Performance in Sessions vs Catalogs

Mark Golledge

• 5. März 2016 16:31

Greetings!

Moving over from Aperture I started adding all my projects into C1 and about half way through my 100k images I noticed a considerable performance loss and halted the imports to do the unknown if I added all 100k images.

Session... does each session act as a catalog performance wise? I was wondering if I made each project a session that would eliminate the sluggish performance.

Am I still able to search through all sessions and see all images as if it was 1 catalog?

Lightroom seems to handle the large library much better than C1 but I really like using C1 vs the feeling of having to use Lr 😊

Thanks for your help!
Mark

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  paintbox

  • 6. März 2016 13:42

  First read up on this:
  
  Then bring in your projects a few at a time, organizing them as you go.
  
  C1 will open more quickly when opening from a particular project,album, etc. Its when you open from "All Images" that things start creeping along.
  
  C1 will remember what you were working on last so if you quit in a certain album, that album will open next time you fire C1 up.
  
  Sessions is for new work.
  
  So lets say you go out and shoot some pics today. When you get home you will want to open C1 while holding the option key.
  A window will pop up. Inside that widow, in the lower part of that window you will see "New Catalog", "New Session", "Browse".
  Just hit "New Session". Import your photos (from todays shoot) into your new sessions and begin working, culling, etc. When you are done, you then just move those into your catalog remembering to create an album for that particular shoot.
  
  Now that is an extremely simplified version of a workflow. You really need to read up on naming,key-wording,as well as particular settings that need be paid attention to.
  C1 can be very intimidating, but it does pay off once you get over the initial learning curve.

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  Jeffrey Jakucyk

  • 6. März 2016 23:14

  For me it seems that 40,000 photos is about the limit for a catalog, and that's when it's stored on an SSD. Even on a fast spinning disk/RAID array I'd cut that down further. That works fairly well for me as I've always kept Aperture libraries separate by year, and I've continued that way with Capture One. I do not use sessions.

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  Mark Golledge

  • 13. März 2016 15:13

  Appreciated your feedback! Truly helpful.

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