C1 4 pro
I have just installed C1 4.2 pro on to my Macbook Pro and I thought my first impressions might be useful.
First I would say the new software is like "The Curates Egg, good in parts"
Those parts are outnumbered by what is definately very bad about C1 4 Pro.
1. It is much slower downloading images, scrolling from one image to another - you have to wait up to 5 seconds for a new image to come up after selecting it - can you imagine what it would be like having to go through 1000 images. C1 3.7 wins by a mile.
2. When downloading from a flash card via card reader I had to have 3 attempts before I was successful in getting the raws to go to the capture folder. In 3.7 I did it first time. It seems that you have to be very careful to select the capture folder for each flash card you download.Also the card eject button is, at best erratic, and has not worked in spite of being ticked. This has brought up removal devise warning and I am sure that could cause people to loose or corrupt valuable raw files.
3.If you have more than one session active it freezes when you click the minimised icon on the dock and up comes Apples Darstardly wheel of inactivity. The only way to continue is to shut C1 4 down and reopen it.
4. Sessions not being backwardly compatible with C1 3.7 beggers belief. What a completly daft and stupid decision that was. The decision must have been taken by an Anorak Technical Goon. It certainly was not taken by a hard pressed photographer.
5. Making C1 4 pro only useable with Leopard must have been taken by the same person who made the decision in item 4 above.
6. Naming files is a doddle in C1 3.7. I have yet to discover how to do it in C 1 4. At present they come with camera numbers and I can not see any way of renaming them in C1 4.
The parts I like are the batching using shift key, highlight and shadow controls, exposure controls. What I really dislike is the size of the controls. They are too small which makes your work flow slower.
I'm afraid at present the score so far is 'nil points' Ferrari would not sell many cars if they made them 75% slower and less reliable than the old model. Phase one please remember this that your customers could not care what you have to do to make your software better than the older version but frustration, lack of speed and continuous crashes will drive them away to your competitors at a pretty fast rate. For the present I'll stick with 3.7. It generally does what it says on the box and I have only known it to crash once in all the time I have had it.
First I would say the new software is like "The Curates Egg, good in parts"
Those parts are outnumbered by what is definately very bad about C1 4 Pro.
1. It is much slower downloading images, scrolling from one image to another - you have to wait up to 5 seconds for a new image to come up after selecting it - can you imagine what it would be like having to go through 1000 images. C1 3.7 wins by a mile.
2. When downloading from a flash card via card reader I had to have 3 attempts before I was successful in getting the raws to go to the capture folder. In 3.7 I did it first time. It seems that you have to be very careful to select the capture folder for each flash card you download.Also the card eject button is, at best erratic, and has not worked in spite of being ticked. This has brought up removal devise warning and I am sure that could cause people to loose or corrupt valuable raw files.
3.If you have more than one session active it freezes when you click the minimised icon on the dock and up comes Apples Darstardly wheel of inactivity. The only way to continue is to shut C1 4 down and reopen it.
4. Sessions not being backwardly compatible with C1 3.7 beggers belief. What a completly daft and stupid decision that was. The decision must have been taken by an Anorak Technical Goon. It certainly was not taken by a hard pressed photographer.
5. Making C1 4 pro only useable with Leopard must have been taken by the same person who made the decision in item 4 above.
6. Naming files is a doddle in C1 3.7. I have yet to discover how to do it in C 1 4. At present they come with camera numbers and I can not see any way of renaming them in C1 4.
The parts I like are the batching using shift key, highlight and shadow controls, exposure controls. What I really dislike is the size of the controls. They are too small which makes your work flow slower.
I'm afraid at present the score so far is 'nil points' Ferrari would not sell many cars if they made them 75% slower and less reliable than the old model. Phase one please remember this that your customers could not care what you have to do to make your software better than the older version but frustration, lack of speed and continuous crashes will drive them away to your competitors at a pretty fast rate. For the present I'll stick with 3.7. It generally does what it says on the box and I have only known it to crash once in all the time I have had it.
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Hello
Strange you are finding these problems, what are the specs of your computer?
Mine for tethered shooting is Macbook Pro 2.4ghz 4GB ram Intel Core 2 Duo, works so fast and processes files in under 2 seconds, viewing files from one to the other is instantaneous.
Are you using 4.5.2?
I would suggest looking at all the video tutorials they really help.
I know its different from 3 but why is everyone so scared of change, once you have done a few jobs with 4 you wont want to go back.
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Hi Derek.
Macbook pro 2GHz dual with 2gb ram running leopard. There is also 20 gb free space on hard drive.
The most important point is that it should not matter what computer you run the software on. It is like saying everybody has to go to work in a Ferrari. Reality is that you can get to work in a Nissan Micra all be it slower and much cheaper. For the people who want to run the software on the fastest computer they can buy, great, but the people who have lower spec computers should not be excluded. I am sure there are more Phase One clients without top spec computers so, from a pure marketing stand point, it must be benefcial to Phase One to arrange their software accordingly.
Also the crop tool and renaming of files in C1 4. The former I can not make it work and neither could the last socalled expert I asked, the latter I have not discovered how to do it. I never had these problems with C1 3.7.
There are just too many things that C1 3.7 does better than C1 4. I am not a luddite. I am really keen to make C1 4 work well. I am well disappointed with it so far and judging by the comments from a large number of other users I am not alone. Reality is that no one gives a toss what the software designers have to do to make it work well but they irritate people big time when the software doesn't work. In one week C1 4 has crashed or frozen more times than C1 3.7 has done ever since I bought it.
Best wishes,
Colin.0
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