Confused C1 Newbie regarding two computers (Windows)
Hello all!
I have been researching, reading, searching, googling, and everything I can think of to make sense of how Capture One Pro 9 manages Adjustments and its database.
Basically, I am looking for the most simple way to have complete editing abilities to all of my RAW files from external hard drive, to be edited on two different PCs. (Laptop while traveling, desktop upon return for final color)
Here is my scenario..... While traveling, Take photos..... load RAWs to external HDDs (one "working", the other B/U only).... Tag/Rate/Edit photos on Laptop in C1 Sessions during 15 hour flight (RAWs remain on external, referenced).... Then finish color adjustments/final tweeks on my Desktop for final export.
It would seem to me that the easiest way to do this would be to locate and target C1's database folder to the External drive, then as long as the external HDD is attached to the computer, C1 would operate exactly the same, with no workflow interruptions, no hassle with export/import/delete duplicates....
Is this possible? I will be honest here, I am just deathly afraid of messing up, corrupting, or losing my current progress on edits in progress to go experimenting all Willy Nilly.... LOL
It seems that I have been looking too hard, reading too much into this or something. But either way, my brain is all in knots over this now.... LOL.
Thank you for any help in this situation.
--QCPunk
((( Preemptive more info.... Running C1P9 on Windows 7. I want to export my final photos from my desktop because it has a color calibrated IPS monitor and tons to processing power to spare. But I want to start my cropping, touch-ups, tags, ratings, rotations, perspective edits while I have down time while I'm on the road.
I had read a method of exporting originals with adjustments, then importing. But since my original RAWs are already on the external HDD that I would be importing them back to, all of the duplicate RAWs would need to be cleaned every time this is done. This seems to me like it takes 3x longer than locating the database on external to being with, not to mention how many writes and rewrites this adds to the HDD (wear and tear).
I have been researching, reading, searching, googling, and everything I can think of to make sense of how Capture One Pro 9 manages Adjustments and its database.
Basically, I am looking for the most simple way to have complete editing abilities to all of my RAW files from external hard drive, to be edited on two different PCs. (Laptop while traveling, desktop upon return for final color)
Here is my scenario..... While traveling, Take photos..... load RAWs to external HDDs (one "working", the other B/U only).... Tag/Rate/Edit photos on Laptop in C1 Sessions during 15 hour flight (RAWs remain on external, referenced).... Then finish color adjustments/final tweeks on my Desktop for final export.
It would seem to me that the easiest way to do this would be to locate and target C1's database folder to the External drive, then as long as the external HDD is attached to the computer, C1 would operate exactly the same, with no workflow interruptions, no hassle with export/import/delete duplicates....
Is this possible? I will be honest here, I am just deathly afraid of messing up, corrupting, or losing my current progress on edits in progress to go experimenting all Willy Nilly.... LOL
It seems that I have been looking too hard, reading too much into this or something. But either way, my brain is all in knots over this now.... LOL.
Thank you for any help in this situation.
--QCPunk
((( Preemptive more info.... Running C1P9 on Windows 7. I want to export my final photos from my desktop because it has a color calibrated IPS monitor and tons to processing power to spare. But I want to start my cropping, touch-ups, tags, ratings, rotations, perspective edits while I have down time while I'm on the road.
I had read a method of exporting originals with adjustments, then importing. But since my original RAWs are already on the external HDD that I would be importing them back to, all of the duplicate RAWs would need to be cleaned every time this is done. This seems to me like it takes 3x longer than locating the database on external to being with, not to mention how many writes and rewrites this adds to the HDD (wear and tear).
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So - Capture One doesn't utilize a database in the same way Lightroom (for example) does.
Within the session, and then inside the Capture folder (assuming you haven't selected a different folder for your new images), there is another sub-directory called CaptureOne (ex. [SessionName]/[Capture Folder]/CaptureOne/
Inside of that CaptureOne directory there are a number of things including adjustments, previews, metadata etc. It's all proprietary to Capture One Pro's workflow.
To achieve what you're asking about, you need to do is to have the entire contents of the session saved on to the external drive you're planning to work on. Plug that drive in to whichever computer you'd like to work on, open the session and you should be good to go.
Having said all of that, working on an external hard drive will have a negative impact on speed and the fastest, most efficient approach is to be working on an internal SSD on whichever computer you're operating on, and then make backups to that external drive (I recommend ChronoSync on OSX, but most especially suggest using literally anything other than Time Machine).
Hope that helps - good luck!
-brian0
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