Speed up wireless tethering by auto-mapping files between iPAD and Desktop version
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Situation: Wireless tethering is very slow when transferring RAW files. It works well when configuring the camera to send JPEG preview files instead of RAW files and keep the RAW files on the SD-Card of the camera.
Problem: When working fast you have to use JPEG preview when working wirelessly BUT all the settings like star-ratings or other tagging you do with your client during the shoot will have to be transferred manually once you have imported the RAW files so e.g. all favorites needs to be manually set by checking the JPEG files and assign the e.g. star-rating to the corresponding RAW file.
Solution: Introduce auto-mapping when importing the RAW file. This has got two scenarios:
1. Tethering and later RAW import with the same COP desktop: you are importing to the same session/machine.
2. Tethering with COP iPad, transferring the shoot via the COP cloud to COP desktop. Importing RAW files with COP desktop.
Suggested solution: When you import the RAW files COP desktop will map the JPEG preview to the RAW files and transferr all e.g. tags like star-ratings, color tags, etc. to the RAW files. The JPEG files can be deleted/put into the trash directly.
Which device are you using?
iPad air with M1, Apple MAC M1 pro, Sony A7c for wireless tethering
What problem do you see this solving?
Wireless tethering with iPAD transferring RAW files is to slow, using JPEG previews will turn the iPad into "just" a monitor, same applied for using COP on desktop.
When was the last time you were affected by this lack of functionality, or specific tool?
This applies to all current implementations.
Are you using any workarounds or other solutions to achieve your goals?
No, I have to do this manually.
Are you happy to be contacted further about this suggestion or request?
Yes, sure
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Hello Henning Mack and thanks for the feedback. There is a lot of merit in your suggestion but as you can see here https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/11894363611037-Tethering-wireless-send-only-jpgs most of our users cannot even send JPEG only to iPad when they shoot wirelessly. So maybe we could combine your request with this functionality at some point. Can you share a few more words about your workflow? Who are you working with and what is your main photography genre?
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Hi Evi,
thx for the feedback and sure I can.
My in general "people photography", with the most shoots I am doing for "business photography" and "personal branding", so I am shooting a lot of business customers, private customers are like 10% of my turnover.
Workflow: I am shooting tethered nearly all the time if possible. Since I can do wireless JPEG previews over the air to the iPad I am also shooting tethered when on-location when the locations are more compliacted like shoots within the business building when there are a lot of photos to be taken in different areas of the buidling with the same person for personal branding photos.
Standard workflow:
- Shoot tethered working with the person in front of the camera
- step in front of the PC/MAC to check the images and mark the ones that work best, clarify what worked best
- Shoot next round working on the type of images that were marked
- step in front of the PC/MAC again, check the images, etc.
I am doing that as long as I got time per person or as long as the person wants to improve or try other things.
Back in office I will move the COP session onto my external storage device and do a backup, further image processing is being done with the session on my external storage device, the session on my PC I will delete.
When using the iPad for the workflow above and in case I cannot use a USB-C cable connected to the iPad and transferring RAW directly but JPEG previews for speed reasons I got the issue I described above. When back in office I will:
- Import all RAW files from the SD card of the camera
- do not touch the iPad session but manually transfer every marking we did (culling) during the shoot to the COP session on my MAC/PC in which I imported the RAW files.
- After that I will proceed as above so moving the session to my storage device, back-up, work with the session on my storage device.
So the iPad is currently just an external monitor for my camera in case I am using the JPEG previews when shooting tehtered wirelessly.
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That's super helpful, thank you Henning Mack!
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