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Capture One 22 (15.3) release notes

Jack W
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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 here

 

Contents

Release highlights

Feature walkthrough

New Camera Support

New Lens 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 (15.3.0) is a feature release containing new functionality, quality-of-life improvements, performance improvements, new camera and lens support, and important bug fixes.

 

Major Changes

· Wireless tethering (Sony)

· Save to card and computer when tethering (Canon)

· Magic Eraser

· Tool Panel redesign

· Cloud transfer from iPad

 

General User Experience Improvements and tweaks

  • Crop Ratio saved per image
  • Style Pack functionality
  • Guided Tour for new users
  • Metal support on Intel (Mac)
  • Support for multiple DPI scaling (Windows)

 

Capture One Live:

  • Comments BETA (web only)
  • 1 month Session duration
  • Keyboard shortcuts on web
  • Improved watermark workflow
  • Various improvements

 

Feature walkthrough

Wireless tethering (Sony)

In Capture One 22 (15.3), you can tether several Sony cameras over Wireless Network. Tethered functionality is identical to tethering over USB. With Wireless Tethering you need one less cable on set, making for a new and much more dynamic tethered shooting experience.

 

The following cameras are supported:

· Sony A7R IV/IVa

· Sony A1

· Sony A7 IV

· Sony A9 II

· Sony A7s III

· Sony A7C

· Sony FX3

· Sony ZV-E10

How to use For optimal performance and stability, we recommend an AC/WiFi5 compatible router, connected via network or USB cable directly to the computer.

 

How to connect

Follow the below Sony-guide for setting up your camera to connect to the Wireless access point. Skip Step 3-4 and instead find your camera in the Camera Tool in Capture One. Important: The Sony Remote should not be running at the same time as Capture One, as this will interfere with the tethering connection to Capture One. https://support.d-imaging.sony.co.jp/app/imagingedge/en/instruction/4_1_connection.php

 

Save to card and computer when tethering (Canon)

Control where to save your images from the Camera Settings Tool when tethering a Canon camera. You can choose to save to card, computer, or both. This provides a convenient backup method, as well as enabling the user to see and review the images on the camera display. This functionality is also available when using wireless tethering.

Please note that enabling this feature might affect waiting time when connecting the camera, as your operating system will index the content of the card. The waiting time will increase with the number of images saved on the card at the time of connecting the camera.

Magic Eraser

A new type of Eraser has been added, providing similar functionality as the Magic Brush. You can now easily remove parts of masks on similar areas such as sky, skin etc.

The Magic Eraser is available from the Layers Tool and Cursor Tools. You can link the settings of the Magic Brush and Magic Eraser if needed. When linked, the Magic Brush and Magic Eraser will share the same settings for Size, Opacity, Tolerance, Refine Edge, and state of ‘Sample Entire Photo’

 

Tool Panel redesign 

The Tool Panel has been redesigned to allow an easier and more predictable experience when browsing the interface, while making it even easier to customize. Additionally, the design will align with Capture One on iPad. The redesign consists of the following aspects:

  • New, bigger icons for all Tool Tabs
  • Labels below icons showing the name of the Tool Tab
  • Labels are enabled by default, but can be turned off
  • Fewer Tool Tabs by rearranging the tools
  • Easy access to customization options from the three-dot icon

Capture One automatically makes backups of workspaces if something changes when updating. Your previous workspace can be accessed from the customization menu. The previous default workspace is also available from the Workspaces menu under the name “Default (Legacy)”.

 

Cloud Transfer

Cloud Transfer allows you to import into Capture One Pro images that have been uploaded to the cloud from the iPad app. You will need to be connected to the internet to use this feature.

 

The “Cloud transfer” button can be added to your main toolbar. Right-click on an empty space in the toolbar, select “customize”, drag and drop the icon into your workspace.

 

When clicking on “Cloud transfer,” you will get access to a menu, allowing you to import the photos from the cloud into your computer, in your sessions, or catalogs. You will have to select a location in your file system to download the files.

 

The import process will then start, and your photos (and their adjustments) will be available to you in Capture One Pro desktop. After making changes to photos on the iPad you will need to upload them again, and similarly you will have to import the files again in your desktop software.

 

General user experience improvements and tweaks

 

Crop Aspect Ratio saved per image

The Crop Aspect Ratio is now saved per image instead of globally in the Crop Tool. Returning to a previously edited image will now show the crop ratio applied to the image in the Crop Tool, providing a more intuitive workflow.

 

Style Pack functionality

Style Packs now show a confirmation when installing, preventing accidentally installing the same pack multiple times. Additionally, entire packs and folders can now easily be deleted from the Styles and Presets Tool by right clicking and selecting ‘Delete Folder’.

