Any thoughts on the new Speed Edit
I watched the "Sneak Peek" the other morning.(very early morning here), and wondered how others might see it being implemented into their workflow.
As a former Aperture user I've been working with v20 in full screen and several necesary floating palettes, (Like Exposure, High Dynamic Range, Color Editor and Levels).
Most of my work is wildlife so there is not a lot of extensive image manipulation that I need to make.
I tend to have some of the specified keys for Speed Edit already assigned to other actions, E for Erase, R for bRush etc, so will have to rethink how I use them.
Perhaps create several Keyboard sets.
Be interested in other insights.
David
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it is for sure a helpful improvement when you work with a lot of files but it does not address the true challenge when you need to correct hundreds of images, to speed things really up we would need a good auto correction as a starting point so only small interventions are needed, a kind of adaptive correction tool would even be better just having some more shortcuts will not save much time in practice.
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You could assign any keys you like to the speed edit functions, it seems, so if you want to retain your existing shortcuts you can.
One of the aspects that I noticed in the "sneak peek" was that with the speed edit you can apply the same correction to multiple images at once. Also if you do that, it is relative not absolute. So if you were to increase the Kelvin by 100 on an image, from 4250 to 4350, and do it with multiple images selected, they would all go up by 100, not all go up to 4350. Those are two big changes - people have been complaining for years that you can't apply an adjustment to multiple images at once, and that you can't apply a relative adjustment.
So it's not just a matter of more shortcuts, if I understood it right.
Ian
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....in theory this is beneficial but in practice I don't see it, who wants to keep WB differences when adjusting a range of similar images ? auto sync as adobe offers is the far better approach imho and as this seems targeted at wedding shooters I very doubt their files are so constant that a relative shift is helpful and an real improvement.
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I agree that it is not a feature that matters very much to me, but I am aware that it is one that some users have wished for. I really mentioned it to counter the line that some people seem to take that there is nothing here that people want.
Ian
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... shows that c1 is listening to the wrong people but I doubt they listen to anybody anyway. for me this is in the same category as their annoation feature not totally useless but not a real improvement either. probably easy and cheap to implement and only there to beef up their small sad list of improvements.
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Actually, speed edit and annotations are mostly directed to professional photographers, what I'm not anyway. But I can understand that Capture One tries to satisfy all the spectrum of users. Don't forget that the addressed target was, at the beginning, the professionals.
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I used to be an event photographer and would have *loved* speed edit. I had weeks where I boarded an airplane in the morning, scouted the event location in the afternoon, shot the event at night (7pm - 11pm) and then had to go back to my hotel room, make a selection of a few hundred images (most clients always want as many as possible), post process, and upload, often after 2am. Repeat next day: get up early, get a taxi to the airport, etc etc, for 6 or 7 consecutive days. Anything that could chafe off even seconds per image would mean earlier to bed and speed edit would have helped.
Switching to C1 from Lr got me half an hour of sleep extra per night already because of the better starting point, meaning less need to edit, plus faster preview generation and exporting. Speed edit would have made even more of a difference. Not enough though to stay in event photography. I just couldn’t combine it anymore with having a family and a spouse with an excellent career in her field of business...
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Speed edit is an additional and augmented version of something that has been available to the Keyboard Shortcut power users for a very long time. Mainly ignored by the rest of us.
The difference is that with the keyboard adjustments each key press counts and constantly pressing keys is a bit of a pain - but still possible for those who wish to use it that way.
It is, very specifically, something that leads to a simplified adjustment - just add or subtract a value from an existing value, No complicated calculations and percentage adjustment involved. That is why it can be applied more easily and quickly to multiple images without concerns for the sheer number of files leading the system to grind to a halt.
As Alex Flemming mentioned in the Sneak Peek presentation, it as much about making common value shift mass adjustments to previously adjusting groups of images as it is about speeding up a workflow for those who wish to take the time to make it natural for themselves. And to be able to do it on any machine, anywhere without the need to deploy special hardware devices as one might do in a studio environment. It not necessarily a substitute for such devices but does allow for work follow similar workflow patterns when on the road with a laptop.
Auto processing a different game. One for which AI might be the future option.
Indeed with AI it should be possible to simple describe an image to that you would like to see and have some code create it for you. No need to mess around with cameras and trekking to difficult to get to or dangerous places.
The same with portraits. Given that there are, it seems, quite a few Social Media influencers making well financially supported human like videos despite being created by CGI - sort of a Portrait Pro result on steroids - maybe before to long the power of CGI will make it entirely unnecessary to go to the trouble of taking photographs and editing them.
Heck if they can make video work a few Landscapes or portraits should be no problem at all.
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Thanks for the insights.
Emile, I too used to shoot events. Among them Historic Car Rally and Triathalon.
Used to end up while everyone else was enjoying the end of function dinner, I'd be working at editing the images. The present a slide show to finish the night. Used to use film and 'real' slide projectors at one stage. :-)
To SFA, I hadn't realised that I could do that sort of incremental editing from the keyboard, but I think RSI would follow.
I don't mind putting up a few floating palettes as I only need a few corrections most times.Agree with the AI direction. My grandson would be the classic example using images to get started on his 'wonderful' creations. Soon won't need a camer at all.
Ian W. thanks for clearing up the relative not absolute concept. I see that as being a real benefit. Presumably if I don't use Quick Edit, the same feature will be available for normal use. Not a big use for me in WB, but can see some benefits for some shots I make for a photojournalism story. Kinda like printing my mono negs to a standard for editorial.
And I've just recieved another invition to vacate my bed at 4am Aust time, for another update.
Time I guess, will tell.
Thanks for taking the tim to share your thoughts.
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