Lightroom to Capture one -- HELP!
After a long time trying out various alternative I have decided to make the move to Capture One from Lightroom. This morning I migrated my Lightroom Catalog to a Capture One catalog. The process was easy enough but took a lot less time than I thought, a little over an hour for 80,000 images. I expected to see an activity to build previews, but that did not happen. I looked in the catalog file for previews and and found folders with subfolders for previews and thumbnails. They each had very few entries. I then opened some catalog folders in Capture One and found that caused the program to Build previews. My next thought was to go to my top-level folder and open up all the images and force Capture One to generate all of the previews. When I did that, however, I discovered that images in the subfiloders are not displayed. On top of that, searching on the top-level folder finds nothing. So at this point I can only see and search on images that exist in the currently selected folder. So, can anyone help me with these questions?
1. How can I force Capture One to generate previews?
2. How can I see all the images in the catalog?
3. How can I search on the entire catalog?
Thanks.
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1. Try going to the very top of the Library tool and select "All Images". That should display everything in your catalog and you should be able to go from there.
2. For me, previews are generated during import. You may need to manually trigger preview creation when importing a LR catalog.
3. Same answer as #1: select All Images.
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Just to add to what Abbott said: After selecting 'All Images' at the top of the Library module, select 'Regenerate Previews' from the Image menu.
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Thank you Abbot and Bob. As soon as I selected All Images Capture One set about generating previews. It is brutally slow, saying it needs about 16 hours to do all of my 80,000 photos. It doesn't seem to be very efficient about it, using just a fraction of the available processor power of my machine. Oh well, need patience.
I do have one other question: my usual view in Lightroom is Grid view, and coincidentally pressing the G key in Capture One gets me the same view. I like using page up/down keys to navigate. Initially I thought that Capture One would not let me use those keys, but I found that after clicking on a thumbnail, I could use page up/down as well as arrow up/down. As soon as I switch to working on a single image, I again have to click on a thumbnail to make it work after returning to the grid view. Is there a workaround for this?
Thanks again.
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Glad to hear the previews are now generating and I agree the process is a slow one. I had about 30,000 and remembering it taking a very long time. I wouldn't be surprised to see estimated time increase as it chugs along. Good thing is that you can still use the software while this is ongoing.
Unfortunately I don't have any information on your page up/page down question. Every now and then I run into something odd in the interface behavior but usually write it off as a design oversight. Maybe someone here with more experience using it can provide some insight. Good luck.
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You've just discovered one of a number of "eccentricities" that C1 has. You can navigate with the arrow keys in some Browser views, and in others you need to use Option + an arrow key. You may be able to work around this by creating a set of custom keyboard shortcuts, which is something I highly recommend anyway. You might want to explore custom Workspaces and keyboard shortcuts.
Two reasons I always use my own shortcut set. 1) It enables me to change C1 shortcuts to match other apps I often use. 2) I can assign specific shortcuts to different tools in a "family", like Straighten, Perspective, and the various Brush tools. This is very handy. And lately I also like my #3: When Capture One changes a keyboard shortcut, the changes don't affect custom shortcut sets. For the last couple of years, some of C1's default shortcut changes and introductions have bothered either because they replaced existing ones that I had muscle memory for, or because they just didn't make sense to me.
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Thank you Abbott. I'll have to look into creating a keyboard shortcut. First I need to find the particular behavior to be controlled, which so far I haven't been able to find.
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How is the performance of C1 with 80.000 images (e.g. catalog open time, scrolling through images, and what happens if you click on "All images" in your library view)?
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Catalog open time is horrible, 20-25 seconds. If I select a small folder in the library before quitting the program, restarting the program still takes 15-20 seconds. As far as scrolling is concerned, I've found that catalog size doesn't seem to make any difference, that is scrolling in a small or large catalog is atrocious. It is very uneven and jerky, much worse than Lightroom, which has always been pretty bad.
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Thanks for letting me know! It seems like things haven't changed with version 20. I have found anything above 30.000 images to be unbearable in Capture One and split my catalogs if they grow beyond that.
I wish they would do two things:
- Improve catalog handling with large catalogs. There is no real reason that you can't have catalogs with 200.000 images on current hardware. Aperture managed to do that 15 years ago...
- Buy their developers MacBook Pros with two LG 5K screens
The second step is the best way to shake every bit of performance out of the application because all those lags we are currently experiencing will annoy them to death while working on the application... They have lots of things to do on the performance front!
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