Displaying Metadata Under Images in Viewer
Is there a way to display metadata under each image in the viewer? It would be very helpful to see exposure info, exposure adjustments, lens type etc. This has long been available on Adobe Camera Raw - this is a screen clip from Bridge.
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Here is your answer: View menu / Customise Viewer / Labels (on /off)
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Thanks for the suggestion. My PC is already set up that way, and all I see is my image rating and the image name. I have tried toggling it on and off, to no avail. Also looked at adjusting View>Customize Browser>Labels, and switching between the modes makes no difference.
I can't see anywhere in Capture 1 where I can define the content of a label.
Any suggestions appreciated.
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Ian
You can see file names, ratings and colour tags under the thumbnails in the browser, like this.
Or you can turn that off.
You can see more information in the Viewer like this.
And again you can turn that off.
But you can't customise what the labels show, and in particular you can't display more metadata like you show in your screenshot.
If you think it would be a good idea, you can make a feature request, in the Feature Requests section of the forum. (If you do, it will probably make most sense to the developers if you get the terminology right. Confusingly enough, in Capture One, the grid view of multiple images as in my first screen shot, is known as the Browser, and the window displaying a single image (or it can be more than one) as in my second screenshot is known as the Viewer.)
Ian
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I’ve just made a feature request, because i need more other infos than camera’s EXIF metadata.
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You can, of course, see a lot of info about your images in the Metadata tool. I can see that the information shown in the OP's screenshot from Bridge could be useful. There might be some disagreement about which bits of information would be best to show, and with the browser, of course, there is limited space. I agree that the screen shot from Bridge looks as though it works, but I'd suggest that there or four lines of data under each image would be the practical limit. How much control would you want to have over what was displayed in those lines, as I am sure that users would vary in what they wanted?
Certainly worth making the feature request, and perhaps continuing a discussion in the forum about how it would work.
Ian
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@Ian, i agree. less is more. thousands of keywords under the images would mess it up, but I would like to have the choice which information is displayed – just like in Media Pro (RIP). I liked their metadata presets option. I my experience I never really looked at the camera’s EXIF data than creation date, time and geo data…
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It be useful to have basic exposure data (lens, ISO, Shutter Speed, f-stop, exposure compensation) shown in the browser/grid view, as it would be very helpful when looking at bracketed photos. I requested this feature about three years ago, but nothing has happened.
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> Ian Wilson: There might be some disagreement about which bits of information would be best to show, and with the browser, of course, there is limited space.
Capture One should leave that balance up to the owner of the screen estate! Even if selecting "everything" means having to scroll down thousands of lines to see it all below a single thumbnail sized to fit the screen width :-)
Photo Mechanic allows me 3 lines where I can put a single variable or multiple variables (akin C1 token on steroids) on each line. I change them to see what I need at the time.
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A configurable line or two of image info would be helpful.
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The info displayed in the Viewer (under the image) is useful, but I also need to see the lens name -- since I frequently change lenses within a session.
As others have suggested, the real solution is to let the user customize this display to fit their needs.
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Create a feature request if you like C1 to know that.
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@ Be O. I did again. Hope they will listen to me;-)
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I can’t resist chiming in here because every time a user asks for how to do something (which isn’t in C1), a technical expert replies with a non-solution, the convo proceeds, and the user is then advised to make a feature request. I’ve seen this over and over, and the users say “I made a feature request and nothing happened”. This tells me that Capture One is not interested in analyzing the request and giving a proper consideration or reason why it can’t be done.
Back to this topic about displaying metadata in the viewer. . . it is a user programmable feature in Lightroom, has been for many years, and it seems like such an obvious and powerful feature. I have made a commitment to do my work in C1 and have abandoned LR, so I’m stuck with some dissatisfaction with Capture One.
Why don’t you take a look at the LR feature, Mr. BeO, and Ian Wilson? In LR, you/I can pick what metadata to see besides the usual filename, flags and ratings. Like the date! Or Lens? It’s called user customization.
Wow, is that so complicated?
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These are not metadata options, Capture One says "here are a very few things you can see, and you can turn them off . . .
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@AWB - for my part, I am no technical expert, just a hobbyist user of the software. And my contribution to the discussion (as far as I can recall from 10 months ago) was just to clarify what currently can and can't be done and to give a bit of an opinion about the suggestions and how to pursue them. Whether it's complicated to achieve them, I have no idea. As I say, no expert.
Ian
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Hi all,
a few weeks / month later and I'm still do some meta data spring cleaning to all my databases of Media Pro, Aperture and Lightroom to migrate to Capture One. I've tested Photo Mechanic+ in the meantime for Digital Asset Management and I'm sad there is still no Digital Asset Management improvement at all at Capture One 22 (15.2.0.77)
I'm wondering why it's so difficult to implement some custom selected meta data in the browser and list view. I don't think the coding isn't that difficult. I've chatted a lot with other developers / software engineers of other Digital Asset Management softwares and I had the feeling they are really listening to the users and have more hope in the next major update wanted features will be probably included. While at Phase One it's more about marketing. I wish they would improve first the already build in features, than new toys for the iPad…
If Phase One hasn't stopped the development of Media Pro and I still could use it next to Capture One on a actual MacOS, I wouldn't complain:-(
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