Laptop Workflow?
I just got the new MBP w/ just a 250G hard drive.
Obviously I can't have my entire collection on this thing (not even close). But what's a good way I can use C1 on my laptop, in small doses, and have those changes, etc, "sync up" with my main workstation?
Thanks in advance, and apologies if this is a dumb question 😊
Obviously I can't have my entire collection on this thing (not even close). But what's a good way I can use C1 on my laptop, in small doses, and have those changes, etc, "sync up" with my main workstation?
Thanks in advance, and apologies if this is a dumb question 😊
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Not dumb, a challenge for most.
You could put your images in a Lightroom catalog, store them on an external drive, or on a network at home.... Create smart previews of all your images and rock that around with you. This is how I operate. I have a ~70gb Lightroom Catalog that can travel with me and connects to my original raws when I'm at home.
I don't know a way to do this with Capture One. You're somewhat limited. Would love to hear other people's ideas.0 -
I have a Macbook Pro and an iMac. I keep most of my photos on the iMac, or the older ones in an archive on an external HDD attached to the iMac.
I work in sessions, and I can't comment on what would be a good workflow for Catalogues. But what I do is run a session on the MacBook into which I import images and do some work on them. (If I don't import them straight onto the iMac, for instance when I am away from home.) I work on them a bit (or a lot) on the MacBook. Keepers go in the Selects folder, and processed output goes in the Output folder.
Later, I connect to the MacBook from the iMac over my home network. On the iMac I open the session that I want the images to eventually live in. I go to the System folders in the Library tool, locate the Selects and Output folders on the MacBook, and just drag and drop images from them into the equivalent folders in the iMac session. If you do it that way (from within Capture One, not using Finder) then Capture One will take care of moving all the adjustments you have made for you, along with the raw files.
Alternatively, you could copy the whole session from the MacBook onto an external HDD, then connect that to the other computer and copy it on from the HDD. I occasionally do that if I want the whole session from the MacBook to end up on the iMac, for instance from a holiday.
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Sorry to ask something off-topic, but how do you like the new MBP in combination with C1?
On-topic: I have my main catalog on the SSD and the pictures on an external HD. The good thing about C1 is that you can work on your images even when the HD is disconnected. There might be a few thing you can't do, like outputting them, but otherwise it works like a charm.
I would be wary about syncing the same catalog on different computers, but maybe there are others that do that successfully. A session might be more appropriate…0 -
[quote="photoGrant" wrote:
Not dumb, a challenge for most.
You could put your images in a Lightroom catalog, store them on an external drive, or on a network at home.... Create smart previews of all your images and rock that around with you. This is how I operate. I have a ~70gb Lightroom Catalog that can travel with me and connects to my original raws when I'm at home.
I don't know a way to do this with Capture One. You're somewhat limited. Would love to hear other people's ideas.
Hum.... but you can do the same with Capture One, as mentioned by Peter : all my pictures are stored on an external HDD, and when it is disconnected because I am not at home, for instance, I can still work, edit metadata, select, star, etc...my images "off line" without any problem. My catalog for 17,000 + pictures weights "only" 32 GB.
And it syncs up automatically when you reconnect your HDD.0 -
You can use one or more 'referenced catalogs'. They work pretty well with images on external disk. There's some information about how I use it, including advantages and disadvantages, in my old post here (syncing is only to align home and mobile computer):
viewtopic.php?f=57&t=20765#p97438
I personally combine local sessions and referenced catalogs in my workflow. The shootings I work on are in local sessions, saving me from attaching a battery draining external disk. The finished work is in referenced catalogs, were I can go back to an earlier shoot and maybe do some new adjustments if I need to. I only have selected catalogs on internal storage, but all of them on USB.
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This is my biggest issue with C1 and LR. IIRC, there is no way to sync two catalogs with newest changes from either catalog. I have the same issue with editing on my mobile laptop and syncing those changes to my home computer.
My friend mentioned syncing his LR catalog by having it on dropbox but that probably requires a decent internet connection.
I hope C11 has a syncing feature
I use Photo Mechanic to ingest, tag, rate, and caption images on Macbook 12 1.3ghz. The selects are sent to Capture 1 so the catalog is pretty lean and only contains selects.
PM is way faster for picking selects from hundreds of photos.0 -
[quote="NNN635507439502082957" wrote:
This is my biggest issue with C1 and LR. IIRC, there is no way to sync two catalogs with newest changes from either catalog. I have the same issue with editing on my mobile laptop and syncing those changes to my home computer.
My friend mentioned syncing his LR catalog by having it on dropbox but that probably requires a decent internet connection.
Not necessarily convenient, but the best way I've found to sync Lightroom catalogs on different machines (I do this between Mac & PC) is to use the 'export as catalog' function from one machine and only check the box that says 'Build/include Smart Previews'. Save that catalog to a thumb drive or external hard drive then on the other machine use the 'Import from another catalog' function and the smart previews will carry over all of your adjustments, ratings, keywords, etc to the other catalog.
If you want to transfer the RAW files and previews at the same then check mark those specific settings when exporting the catalog but this will of course make a larger catalog.0 -
Just wanted to thank everyone for the replies!
Glad I'm not alone 😊
I've been using Catalogs 100% exclusively so far, but sounds like I might should consider sessions while on the go.
PS, no, i haven't even had a chance to run C1P on my new MacBook. I'm taking my time figuring out what exactly I want on this thing. I haven't upgraded to 10 yet, either.0 -
[quote="NNN635507439502082957" wrote:
I use Photo Mechanic to ingest, tag, rate, and caption images on Macbook 12 1.3ghz. The selects are sent to Capture 1 so the catalog is pretty lean and only contains selects.
PM is way faster for picking selects from hundreds of photos.
100% with the above.
When working on the Macbook Pro, everything is now done in Sessions only.
That takes away having to think about trying to combine them into Catalogues on the iMac. It sadly means I can have work from the same client all fragmented between Sessions and a Catalogue. The upside is that when transferring all the images off the MBP to the external drives in the office, everything for that shoot is kept in a neat package. That offers worry free clean up of the MBP and space.
Unless I'm shooting Tethered on site, as above, PhotoMechanic to sort through the images. Move selected images to the "Selects" C1 folder in the session and run the process from there into C1.
Use the PM to C1 workflow for both commercial shoots (shoot all images and edit afterwards) as well as editorial jobs with incremental injecting and sending (sport).
PM is also way faster to add IPTC data and editorial captioning over C1 if that's a concern.
Just bought a 2016 tbMBP 13". Will be interested to see how the battery goes on site. And also what TouchBar functionality Phase add to C1v10.0 -
I have tried several methods to sync the images between computers and I suppose it depends on your workflow, but I have settled on using sessions on the laptop and catalogs (usually one master catalog) on the main computer.
There are various ways to move the images but it is easy for me to just attach the external HD that I have the sessions on to the main computer and import the images as needed.
explanations of the various options can be found in this blog entry.
http://blog.phaseone.com/sessions-catal ... th-worlds/0
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