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  • Arnold111
    I read the Modifier pdf, tried it, read it once more, but could still not use batch processing with the 'Shift method'. Did I somewhere miss a cue?

    Arnold

    [quote="UlfLiljegren" wrote:
    Help! I can not batch process.

    This is probably the most common question we have right now.
    Please read this

    http://www.phaseone.com/upload/the_modifier.pdf
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  • NN8930012
    Select your images (ctrl-click on each one), hold down shift then (while still holding down the shift key) click process.
    I find it amazing that so many people are having a problem with this.
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  • Arnold111
    Indeed: I have to KEEP PRESSING the Shift key while operating in anyway on the selection. I do not recognize this from other applications...
    Thanks, Arnold


    [quote="imacken" wrote:
    Select your images (ctrl-click on each one), hold down shift then (while still holding down the shift key) click process.
    I find it amazing that so many people are having a problem with this.
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  • NN8930012
    Glad you worked it out.
    In my experience, all apps work in the same way. You always have to hold shift down when undertaking an operation.
    Iain
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  • manxman27
    I'm glad I found this thread it was doing my head in. I just watched the videos then got stuck in.

    Might have a look through the user manual now I've finished my photos.
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  • trivets12
    I cannot get v.4 to batch process either. I have tried selecting several images, then applying the adjustments, and have tried several ways to batch process them but it never works. It only ever does the first one. Having wasted a lot of time on this I may revert to the previous version of C1 as it was so much easier. I also don't like the new interface which is all little icons. Without rolling the cursor over them there seems to be no other way of knowing which does what. Why are they not word labels?
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  • NN8930012
    I really don't know why you're having so much trouble. It really is quite simple.
    After you have selected your images, just hold down the shift key and click on process. Only extra step is holding down the shift key!
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  • trivets12
    I have done that and it still only processes the first one. I downloaded the user guide and followed it to the letter, but still, only the first one is processed even though six are selected.
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  • NN8930012
    Well, if you are sure that you have muliple images selected, and you are holding down the shift key when clicking on the 'process' icon in the top right hand corner, and you still don't get all your images processed, then I'm afraid I can be no more help to you.
    It does work perfectly, so there must be another issue there.
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  • trivets12
    Thanks for your suggestions. However, as it was free with a Sandisk memory card, and I'm not that impressed with it, I have removed it from the computer and will stick with version 3.7 as it was so much easier to use.
    I have a busy wedding season ahead and cannot afford the time to be muddling along with it.
    Thanks anyway,
    Trudy
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  • NN285049UL
    If I batch process from RAW to jpg, the programme will process as many images as I select.
    If I process from RAW to dng, the programme will process as many images as I select.
    If I batch process from RAW to TIF, the maximum number of images processed is 12. The programme then fails.
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    [quote="FrankBrowett" wrote:
    {...}
    If I batch process from RAW to TIF, the maximum number of images processed is 12. The programme then fails.

    That is not how it is designed. You could try to move the file Capture One.col from the My Pictures\\Capture One Library folder and start CO4 again.
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  • trivets12
    Still can't batch process.
    To be honest, whereas I loved v3.7, version 4, to me, is a nightmare. The interface is a cluttered muddle, with rows of icons which appear to have no effect on the image. Batch processing is nigh on impossible, there is no logical workflow as on v3.7 where you just worked down through the tabs on the right. The user guide is next to useless, following it to the letter does not produce what it says it should. Processing is soooo slow, even just to a jpeg - goodness knows how long a tiff would take.
    Why oh why have you ruined it?
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  • NN8930012
    Sorry Trudy, but you must be doing something wrong as the batch process does work, and I have to say that I find it very quick!
    Are you sure you followed my instructions several posts above?
    Tell us exactly what steps you are doing to batch process your images.
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  • NN285049UL
    I removed the file and gave the programme 171 .CO2 files to process int TIF files. The programme processed 105 of them before failing with the ImgCoreProcess fault. I let the programme run through to clear the cue and restarted the programme and reloaded the last 65 files, which it processed without fault.
    Regarding processing speed, my machine processes a .CO2 file to a ~72Mb TIF in about 21 seconds. I do not think that this is slow and if I process smaller batches the system works perfectly.
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  • David 14
    [quote="trivets12" wrote:
    I have done that and it still only processes the first one. I downloaded the user guide and followed it to the letter, but still, only the first one is processed even though six are selected.


