originating folders in the Folders section, either with or without hierarchy. Does that not fulfill your request?

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  N Belll

  • 20. Juli 2014 09:50

  Hi Paul
  
  This was one of the questions I was going to post, as a new trial user of C1Pro coming from Aperture. I am very pleased with C1Pro from a RAW processing perspective with the cameras I use, but the DAM aspects are... developing over time as I understand it. Ironically, I used iView Media Pro way back when which was great, upgraded the licence when Microsoft bought it out, but lost interest when Aperture came along.
  
  Back to this point, though. I copy my RAW originals from removable media into a fairly typical folder-based structure, by project/event, outside the C1Pro/Aperture database. I always know where my original files are and that makes things easier for backups too.
  
  However, within a project, I often organise those images into multiple albums, e.g. one for print, one to share on social media, one to post to my website, one with B&W Variants of the same images etc. If I was to use the Folder view as you suggest, I can see all the images for a project but I can't create any albums underneath in that view, I'd have to create a User Collection (Project), which I want to have named exactly the same as the folder, because that just makes sense. And as I don't want to have to jump between Folders view and User Collections view to find my files, if I do it for one project I want to do it for every project. So an automatic way of creating a User Collection from the imported folder name would be really handy. I see I can add imported images to a Collection at Import, but I have to have created the Collection first. It would seem that further drop-down menu options under "Import to" > "Collection" that say "New Project with folder name" and "New Album with folder name" (the latter for those who don't necessarily use Albums within Albums) might be easy enough?
  
  And taking things one step further, I'd add that when using Aperture I actually download images to a single "Import" folder (so I never have to change where it looks when I go to Import), I can then tell Aperture what the project name is once and it will both create a folder of that name and move the imported files from my Import folder to it (I can preset a path formula for consistent locations in the file hierarchy) and a Project in the asset database of the same name so everything ties up. I'd have to say that is a best-in-class approach.
  
  Enjoying C1Pro, just it's difficult to transition as you can appreciate. Just thankful that I'm not going to LR!!
  
  Nick

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