Migrating to C1 Pro from Lightroom: which worflow?

janbak

• 1. April 2015 12:54

HI all,

I'm migrating to C1 Pro in these days, I've always used Lightroom before

In Lightroom a was used to organize my pictures in the following folder structure
- YEAR (yyyy)
--- Event (yy_mm_eventname)
------ Originals
------ Web sized output
------ Print sized output
------ Rejected
I imported all my pictures in a single Catalogue (around 750 GB right now)
The catalogue is stored on the internal hd and pictures are store on an external hd

My idea is to work in C1 in this way:
- create a session for each event on the internal hd, getting in this way the typical C1 Pro session sub solders structure
- import my pictures from the SD in the session "Captures" folder
- make selections and adjustments working in this session
- process my pictures
- then (when I'm ready to archive) move the session folders (including my pictures) on the external hd and import it in a general Catalogue (stored on the internal hd) for all my pictures
- in this way in my Catalogue I should have a project for each event, and an album for each subfolder and I can group my project per year

Do you think it make sense and it could work smoothly?

It is not clear to me which searching limitation I could have having my events organized in "Project" ...

Many thanks

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  NN165848UL

  • 1. April 2015 21:51

  Hey thanks for asking this question!
  
  I'm sorry I don't have an answer but I am in exactly the same situation as you so hoping we get some useful replies.
  
  My workflow with LR is a little different; All the photos stay forever in the same dated event folder and i used colour tags and star ratings to identify the selects. Then I could select those and publish to the website with Smugmug from within LR.
  
  With C1Pro I plan to just use sessions for each event and then to load the output of the Selects into a DAM archive. I was hoping to use MediaPro which I bought but it seems unreliable and flakey so at the moment I am testing with using a C1Pro catalog to link to the Selects folder or to do the same with PhotoSupreme. It will be a while before I decide what I will do this sports season. PhotoSupreme can upload to SmugMug, with C1Pro I'd have to make a manual step.
  
  For me, as I shoot so many pictures at an event the last thing I want is multiple folders on the hard drive all relating to the same event. Having just the shoot and the Selects in 2 folders is fine though - this way when I review the shoot later its easy to add another to the Selects and add it to the archive.
  
  I will probably keep using PhotoMechanic for ingesting, rating and captioning as its so fast. This seems to work nicely with C1Pro.
  
  I am moving to C1Pro because this workflow seems to avoid the long import times I was facing with LR - even if I culled with Photomechanical. With a session the photos are right there and I can start batch processing and making the final selection much more quickly. I am on a 2007 iMac still so that explains a lot but I plan to upgrade to the retina iMac very soon so perhaps that would have solved the import speed issue .... but the quality of the RAW conversion over LR to me is significant and quite a shock. Just beautiful!
  
  Good luck in your own quest.
  
  MikeL

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