Capture One is made in collaboration with the world’s leading professional photographers.
Capture One is a powerful RAW converter offering you ultimate image quality with beautiful colors and incredible detail. It offers state-of-the-art tethered capture, powerful digital asset management, extensive adjustment tools and a flexible workflow through customizable workspaces.
All run modes are included in the one installer and the run mode is determined by the license key used. The trial is also included in the installer and is registered as the full product upon activation. Capture One is available in these variants:
- Capture One Pro
- Capture One for Phase One (Phase One/Mamiya Leaf Digital Back support only)
- Capture One Express Fujifilm (Fujifilm camera support only)
- Capture One Express (for Sony) (Sony camera support only)
- Capture One Enterprise
- Capture One Cultural Heritage
Previous release notes can be found at support.captureone.com
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Team Capture One
Contents
- Release highlights
- Feature Walkthrough
- New Camera Support
- Bug Fixes Mac
- Bug Fixes Windows
- System Requirements
- Installation
- Recommendations and Limitations
- Known Issues
- File Support: Notes and Limitations
Release highlights
Capture One 22 (15.1.0) is a feature release containing Capture One Live, new camera support and important bug fixes.
New add-on service
Capture One Live
Capture One Live is coming out of BETA.
Capture One Live is a new paid add-on service that enables easy remote collaboration between photographers and their clients and partners. Through Capture One Live, the client can review, rate, and color tag the photos that the photographer is sharing, and these ratings and color tags are synchronized to Capture One in real-time. Live Sessions can be accessed from anywhere, from any device. Only a web browser is needed.
Improvements
- Improved user management
- Improvements to HDR merge
Feature walkthrough
Capture One Live add-on service
Shooting fashion week in Milan for a client in Tokyo? Or maybe your art director couldn’t make it to the set at the last minute? Capture One Live makes remote collaboration – both in real-time and post-shoot – faster and easier. By sharing a link with the images from your photoshoot with clients and teams anywhere in the world, they can immediately view, rate, and color tag photos directly on any device.
Creating a Live Session
You can share photos organized in either a catalog or a Session.
If you want to share photos organized in a Catalog, make sure that you have created an Album.
If you want to share photos from within a Session, both Folders and Albums are supported. Note: Smart Albums are not supported.
Multiple Live Session support
You can create and share several Live Sessions at the same time.
Live Session duration
Live Sessions can stay active and accessible for up to 7 days unless you decide to stop sharing sooner.
Password protection
You can protect your Live Session with a password. Only reviewers with the password will be able to access the Live Session.
Add Watermark
Before you start a Live Session, you can add a watermark to your images. To add a watermark, simply go to the Exporter and add a watermark to one of your Export Recipes. Don't export your images, but make sure that the recipe is selected before you close the Export dialog. Then enable View > Recipe Proofing. Read more about how to add a watermark in this article.
Join a Live Session
To access the Live Session, all you need to do is copy and paste the link in a browser on your preferred device (desktop, tablet, or phone).
- If the Live Session is not password-protected, it will automatically open, and the images will start loading.
- If the Live Session is password-protected, then after pasting the web address you will be prompted to insert the password.
In the Live Session
As a reviewer in the browser, you can:
- View images
- Follow the live capture or latest edit
- Color tag images
- Star rate images
- Filter images based on color tag or star rating
- Change language
Resume sharing
A reviewer can still view, rate and tag images in the Live Session even though your Capture One desktop application is closed. Resume sharing allows you to sync up all the changes made by the reviewer while Capture One application was closed.
Keep in mind that you need to resume sharing before the Live Session expires to avoid losing any ratings and color tags that were added in the meantime.
Read more about Capture One Live in the articles below:
How to purchase Capture One Live
General user experience improvements and tweaks
Improved user management
The release of a new customer identity management system introduces a secure and seamless authenticating to any of Capture One’s products and services while connecting them to their Capture One Profile.
Improvements
- Trial version no longer needs a trial license key
- New authentication and improved onboarding wizard when launching Capture One
Deprecations of services
We are constantly striving to provide the best possible experience for our customers. This sometimes requires us to deprecate aging functionality to replace them with a more secure and future proof solution. We are therefore removing the below activation methods:
- Offline activation
- Hands-free activation on MacOS
This means that users need to be online when activating Capture One 22 (15.1.0) and onwards.
