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Cature Pro Express 7 - No Sessions

jknights
I currently have a copy of Capture Pro 7.12 installed on two computers so installing another copy is not allowed.

So I purchased a copy of Capture Express 7 which is fine except that I dont want catalogs I want sessions. Even in Pro 7 I dont use Catalogs but use Sessions.

Why is it that Express forces you to use Catalogs rather than Sessions ?
I know this is a Phase One decision. But I want to know why this design decision was made.
To me the logic is that Catalogs are potentially more powerful than Sessions so why not put that as being available in only the most expensive Pro solutiuon.

Alternatively allow users to generate Sessions but not Catalogs as a preference setting on installation/activation.

Have I missed the point as to why Sessions is not provided/removed ? (BTW: I would never use Catalogs even if it was a free product until I can have a scripting language that allows me to interrogate the catalog).
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  • jknights
    No response so I have raised a Support Case and Enhancement Request will follow.

    I think that a user should have the option to use Either Catalogs Or Sessions in the Express product and both in the Pro product.
    It also makes more sense (to me) that Express carries forward the idea of Sessions as this is what was present in Capture Pro and Express 6.
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  • Keith Reeder
    It's pretty obvious, really. Phase One has made these seemingly arbitrary decisions about Capture One 7 Express (seriously: there's no such thing as "Capture Pro" or "Capture Express") - removing really useful functionality like spot removal; stuffing-up an established and effective workflow; forcing catalogues on us - as "punishment" for having the temerity to push them so hard in the first place to provide a 7 Express.

    It's also clear to me that these decisions are explicitly intended to make 7 Express so unattractive to many potential users that they'll bite the bullet and pay for Pro.

    it's unique in my experience that a later version of a Raw converter should be quite so much worse as a matter of design and policy decision than its predecessor (even ASP, godawful though it is, isn't actually worse than Bibble 5), yet Phase One have managed just that feat.
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  • jknights
    [quote="Keith Reeder" wrote:
    It's pretty obvious, really. Phase One has made these seemingly arbitrary decisions about Capture One 7 Express (seriously: there's no such thing as "Capture Pro" or "Capture Express") - removing really useful functionality like spot removal; stuffing-up an established and effective workflow; forcing catalogues on us - as "punishment" for having the temerity to push them so hard in the first place to provide a 7 Express.


    😂 Agree with the comments. Seems absurd but hey, we only buy the stuff.


    It's also clear to me that these decisions are explicitly intended to make 7 Express so unattractive to many potential users that they'll bite the bullet and pay for Pro.


    Since I will only be running it on a laptop that is for out of studio use I guess I wont have all my images so building a catalog will be OK as it will be more like a Session anyway. Just a complete PITA to have to kludge something.


    it's unique in my experience that a later version of a Raw converter should be quite so much worse as a matter of design and policy decision than its predecessor (even ASP, godawful though it is, isn't actually worse than Bibble 5), yet Phase One have managed just that feat.


    Bibble5 and ASP work well for me and when/if they ever release a camera RAW update then it may be useful again.
    However the Speed of Bibble5 /ASP was very welcome as it meant it could be run on any machine. This is not true with Capture One Pro 7 as it needs a fairly well specified machine to run at a reasonable speed.
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