plugins for CaptureOne?
I assumed that there were no plugins for use with CaptureOne but, when browsing through the CaptureOne library structure on my Mac looking for the lens distortion profiles I found a plugin folder (.../Application Support/Capture One/Plug-ins) so my immediate question was what is this folder for if there are no plugins for C1. Or, looking at it the other way, what plugins are available for C1?
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From what I understand there is an SDK but it is primarily for camera manufacturers, etc. and is very expensive. The plugins you are referring to are for lens correction and are made by the manufactures. As far as I know in talking to the folks at Capture Integration there is no Plug-in as you are thinking about it are not available... I wish they would but for now I think you have to make appleScripts. 0 -
Thank you for the information. I was puzzled by the existence of a plugins folder for C1 when I did not know of (and could not find on the internet) any plugins that actually worked with it. Your response clears that up although there is nothing in the plugins folder.
From that I guess I must assume that none of the camera manufacturers have any interest in spending the time and resources in making plugins for a product that, no matter how good, does not seem to have a large market share. Were this Lightroom I suppose there would be a series of plugins (well, there are for LR).
Thank you again for your response.0 -
[quote="rsirota" wrote:
... there is an SDK but it is primarily for camera manufacturers, etc. and is very expensive. ...
I believe that to be untrue. There is an SDK. It permits software developers to deliver extra functionality in the processing pipeline, not just camera manufacturers. Now, the fact that not so many companies have delivered plugins may or may not have something to do with the latter statement. However, i believe it has more to do with the relative unknown status of Capture One in the general software world.0 -
The Plug-In folder exists because of the Profoto Light Control plugin, they provide from their Web-page.
Using a Profoto Air USB stick Capture One is now able to control Profoto Air generators and compact heads.0 -
I'm coming over to Capture One Pro from Aperture and I was hoping that NIKs suburb plug-ins would one day be available. So far I'm liking Capture One. It certainly has much better workflow than Lightroom, but I miss a whole raft of features that were available in Aperture. 0 -
[quote="MikeFromMesa" wrote:
I assumed that there were no plugins for use with CaptureOne but, when browsing through the CaptureOne library structure on my Mac looking for the lens distortion profiles I found a plugin folder (.../Application Support/Capture One/Plug-ins) so my immediate question was what is this folder for if there are no plugins for C1. Or, looking at it the other way, what plugins are available for C1?
All NIK plugins work with C1 P8 - select image, right click, edit with, then just select what ever plugin you wish. Edit image, save out of NIK and edited version appears in C1. Not all NIK plugins appear as easy sections but just search through folders to find one you want then double click. ( the last one used is remembered for next time around ). 😊 😊0 -
I also experience most NIK plugins to work fine under >= 8.1 (don't know for earlier versions).
I have made a support case feature request to add Silver Efex to the standard list and if possible HDR Efex. HDR Efex is not that straight foward proabaly, since it uses mulitple input files and 1 output file, whereas the others use 1 input file (created by Edit With) and 1 output file, that gets udpated in the catalog after closing the NIK plugin.
For me this works as easy as in Aperture.
I would love to have more examples of Applescript plugins. I would like to make one for using several images to the open source tools Enblend (and Enfuse) with image_align for Focus/Exposure stacking and back again to C1Pro.0 -
[quote="traveller858" wrote:
All NIK plugins work with C1 P8 - select image, right click, edit with, then just select what ever plugin you wish. Edit image, save out of NIK and edited version appears in C1. Not all NIK plugins appear as easy sections but just search through folders to find one you want then double click. ( the last one used is remembered for next time around ). 😊 😊
The same thing should be true for the Topaz plugins. Topaz provides an app for calling them (photoFXLab) and, using that with the Edit With functionality, sends a tiff to that app which can then be used to call all of the Topaz plugins.
Unfortunately C1 does not seem to understand the format of the re-saved tiff and only shows a triangle with a big "?" in it. I had to load the returned tiff into another editor and re-save it as a tiff for C1 to understand it. Makes me wonder if I should report the problem to Topaz, CaptureOne or both.
One thing I should say is that C1 8.2 is very good at recognizing that an image has been returned and updating both the filmstrip thumbnail and the image when the thumbnail is clicked. 7.2.3 was not very good at that (I used the Process functionality to call external editors) and often would not pick up the re-saved image unless I performed a "Regenerate Previews" call manually. It was the feature that made me decide to upgrade to 8.2.0 -
Hi C1Pro can only recognize flat TIF files if I'm correct. Maybe Topaz exports them as layered TIF, which does not work in C1. 0 -
[quote="espaan" wrote:
Hi C1Pro can only recognize flat TIF files if I'm correct. Maybe Topaz exports them as layered TIF, which does not work in C1.
That was my first thought also, but I Ioaded the image into a couple of pixel editors and all of them only saw one layer. Unfortunately the problem is worse than just Topaz. I can use C1 to call PerfectPhoto Suite with a tiff, work on the image there, flatten it and save it and C1 does not recognize that tiff either.
Both probably work with jpgs, but I would rather not use them for serious editing. What I found I have to do is load the final tiff into Elements 13, adjust it somewhat (since I cannot do a Save without adjust something) and re-save it. Then C1 recognizes it. A bit of a kludge, but better than nothing.0 -
Hi,
did you add a support case ? It sounds strange, maybe the support team can say something about it ?
I'm not using Topaz or PerfectPhoto. The NIK plugins work fine and also editing in PS Elements and Pixelmator for instance.0 -
[quote="espaan" wrote:
Hi,
did you add a support case ? It sounds strange, maybe the support team can say something about it ?
I'm not using Topaz or PerfectPhoto. The NIK plugins work fine and also editing in PS Elements and Pixelmator for instance.
I have been doing some research about this and it turns out that the problem is the Alpha Channel information, or what Topaz refers to as Layer 0. Topaz, by default, includes the Alpha Channel and when photoFXLab is used the OK button automatically includes it. Pixel editors like Photoshop, Elements, PhotoLine and Affinity Photo all deal with it, C1 does not.
Fortunately there are two alternatives. The image can be saved in photoFXLab two ways - one, the OK button, includes the Alpha Channel, but using File -> Save offers an option to include it or not. It is considerably more trouble since you have to navigate to the proper folder location and answer a series of questions, but it does allow you to uncheck the Alpha Channel checkbox and that solves the problem. The second choice is to use the Topaz app Fusion Express 2 which allows you to call a single Topaz plugin and, when saving the result, does not include the Alpha Channel information. Both work well with C1 and have thus given me a decent work-around.
Now if I could only find a similar solution for the problem with PerfectPhoto Suite ...0
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