Clarification Needed on XMP Settings Options in Capture One
ear Capture One Support Team,
I'm seeking clarification on the XMP settings options in Capture One, specifically regarding the choices provided in the preferences. I understand there are options like "None", "Load", and "Full Sync", but I'm unsure about their exact implications. My main questions are:
- What are the differences between the XMP settings options (None, Load, Full Sync, etc.)?
- Which setting should I use to ensure that my adjustments remain intact when I open the same images in a different catalog?
- There seem to be five different options for XMP settings. Could you explain each one and its specific use case?
- Is there a particular setting I should mark or select for optimal workflow across different catalogs?
I find these options a bit confusing, and I want to ensure I'm using the right settings for my workflow. A clear explanation of each option and its impact on cross-catalog consistency would be incredibly helpful.
Thank you for your assistance in clarifying this matter.
Best regards,
Carlos Barranco
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Anne,
I wanted to express my sincere gratitude for your help in clarifying my questions about XMP files in Capture One. Your explanation was extremely helpful and cleared up the confusion I had regarding the different XMP setting options.
Your assistance has greatly improved my understanding of how to manage XMP settings across different catalogs, which will significantly enhance my workflow. I appreciate the time and effort you took to explain these technical details clearly.
Thank you again for your expertise and support. It's made a real difference in my ability to use Capture One more effectively.
Best regards,
Carlos Barranco
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Further to the original question note that
- XMP files in Capture One can sync metadata - such as ratings and colour tags - but they do not store adjustments.
- And in your question 2, you ask about adjustments being retained when you open the same images in different catalogs. That can't really happen in catalogs because the adjustments are stored inside each catalog database. However it is possible if you work in sessions because in sessions the adjustments are stored in subfolders of the folder the image is in, and any session looking at that folder will see them.
Ian
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Dear Ian,
Thank you so much for your detailed explanation. I really appreciate you taking the time to clarify these points about XMP files and Capture One.
Your explanation about XMP files syncing metadata such as ratings and color tags, but not storing adjustments, is exactly what I needed to know. This clears up a lot of confusion for me.
To clarify my needs, the metadata I'm most interested in maintaining across different catalogs are indeed the ratings and color tags. Given this, could you perhaps recommend the best XMP setting to ensure these specific metadata elements (ratings and color tags) are consistently preserved when I'm working with the same images across different catalogs?
Thank you again for your expertise and assistance.
Best regards,
Carlos Barranco
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The syncing of metadata with the XMP files is mainly useful in controlling what happens if you have another app that also provides ratings, colour tags, etc, for instance Photo Mechanic. What can sometimes happen if you aren't careful is that you change an image from 2* to 3* in Capture One, and it changes itself back again because it had been given 2* in another app.
It doesn't really work between different instances of Capture One.
What I would ask is why you want to work on the same image in different catalogs. There are a lot of useful tools in Capture One such as variants, albums, smart albums, projects, and so on that you can use without having to do that. For instance, if you have an image of a family member playing football, you may want to have add the image to a football album, and to a family album, and do different things with the photo in each. You can create two variants of the image, and do different edits to it in the football album and in the family album. Or you may want to have the image in both albums, but have the edits you do in one reflected in the other - that's easily done by just adding the same variant to both albums, and then edits you do to it in one will show up in the other.
Or are you trying to do something different from what I am imagining by using separate catalogs?
Ian
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Dear Ian,
Thank you so much for your continued help and detailed explanations. Your insights about metadata syncing and the potential conflicts between different apps are very valuable.
I appreciate your question about why I'm working with the same images in different catalogs. Let me explain my specific situation:
I have two catalogs for a particular reason:
- One catalog is on a NAS with all my photos on a double hard drive for backup. However, this setup runs very slowly.
- The other catalog is on a USB-C hard drive, also containing all the photos, which runs much faster.
My goal is to be able to make selections in the faster USB-C catalog and have these selections (particularly ratings and color tags) reflected in the slower NAS catalog. I'm not sure how to achieve this synchronization between the two catalogs efficiently.
Given this scenario, do you have any recommendations on how I could best manage this workflow or sync the metadata between these two catalogs?
Thank you again for your expertise and patience in helping me understand these concepts better.
Best regards,
Carlos Barranco
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I don't think there is an easy way to sync the metadata.
But I can suggest another way of working, and this is what I do.
I start off with new images working in a session. I am an enthusiastic hobbyist, not a Pro, so I generally start a new session every month, and sometimes extra ones for occasions like events, or holidays.
Most of my editing is done on my laptop (a MacBook Pro) at first, and I cull, edit, export etc mostly from there. At the end of the month, or after the event or holiday, when I have finished my selecting, editing and exporting, I copy the whole of the session to my desktop computer (an iMac). I import the images I want to keep long-term (generally those in the Selects and Output folders) to my master catalog on the iMac. It can import them together with all their metadata, adjustments, etc. I may still want to access those images, sometimes long after the event, and perhaps edit them some more or export them for some other use, but after adding them to the catalog, I only do that in the catalog. (Edits made in the catalog won't be synced back to the session.) My iMac is reasonably fast. I imagine an NAS would be rather slower, but perhaps if you were using it to access images stored from some time ago, it would be satisfactory enough.
Ian
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Dear Ian,
Thank you very much for all your suggestions and explanations. I really appreciate the time and effort you've put into helping me understand these concepts. While they might not be exactly what I need for my current setup, I'm grateful for your attempt to assist me.
Thank you again for your help.
Best regards,
Carlos Barranco
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