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Capture One Reading Camera RAW Sidecar XMP Files

Gary Smith
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I've been doing the 30-day trial of Capture One, and I'm sold. I'm getting the All In One subscription as soon as my trial runs dry. Camera Raw & Bridge are finally in my rearview mirror. I rarely used Lightroom.

macOS platform.

I would sure love it if Capture One would use the sidecar XMP created through my old Camera RAW & Bridge workflow. The XMP files are there. I can see their modification time stamps, and I can open them in a text editor and see the edits match the adjustments I applied. If I yank an XMP file from the folder, Bridge & Camera RAW show unmodified, default adjustments.

However, when I create a new catalog in Capture One and import images, the image adjustments created in Camera RAW are not there. I am having Capture One reference the images where they are in the Finder, rather than importing them into the catalog.

If I right-click an image and select Load Metadata or Sync Metadata, nothing changes with the XMP file. Using the Library panel, I see the files in the same external location in the Finder both Capture One and Bridge are pointed to.

I've read and applied this document, but I still can't get Capture One to see the XMP.

https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002544898-Metadata-in-XMP-sidecar-files

What am I doing wrong?

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  • Walter Rowe
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    Are you using a catalog or a session? The XMP files are synchronized with catalogs. I'm not sure they are with sessions. I haven't tested it personally.

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  • Gary Smith

    I'm just using catalogs so far. Haven't had a chance to wrap my head around sessions.

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  • Walter Rowe
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    Are your images stored inside the catalog or referenced in their original folders outside the catalog? In the Folders tool you can tell.

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  • Gary Smith

    The images are not stored inside the catalog. I am refrencing the images in the Finder.

    Using the Library panel, I see the files in the same external location in the Finder both Capture One and Bridge are pointed to.

    Does this look correct?

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  • Walter Rowe
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    Top Commenter

    Yes that looks correct. Go to the metadata tool in the Information tab (i) and clock the … menu and save metadata and see what happens.

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  • JF
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    The bigger issue with XMP files is that Capture One mostly just reads metadata from them like ratings and IPTC fields, etc....   Do not expect it to do much with your Camera RAW or Bridge adjustments because how a given program interprets such adjustments are proprietary and different.  When I imported a Lightroom catalog into my Capture One catalog, I got metadata and the exposure and contrast sliders and that's about it for the edit adjustments.  You should pretty much plan on re-editing from scratch in Capture One.  This isn't a Capture One-specific issue.  This would be the case going moving between any two RAW processors. 

    I think there is a 3rd party program on Mac (that costs money) that attempts to do a better job with image adjustments, but they are still just an approximation.

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  • Walter Rowe
    Moderator
    Top Commenter

    @JF is correct .. Capture One does not write adjustments into XMP files. It only uses them for metadata, keywords, ratings, color labels.

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