    Mine behaves the same way. I can follow that procedure---which always works on nearly anything else for selecting more than one thing---and only the first image processes. I am out of ideas.I have tried time and time again and have basically given up on using C4 for batch processing.
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  • NN8930012
    With all due respect, I find it amazing that so many people are having trouble with this. It really is very simple.
    You must select all your images by ctrl-click on each one, and then WHILE HOLDING DOWN THE SHIFT KEY click on the process icon. Click on the 'batch' icon to see them all go in (and out)!
    Good luck.
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  • trivets12
    Well, if so many people ARE having problems with it, that should tell you something! It obviously isn't that easy, and the new interface doesn't help by being such a muddly cluttered layout.
    I have gone over to Lightroom, batch processing - easy peasy.
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  • NN8930012
    [quote="trivets12" wrote:
    Well, if so many people ARE having problems with it, that should tell you something! It obviously isn't that easy, and the new interface doesn't help by being such a muddly cluttered layout.
    I have gone over to Lightroom, batch processing - easy peasy.

    Sorry, but there are many things about v4 that I have complained about over and over again on this forum and the beta forums before this, BUT, the issue that some users have difficulty with, i.e. holding down shift when sending images to batch has me completely mystified! I'm not saying that it's not an issue, clearly it is for some, but I really don't understand it at all.
    BTW, as most people know from my many moaning posts, I 'went over' to Lightroom a long time ago and only visit here occasionally in the vain hope that there will be a new 'feature recovered' v4 which is a worthy replacement for v3 LE.
    Iain
    PS One of the many great things about LR v2, is that it now can export to a sub-folder of the image folder automatically. One of the features that many people have been asking to bring back from C1 v3LE to v4.
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  • Perry Curties
    Hello,
    There is a glitch with batch processing, ive not analyzed it in detail because i have managed to achieve a zen like state when editing in capture one.

    But.....If you select a group of images either consecutively or random shots within a group it will usually only process the first image that was selected, as soon as you notice that only one is processing just scroll up to the shot which it is processing, hold down the apple key and click the image to release it from the group, then press process again and the rest will join the queue.

    It doesn't always do this, and im not sure why, it may be that if you select in a random order rather than tagging and then selecting the tabbed group (apple + alt + A) that this gets round it but i havent checked.

    Anyway - there is a glitch and you are not all going mad.
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  • Perry Curties
    sorry - selecting a tagged group is actually ctrl + apple + A.
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  • NN8930012
    [quote="perryc" wrote:
    But.....If you select a group of images either consecutively or random shots within a group it will usually only process the first image that was selected, as soon as you notice that only one is processing just scroll up to the shot which it is processing, hold down the apple key and click the image to release it from the group, then press process again and the rest will join the queue.
    Anyway - there is a glitch and you are not all going mad.

    The APPLE key?!?
    Whoa, I don't have one of these!
    I say again, once you have made your selection, hold down shift key, and then click on process. Everything in the world will be wonderful then. (But I'm still looking for my apple key 😄 )
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    [quote="imacken" wrote:
    [...] (But I'm still looking for my apple key 😄 )

    Iain, you should take sufficient fruit on a daily basis to find the apple key 😄
    Even then, its for the happy few I am afraid.
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  • Perry Curties
    Aah, I see. ive accidentally wandered into a Windows discussion.

    That explains the bad mood in here, disregard my earlier suggestion, there is no hope for you.
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  • Terry91
    Or you can replicate 3.7 behaviour by using the Keyboard Shortcut editor and assigning the Insert key to Process. Shift + process/Insert seems to work, but I hate the fact you have to do it.

    Why, when you set the Shortcut editor to V3.7 don't you get the full 3.7 functionality? The Move to... folder is another example, not to mention the much mourned loss of Control +/- etc.

