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Is anyone here using iMatch DAM?

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How do you use it with Capture One Pro? It doesn't seem as easy as with some other RAW developers to integrate the two.
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  • Pavel Voronenko
    I use it since 2002
    My workflow:
    - copy RAW from camera/cards to the temp folder on SSD drive
    - Assign images to categories, keywords
    - import & rename RAW into iMatch with backup copy on different Synology NAS
    I use the iMatch main DB as my source of information, but working on post-production with the second copy of files
    - import files from the second copy into C1 Catalog or drop the files into C1 session

    What is your issue?
    I see the main issue, that I have to work with imatch on Windows PC... rest of the work is on my MBP
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  • Gerd Mueller
    Since some weeks ago I used IMatch with DxO. Now I changed to C1. I try to hold on my workflow which I used with DxO:

    - Import RAW Files to IMatch
    - move selected RAWs to C1 Input Folder (I work in Session Mode with C1)
    - develop the raws in C1 and export JPGs into a folder which is surveied by IMatch
    - copy the RAW Files to an "Originals" Folder. Must do this with C1 to copy the settings as well!
    - Assign categories, keywords, metadata to the JPGs with IMatch

    This workflow is ok for me. There is one problem in C1 I'm struggling with:
    If I want to work on a RAW again with C1 I read the "Originals" Folder with maybe thousands of pics with C1. This takes quite a long time because C1 generates thumbnails and (empty) settings files in this folder. The problem is that the performance is still very bad when I open the same folder again the next day 😕
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  • Permanently deleted user
    Thank you, both for the information. Something I would like to do but haven't found a way is to browse my RAW files in iMatch, select one or more and open them directly in C1P for editing. Replacing the C1P browser function with iMatch. Has anyone a method for doing that? When I call C1P from iMatch I get the C1P Import box.
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  • Pavel Voronenko
    Did not get what are you doing...
    Before importing RAW, if you a
    When you import "Assign categories, keywords, metadata to" the RAW "with IMatch" you have this information through all your workflow. But, before the import, you need to select RAWs and click on the "yellow pen" symbol to save the information (XMP metadata) to the sidecar file. C1 will read the data from these files
    When you import RAWs, add the Backup option and, after, in C1 create session and point the folder with [Backup copy] RAWs as the Capture folder
    If you need to keep your final Jpegs as variants in iMatch you can import into iMatch just Output folder and assign the files (automatically) as "variants"

    Next time, when you need to edit or re-edit photos, the is not differences to open existing Session in C1...

    Or am I missing some of your logic?

    I can do even more - when I use film camera along with digital one, in iMatch I assign camera/lenses/geo information to files and save it in XMP metadata before importing to C1.

    [quote="GerdM" wrote:
    Since some weeks ago I used IMatch with DxO. Now I changed to C1. I try to hold on my workflow which I used with DxO:

    - Import RAW Files to IMatch
    - move selected RAWs to C1 Input Folder (I work in Session Mode with C1)
    - develop the raws in C1 and export JPGs into a folder which is surveied by IMatch
    - copy the RAW Files to an "Originals" Folder. Must do this with C1 to copy the settings as well!
    - Assign categories, keywords, metadata to the JPGs with IMatch

    This workflow is ok for me. There is one problem in C1 I'm struggling with:
    If I want to work on a RAW again with C1 I read the "Originals" Folder with maybe thousands of pics with C1. This takes quite a long time because C1 generates thumbnails and (empty) settings files in this folder. The problem is that the performance is still very bad when I open the same folder again the next day 😕
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  • Pavel Voronenko
    Not sure if it is possible...
    You can find and locate required files in iMatch and find the same folder/files from any C1 Session if you need it to edit

    [quote="rafikiphoto" wrote:
    Thank you, both for the information. Something I would like to do but haven't found a way is to browse my RAW files in iMatch, select one or more and open them directly in C1P for editing. Replacing the C1P browser function with iMatch. Has anyone a method for doing that? When I call C1P from iMatch I get the C1P Import box.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    [quote="diver1" wrote:
    Not sure if it is possible...
    You can find and locate required files in iMatch and find the same folder/files from any C1 Session if you need it to edit


    Thanks. Yes, that's the way I do it now. I was hoping for a more streamlined method.
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