Catalogue/Sessions Structure ideas
Hi all, hopefully a simple request but one I guess has all manner of possible solutions.
Just bit the bullet and have bought my perpetual license here so I can move away from LR/PS.
Have 45,000 odd images in folder based system organised in folders of year, with sub folders for month. As most of my photography is nature based I find that being able to sort by month help with seasons as I admit I'm not good at keywording.
Anyway, I digress. After some help working out the best way to organise myself in CO. I've tried one big catalogue but it seems unwieldly.
Catalogue for each year? I guess the sub folders for each month will show up in the folder structure OK although all images will show up in catalogue?
Catalogue for each month? Sessions for each month? Seems a huge amount of work to set that up.
Anything obvious I'm missing in my haste to try to find my way around a new system?
Oh, and have to say, I'm loving CO and especially the way it handles my Fuji files. Just need to sort out my filing!
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Malcolm,
Internally C1 will automatically provide for filters by many fields including working out what the dtae and time information means and allowing for it to be used for searching and filtering by Year>Month>Day of month and also by Day of week.
This is available irrespective of folder structure but only within a single catalogue or session.
In other words, it can do the date-related work for you irrespective of the folder structure.
Likewise several other aspects of core data - camera and lens settings for example - can be used to find and group images and variants of images.
So the key question for you to first consider is what sort of "find" combinations you will require.
Your need for "Seasons" grouping for example may suggest differences depending upon where in the world you have taken images, seasonality varying in its nature depending on where in the world one might be.
Unless you are constantly revisiting old images and re-editing it may be that you would benefit from a "Master Catalogue" for all edited (and therefore at least nominally finished and galleried/archived shots) and a smaller set of currently "in progress" images.
Many people use the flexibility of sessions for the active editing of new images and then import the results to their master catalogue when ready to do so. It sounds like that would work for you.
If it does then you can plan for folder structure considerations accordingly - perhaps just using the structure you are already comfortable with and allowing the search and filter facilities to help you find image groupings that you need as and when you need them.
If you also use other editing applications (or archival systems) for which effectiveness is based on a structured folder system, then you may be forced to stick with your existing system and would need to factor that into your planning. But if not and providing some minimal use of notation is deployed for identification of content beyond what the camera can automatically provide, then the single master catalogue becomes your source of images for your back-catalogue and would only need to be used when updating with newly completed images or for searching historic images when you have a need to do so.
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Thank you for the reply. I think that suggestion of master catalogue for all the old 'finished' or otherwise archived stuff coupled with smaller in progress is a great idea. Thank you.
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Malcolm,
There was a useful webinar from C1 last week on this subject and other considerations for using "Master" Catalogs.
https://learn.captureone.com/webinars/master-catalog-organisation/
Also others that may be useful in the past year or so. (Older offerings may also be relevant but the latest ones will look slightly more familiar in terms of some screens and some functionality as you are relatively new to C1.)
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