Output Folders - how to manage them
In V3 the output folder for processed images is automatically set up when a Session is created, and whenever the session is opened Processed (jpg,tif) files are automatically stored in that folder - simple and error free.
In V4 (beta) I find that Import enables me to set up a subfolder (e.g. Captures) within the selected folder (which I call a Session) into which the RAW files are copied. It does not enable me to set up a Processed folder - I have (after the import) go to the Library Directory and add a 'Processed' folder (have your tried entering a file name in Black text on black ground?) - I then have to set that folder as the output folder.
What a contorted procedure - but it gets worse!
Whenever I (re)visit a Folder with Raw files (in a Captures) folder I have to remember to manually set the associated Processed Folder as the Output Folder, before I (re)do any Processing. If I forget it goes wherever the output folder is set.
It gets worse!
I cannot see any way to associate an Output folder with an Album. This really serious when a Album contains RAW files from two or more 'sessions'. If I Process a RAW file from within an Album the jpg/tif will go to the current output folder (whatever that might be). As far as I can tell Albums are not stored in an explicit Folder but in some internal to V4 database, so there is nothing I can do except create some additional (to the sessions) folders which I will need to manually maintain as I add/rename/delete Albums and in which I can store Processed Images for the Album.
Please, can someone tell me I have got it all wrong and that there is a simple and easy way to set up and manage the various folders/albums which is automatic and foolproof.
Thank-you for your attention
David
In V4 (beta) I find that Import enables me to set up a subfolder (e.g. Captures) within the selected folder (which I call a Session) into which the RAW files are copied. It does not enable me to set up a Processed folder - I have (after the import) go to the Library Directory and add a 'Processed' folder (have your tried entering a file name in Black text on black ground?) - I then have to set that folder as the output folder.
What a contorted procedure - but it gets worse!
Whenever I (re)visit a Folder with Raw files (in a Captures) folder I have to remember to manually set the associated Processed Folder as the Output Folder, before I (re)do any Processing. If I forget it goes wherever the output folder is set.
It gets worse!
I cannot see any way to associate an Output folder with an Album. This really serious when a Album contains RAW files from two or more 'sessions'. If I Process a RAW file from within an Album the jpg/tif will go to the current output folder (whatever that might be). As far as I can tell Albums are not stored in an explicit Folder but in some internal to V4 database, so there is nothing I can do except create some additional (to the sessions) folders which I will need to manually maintain as I add/rename/delete Albums and in which I can store Processed Images for the Album.
Please, can someone tell me I have got it all wrong and that there is a simple and easy way to set up and manage the various folders/albums which is automatic and foolproof.
Thank-you for your attention
David
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Hi David,
First, I do hope that if you try CO4, you use the final released version, not the beta anymore. Next, it won't help with (most of) your questions for an obvious reason.
CO4 is the LE version, while CO4 Pro (with session support expected) is still in development.
For the record, your observations regarding the output folder (which can be set from the Output tools tab as well) are correct in that it is not related to an Album (nice idea BTW) or Session (there are no sessions in this light version).0 -
Hi Paul,
Thank-you for your comments - If V4Pro includes the concept of a Session then that will, of course, meet most of my concerns. I look forward to its appearance.
I have long looked forward to the possibility that a Capture Folder could include 'links' to images (rather than just copies).
An Album is of course a kind of folder containing Links, if only one could set uo a Session with an Album as its 'Capture Folder'!
As it is I dont see what an Album does for me, except possibly to contain developed images for viewing, and I would not use C1Pro for that!
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An Album is of course a kind of folder containing Links, if only one could set uo a Session with an Album as its 'Capture Folder'!
As it is I dont see what an Album does for me, except possibly to contain developed images for viewing, and I would not use C1Pro for that!
Hi David,
I personally don't think that an Album's use was intended for viewing developed images, but why not? I think an Album allows for custom views to collect (raw) images that reside in different folders. This way you can collect your best images by topic. The question is, what to do with that Album? Presentation is the most obvious answer, and till today, the web sheet and the screen are CO4's ways to present. A slide show or print directly could be other options. Note in this respect that CO4 can present the result of a rotated and/or cropped image without the borders. We'll see how this evolves.0
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