how to best set up and use folders in C1 for my workflow
need to know best way to handle my pictures in C1
I want to set up different folders to hold my pics. They will be labeled birds, cats, trees, landscapes, insects, etc. In the future, no matter how many different times I go out and shoot any of the above labeled subjects I will bring them back and put them into their respective folder. So, eventually all of my bird pics will be in one large folder and so on for the other subjects. What will be the best way to set these up?
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Not sure what you are asking. Is this about how to create that kind of folder structure on your drive? Or how to best map that into any kind of CaptureOne catalogue/session system?
Also what do you do if you have this kind of picture? Prioritize by size?
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It seems to me that the best way to do this is to put a bit of work into keywording. I shoot a lot of bird and animal images. I just keep my files on disk in folders by date. But I keyword them, so an image may have keywords for species such as bird>heron>grey heron, or insect>damselfly>common blue damselfly.
I have a smart album in my catalog for all bird pictures and another for all insect pictures. If I had an image with a common blue damselfly perched on the head of a grey heron (I actually do have that picture!) then the same image appears in both the bird album and the insect album even though there is only one physical file in one physical folder. Very powerful organisation feature.
Ian
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In general, I am with Ian above - keywording is the only thing that makes sense long term imo.
When i am reading this again though, I am speculating that the OP probably wants on import to move them into different folders. Like, OP goes out shooting ducks at a pond, comes back home and imports all the duck pictures into his "ducks" folder. That's possible, but a tad dedious. As you need to remember, what folder down the hierarchy, was that. Don't know of a good way of doing this in a semi automated way.
What I do is the keywording thing. So i shoot ducks, add them to the catalogue into a new folderbased on import date, and then keyword them to be ducks etc and they show up directly in the smart album. But that's probably not what the OP is asking for.
To move them during import, you seem to have manually pick the target folder. And then, this only works well if all you did do "ducks" that day. The best bet is probably a 2 phased/staged thing. Import them into a "importtoday" folder. Tag them with keywords, and then move the correctly tagged images into the correct target folders. Will still not work for the sample image above though, because as soon as you have more than one criteria you can't do that anymore.
I was playing with filters during import or process recipes, but they all do not work on the keyword data, only the Exif data, so that won't create a solution.
Frank
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