Make a true duplicate of image to use in a capture subfolder (Sessions)

Steve Reid

• 22. September 2021 15:36

Hi, How can i make a true duplicate image in C21 . Not just a clone variant. As when I move a variant duplicate to another subfolder it moves the original as well. - I work in Sessions. 

I use C21 , OSX mojave and Bigsur. 

My workflow is I need to keep client selects in Selects folder. 

And then I want to make a 'My selects' folder which will have my choices in for portfolio use. Often we select both the same images. But I want my one to be standalone as I'll prob do a different grade, and having an additional My selects folder (whithin the Session folder structure) is better for a manual backup & archive management. 

Hope you can help. Cheers

S

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  Fabrizio Giudici (stoppingdown)

  • 22. September 2021 16:55

  Note that I don't use Sessions, but Catalog - but I think it's the same.

  As far as I know you have to duplicate the file. In Lightroom the concept of "virtual copy" let you create a truly different image, with a different name, that can be independently processed and e.g. tagged. I'm not aware of anything like that in Capture One - as you said variants are totally different.

  If you are using a recent macOS (I see you have Mojave and BigSur) and you're using APFS volumes, cloning a file won't cost you anything since the file system does deduplication (that is, it understands that two files are identical and makes them share the bits, even though the files can be managed independently - it's even more powerful than this, but now it's not relevant).

  The extra space would be consumed when you do a backup on a filesystem that doesn't support dedup - e.g. an optical disk.

  It could be done also with symbolic or physical links, but I don't recommend this for a number of complexities that could arise.

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  Permanently deleted user

  • 22. September 2021 17:21

  To make a duplicate in a session...

  1. Right click on image and select Show in Finder
  2. In the Finder window right click on image and select Duplicate
  3. Close the Finder window

  Because you are working in a Session Capture one will see the duplicated image without you having to do anything.  Its name will be the original name plus the word "copy".  You can, of course, change the name.

  I think you can also do what you want without duplicating the physical image by using an album?  Something like this...

  1. Clone or create a new variant.
  2. Add the keyword "cloned" to the new variant.
  3. Create a smart album containing images where keywords contains "cloned".

  Only images with the "cloned" keyword will show up in that album.  It doesn't make any difference where you move the original image.

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