    Regards,

    Terry
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  • Ian6
    [quote="imacken" wrote:
    With all due respect, I find it amazing that so many people are having trouble with this. It really is very simple.
    You must select all your images by ctrl-click on each one, and then WHILE HOLDING DOWN THE SHIFT KEY click on the process icon. Click on the 'batch' icon to see them all go in (and out)!
    Good luck.


    Hey Iain,

    So many people are having problems with this because the behaviour is different than any other standard program which handles selections and actions to the selection. Why the programmers decided to do this is beyond me and sums up the frustration many people have with Phase One's development team.

    For example:

    Within windows (or osx for that matter), select a bunch of files, using a variety of methods - shift, ctrl, or by using the mouse. Once the items are selected, without holding down any special keys (shift included) press the delete key. All the files you selected will be deleted. No need to hold “shift†down while pressing delete. Its behaviour is simple - select your items and what ever action you do is applied to the entire selection.

    Within Excel, select a bunch of cells, again by whatever means you want. Without pressing any keys, click the bold icon. All the cells you selected will be made bold. Again, the behaviour is simple and intuitive. Select your items and what ever action you do is applied to the entire selection.

    Within iTunes, select a bunch of media tracks. Without pressing any keys, right click on your selection and choose “get infoâ€. It doesn’t bring up the info for which ever song you happened to have the cursor on, it brings up the info for the entire selection. No need to arbitrarily hit shift, no need to hold one’s tounge in any particular orientation, it simply works as one would expect.

    Even within this forum… highlight some text. Press the italics key. Do you have to hit shift to make it apply to the entire selection of your text instead of the last character you selected? No… it applies the italics font to the entire selection.

    This USED to work as expected in 3.x and the behaviour inexplicably changed in 4.x.

    Instead of the development team fixing this behaviour and making it intuitive, a sticky note was put up in the forums, stating “we can’t figure why you guys are so stupid… be sure to press shift when you want to process the entire batchâ€.

    I ask the reverse question. When would you NOT want to process the entire selection that you’ve painstakingly created? When would you want it to process the last single random item that your curser happened to be on?

    I don’t get it. I really want to get it. I’ve recommended Phase 1 to a bunch of people. 3.x was quirky, but it worked. From the frustrated following here, it seems the development team is unwilling to listen to its devoted and knowledgeable installed base.

    Can someone from the development team explain this to me?

    Thanks,

    Ian.
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  • Ed171
    I have to completely agree. Why there isn't a batch process button is beyond me. There is a process button, but if I don't use C1 for a while, I have to look in help to find out how to process multiples.

    Shift+Process is NOT intuitive, no matter how much     you might think that it is.

    It sounds like there is quite a bit of desire to have a dedicated button for this task.
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  • Ulf Liljegren
    ...will be change for upcomming version.

    This is as far as I can say right now but something good is coming regarding this.
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  • Tammy5
    Here's another one who's about to give up on C1. That's just great that the problem might be repaired in the future, but what do I do in the mean time?? I'm so frustrated and am so disappointed with the new version. I've tried everything that you guys have suggested and can't batch process. It shows in queue that it's going through the motions but nothing is happening. Did I miss a step further back perhaps. I'm just simply going to the images along the bottom. Editing one and then cntrl clicking on the ones that I want the same edits to be applied to. I'm then holding the shift key and going to the top right (but tried all available processing) process variant button and it goes through the motions and nothing happens.

    Could it be that it's not set up to edit the things that I want it to in each image (like wb, exposure, etc). Do I have to set that up seperately? Also, can we still do a processing of images and then choose seperately to batch send the images to another folder?

    ARgh! Can I just go back to the old version???
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    Tammy,
    You are clearly frustrated while responding on a post that has been become obsolete thanks to progress made on user feedback in the newest CO 4.6.
    You are not providing lots of details about your problem, but if you are using 4.6, you do not have to use the shift-key modifier to batch process. Now there is a button to toggle between 'Edit Primary Variant Only' and 'Edit Selected Variants'. Use the second option to handle and process multiple images at a time.

    Hope this helps. Otherwise, be wise and set frustration aside, open a thread, provide more details and you will get flooded with all the help available here.
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