Confused around: Catalog vs Metadata vs XMP files
Hi, appreciate your support and/or guidance.
My Basic workflow:
- Import images (raw) into catalog (local drive);
- Post-process, add metadata, add keywords
- Process images into JPG towards dedicated NAS-drive (not kept in catalog)
- Move process raw-files to seperate NAS-drive (kept in catalog)
My confusion:
- I noticed no XMP files are created in the directories with the RAW files!
- Can capture one store the metadata, keywords (edit?) into sidecar XMP?
Within preferences I have the default settings: auto-sync non, prefer sidecar XMP selected
As this is the case I understand that I need to keep all RAW files in catalog to keep the metadata with the file?
Any clarity or guidance is helpful, thank you,
Co
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C1 will keep the metadata in the catalogue for each image. You can have it create XMP files either automatically (controlled by those settings in the preferences) or by using the Image | Sync command.
Check out this page in the online manual: https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002544898
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Hi Ian,
Thank you for the prompt response and help! Just for my understanding: does C1 also stores the edits made to the RAW files, or is it just metadata, keywords, color- and star tagging?
Thank you!
Marco
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Capture One doesn't store information about edits in XMP files. If you are using a catalog, it stores all that in the catalog database. If you are using a session, it stores it alongside the raw files (in subfolders) in the form of .cos files (and perhaps .comask files if you have used layers). This is one of the main differences between catalogs and sessions.
Ian
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