Improvements to HDR merge
- Lens Correction is now carried over from input files when merging HDRs
- Improved exposure balance on the final HDR merge, preventing overexposed results
- Images from monochrome cameras can now be merged (and stitched with Panorama)
- General stability improvements
New Camera Support
- DJI Mavic 3 (Native DNG support)
Bug fixes Mac
- Fixed an issue where the ’Open With’ plugin would fail to initialize
- Fixed an issue where DNG files from DJI Mavic 3 would not be read by Capture One
- Fixed an issue where the ‘Display Mask’ option in Luma Range did not work
- Fixed an issue where monochromatic images could not be used for HDR and Panorama
- Fixed an issue where Auto White Balance would result in an incorrectly warm Kelvin
- Fixed an issue where the White Balance Picker would result in incorrect Tint when used on bright areas
- Fixed an issue where the Viewer Toolbar could disappear on secondary screens
- Fixed an issue where highlights on DNG files from some phones would render black
- Fixed an issue where Batch Rename could result in incorrect naming when used on different file formats
- Fixed an issue where restoring a Catalog backup from Capture One 20 would cause a hang
- Fixed an issue where Phase One files exported to TIFF could have green fringing
- Fixed an issue with incorrect noise handling for Nikon Z6II
- Fixed various minor bugs with Apple Scripting
- Fixed various crashes and hangs
Bug fixes Windows
- Fixed an issue where Capture One would not persist the correct image selection after closing and opening
- Fixed a rare issue where star ratings and color tags would reset by themselves
- Fixed an issue with incorrect noise handling for Nikon Z6II
- Fixed an issue where Capture One would use CPU resources when idle
- Fixed various crashes and hangs
System requirements
We recommend that your computer has at least the minimum specifications outlined below to run Capture One.
Microsoft® Windows® minimum requirements
- Intel or AMD CPU with 2 cores
- 8 GB of RAM
- 10 GB of free hard disk space
- Calibrated monitor with 1280x800, 24-bit resolution at 96dpi
- Windows 8.1® 64-bit, Windows 10® 64-bit*, or Windows 11®
*Windows 10 is supported for builds from 1607 through to build 21H2.
Apple® Macintosh® minimum requirements
- Intel® Core™ i3 (1st generation)
- 8 GB of RAM
- 10 GB of free hard disk space
- Calibrated monitor with 1280x800, 24-bit resolution at 96dpi
- macOS 10.15, macOS 11, macOS 12*
*MacOS 12 is supported for builds up to 12.1
Recommended system requirements
If working with high-resolution images and doing calculation-heavy adjustments we recommend the following:
- Intel CPU with 4+ cores
- 16+ GB of RAM
- Solid State Disk (SSD)
- NVIDIA or AMD GPU with 8GB+ RAM (or equivalent)
- Calibrated monitor with at least 1920x1200, 24-bit resolution at 96dpi
4k / 5k monitors
Due to the significant additional calculation overhead, systems using 4k/5k monitors will require additional resources in addition to the above-recommended spec (both in GPU and CPU power). For professional experience, we recommend at least doubling the specification above for these configurations.
Installation
Capture One 22 is compatible with the earlier 7.x, 8.x, 9.x, 10.x, 11.x, 12.x versions. It is recommended to migrate images from 4.x, 5.x., and 6.x to version 8.x before opening them in 22. It is generally recommended that you only install one version of Capture One on any single computer. A single-user license allows up to 2 activations on computers that you own or of which you are the principal user. The license can be used with both Windows and Mac platforms. Multi-user licenses are also available from the Capture One web shop or from your retailer. Please read the release notes carefully before you install Capture One.
Install on Windows
To install the software please follow the procedure below.
- Download the application from the Capture One website.
- Run the executable software install file (.exe).
- Carefully read and accept the license agreement presented.
- Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation. Capture One will initiate the installation of Microsoft® .NET Framework 4.7 if you do not already have it.
Install on macOS
To install the software please follow the procedure below.
- Download the application from the Capture One website.
- Open the Capture One disk icon (.dmg).
- Carefully read and accept the license agreement presented.
- Drag the Capture One icon to the Applications folder.
- Open Capture One from your Applications folder.
