Sending images from external application

Stefan Hermanek

• January 01, 2014 16:30

Hi,
I'm using C1 on Windows 7 and have my images organized with catalogs. I want to open a NEF RAW file from another application so I set C1 as the default application for NEF files. Double clicking on a NEF file in Windows Explorer opens C1 and brings up a dialog with the recently opened catalogs and sessions. Selecting the right catalog opens the catalog, but the image is not selected, it has to be selected manually.

If C1 is already open nothing happens at all.

So the question is, how to open an image in C1 from an external program while using catalogs? I would like to use a DAM and then open the images with C1.

Thanks, Stefan

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  Paul Steunebrink

  • January 02, 2014 07:46

  Unless I am missing something, this is not possible with Capture One and in particular not possible when working with catalogs. With catalogs, you have to import an image first through CO's import feature.
  
  Functionality as described are based on starting an application with an optional file to open, like you can with Photoshop. Maybe it works with sessions, but not catalogs.

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  Stefan Hermanek

  • January 07, 2014 20:59

  Hi Paul,
  
  thanks for your answer.
  
  I tried around a bit and it's possible to send an image from an external application with a session. But if more images are sent, only the last one will be selected. C1 has no inbox like other converters where multiple files can be stored. So I tried MediaPro and it's possible to send over a bunch of files while working with a session, just what I searched for. And again, it is not possible with C1 catalogs. It seems for me that catalogs are best used on their own and sessions together with MediaPro.
  
  Stefan

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  mli20

  • January 15, 2014 15:34

  Things to try out when working with a session in COP7:
  
  - Set up the external application to call COP7 with an image,
  
  or try this:
  
  - Drag and drop an image from the external application onto the viewer in COP7
  
  The latter method might work if the first one doesn't, and vice versa.
  
  As for catalogs:
  
  The assumption is that this won't work. While this seems indeed to be the case, I have made an observation worth mentioning:
  
  - Drag and drop an image onto the viewer, and the importer opens offering to import the image into the catalog.
  
  Wouldn't it be nice if in this situation COP7 checked the catalog, and upon finding the image to be present then opened it for editing? That the importer opens upon drag-and-drop seems to be a strong indication that it would take very little programming effort to implement this.
  
  Cheers, Mogens

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