Terrible C21 functionality degradation
I have been a beta tester for CaptureOne since 2 or 3 years, but for this version I had no time to test it. As an IT consultant for more than 40 years I start having some real problems with the technical status quo of C21. The many problems that C21 faces could indicate 2 things:
1. the new version is build in a hurry, depending on us, voluntary beta testers, spending to little time to alfatest or to little money to develop;
2. there is a real architectural problem. C21 has only one new big feature, dehazing, that should not be a real big thing. But what we see is that a number of existing features don't work, tethering, clone-heal layers in output processing, importing images in a catalogue loses all adjustments and more...
As a software auditor with many years of experience I think these functionality degradations indicates big software problems. The latest price increase fuels this idea even more. I wonder what this community and CaptureOne has to say on this
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Nearly 200.- bucks for a yearly update and just a few new additions is quite a price for a software. And adding the many bugs that come and go and reappear again adds even more to this.
Don't take me wrong, I love C1 and use it for many years. But please make this thing more stable and reliable.
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...." but it is now performs similar to the LR version" hm, seems I´m using a different c1 because in my last test it was still not even near and not only because it behaves totally different to the adobe dehaze.
metal was released 6 years ago and apple was clear about the future of open GL/CL on the mac platform but this seems did not concern p1, so I doubt they get a smooth running native m1 version out this years also considering the state of this software. but when they fail to deliver and the bug galore continues they will have destroyed their reputation beyond repair after this underperforming release.
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....this was already apparent for years it only is more in focus because the update was a let down too. the level of issues is really astonishing and unmatched.
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I was also a beta tester for the windows version of CO21 (I chose to major on the de-haze function, the least said about its early implementation the better ;-( but it is now performs similar to the LR version.). Most off the other new functions did not excite me though speed edit is slowly growing on me. I am a long retired Systems Engineer and was fascinated by Apple's system on a chip design so I treated myself to a bottom of the range Apple M1 Mac mini for Christmas.
Capture one sort of runs on it but I have hit all sorts of oddities, colour readout was not working properly but started working perfectly when I switched to no proof profile. Finding the seemingly single pixel to click on to open the cursor tools drop downs is a test of patience. Carefully deleted unwanted clutter popping up again in outputs is well documented and so it goes on.
One of the problems CO has, I think, is that a few years ago it majored on OpenGL/CL and many functions are dependent on this. Apple support for this definitely on the way out and as many people have being saying for some time the CO Mac version must switch to Metal.
CO have a big job on their hands porting to Apple silicon and to metal, I shall be interested to see how long it takes, we may be pleasantly surprised.
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I have disabled openGL/CL and on my MBA M1 C21 runs much faster, big tiff files (>250mb) don't result in big black patches anymore, that fill up later. Hopefully C1 takes this serious and will decide to make a good technical redesign
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so one thing is solved, the clone/heal layer problem originated in a brush opacity slider that was low, set it to 100% and it works fine
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Maarten
Simply disabling openCL/GL as you suggest seems to be all that is needed to do the trick for me. Thanks for the tips. By the way I presume you know that the way to cure the color readout problem is to select View/Proof Profile/no profile.
Dave
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I never had that problem
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