Manual update to the latest version
It is important to keep Capture One software updated. After the activation and registration, you will usually receive a newsletter reminder that an update is ready for download, although it can be more convenient to choose Capture One -> Check for Updates (Help -> Check for Updates on Windows). If your Capture One application is downloaded from www.captureone.com, it will always be the latest version. You can also schedule an automated update if needed by navigating to Capture One -> Preferences (Edit -> Preferences on Windows).
Recommendations and limitations
For all users
- When you have disconnected a camera, do not reconnect a camera until the Camera tool status changes to "No Camera Attached".
- DNG support not optimized for some cameras.
For other camera users
- The following functionality is not supported for Fujifilm X-trans RAW files: processing/exporting to DNG.
- Some cameras provide multishot functionality by way of (e.g.) multiple exposure or pixel shifting. In most cases, the functionality will not be available in Capture One, however, a single RAW file from the “stack” may be viewable and editable in Capture One (as if it was a shot in single Capture mode).
For digital back users
- Unless otherwise specified for your Phase One camera system, do not open the shutter on the camera prior to opening the Live View window. Doing so will generate errors on the digital back after closing the Live View window. The recommended procedure for using Live View is to first open the Live View window, then open the shutter on the camera, use Live View as desired, when done, close the shutter on the camera, and close the Live View window.
- Focus controls for iXR and iXA cameras are only supported by IQ and Credo backs.
Known issues
Find a list of known issues for Capture One at the time of shipping.
All users
- Browsing folders containing unsupported image files may affect application performance.
- Previews from earlier versions of Capture One may be updated. In some cases, this can affect the application performance the first-time images are viewed in this version of Capture One.
- Using a non-US laptop keyboard might be preferable to change some of the standard keyboard shortcuts.
- Editing images in external applications other than Adobe Photoshop might result in unexpected behavior.
- Operation under virtualization software (e.g. Parallels, Hackintosh, etc) may cause instability. We do not recommend you use these OS configurations.
Mac users
- Live View over USB can stall without the use of a repeater.
Windows users
- Windows drivers are required for some older models of Canon DSLR cameras to be able to shoot tethered. These drivers are available from Canon’s website.
- Importing a catalog can result in the last picture not getting imported.
- Operation under RAMDisk by Dataram is known to cause issues with disk labeling. Capture One is not supported with this configuration.
- If you have Bonjour 2.0.3 installed, you may experience problems with Capture Pilot. Bonjour 2.0.2 (shipping with Capture One 9) and 2.0.4 (shipped with iTunes) have been tested to work with Capture Pilot. To check the version number of Bonjour, go to 'Control Panel' and select ‘Programs and Features’.
- Plays.TV/Raptr/RivaTuner installed along with some AMD devices can cause instability.
File support: Notes and limitations
The information here is subject to change. Some errors may be omitted. For issues and clarifications, contact Capture One Support via captureone.com/support
HEIC/HEIF support
Capture One supports HEIC/HEIF 8-bit files to the extent that the operating system supports the files. If you are on a Windows computer, you might need to download the two extensions “HEVC Video Extensions” and “HEIF Image Extensions” from Microsoft to enable support in Capture One.
Capture One DNG colors
DNG files from camera models with native support in Capture One will per default have their native Capture One colors applied. DNG files from camera models that are not natively supported in Capture One will have generic DNG Standard colors applied.
We do not support adjustments and settings from other applications embedded in DNG files.
Other file support
TIF/JPG/PSD/PNG files that are not in RGB color space cannot be adjusted within Capture One and will be read-only.
Layered Tiff: Capture One 9.1 onward can support Tiff files with alpha channel or layers saved in the file (from other apps like Adobe Photoshop) but for viewing purposes only. Reprocessing the image will result in a new flattened image.
PSD: Capture 10.1 onward can support PSD files in the viewer. The PSD can contain any adjustments, layers, text or smart objects but must be saved in Photoshop with “maximize compatibility” enabled. Reprocessing the image from Capture One will result in a new flattened image.
File size limitations
- Smallest supported file for viewing: minimum side of 16 pixels.
- Smallest supported file for editing: minimum side of 512 pixels.
- Largest supported file: 715 megapixels or 65,000 pixels on the longest edge.
Camera support
RAW files support with known limitations listed in the notes section is available here. Special or auxiliary modes (like pixel shift) are only supported if noted. If the information provided is incomplete or you need specific information pertaining to support in Capture One, please create a support case - captureone.com/support