jpeg export after shooting
HI,
Can anyone help?
I have been using the program for years but still find it very hard to export jpegs for clients after a shoot. Is there an easy way to export jpegs in multiples easily? I feel that something like select all - and then a "make jpegs" drop down selection would be perfect.
Currently I use the Contact Sheet option which I find a very clumsy way to export. No-one I know in the industry would ever use a web browser to choose shots! I find the previews folder, rename it and trash the rest of the files made. A bit time consuming and also there seems to be a shot number limit. I often have shoots with a few hundred images and find that the contact sheet method just does not work and says that it can not process so many images. ( this is not a RAM issue) So I am stuck getting jpegs to clients after shoots quickly.
Recently I have been using other software to make jpegs and feel Capture One (latest version) seems to have many options that 99% of photographers never use yet making jpegs, a routine thing, is missing. Or am I missing something?
Can anyone help?
I have been using the program for years but still find it very hard to export jpegs for clients after a shoot. Is there an easy way to export jpegs in multiples easily? I feel that something like select all - and then a "make jpegs" drop down selection would be perfect.
Currently I use the Contact Sheet option which I find a very clumsy way to export. No-one I know in the industry would ever use a web browser to choose shots! I find the previews folder, rename it and trash the rest of the files made. A bit time consuming and also there seems to be a shot number limit. I often have shoots with a few hundred images and find that the contact sheet method just does not work and says that it can not process so many images. ( this is not a RAM issue) So I am stuck getting jpegs to clients after shoots quickly.
Recently I have been using other software to make jpegs and feel Capture One (latest version) seems to have many options that 99% of photographers never use yet making jpegs, a routine thing, is missing. Or am I missing something?
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In the Output tool you can choose JPEG or QuickProof to output to JPEG quickly. If you have CO Pro (or DB) than you can make multiple different output recipes and even have output the JPEGs to a different folder than your TIFFs. Of course only selected images are processed.
Let us know if you need more details.
By the way, these options have been here from day-one, telling nothing new here.0 -
thanks for your reply.
The recipe process is very confusing, not efficient and cumbersome. I am quite tech savvy compared to my photographer peers and have been using photoshop since version 4.0 in the mid nineties and sell retouching as a specific add on to my business yet I find Capture One has too many unwanted, hard to use and unstable features.
I just want to give my client jpegs of how the shots look on screen easily and quickly with good compression!
To demonstrate my frustrations ( on a MacPro 12Gb RAM).... just now I opened up a shoot I did which has 395 shots in it. I made a recipe for small jpegs, selected all images and then:
1. I pressed process... I am warned I have "edit all variants turned off" so only 73 images could be processed. So not exactly knowing what that means and why 73 images only could be processed I turned "edit all selected variants" ON.
2. I then selected all and pressed process again. Now I get a warning "only 292 of the 395 selected variants can be processed". However now there is no reason why I can't get the rest. Maybe if I wrote the program or worked for Phase and had training I might understand.
3. I decided to process the images anwyay ( the ones I am allowed to have processed) and it takes about 15 minutes.
4. I now look at quickproof as an option. I make a recipe and press process. it process 395 images in 25 seconds but nothing turns up in the output folder I designate. So I quit and restart. I repeat and now it works! HOWEVER, I now get 680KB files each which open up at only 2mb. Not much of a compression when trying to FTP 395 shots to a client...i.e. over 200mb. I change the resolution to 72dpi but the program just resizes the image dimensions larger and the file size stays the same. Quickproof but really not that quick and with no control over compression.
5. I go back to making my own jpeg. quality 50, dpi 72 and scaling 10%. C1 suggests I'll get afile size of 120KB. I press process. The files are 350KB each roughly now and open at 900KB.
6. I decide to try this with another shoot. I open a shoot from last week and only 3 images load the rest of the 121 images are shown blank frames. I have Auto CL off whatever that is ( as advised ) and now C1 crashes. Did the jpegs I just made fill up the RAM ? I restart and now the files all load properly. I use my custom jpeg settings and process all. C1 suggests that they will be about 82KB... they are 290KB roughly each opening at 971KB. Again useable but not great and takes my computer about 5 minutes per 100.
7. I select all and use "make web contact sheet" with my chosen settings I get a 151KB file that opens up at 3MB. Much better compression and the file looks good. So I go back to using "make web contact sheet" again.... recipes are not up to spec and the clumsy contact sheet option still remains the better way to go.
These options are workable, however not efficient, well controlled and easy to use. Contact Sheet offers easier control and options to export jpegs but comes with unwanted browser based files and also has limits on number of shots it seems. I find photoshop a much better jpeg processor when it comes to file size and compression resulting in a small and better quality jpeg to look at.
Overall I find CaptureOne trying to do too many things rather than just provide solid shooting software that works without mistake. See how many people are having software conflicts and issues with the program crashing etc. Less frills and more simplicity, usability and stability please.0 -
Just to get a better picture, what version of CO6 and OS X and raw file model/brand are you using?
When you process a selection of images, you need to set 'Edit All Selected Variants' to ON, otherwise, only the primary variant will process. Your report shows otherwise, which is odd.
There could be a number of reasons for that. I such cases I update to the latest release, renew the session (*.col50) file, preference files, process recipes and clean the process history. Next, I would take a smaller number of images, say 100, to process in a batch for testing.
You can leave the rant out of your post. Why would you want to take a user's time while you know he (or she) can't change the software and using extra free time while trying to help you? Please address it to Phase One directly, thank you.0 -
I'll echo the sentiment about ranting (FWIW, some photographers are very adept at this program, contrary to your experience...<g>...)...and perhaps listing one issue at a time instead of a varied list of separate issues.
Since Quickproofs seems to be the most useful tool for you and you have webproofs working, let's start with that. Firstly, changing the dpi of an image is not a control for quality, size, or compression. It simply changes the dpi of the image. There are reasons you might prefer either 96 or 72 dpi...it's there for that need.
I belive the only control for QuickProofs size is the setting under preview size (under preferences). Quickproofs simply "develops" the previews in COne that are used for onscreen display....so use the control for that.
I'd work on discovering why not all files selected are not exported to the proper folder. There is a way to set that folder, not worth repeating if you know that...but with the proper toggle set, all files should be developed at one time. The only time I have ever seen a similar message was when that folder was on a nearly full HD....
I would also follow Paul E.'s suggestions, they are typically the best information/help you will get on a user forum for any software....he has helped me innumberable times...0 -
Hi Paul E,
I am sorry if you feel my rant was directed at you. I did say thanks for your reply but I was not intending the rest of the post to be aimed at you.
My rant is more the frustration at the software which I consider is more complicated than required in some areas...
I will look at the options you guys offer though and see if that works better for me.
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understood and thanks for the caveate...
....it is a little complex, but to the good as far as incorporating user suggestions...many of which I personally thought were extraneous at the time, but find myself using once available....
There's something wrong with batch processing not completing....and posting a reply benefits all of us once you find asolution. Again, thanks..0 -
Hi Jeremy62, no problem when you want to vent your frustration and I did not take it personal. But mixed with facts in one post makes it harder for helping people to draw proper conclusions and come up with suggestions. In the end we are here to help you as good as we can and to solve that frustration.
I prefer to look at the bright side. Let us know how you proceed.
Cheers,0 -
You may be 'selecting all' too quickly, wait until all of the images in the folder load into Capture One, before you select all. It helps if you look at the file count at the top of the thumbnails window. You need to be patient and let Capture One do its work before selecting all and processing. Capture One is an incredibly fast program, try opening a folder of 130 images in Photoshop and see how long it takes load them all. 0
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