Asset Management & Capture One Integration

James196

• September 23, 2009 00:49

Hello, First post for me. I am one of those people who switched from LR2 to CO 4 Pro. I really like the results and the adjustment tools. Now I would like to add an asset management program to complete the transition. I have downloaded and tried both Expression Media 2 and Photo Mechanic. The one thing that is obvious when using these programs (or even LR2 for that matter) is that the programs do not read the adjustments that CO makes to the files. By files, I mean RAW files. Is there a way to link the changes made in CO to the DAM software, or is this something that you just deal with in your workflow? A bit frustrating when sorting files in the asset manager not to see the finished product.
Thanks for any insight that you may provide.
Jim

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  deejjjaaaa

  • September 23, 2009 14:26

  if you just want to use C1 as a raw converter there was a discussion (search the forum) how to use LR for all DAM and call C1 from within LR to do just the raw conversion itself so that LR will pickup the resulting output (.TIFF for example) back... although that will be not a very seamless way (you will be fooling LR into thinking that it is calling an external editor not a raw converter)... P1 should really think how to make C1 to act like a native LR plugin... you will not beat LR anyways, but you can catch a ride on its back that way.

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  James196

  • September 23, 2009 23:25

  Thanks, I have certainly thought about the technique that you mention but trying to avoid creating the tiff's. I was hoping that since Phase One offered Microsoft Expression Media 2 on their website (plus their alliance) that there may be a technique to integrate these.
  
  Thank you for responding

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  studio78

  • September 24, 2009 21:17

  Double post, sorry, too much coffee..

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  studio78

  • September 24, 2009 21:17

  That would be interesting, wouldn't it, to have Expression Media render previews using the .col45 files. Would that be the way it would have to be done? Probably a huge rewrite necessary for that to happen. Presently it just works with straight raw files and processed ones.
  
  Dave

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  deejjjaaaa

  • September 25, 2009 14:52

  [quote="NN889661" wrote:
  Probably a huge rewrite necessary for that to happen.

  
  properly designed pure (=not competing in the raw conversion market) DAM should allow a 3rd party raw converter developers to provide some kind of plug-ins at least to process (=display) its sidecar files...

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