Capture One Live is a service that enables easy remote collaboration between photographers and their clients and partners. It allows photographers to instantly share collections of photos with others who can then view, rate, and color tag the photos directly on any device through a web browser. During tethered Sessions, photos can be shared in real-time as they are captured. This enables easy, fast, and safe remote collaboration. Additionally, the service can be used as an asynchronous feedback tool, since it allows photographers to have the Sharing Session active for a day and get feedback any time during that period.
Be sure to check the Capture One Live video tutorial and Quick Start Guide for Capture One Live.
Capture One Live is available in Capture One 22 (15.1.0) or later. Use the latest version to get the newest Capture One Live improvements.
Capture One 16.6.0 brings a number of improvements to Capture One Live:
- Live Sessions last up to 60 days for Capture One Studio users
- New Library Tool hierarchy support
- Any folder in the Library tree can be shared from the right-click menu
- Sharing a parent folder shares all the nested folders. A parent folder only displays pictures directly contained in it, not pictures from nested folders.
- Once shared, folders appear as a list, containing both parent and nested folders. Folders appear with indentations when the side bar is expanded and as a list when the sidebar is collapsed
- Optimized multiple folders sharing: share larger folders and image sets.
Starting from version 16.7.2, ratings and color tags now remain available for 30 additional days after session expires.
On Mobile and All-in-One, this means your data is kept for a total of 60 days.
On Studio, data is kept for a total of 90 days.
To provide feedback about your experience or any issues you find with Capture One Live, please contact Support here or use the Rate your Experience button if you are in the Session.
Capture One Live features overview
Capture One Live free features
Share one Live Session at a time
Up to 24 hours Live Session duration, with an option to stop sharing at any time
Share images in a Live Session via a link
Give feedback on images: rate, color tag, comment
Capture One Live Unlimited features
- Share multiple Live Sessions at the same time
- Up to 30 days Live Session duration and up to 60 days for Studio users on Capture One 16.6.0 and newer, with an option to sharing at any time
- Share images in a Live Session via a link
- Give feedback on images: rate, color tag, comment
- Set each user’s rights (ability to just view or give feedback on images)
- Invite users to a Live Session with their emails
- Get visibility over who has commented on photos
- Protect images by adding a watermark
- Email notifications (comments from clients when Session expires)
Comments
45 comments
The whole experience feels buggy in general
Sorry had to cancel this - unusable at the moment
Hi Javier!
I am using Live everyday with many different customers and partners. It works like a charm here..
Would you mind share a link with us?
What are your issues?
Works but for me ordering by date is terrible. Ordering by name should be possible or what about different orderposibilities?
https://live.captureone.com/1c7e0ae2-9aca-4499-a97d-117d155f968f - give it a go
And try to sort based on colors or comment
You probably cant do that - now it says this - no clue why. I did cancel the service, so maybe others cant use the links
Does the preview size selected in preferences impact the preview synced with capture live? We changed our preview size and now the client is receiving grossly pixilated previews in their live session. Or is it something else? It also seems like it could be the preview quality degrading with each live session we create because there isn't a hard switch. Anyone else experience this?
How do I see the comments made by a client? Can I see them on my software version of C1 while I am shooting or after the shoot is finished like I can with the star and color tags? Or do I have to log into the 'shared' web version of C1 Live (like the client) to see the comments?
If it's not possible to share multiple folder inside a session it's a useless tool, on fashion shoot we organize the photoshoot into subfolder like:
Session Name/Capture/subfolders
If client can only see one of the looks I have shoot it's the same as nothing.
Is there any way to share the whole session, ie each of the separate shot folders?
I can't seem to find any info on this online.
Thanks
I've been experimenting with Capture One Live and it has a huge flaw for me. I have multiple clients reviewing images, and I'd like all of them to be able to rate/tag the photos individually. Unless I'm missing something, there can only be one rating/color tag for a photo, and if people have ratings permissions they just override my ratings in CO. I'd love it to function more like ShootProof or Pixieset, where I can see how many "likes" each photo has. The comments function is great though.
@Roxane Chicoine
It's a good question. To my mind, the "like/dislike" feature could make live a bit too complex. Dislike/Like are not part of standard metadatas making it hard to integrate in the the main software.
However, for comments, there is an EXIF "User comment" field. I guess, C1 could retrieve the online comment there.
Cheers
I'm trying to work on a project with a client. My client has commented some photos with "Live Comments".I was able to filter these in Capture One Pro under "Filters" menu (even if the comments info is a bit cryptic), but I wasn't able to make "New Smart Album" based on "Live Comments".
Would be great to have a toggle for Annotations within the Web Gallery. However, I still can't believe you are charging for this service. Preview quality is absolutely atrocious - every client I have Proofed with using Live shares the complaint. Across clients, and multiple shoots - I am guaranteed to receive Selects where the Subject's eyes are closed, or entirely out of focus.
Furthermore, without the inclusion of a Change Log - it is impossible to Audit what changes to Tags/Ratings have been made, and by whom. This is a critical issue waiting to happen - what if Client manages to zero ALL ratings, undoing their work. There is no way to go back and get a list/manually create one from a log.
Capture Pilot, opened up to the Internet was a much more effective turnaround as image quality far exceeds that of what is currently offered.
This feature seems elementary and unfinished at best. Very eager for an update/response on these points!
Hi Josh,
Pictures are just sharp in live for me. Maybe there is a technical issue.
Contact the support.
Cheers
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