Capture One Live is a tool that allows you to share images with your peers and stakeholders for easy access and review. No more sending files through email or cloud drives or dealing with long email threads. Simply share a link to your photos and your team or clients can view, rate, tag, comment and access them from any device without needing an account.
Live is built into Capture One mobile and Capture One Pro and is device agnostic on the reviewer side. All the benefits of Capture One Live from Capture One Pro carry over to the iPhone application with the added bonus of having a studio solution on the go. By using their own devices, the team and client can follow the shoot without the need for a laptop or other bulky equipment on location
As a result of this, Capture One Live on mobile introduces a completely new workflow to our industry.
Be sure to watch the following video tutorial for a quick introduction to using Capture One Live:
This article contains the following sections:
- Getting started
- Start a Live session by sharing an Album in Capture One for iPhone
- Start a Live session by sharing an Album from Capture One for iPad
- Comments Tool: In-App Capture One Live Comments
- Join a Live session in a web browser
- Additional information
Getting started
Verify that you are running the latest version of Capture One mobile. For details, please see this article: About Capture One for iPhone.
Start a Live session by sharing an Album in Capture One for iPhone
Create an album and add images in Capture One mobile, as Capture One Live only works with user-created albums and not default Capture One Albums.
On the album screen, tap on the three dots (⋯) button, tap on Share Online; alternatively, tap on the Share Online icon located at the top right corner of the album screen:
Invite users and manage access
After sharing an album, you can adjust access options in the Manage Access window. You can add individual reviewer emails and set their access rights to view only or to tag, rate and comment. Alternatively, you can share a link with one set of access rights. Setting the status to no access requires reviewers to identify themselves by email before gaining permission to view online.
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Note In Capture One Pro, the watermarking settings you set for the currently selected recipe will also be applied to your Live previews. |
After you start sharing the album online, you can manage it by tapping the Share Online icon button located at the top right corner of the album screen, or by tapping the three dots (⋯) button:
A progress bar shows up next to the album name during the upload of the images to the web, so you can be certain that all of them are available to your collaborators. We recommend sharing your albums online as early as you can, so the upload can happen while you are capturing or editing images – with a decent internet connection you should almost never have to see this progress bar.
Stop sharing
The online collection will stay active for 30 days, or until you choose to stop sharing it.
On the album screen, tap on the three dots (⋯) button, tap on Manage Sharing, tap on Stop Sharing:
Emails are exclusively for paid users of Capture One Live (See the differences here)
Start a Live session by sharing an Album from Capture One for iPad
Any existing album can be shared online.
Tap "..." next to your album name and choose Share Online or select an album and tap the Share Online icon at the top right corner to manage access:
Invite users and manage access
After sharing an album, you can adjust access options in the Manage Access window. You can add individual reviewer emails and set their access rights to view only or to tag, rate and comment. Alternatively, you can share a link with one set of access rights. Setting the status to no access requires reviewers to identify themselves by email before gaining permission to view online.
After you start sharing the album online, you can manage it by tapping the Share Online button located in the top right corner next to the album name.
A progress bar shows up next to the album name during the upload of the images to the web, so you can be certain that all of them are available to your collaborators. We recommend sharing your albums online as early as you can, so the upload can happen while you are capturing or editing images – with a decent internet connection you should almost never have to see this progress bar.
Stop sharing
The online collection will stay active for 30 days, or until you choose to stop sharing it. You can do so by pressing Stop Sharing from the album menu ("...").
Comments Tool: In-App Capture One Live Comments
Capture One mobile (2.2) introduces a new tool, the Comments Tool. This feature allows you to interact with comments left on each image by you or your collaborators, directly within Capture One mobile.
Please note that comments are hosted within the online collection on the web and will disappear when the collection expires or is terminated. This also means that you need to be online to read comments and may experience a brief loading time when fetching each comment.
To access the Comments Tool, view an image from one of your user-created albums and tap the speech balloon icon 💬 in the top right corner on an iPhone and the lower left corner on an iPad:
If you haven’t shared your album online yet, a prompt will appear asking if you wish to do so:
Once the album is shared online, you’ll have the ability to read, write, and delete comments directly within the Capture One mobile app:
Join a Live session in a web browser
While the collection is online, the reviewers can view the photos in the chosen collection. They can provide their feedback by star rating, color tagging, and adding their comments.
New photos will be automatically added to the online collection – no need to refresh! Similarly, new edits on photos in the share collection will automatically be reflected in the online counterpart.
Sort, Search and Filter
Results from filtering and sorting will not update automatically when new images are coming into the online collection. Refresh the results manually to see the applied filters.
Follow
The reviewer can also choose to follow the images that the photographer captured last or edited last by pressing the binoculars button in the top right corner.
This is a great solution if you want to focus on the latest image the photographer added or updated and see the changes in real-time - especially during tethered shoots.
If you want to exit from the Follow mode, you need to exit the full screen by clicking the arrow in the top left corner of the screen or just pressing the esc button.
Change language
The language of the content in the web browser is determined by the default language settings of your browser. If you want to change the language, you can do so by clicking the profile icon at the top right corner and then selecting "Language". A drop-down menu will unfold with a number of language options.
Shortcuts
You can use keyboard shortcuts to star rate and color tag images in a Capture One Live Session.
Star Rating and Color Tagging:
- 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, where '0' resets the rating
- q, w, e, r, t, y, u, I, where 'Q' resets the tag
Navigation:
- Left and right arrow key to navigate to the left and right
- Escape (Esc) key to return to the gallery
Additional information
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Underneath each photo, there is an interactive section with the stars rating and color tags. If someone has already rated or color tagged the photo, the reviewer can see their ratings and color tags. The reviewer can also rate or color tag any photo on the shared Session and when it is done, ratings and tags will overwrite the existing values.
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The online collection ends either when its expiry time is reached, or when the photographer chooses to click on the Stop Sharing button within Capture One. Then all photos are removed from the online collection and are no longer available.
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Keep in mind that if Capture One is closed down while the online collection is still active, Capture One needs to be launched again before the Live Session expires to avoid losing any ratings and color tags that were added in the meantime.
- Live is incredibly fast and efficient, uploading only web-resolution JPEGs to conserve resources and data. Your team will have access to these JPEGs, while your RAW files remain safely on your iPhone.
- Live sessions last for 30 days, after which any comments added to the session will be automatically emailed to you. This also happens when you stop sharing from the app. The latest ratings and tags will remain in your album within the app
Known Bugs
- When copying the entire Session folder, the Capture One Live session is connected to both document instances.
Comments
3 comments
This feature is not ready for prime time. Pretty consistently when I try to share an album, I get the "authentication error - you need to sign in or sign-up to access shared accounts." I am signed in when I receive this message. The only way I can get it to then work is to sign out of my account and sign back in and then try sharing the album again. Please fix.
Tested this a few times and it appears the issue occurs most often when the ipad is connected to cellular and the wifi is connected to my camera. I then need to disconnect my wifi from the ipad and connect the ipad's wifi to the network. i.e. the app doesn't seem to recognize authenticated accounts when using cellular. Again this nmakes it unusable for tethering via wifi direct while using live capture via cellular.
hey Simon Kuo thanks for sharing, i'll forward this to the team.
if you want to, and i highly recommend you do, you can formally report this to our support team so that they and our developers can share progress with you. use the Request Support button in the header to report this as a bug.
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