Max Recommended Catalog size?
I've been using C1Pro on and off for a year. With the scheduled demise of Aperture I am evaluating C1P vs LR and am liking C1P more for a variety of reasons.
Right now I'm importing referenced folders with about 50,000 images. (I used Aperture in "referenced" mode so that I could easily get at my images outside of Aperture). It's a bit of a slow process with a fair amount of spinning wheels and such, but I seem to be getting through it.
My question is this: Is there a recommended max size for a Capture 1 Catalog? either in terms of number of images or size of the Capture Database, or some other metric?
Right now I'm importing referenced folders with about 50,000 images. (I used Aperture in "referenced" mode so that I could easily get at my images outside of Aperture). It's a bit of a slow process with a fair amount of spinning wheels and such, but I seem to be getting through it.
My question is this: Is there a recommended max size for a Capture 1 Catalog? either in terms of number of images or size of the Capture Database, or some other metric?
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Max Size is defined by your hardware's performance.
Top of the Line system = Bigger Catalogs and Better Performance.0 -
No offense, but I'm looking for some real world examples or perhaps links to Capture One reference materials. "Top of line system = Bigger Catalogs"... what does that mean? Of course a faster workstation helps, but I'm asking about practical limits.
For the record: I have an i7 processor and the catalog is on SSD, with 16GB RAM (OS X). RAM appears not to be an issue as C1 is using about 3.6GB currently. Images are on spinning disk (Mirrored drives on external thunderbolt array).
So my question is, assuming adequate hardware, is there a practical limit or recommended limit to catalog size? If there isn't that's fine. But I'm just wondering if I should keep importing tons of images into a single catalog or break it up. In other words, is there an accepted "best practice"?0 -
No offense taken but please understand I can only give accurate information based on details provided.
Now that you have provided some of your specs, if your spinning disk is a 7200rpm drive and not 5400rpm (and depending on the Array type) I would suspect you'd reach your catalog image limit somewhere close to 100,000. So a catalog of even smaller size will see better performance.0 -
OK, I'm further along testing and not having good results.
I have approx. 50,000 images in referenced folders. I have now imported them all into C1P 7 and I'm getting the rainbow spinning wheel all over the place. The recommendation by Drew for a max catalog was closer to 100,000 images so my question now is this: does it make a difference if the raw files are in referenced folders vs imported into the C1P directly?
Again, I have 16GB of RAM, catalog is on SSD, external Thunderbolt drives ar 7200rpm, but it looks like C1 may need more than that. (Note: the competition in Aperture and LR are swimmingly fast with the same 50k of referenced files). I believe the Rainbow spinning wheel means C1 is waiting for the OS. If that's the case, my bet is that it's trying to swap memory in and out of cache, but that's just a guess.
Any suggestions would be appreciated (e.g will 32GB take care of it?). Hopefull C1P8 will make the catalog as scalable as the competition.0 -
I have never managed to get my images cataloged by COP7 successfully but Media Pro works fine.
If I point COP7 catalog at my image repository (125000+ images) and tell it to catalog then it starts the process but always crashes or locks up first.0 -
Well,
I upgraded to C1P8 and the catalog works as expected (as in way, way faster). 50,000 image and no spinning wheels. I'm happy.0
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