Saving Settings
I have a running issue with C1Pro 3.5.2. I put each job in it's own folder. Inside that folder are two other folders, one called develops (for the developed files..duh) and one called Previews where I store the previews, also duh. WHY?
The problem I have is that I might shoot 200 captures for an job, and want to tag the favorites. I used to drag my choices to another folder but soon found I had more folders than I wanted to manage. The issue comes when I change the job I'm working on and need to go back and revisit a previous job. When I add the collection, point it to the proper folder C1 will REGENERATE all the preview. This both takes a lot of time, and gives me a collection without corrections, and without tags; essentially bringing me back to ground zero.
I asumed C1 was cleaning this info from the cache file when I exit, so I thought I'd be more clever than C1 and set my Preview Cache to \"Never clean up the cache folder\". Then when I change collections I close the current job's session, Point to a blank folder, reset my cache to the next jobs Preview folder, restart the application, reload the appropriate job, and expect C1 to now see existing previews, existing color settings, existing tags etc.
Sometimes this seems to work, sometimes it doesn't. I'd like to settle on the former.
How to I do this?
There has got to be a way to go back to a month old job without having to rebalance, reselect, recrop, rerotate every image in a large collection without either having one really big collection or a preview of every shot you ever did.
Any techniques you can clearly illustrate?
The problem I have is that I might shoot 200 captures for an job, and want to tag the favorites. I used to drag my choices to another folder but soon found I had more folders than I wanted to manage. The issue comes when I change the job I'm working on and need to go back and revisit a previous job. When I add the collection, point it to the proper folder C1 will REGENERATE all the preview. This both takes a lot of time, and gives me a collection without corrections, and without tags; essentially bringing me back to ground zero.
I asumed C1 was cleaning this info from the cache file when I exit, so I thought I'd be more clever than C1 and set my Preview Cache to \"Never clean up the cache folder\". Then when I change collections I close the current job's session, Point to a blank folder, reset my cache to the next jobs Preview folder, restart the application, reload the appropriate job, and expect C1 to now see existing previews, existing color settings, existing tags etc.
Sometimes this seems to work, sometimes it doesn't. I'd like to settle on the former.
How to I do this?
There has got to be a way to go back to a month old job without having to rebalance, reselect, recrop, rerotate every image in a large collection without either having one really big collection or a preview of every shot you ever did.
Any techniques you can clearly illustrate?
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Andy,
When you remove RAW files for archiving, remove them from the folder, but leave the folder in-place on your system. Filenames cannot be changed. When you want to work on an archived job, reload them into the exact same folder on your system.
Capture One does not modify the Raw files.
All settings are saved in the preview cache directory in the work files i.e. .Work
All Work files and Preview files are saved in this one directory (Previews folder).
Easiest way to save settings during an archive process is to select all the thumnail files to be archived. Then at toolbar pulldown:
Workflow->Selected Capture Settings->Archive settings...
You then get a browse window; and point to where you want to save all settings for the selected files.
Reload your archived images into the Exact Same Location.
When restoring these settings:
Workflow->Selected capture Settings->Restore Settings
And point at the directory where that resides.
Sincerely,
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Well, in escence that is what I thougth I was doing. I'm not actually moving my files anywhere, I'm just redirecting C1 to a new folder that has the raw files, and an enclosed preview folder with the work and preview files.
My frustration is that sometimes this works great. I redirect to an older job and everything is as I left it. Sometimes I go back and it looks just as it had when I first put the raw files into the directory.
I've even had settings appear to change durring a shoot. I've even taken to renaming files (from within C1) to include white balance settings so that when the color changes, I can get back to where I started.
All belly aching aside, I'll certainly try your method. Is mine inherently flawed?0
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