Is it possible to set the workspace per Catalogue/Session ?
I would like a specific workspace to load up when I load up a specific session or catalog - preferably the "Last Used". Is this possible?
For example I always want a certain set of metadata controls visible when I load my central catalog, but when I load a session I want layer and editing controls to be visible.
Yes, I know it's minor and I can select it from the menu, but it would be nice to have it apply one on load to ease things with DIT operators etc.
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I don't think so. But you can certainly set up a workspace the way you want it and quickly change to it for the Window menu.
Useful tip: if you put a _ character at the front of the workspace name, it will appear at the top of your list of saved workspaces, like this.
Ian
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I was looking for a way to make it very plain that I was in my catalog - you see I work in sessions typically but have started experimenting with importing those sessions into a master catalog so that I can search across sessions for metadata (EG finding all photos of a particular model across 10 years of shooting). However if I forget, an accidentally tweak the photo in the "Central Catalog" rather than the session, the changes aren't reflected in the session if I later open that directly.
So I was thinking if I could force the catalog to open its own workspace where all the adjustment tools are hidden, I won't accidentally confuse the two.
Appreciate it's a bit niche, but I was trying to find a way to integrate my session based workflow with a central metadata catalog.
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Yes, I assumed that you wanted this feature both for sessions and catalogs, perhaps one workspace for catalogs, and a different one for sessions, so the answer I suggested works both ways. You could have two workspaces named
_catalog, and
_session.But unfortunately what Capture One remembers is what workspace was in use last time you closed Capture One, not last time you used that session or catalog.
As a side note, like you I work initially in sessions and later add the keepers from each session to my master catalog. And for much the same reasons as you - I want to be able to find images of a particular subject taken at different times (Mostly birds and animals in my case.) But after that I operate differently - once images have made it to the catalog (with their existing adjustments of course), I only adjust them after that via the catalog.
Ian
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Yeah I'd be happy to edit in A or B, but I really really need a very clear visual identifier of whether I'm in A or B because with the split pipeline I *AM* going to forget :'D
Perhaps I can find a way to create a shortcut for my catalog that launches and does some shenanigans behind the scenes, I'll have to look into it.
Could I ask how big your main catalog is currently, and whether you find it fast or slow to work within? One of the reservations I have is that back in the day large catalogues were not forgiving.0
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