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Applying user style when importing from hot folder

NN635500060288177460UL
I use Capture One for sports photo agency work where speed is a very critical factor. So far I'm very happy with the program, specially the speed when importing and exporting (Version 12, Dell XPS 15, Windows 10) but I miss the possibility to apply a user style, when importing my photos from a hot folder.

My user style is quite simple, it just has Lens Correction: Distortion and Light Fall OFF on 100%.

I tried "Next capture adjustments", but that seems to work only with tethered shooting.

Any idea how to solve this, when working with catalogues and hot folders or sessions?

Thanks for any help!
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    As you discovered, the Hot Folder feature does not come with all the fancy bells and whistles the tethered shooting has with Capture One.
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  • NN635500060288177460UL
    Thanks, is there any other possibility to set Distortion and Light Fall Off Correction to 100% by Standard?
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    NN635500060288177460UL wrote:
    Thanks, is there any other possibility to set Distortion and Light Fall Off Correction to 100% by Standard?

    No, unfortunately you can not set new default to the Lens Correction tool as some other tools can.

    Apart from tethering and importing, where you can automatically apply presets and styles, you last option is to apply a preset manually which contain these settings.
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  • SFA
    Hmm.

    The simplest suggestion would, I suppose, be to set up the first image of the shoot, set the lens adjustments and anything else that will be constant values, copy to the clipboard and then simply paste the clipboard to all subsequent images either individually or as a batch.

    I'm look at this as a session activity as this point. I tend not to use catalogues.

    However there are some points to consider and I thought I had best mention them since this is an open forum.

    Firstly if the lens is recognised and has a profile created there may well be automatic adjustments applied that could make your adjustments redundant or partly redundant.

    If you are using a fixed length lens with consistent adjustment needs your fixed simple adjustment may be OK but a quick test I did using an image with a zoom lens that current has no profile available provided a very unusable result. It looked fine in the original RAW image.

    Secondly the adjustment may vary by camera body as well. No doubt you know this only too well but readers coming later may not have this in their minds at the times.

    On a full import (non-tethered) a predefined style/pre-set or group of them could be used and applied automatically but in sessions the hot folder concept is not using Import at all. It will use default settings that one may have saved for the camera but I don't see an equivalent default pre-set/style option to associate with lenses - probably for very good reasons given that the camera sensor type would usually be a factor as well.

    I'm not sure what else one could consider but I hope this helps a little.


    Grant
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  • NN635500060288177460UL
    Thanks Grant,

    there is no problem applying this manually in a user style, but unfortunately in my special case time is priority number one, so any additional step that has to be applied to every photo is slowing down the process. Photo editing time per picture is in most cases just 5 seconds. First cropping then slight corrections of exposure or contrast done by shortcuts - a big benefit compared to Lightroom. Photo is exported to Photo Mechanic, fast IPTC editing, out by FTP.

    A shortcut for the style would already help much, but I did not find a possibility to assign styles to shortcuts.
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  • SFA
    NN635500060288177460UL wrote:
    Thanks Grant,

    there is no problem applying this manually in a user style, but unfortunately in my special case time is priority number one, so any additional step that has to be applied to every photo is slowing down the process. Photo editing time per picture is in most cases just 5 seconds. First cropping then slight corrections of exposure or contrast done by shortcuts - a big benefit compared to Lightroom. Photo is exported to Photo Mechanic, fast IPTC editing, out by FTP.

    A shortcut for the style would already help much, but I did not find a possibility to assign styles to shortcuts.


    I can understand the time constraints.

    The hot key option for some specified Styles could be an interesting idea. It might be an idea to propose that to the C1 development team via a Support Case. I can;t see it being a realistic option to offer key based shortcut to a style or preset as things on an open access basis since there could be, at least potentially, thousands of candidate files.

    However if there was an intermediate option to define a number of shortcuts for fast access and deployment via shortcuts that might be viable. And a decent usability enhancement for many people.

    Meanwhile the only thing I can think of would be to have some dummy images included in the session (or catalogue but I always use sessions and I think they are especially useful for sports events) that have the presets/styles applied to them. That might allow you to quickly copy and apply the settings you need. It could get complicated if you need to pick and mix the styles image by image and need to refine how to achieve that within the 5 second edit constraint.

    How good is the potential for batch processing in small batches?

    There may be another way but nothing I can think of right now.

    I'm lucky in that when I shoot a sports event I'm not expecting to process the images for instant consumption so I don't face that sort of pressure. On the other hand it is quite easy to get sucked into days of post-processing following the event, in part because the sports I shoot will often cover an entire day (or days) or at least several hours of the day almost without a break and it would rarely be practical to cover them with an editing rig to hand. Or at least I don't think it would.


    Grant
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  • NN635500060288177460UL
    Ok, thats definitely a possibility: Just to do this edit to the first picture and then always paste by shortcut - easy solution I was not thinking of. Thanks!
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  • NN635500060288177460UL
    Ok, doesn't work so well. For lenses that have no profile like the Nikon 300 2,8 this settings are not usable. The corners are much too light. So I'll stay with the standard.
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  • SFA
    NN635500060288177460UL wrote:
    Ok, doesn't work so well. For lenses that have no profile like the Nikon 300 2,8 this settings are not usable. The corners are much too light. So I'll stay with the standard.


    I did wonder!

    You might need separate copy and paste options for different lenses. That might be usable to some extent depending on how often you change lenses!

    However if you are using a zoom lens things could be tricky.


    Grant
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