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difference between new session & new folder

tyler11
how does creating a new folder relate to creating a new session?

i'm assuming a new folder sits inside a session folder, but can someone verify that?

also, why would anyone want to create additional folders, aside from the processed/captures/trash combo?

do new folders have the processed/captures/trash file structure inside them too? if so, what's the difference between them and newly created sessions?

i mean, what's the strategic advantage of one over the other?

any help here would be fantastic. if there are threads elsewhere that might answer these questions, pleases send them my way!
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  • Ulf Liljegren
    A session is a folder which contains the capture folder (which you import RAW files to or shoot tethered to)
    Process which you develop files to.
    The advantage with this is that everything which has to do with a session (a shooting) will be contained with in one folder.
    Both the Capture folder and the Process folder also includes a Capture One Settings folder which includes previews and settings files or any changes that has been done to a RAW file.
    NOTE that Capture One never ever writes to a RAW file.
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  • gbosch
    Is there a possibility to transfer a capture from a session to a different session? Would be great for sorting captures.
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  • NucleusG4
    Sure, just drag it from one folder to the other...either in C1 or just normally.
    When you load that gallery/seesion it will generate a preview for the new Capture/RAW.
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  • abalian
    Subfolders are great if you need to do variations in one shot. Folder \"A\" can contain frames that had the light on the right side, and Folder \"B\" can contain frames when the background was changed to grey, etc. You can easily drag files within these subfolders, and use the \"2-up portrait\" viewer to compare the shots. It helps tremendously for file management.

    The software creates a subfolder within each subfolder that contains the file info (thumbnails, etc.), but when you process an image from each subfolder, the destination is still the one PROCESSED folder. Hope that made sense.

    Alan
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