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Workflow for MacBook Pro with limited SSD

Ronin
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Hi everyone,

I switched to Capture One and have an up to date MacBook Pro 13”. Apple’s idea is that with the limited SSD you import of the SD card of your camera onto the internal SSD of the MacBook Pro. Once finished you export/archive to an external Harddrive.

What would be the best workflow for this in Capture One?

 

what is the best approach based on your experience?

Thank you for your hints.

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  • Permanently deleted user

    Hi Patrick,

    The best way would be to import from your camera SD card straight to your external hard drive. And of course, the application and the catalogue should remain on your internal SSD. That's what most of the people do.

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  • Ronin

    Hi Robert,

    Thanks a lot for that. Then I might need to consider an external SSD. As far as I understood Apple, they mentioned that it would be good to have the super fast SSD internal capability used for editing and external for archiving.

    If I would like to save the changes made in Capture ONE into regular jpegs so I do not have to keep jpeg and DNGs of the camera and would like to be able to afterwards stay independent of the catalogue what would be the best approach?

    I am asking because I have worked long time in Lightroom and never exported. Now switching programmes I wish I had.

    Thanks for further comments about internal/external HDD/SSD workflow.

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  • Permanently deleted user

    As far as I am concerned, I keep ALL my RAWs (which are also DNGs) and don't "save the changes", except when I export my image for a specific purpose : JPEGs for the web, TIFFs for further corrections with softwares such as Photoshop or Affinity Photo, or for printing, as Capture One printing module is not that good.

    And once JPEGs or TIFFs have been used for my purposes (web pubilcation or printings, for instance), I delete them....

    IMHO, I won't freeze any picture into a JPEG. Indeed, keeping its RAW would give me the opportunity to come back to it and, maybe, interpret it in a different way any time I wish. And you can't do it conveniently from a JPEG.

    All my RAWs are on an external SSD, the catalogue and the application on my internal SSD. I don't have any JPEG or TIFF saved, except in very rare cases.

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  • A Photographer

    Since you have a current macbook pro, it has thunderbolt.  You could get a fast thunderbolt enabled SSD and keep everything there.

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  • Ronin

    Thanks Robert and Anwar. Yes speed should be no issue with external SSD. And maybe it makes sense to just keep the DNGs. If I want to edit the pictures internally first is there a way to export them later. That way I can use the MacBook without any attached device?

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  • A Photographer

    If you keep the catalogue on the internal media with the referenced raw files on the external drive, C1 also allow you to edit the pictures without the actual raw files, once it creates the previews.  However you do need to reconnect the external drive before you can actually process the images for export.

    Alternatively, if you use sessions you can copy the session across from the external drive to the computer for the edit.  Then return it to the external drive once it's done.

     

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  • Ronin

    Thanks. That sounds interesting. So then I can edit without the SSD attached and just attach it for conversion etc. That is an easy work around it seems. If that then also works with sorting that is perfect. So that the pictures are deleted once I connect the external drive.

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