Sadly, I have to abandon Capture One.
Perhaps I'm in the minority but rather than bombard users with countless offers of unwanted "styles" I feel Phase One would do better to make the app stable with large collections of images.
I love the C1 very much, but after resorting to splitting my image collection into four (thus losing the ability to search across all my images) I find it still freezes and crashes at will.
At a fraction of the price, ACDSee copes effortlessly with my 209,000 images, and is faster and more stable than C1.
I'm very, very, sad about this. I particularly love the colour correction (and user interface) in C1 - but a number of other issues have contributed to my decision, not least the (petty) refusal of Phase One to allow us to keyword and edit small and greyscale images (WHY?).
I'm also unhappy about the inability to embed keywords permanently into images. This must surely be a ploy to prevent users from jumping ship?
Doubtless my post will be deleted quickly, but I felt I must express my disappointment with an otherwise excellent application.
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ACDSee is full of bugs, and is a very different program. Additional features in C1 are normal done based on the number of people requesting such a feature, in such a way that development time is maximised based on end user response. Embedding metadata directly into raw images is best done by a program like PhotoMechanic Plus, as it is the best meta data editor on the market combined with a lighting quit database. One program cannot deliver all of the things you want without compromising other things.
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ACDSee is full of bugs
Simply not true. I use the lightweight Photo Editor 11 and the full-featured Photo Studio Professional 2021 - have done for years - and they're bombproof, as well as being fantastically capable.
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Agreed Andy - As much as I detest Lightroom Classic I'm left with little choice as Capture One is just so slow with large catalogues that is unusable and I only have about 90,000 images. Like you I enjoy using CO so much but having to wait up to 30 seconds to view a grid of images is just insane.
The next version or two really needs to get that sorted out. I am sitting here with my money and will quickly switch back if they fix the issue.
BTW you can save your keywords to your image metadata via a simple Applescript if you use a Mac. I erote one that was about 20 lines long that took the keywords in CO and then wrote them out to the file via exiftool. Not sure what the equivalent on Windows is though.
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Hi, so I was wondering, why the C1 catalogue is so slow. I thought, it has to do that I´m using a Synology NAS, where I´m storing my pictures.
But I too was about to give up trying to buld catalogues in C1. Still I got problems with C1 sessions when my NAS is connected. But sessions work quite well.
Thank you for writing into this forum, it helps :-)
Gert
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NAS is perhaps a part of the problem - if it is equipped with "normal" hard drives, not SSD's
Another reason might be the speed of your network - is your NAS accessed in 100MB or in 1GB cabled network ? (or, worse: in WiFi) ?
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It´s a GB Ethernet (cable) network, the computer is a MacBook Pro 16" 2,4 GHz 32 GB RAM.
At the moment It´s importing pictures smoothly, but an hour before it crashed 3 times. I was not able to quit the programm, even with "alt-cmd-esc" the window was still viewable, I had to forcequit the computer!0 -
I always wondered why they bought the brillant Media Pro Software and stopped it!
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@rollbahn - if you read this, I'd really love to know how you saved (and transferred) keywords using that AppleScript you mentioned. I can't find a way to reply to you directly on here - there doesn't seem to be a reply box for each post... Not sure if it's possible to PM someone on here..? https://www.facebook.com/andy.nickless
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Hey Andy,
Here's the script for you - I haven't used CO in a while so I am not sure it still works but the basis of it is there but you'll need to know a little bit to get it going eg installing exiftool and using Applescripts. The code block has mucked up the indents too so I will upload an image too.
Basically you add in keywords as normal to your files in Capture One then later on you can highlight the images in the grid view you want to "write" the keywords to and then run the script on them.
I will note I wrote this for jpg files from scanned film negs. However you can easily add other things to that shell script exiftool line that can write the data to XMP files for any raw files. Some raw files will of course accept keywords directly if you're willing to write directly, which some people are fine with and others aren't.
Anyway hope this is of some use to you...and others.
Jason
tell application "Capture One 20"
set selectedVariants to get selected variants
set wordList to ""
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in selectedVariants
set theID to id of (parent image of item i of selectedVariants)
set this_item to item i of selectedVariants
set iName to path of (parent image of this_item)
set myList to every keyword of item i of selectedVariants
set theText to myList
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "|"
set theTextItems to text items of theText
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
theTextItems
set numItems to count myList
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in theText
name of item i of theText
set theItem to name of item i of theText
if i < numItems then
set wordList to wordList & theItem & ", "
else
set wordList to wordList & theItem
end if
end repeat
tell current application to do shell script "/usr/local/bin/exiftool -Subject='" & wordList & "' -Keywords='" & wordList & "' -m -overwrite_original_in_place " & quoted form of iName
reload metadata iName
set wordList to ""
end repeat
end tell0
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