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Lightroom to Capture One roundtrip?

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I have used Capture One for the last 12 years and shoot directly into sessions for work. I used to use Aperture to catalog my images but since Apple ceased development I have struggled to find a good DAM software. I have tried CO catalogs but they are just not fit for purpose. Too many times the catalog (approx 20,000 images) has crashed and become unrecoverable even from the back up file. I will only use CO to process as it is far and away the best Raw process program. I have tried Lightroom as a DAM catalog and it is fine ( Don't like the processing from Lightroom) Does anyone have a good way to roundtrip from Lightroom to process in CO and automatically save the file back into Lightroom?
I really feel CO now needs to look at the catalog side of their program and bring it up to date.
Many Thanks
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  • marvin cooper

    Have recently purchased capture one and am very pleased with the sophistication of the program. However having used Lightroom for many years it would be wonderful to be able to export images from lightroom to capture one and back again in a more autmatic fashion. 

    Thank you

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  • No11

    Marvin you are correct.  It is unfathomable to me that Phase One does not provide the functionality to allow long term lightroom users to roundtrip photos to capture one from lightroom and back again.  I know they want  photographers to totally buy into their ecosystem from the start.  Well NO.  I would never do that under any circumstance for a whole host of reasons.  First reason is the DAM aspect of Lightroom is something I have utilized since version 3.  It works for me perfectly.  I have a minor learning disability and it is a big deal for me to change course.  I happen to know other photographers in a similar position than I am and they don't even consider switching.  

    Get a clue Phase One.  I am not saying I would never switch to a total Phase One workflow.   But it will NEVER, NEVER, NEVER happen unless I am able to for 6 months to a year round trip photos from lightroom to capture one and back.  That would allow me to evaluate most aspects of the program and then I might very well make the switch or not.  But the one thing that will NEVER happen is that I just immediately make the switch and convert catalogs.  Phase One needs to pay attention to all segments of their customer base. I know many have asked for this functionality for many years. At this point many have given up.  Congratulations Phase One as you have done a superb job alienating customers.  It almost seems that is your intention.  I wonder how many investors in Phase One know of this aspect of the company management.

     

    Thanks!

     

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  • Permanently deleted user

    Both Lightroom and  Capture one are non-destructive raw processors.   In order to round trip in either direction the initial processor would have to process the raw file and create a bit image, passing that bit image to the other processor.  That handcuffs the receiving processor in that the raw data it needs to best do its job is gone.  If you want to play with bit images use Affinity Photo or Photoshop, not Lightroom or Capture One.

    Ignore Capture One for a second and think how Adobe does it between Lightroom and Photoshop.   Lightroom creates a  PSD or tiff file baking in all Lightroom changes and then passed the file with teh baked in changes to Photoshop for further editing.   When the file is saved in Photoshop Lightroom now contains 2 images, the original raw and the one that Photoshop changed.  This is OK as Photoshop is mostly about destructive bit fiddling.

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  • SFA

    Anonymous.

    What are you actually round tripping and for what purpose?

    Marco's points are completely pertinent to your answer.

    If you just want to use Lightroom's DAM but process from RAW direcly in Capture One then as I understand it you can. You donp;t need to import to C1, just open the RAW file in a session dod what you want with it and send it back to the same folder as the the RAW file as a jpg, tiff, psd or whatever. LR, presumably, will either find it there or have a way if "importing" it if it needs to do so.

    It's really not up to C1 to create a LR import process driver. Indeed to satisfy your process description it sounds more like it should be LR showing their users how to make use of C1 as a RAW editor via roundtripping from LR.

    Which leaves me a little puzzled about what you are trying to achieve if not just a DAM function via LR  - something that many C1 users already work with it seems.

     

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