Photo Supreme and Capture One Pro
Like many I am looking to replace my Aperture workflow with a new system. I really like the results from Capture One. I have been using Capture One for a little over a year. I imported my library from Aperture and since then have added many files to the catalog.
Where I am finding CO weak in with catalogues. I have 16,000+ files in my catalogue and I am noticing that there is some lag when I move around CO. I tested with a small catalog of 200 images and things fly. If Phase One could just get CO to work with large amounts of files like Aperture was able to I would be ecstatic.
I am thinking I need a different "front end" to store my files and manage them. I have them all key worded, rated and/or color coded. I do not really want to break my collection into small catalogs unless I have a way to search all of them by at least keywords. I tried Media Pro and was not impressed. It won't see CO10 edits for one, plus there is no way to export and to edit a file you have to create a session. This adds to hard drive bloat and makes a simple task of exporting already tweak files a process.
Photo Supreme says it works with CO. My question is how easy is it to catalog everything in Photo Supreme and edit files in CO? Does it make a duplicate or just open CO and let you make changes that show in Photo Supreme? I can't seem to find this info anywhere.
Before someone chimes in and says, "why not download a trial?". I did that a long time ago apparently because my trial has expired. I may have done it last year when I was trying different products before settling on CO.
Where I am finding CO weak in with catalogues. I have 16,000+ files in my catalogue and I am noticing that there is some lag when I move around CO. I tested with a small catalog of 200 images and things fly. If Phase One could just get CO to work with large amounts of files like Aperture was able to I would be ecstatic.
I am thinking I need a different "front end" to store my files and manage them. I have them all key worded, rated and/or color coded. I do not really want to break my collection into small catalogs unless I have a way to search all of them by at least keywords. I tried Media Pro and was not impressed. It won't see CO10 edits for one, plus there is no way to export and to edit a file you have to create a session. This adds to hard drive bloat and makes a simple task of exporting already tweak files a process.
Photo Supreme says it works with CO. My question is how easy is it to catalog everything in Photo Supreme and edit files in CO? Does it make a duplicate or just open CO and let you make changes that show in Photo Supreme? I can't seem to find this info anywhere.
Before someone chimes in and says, "why not download a trial?". I did that a long time ago apparently because my trial has expired. I may have done it last year when I was trying different products before settling on CO.
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Hi,
I am also thinking about the Photo Supreme solution. The only (but major) drawbacks are :
- Photo Supreme doesn't take into account the Capture One adjustments, except for some of them (crops, white balance,....)
- You can open a file into C1 from Photo Supreme, but presumably you'll have to work in the session mode.
Before trying Photo Supreme, I would greatly appreciate some other advices 😄0 -
Well, you could just try photo supreme (also abbreviated as PSU). Join its forum and find a wealth of information there.
PSU does approximate the CO edits (as does it for DXO and Photo Ninja), but that's indeed it: it approximates. One could ask oneself whether it is required to do more for asset management purposes. Working with CO needs CO to be in session mode (just like between CO and Media Pro), there is obviously no need to have two cataloguing systems in a row. PSU should be the master if you ask me.
PSU does sport a reliable database, especially if you choose one of the SQL server versions (i use PostgreSQL). I'm cataloguing approx. 130K files without a problem.
It also catalogues other file types, not sure whether that's important to you.
But, before this turns into an advertorial, please head over to photo supreme forum for more information 😄0 -
Thanks a lot, HCS !! I'll think about it, as I am used to work, for years, with a software coupling catalog and development (I started with Lightroom from the beginning, then switched to Capture One). Session mode might be a solution, but I have to jump.... 0
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