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Catalog versus Session?

Scott Varga
I have all of my photo shoots on one RAID drive; in one folder with each shoot in a folder labelled with date/model name. I'm used to Adobe Bridge which allows me to peruse the folder and access all of my shoots.

How should I be integrating Capture One into my workflow? I am totally lost.

Thanks in advance,

Scott
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  • Eric Valk
    There are a few things that would fit your data storage and approach quite naturally.

    Approach 1 - One Master Catalog and a Session for each new shoot
    A) Set up a catalog with referenced image files (Images stored where they are now) for every shoot in a folder labelled with date/model name. Make every shoot a Project
    B) Set up a session for each each new shoot in a folder labelled with date/model name.
    As you finish working a new shoot import the session into the catalog. Or just import the best images.

    Approach 2 - Only Sessions
    A) Set up a session for each each new shoot in a folder labelled with date/model name.
    B) Set up a session for every shoot in a folder labelled with date/model name.

    Approach 3 - One Master Catalog
    A) Set up a catalog with referenced image files (Images stored where they are now) for every shoot in a folder labelled with date/model name.
    B) For each new shoot store the image files the same way in folders on the RAID drive (as you have been doing), and import them into a new Project in the catalog for processing.

    I'm using approach 3, but if you get your new images while travelling and on a smaller machine, then Approach 1 or 2 makes more sense.

    You can mix and match. Just beware of the following:
    - While it is fairly simple to import a Session into a Catalog, copying from Catalog (including image adjustments and metadata content ) into Sessions is a tricky and involved proceedure.
    -Once you import images from a session to a Catalog, or from one Catalog to another, the adjustments and Metadata at that time are copied. It is not a live connection. E.G. if you make editting adjustments in the Session after importing into a Catalog, these subsequent adjustments are not shown in the Catalog.
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