Style Brushes can now be included in Style Packs, enabling the possibility to create more flexible packs for Style creators. To include Style Brushes in a Style Pack, you need to divide the content into two parent folders:

Styles: The content of this folder will be installed in the Styles and Presets Tool

Style Brushes: The content of this folder will be installed in the Style Brushes Tool

You can create additional folders inside the two folders to organize the Styles and Style Brushes in the tools. Pack these two folders into a zip file, and rename the extension from ‘.zip’ to ‘.costylepack’.

 

Guided Tour

When launching Capture One for the first time as a new user a guided tour will appear with seven steps, highlighting important aspects to easily get started with Capture One.

Metal support on Intel

For hardware acceleration, OpenCL is replaced with Metal on Intel-based Mac computers. This will in the long run provide a more stable, performant application.

 

Support for multiple DPI scaling (Windows)

Capture One now retains similar physical size for the application layout when used with multiple monitors that have different DPI scaling

 

Capture One Live

 

Comments BETA (web only)

It’s now possible to leave comments in a Live Session. You can add and delete comments to individual images. Anyone with access to the Live Session can view them.

You can leave a comment by navigating to an image and pressing on the comment icon below the image.

At the current stage, comments cannot sync back to your desktop application.

 

Easier watermarking

You can add a watermark to an individual Live Session by choosing one of the Recipes, which can now be found in Capture One Live pop-up window. When you choose a Recipe, only the watermark settings are applied to the Live Session. The actual management of the Recipes takes place in the Exporter.

Keyboard shortcuts (web only released in March, 2022) You can now use keyboard shortcuts to star rate and color tag images in the Live Session.

 

Rating:

· Star rating: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, where 0 resets the rating

· Color tag: q, w, e, r, t, y, u, i, where Q resets the tag

Navigating:

· Left and right arrow key to navigate to the left and right

· Escape key to return to the gallery

 

New Live Session duration option

The duration of an individual Live Session can now be set to 1 month. You can choose to set different duration while starting a new Live Session.

 

Various improvements

 

Auto Keystone Guides placement

When using Auto Keystone, the Guides are now placed according to where Capture One detects lines used for the correction instead of placing them at generic positions.

 

Preview size recommendation

When using a preview size that is smaller than the monitor resolution, performance will be impacted. Capture One will in this case always use the raw file instead of the preview when displaying edits. This will increase the rendering time in the viewer for displaying both the image itself and the adjustments that are being applied.

 

To ensure optimal performance, the preview size will automatically be set to match the system setting when launching Capture One for the first time as a new user. For all users, additional information has been added to the Preview Preferences for better clarity of the optimal setting.

 

Rotation smoothness (Mac)

The smoothness of rotation and manual keystone correction is improved on Mac.

 

New Camera Support

· Canon M50 II

· Canon R5C

 

To find the full list of all supported cameras, click here.

 

New Lens Support

· Canon RF 24-240mm F4-6.3 IS USM

· Canon RF 100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM

· Canon RF 800mm F5.6L IS USM

· Canon RF 1200mm F8L IS USM

 

Bug fixes (Mac)

Fixed an issue where the Toolbar would not hide automatically in Full Screen mode.

Fixed an issue where using Auto Adjust could result in large memory consumption.

Fixed an issue where the Resource Hub would not open.

Fixed an issue where some pop-up windows could be misplaced.

Fixed an issue where the 'Apply' button would still be visible after applying Auto Keystone.

Fixed an issue where the last photo in a Smart Album would not have metadata from a preset applied.

Fixed an issue where Panorama stitching would not prevent the computer from going to sleep

Fixed an issue where shift values in Lens Correction would not be copied correctly.

Fixed an issue where GPS metadata was not available for offline photos.

Fixed an issue where the orientation of images would not be considered when stitching a Panorama.

Fixed various issues related to resetting and deleting metadata.

 

Bug fixes (Windows)

Fixed an issue with slow performance when previewing a Style.

Fixed an issue where Floating Tools could be hidden behind the main window.

Fixed an issue where Panorama and HDR files would not show up in the active collection

Fixed an issue where deleting an image could take an excessive amount of time.

Fixed an issue where the orientation of images would not be considered when stitching a Panorama.

 

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 12.4

 

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 a 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.

  1. Download the application from the Capture One website
  2. Run the executable software install file (.exe).
  3. Carefully read and accept the license agreement presented.
  4. 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.

  1. Download the application from the Capture One website.
  2. Open the Capture One disk icon (.dmg).
  3. Carefully read and accept the license agreement presented.
  4. Drag the Capture One icon to the Applications folder.
  5. 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 web site.
  • 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’.
  • 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

 

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