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Capture One keeps resetting some of my edits

Robin Gillespie
I've just completed editing a wedding with Capture One, having bought a licence last week.

I keep finding that CO is repeatedly resetting some of my edits. I can have a section complete, close down CO, come back later and re-open - an some of the previous adjustments I've made have now been reset. This is happening with WB, exposure adjustments and especially Levels.

I am not accidentally hitting reset or copying adjustments from another image - Capture One is doing this itself, it seems.

This is a deal breaker and I am pulling my hair out trying to figure out the problem, meanwhile my client deliveries are slipping back.
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  • Robert Whetton
    have never in the years of using C1 come across it resetting my edits (even jumping from 1 version to another)

    more info would be ideal in trying to help you 😊
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  • Robin Gillespie
    I know, it's downright weird, right?

    Anything specific info that would help?
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  • Ian Wilson
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    Tell us a bit more. Are you working in a catalog or a session?

    Ian
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  • Robin Gillespie
    OK.

    I'm using a catalog and this is on the only job in it. Subsequent jobs will have their own catalog. I've not created any variants.

    I have all the images broken down into several sub-folders (think section of a wedding day) - that's folders on the hard drive (it's my way of organising during an edit).

    Each image has my basic preset applied which I'v created myself. Luma curve, some minor colour tweaks - just very basic stuff.

    When editing, I tend to go through a section (in this case - the ceremony), do all the crops and straightens, then go back and do the exposure, density, colour etc etc.

    The problem I'm experiencing is on one part of the ceremony section. I've been using Capture One's rather nice Filter to isolate by lens (they all tend to have a slightly colour difference as I'm sure you're aware and filtering this way helps me get though them more quickly).

    I wasn't sure if the filtering was making some weird difference? I know that's clutching a straws a bit.
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  • Robin Gillespie
    I'm trying something now - I've isolated all the pics I'm having problems with (67 of them) and have just done a 'reset' on all. I'll now go back and re-edit them all from scratch.

    It really is very odd.
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  • SFA
    [quote="NNN636948587817610709" wrote:
    OK.



    The problem I'm experiencing is on one part of the ceremony section. I've been using Capture One's rather nice Filter to isolate by lens (they all tend to have a slightly colour difference as I'm sure you're aware and filtering this way helps me get though them more quickly).



    So the 67 affected images are all involved with the filtered collections grouped by lens?

    As they ALL being reset or are some tools of the edit being reset and not others?

    Assume the most obvious possible common factor might appear to be some sort of colour edits related to the various lenses, which tools are you using to make the change(s)? And then how re you applying the changes - file by file or updating multiple files in one action?

    Like Bobtographer I have never come across anything like the situation you have described.

    One further question is whether the changes are being 'lost' somehow OR changed to something different when you are unaware of anything you may have done that was likely to cause such an update.

    FWIW given your intention to create a separate catalogue for each event, I would be tempted to suggest using sessions rather than catalogues. However that is probably a different discussion thread and I can't imagine there is anything in the processing option between catalogues and sessions that is likely to be influencing the problem that you are seeing as described.


    Grant
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  • Robin Gillespie
    Thanks for the advice. Resetting all those 67 images back to import status worked. The re-edited adjustments have stuck and seem stable.

    I can't see where the problem was, but that nobody else has ever seen this indicates it's something I've done inadvertently.

    Grant - I choose Catalog because it's the closest to how Lightroom works, which I've been using for a decade. I can't see any advantages to using Sessions and the way they create their 'Capture', 'Selects' and 'Outputs' folder doesn't suit my workflow at all.
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  • SFA
    [quote="RobG999" wrote:
    Thanks for the advice. Resetting all those 67 images back to import status worked. The re-edited adjustments have stuck and seem stable.

    I can't see where the problem was, but that nobody else has ever seen this indicates it's something I've done inadvertently.

    Grant - I choose Catalog because it's the closest to how Lightroom works, which I've been using for a decade. I can't see any advantages to using Sessions and the way they create their 'Capture', 'Selects' and 'Outputs' folder doesn't suit my workflow at all.


    Less overhead and easier archiving I suspect.

    The default creation of a session with the folders (and the same named virtual link options) can be ignored or revised to names that do suit your workflow - thought to be honest I thought the same as you for my first year or so of using C1 until one day I decided to look at what was available more constructively than I had previously.

    I had skipped out of LR (because if forced the use of a catalog and my preferred application of the time did not require a catalogue (and offered no real DAM functionality) so a 'free format' use of the the application, based on self created and managed system folders, was easy to reproduce in C1. (At the time C1 did not have catalog functionality and that was fine by me.)

    However when I recognise the benefits of the Sessions concept for shooting events (in my opinion of course and based on the way I work) it became my preferred approach.

    I don't regularly use the Selects or Trash folders so they are mainly ignored but sometimes prove useful.

    If you have a specific folder structure you like to use you can create a session template and use that as the basis if each new session. (Or different templates for different purposes.)

    But ultimately the choice is entirely yours and there are not many real differences between the base processes presented in either aproach other than certain aspects of the DAM concept.


    HTH.


    Grant
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