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Catalogue / image storing issues

Claire Garner

Hello!

 

I recently just purchased Capture One for the first time after using the 30-day trial.

 

When I was on the trial, I would make a new catalogue and on my hard drive there would be a folder with that name containing the catalogue, my raw files, output etc etc.. 

However now that I have purchased it, it seems to be functioning different? I made 2 catalogues today tethering for 2 shoots, however there is no folders with raw files or anything else.. just the capture one icon for the catalogue.

 

Can anyone please help me? I can't find where my images are stored on my computer?

 

Also, the Show in Finder option is greyed out, and the Show in Library seems to do absolutely nothing?

 

 

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    From your description you were not making a catalog when using the trial, you were making sessions.

    A session is a folder containing the Capture, Output, Selects, etc. folders along with a cosessiondb file.  The name of the folder will typically be the name you gave to your session.   A catalog is a different beast.  If you created a session named "foo" you will have a bundle named foo.cocatalog.   Your images may be stored inside the catalog, or they may be stored elsewhere.  Capture One has some tutorials about the differences between sessions and catalogs.  Check them out.

    I always use sessions when tethering.

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    It is really important to understand the difference between Catalogs and Sessions.

    CATALOGS

    Just to be clear on catalogs. With catalogs you can store images INSIDE the catalog, or leave them in their "current location" in your hard drive's file folder structure. Most people, I think it's safe to say, do not store their raws inside the catalog but instead put them in a desired location on your hard drive and then "import images" (leaving the raws in the current location) .  In fact, the import dialog lets you choose where to stick the raws when it ingests them from the card if you want C1 to take the raws from the camera and place them in the right folder.

    I use a simple folder structure \YYYY\YYYYMM\nameofshoot\ and I put each shoot or project in a folder following that structure.

    But catalogs are meant to be bigger and broader , e.g., to give you access to all your images over time. People typically store the Catalog "database" on a fast SSD drive, and keep their RAW files on a much larger external disk. Thus it's not easy to move a catalog. 

    SESSIONS are recommended for Tethering

    Sessions are meant for projects (a wedding, a vacation, a headshot session, a Senior Picture shoot, a product shoot, etc., etc).  They can hold tons of images if you want, but typically they are used for smaller batches.

    PhaseOne recommends Sessions for tethering over Catalogs (though you can use catalogs).  Sessions are designed for tethering and are portable (you can easily copy a session and all its images, adjustments etc) to a new location later very simply. I shoot tethered sessions all the time. Later, I copy the session on to my main hard drive and instruct my catalog to "import session" so that the Session images appear in the catalog with my non-session images (those imported from a folder)

    the learn.captureone.com website has a ton of videos. Here's on on tethering

    https://learn.captureone.com/webinars/improve-your-tethered-workflow/

    Here's one on catalogs: https://learn.captureone.com/tutorials/creating-a-catalog/

     

     

     

     

     

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