New C1 User and First Time Poster

Grayson Lee

• October 29, 2017 02:25

Hello:

I am a longtime Adobe Lightroom 6 and Photoshop CS6 perpetual license user. After Adobe's news release of the Lightroom Classic subscription model earlier this week, I made the decision to move to C1 Pro 10.

I have installed the trial version of C1 Pro 10 and I was immediately impressed with the raw conversion quality of C1 Pro 10.

I have a number of questions for which I would sincerely appreciate some assistance.

I was able to create a new library in C1 Pro 10 by importing about 60,000 images in about 25 minutes, which I thought was quite impressive.

How does Capture One go about building previews? Do I need to do anything to force Capture 1 to generate previews, or will it be done upon demand? Whenever I go to a new folder in the C1 catalog, it appears to generate previews then. Can I force C1 to go ahead and generate the previews in advance?

Thanks in advance,

Grayson

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  Christian Gruner

  • October 29, 2017 08:02

  Welcome aboard!
  
  CO will automatically generate previews, if none are present.

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  Ian Leslie

  • October 30, 2017 15:39

  I wonder if @GALee is getting at generating previews upfront like we needed to do in LR.
  
  I am guessing a little but it was pretty common that LR was not very fleet of foot when looking at images. After an import looking at the first image and then the second and so on was slow. Since the previews were not created before you started viewing them there was a 1-2s (or worse for some) delay as you flipped through your images. Clearly for a quick look to cull duds this was frustrating. So, LR let you automatically create previews for newly imported files by offering that as an option in the import dialog. It meant that the import process took longer but it also meant that you could quickly flip from image to image after the import.
  
  I have not yet picked up the trial for evaluation but I will be looking at the performance of flipping through new images once I do.

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  Grayson Lee

  • November 01, 2017 01:48

  Hi Ian,
  
  Yes that was what I was thinking about.
  
  Grayson

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  Grayson Lee

  • November 01, 2017 01:50

  One other question.
  
  I have set up a keyboard shortcut for the "Edit With" command.
  
  Is it possible to set up a keyboard shortcut for the "Open With" command?
  
  Thanks,
  
  Grayson

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  Ian Wilson

  Moderator

  • November 01, 2017 08:48

  

  I assume not as Open With doesn't appear in the list of commands to which Keyboard shortcuts can be applied. Don't know why. But you can choose both Edit With... and Open With from a context menu if you right click the image in the browser as well as from the File menu.
  
  Ian

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