HowTo: Run arbitrary backend scripts in recipes
The weakest part of C1 is the I/O section, not only is it quite idiosyncratic, it is also hobbled by only allowing EXE and COM files as external commands, but no BAT, CMD or other scripts, making it even harder to work around the limitations of the recipes.
So if you for example want to run a script that moves files programmatically or adds parametric watermarks, you’re stuck.
But, you can select any arbitrary executable for “Open With†and then just edit the recipe definition and substitute your CMD file (or PL or PY if your Windows is configured to handle them) for the executable listed in the recipe.
Recipes are defined in text files in %APPDATA%\\Local\CaptureOne\Recipes82
At least that is where I found them.
The Variable to change is programPathPc.
So if you need to run ImageMagick based scripts or want to move files to parallel paths it can be done with this trick.
cheers
afx
So if you for example want to run a script that moves files programmatically or adds parametric watermarks, you’re stuck.
But, you can select any arbitrary executable for “Open With†and then just edit the recipe definition and substitute your CMD file (or PL or PY if your Windows is configured to handle them) for the executable listed in the recipe.
Recipes are defined in text files in %APPDATA%\\Local\CaptureOne\Recipes82
At least that is where I found them.
The Variable to change is programPathPc.
So if you need to run ImageMagick based scripts or want to move files to parallel paths it can be done with this trick.
cheers
afx
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Interesting idea, experimenting at the weekend.
Many thanks0
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