export originals [beginner]

o mu

• August 07, 2018 12:16

Dear Forum,
I am a beginner with Capture One Express, so possibly my questions are trivial for most of you.
I imported all my images of a folder as an Catalogue. I changed some ARW and could export variants as JPG. So far so good.
Now I want to save the changes of my ARW in the same file. But the file seems to be unchanged if I use viewers like XnView or Windows Expl. Thumbnails. Only another copy of the original appears. In the Catalogue I can see the changes.
Now my first question is: How can I save the changes of the ARW?
My second question: How can I save the changed ARW by replacing the old (do not want to save every raw-image two times)?

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  Ian Wilson

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  • August 07, 2018 13:14

  

  Capture One never changes the original raw (ARW) file, on principle. It stores information about the edits you have made in the database within the catalogue. That way it can use the stored edit information together with the original raw file to generate output of whatever kind you need - JPG, TIFF, etc. It can, if you like, even store information about more than one set of edits of the same image (it calls these variants) so that you could for example generate both a black-and-white version with a square crop and a colour version with a landscape crop. Of course the output files do reflect the edits you have made.
  
  There is no need to "save" the edited raw images - the information to create the output files is saved in the database and is accessible to the program whenever it is needed.
  
  Ian

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  o mu

  • August 07, 2018 16:14

  Thank you very much for your fast answer Ian! It helped a lot!
  Do I understand correct, that the changes are stored in the /CaptureOne/Settings110/*.cos files?
  Is it possible to change the position of a once modified original to another position in the file system (e.g. other hard drive) without exporting from CaptureOne?

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  Ian Wilson

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  • August 07, 2018 16:36

  

  omu wrote:
  Thank you very much for your fast answer Ian! It helped a lot!
  Do I understand correct, that the changes are stored in the /CaptureOne/Settings110/*.cos files?
  Is it possible to change the position of a once modified original to another position in the file system (e.g. other hard drive) without exporting from CaptureOne?

  
  If you are asking about moving a file within the file system, then I assume that you mean that your raw files are stored in your file system (that is they are "referenced" images) and not actually within the catalogue ("managed" images). If that is right, then you can move them to another position within the file system BUT THE GOLDEN RULE IS... do the moving within Capture One, NOT by means of your Windows or Mac file system. So find the image(s) you want to move in the Folders section of the Capture One library tool and drag and drop them into the folder you want to move them to (in the Capture One Library tool). That way, Capture One can keep track of the file and its adjustments. (You can always check afterwards using your OS that the file has indeed moved on your hard disc.)
  
  There's a helpful section about this in a recent video of a webinar. I'll find if in a minute and post a link.
  
  Edited to add: it's here. See especially the six minutes or so from about 14:30. You'd probably find all the catalogs sections of the video helpful (but not the Sessions parts as Sessions are not a feature of the Sony Express version).
  
  Ian

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  o mu

  • August 07, 2018 23:16

  Thank you very much again! It is much clearer now for me!
  omu

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