Select and move JPG variants only
Hi all, apologies if this is basic and has been asked before!
I want to separate my raw and jpg images during tethered import into different directories so that I can keep the jpg directory constantly sync'd to a client's Dropbox (they want to see all the jpgs as they come in....) No editing on the jpgs is required.
My messy workflow is to have the Capture directory show only the jpgs, then move them to the Selects directory manually and then have Chronosync use the Selects directory to sync with their Dropbox folder. That works but it has 2 steps I wish I could automate (moving the jpg to a new directory and making that directory end up being the Dropbox directory.)
I tried to write a script for this, but I got stuck trying to figure out how to get the variant noun to select only jpgs (all I could get it to do was work on images by variant id.)
I wish CO could let you send jpg and raw to different folders on tethered import instead of to the same Capture folder, that would make this much easier...
Any insight appreciated!
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Your approach is trying to use CaptureOne for tasks its designed not to do.
It would be simpler IMO to simply leave the JPGs and RAWs in the same folder, and set Chronosync to only synchronize the JPGs. If Chronosync can’t do that, the SyncFoldersPro from GreenWorldSoft will do it.1 -
Eric, thank you! When I first setup Chronosync I thought it would be able to mirror only JPGs, but nope!
I didn't know about SyncFolders Pro but looking at the features it's exactly what I need for this client.
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You can configure ChronoSync to only sync files with a certain file extension under the Rules tab on the left. Was that not working for you?
As for selecting JPG images you should be able to do something like
tell front document of application "Capture One 20"
every image whose extension is "jpg"
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Hi Emory, that was the problem, I had Chronosync setup to only copy jpg files from the Capture directory, but it wasn't actually doing it, so I had to instead direct it to the Output directory. It also still required me to tell it to sync manually instead of immediately (or in increments shorter than the minimum time, I think 15 mins?)
This ended up being a very educational shoot, I thought we would be tethering, but my photographer's style was to shoot A TON of frames (like 1000/hour) and then hand off cards to me. We then needed to get slightly edited tiny jpgs (shadow/highlight fixes and down to 300kb) on to Dropbox as quickly as possible for the client to view off-site.
Originally I had him just shoot RAW and do all the conversions in CO, but the export time for full-size Z7 NEF to 300kb JPG was taking forever on my laptop (well, 15 minutes for like 500 photos at a time, so not awful considering the workload, but not ideal if the client wanted to watch in real time) so instead we switched to RAW+JPG in camera and just used the JPGs for the editing and conversions and stored the RAWs for later.
The final workflow was in-camera JPG > CO Capture > CO Output and then SyncFolders Pro would run every 15 seconds to pull new JPGs from Output to Dropbox. Your script would have worked better since I wouldn't have had to bother with doing the exports manually, but the bottleneck actually ended up being the file conversions anyway.
This was my first time using an M1 MacBook Air with the M1 Native CO, frankly it seemed a bit slower than the 2016 MacBook Pro I had been using before (although the battery life was WAAAAY better, did an entire 10-hour day and over 4000 captures without a recharge.)
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