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Camera Input Profile - I am baffled??

Robert17
Hi

I have been using V3 Capture One Pro For Mac and just downloaded a trial version of V5.

But I cannot find out for the life of me what folder you load a custom camera file into.

When I am in the Base Characteristic Section and attempt to import an ICC profile I get a response "No Profiles Were Imported".

So I have the profile - don't know where to put it so I can restart Capture One and hopefully it will load and I will not have to use the default for my camera

Robert
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    Robert,

    Save you custom profile in the folder where Capture One 5 Pro stores corrected (with Color Editor) profiles:
    ~ (user folder) / Library / ColorSync / Profiles
    and (re)start Capture One 5.

    Now the profile should show up next to the Generic profile for your camera. If it does not, you need to rename the profile file according to CO5 standards. For example, a Canon 5D mkII profile must start with 'CanonEOS5DMk2-' prefix. Don't forget the dash and add your own suffix. Restart CO5.

    For help on other camera model prefix syntax, look at the original CO5 profiles. Open the Capture One application package (Show Package Contents) and browse to Contents / Resources / Profiles / Input.
    Yes, you could have place your custom profile here as well, properly renamed, but than you have to do that each time you update the application since the entire application package is renewed when updating.
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  • Robert17
    Paul,

    Great answer - thanks so much! Very precise and comprehensive. Also added the .icm to end of file instead of the supplied .icc and this worked. Thanks once again.


    Robert

    ps - wonder where Capture one puts all these various camera files in my system directory as I cant find them - except as you said - in the package content.
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  • Robert17
    Wonder if anyone has an idea what happened to the old color management tab where you could set the special camera icc profile by default that the application uses when it opens?
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    [quote="Robert17" wrote:
    Wonder if anyone has an idea what happened to the old color management tab where you could set the special camera icc profile by default that the application uses when it opens?

    That default preference setting is still missing...
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  • Robert17
    OK - is there a way to set the default input camera profile. I use a Canon 5 D and it defaults to the generic profile but how can I set up V5.0 to default to my custom profile?

    thanks


    Robert
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  • deejjjaaaa
    [quote="Robert17" wrote:
    OK - is there a way to set the default input camera profile. I use a Canon 5 D and it defaults to the generic profile but how can I set up V5.0 to default to my custom profile?

    thanks


    Robert


    just rename it... so that your profile will have the same name as P1's generic.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    renaming the camera profile may be a workaround, but the feature to automatically associate a custom input profile with files from a particular camera needs to be put back in place in v5. I am baffled by the concept of removing features from v3.x when they wrote v5.x. This is ridiculous.

    Also, be careful with renaming profiles. All ICC (icm) profiles have both an internal and external name, which need to match for ColorSync and other apps to use them properly. Simply changing the name in the finder changes only the EXTERNAL name. You need a tool like Chromix ColorThink to change both internal and external names.
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  • thowi
    IMO the best workaround is to include the preferred input profile in a "style".
    I've stored e.g. a "style" with basic metadata and my preferred input profile.
    So starting a new session first apply the "style" to the first capture - copy adjustments - select all - apply adjustments to all.
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  • Drew Altdo
    Mark is correct in regard to naming Color Profiles. However, the external name is almost always used only to locate the file itself, not ID the details within. So, as far as renaming for Capture One is concerned there is no real danger. If you are concerned then you can simply create a copy and rename it.
    In regard to thowl's suggestion of using styles, this is certainly the best method for applying these color adjustments.
    And to answer everyone's question, features that were in 3 and are missing in 5 are likely that way for a reason... not simply because they were overlooked. If there is some feature you can't live without, let us know through a support case. The more cases are logged, the more we can understand the need to prioritize our resources and implement a change or new feature.
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