Any books ala "In a Classroom" for Capture One 21?
Recently started using CaptureOne 21; hope to migrate my Lightroom libraries over to C1. Are there any books like the Adobe In A Classroom that'll kick-start my learning of the product? Still stuck at managing files/folders effectively on Mac (haven't even started with PC install yet). I've seen a single book along these lines, but it's in German.
Thanks.
SteveInReno
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C1's Learning Hub is a great place to start: lots of informative videos. Also be sure to signup for their email list that notifies of upcoming learning webinars.
The best sourcebook I've found so far is an eBook
https://rawcaptureguide.gumroad.com/l/captureone21guide
The author's very good about updating it for newly released versions and features.
Also check out AlexOnRaw's site.
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First: I don't know those "In a classroom"-books
if you are ok with videos:
Usually, the tutorials and webinars from Capture One are a great starting point for learning:
Webinars could be found from https://learn.captureone.com/webinars/ or from https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgJWICGMzzvXk2wIgqxVEQ
Tutorials are at https://learn.captureone.com/tutorials/ Note, that there are different categories such as "Getting started"
If you are ok with an ebook:
you could have a look at "Photographer's guide to Capture One 21": https://rawcaptureguide.com/ebook/ . The current version of the ebook covers the latest version of CO 21.
My personal recommendation (because you posted under "for Mac" and referred to installing on a PC):
If you plan to use a Mac and a Windows PC, consider using sessions. Sessions store the editing information (and Metadata) near the images (as files in a subfolder relative to the image). Catalogs contain the editing information and a reference where to find the image (if the image is stored outside of the catalog)
The file systems between macOS and Windows are so different that the references to images in a catalog created on macOS don't make sense on Windows (and vice versa), i.e. the image will be shown as offline on the 'other' system, unless you synchronise the folders.
If your setup consists of one system for travelling / onsite jobs [=mobile] and the other system is the master system in the office / home base [=stationary], you could also consider to use a session on the mobile system and then import the sessions (including the edits) into the stationary system. The stationary system could tan also use a catalog...
Otherwise (I'm a native German speaker)
I found at least two books in German, so I'm not sure which one is the one you've found.
1) the German book is written by F. Treichler and S. Erni.
S. Erni has published earlier books about Capture One, which are/were also available in English. The latest German book (edition) was published in February/March this year, a translation might take some time.
I've bought the first book/edition (in German) about Capture One (Englisg title: "Capture One Pro 9: Mastering Raw Development, Image Processing, and Asset Management") based on Amazon's data about the publishing date there was a difference of about 4,5 months between the German and English version (German first). Rocky Nook published the English versions (concerning Capture One 9 and Capture One 10). For some basic workflow ideas, those books would quite surely be still relevant but in some areas, there were so many changes (correction layers, exporting, ...) that I'm not sure if the books would be still helpful...
2) the book written by M. Gradias was published in April. I can't further comment on it but what I'm seeing is that he publishes a lot of books about almost everything related to photography [equipment] (he has published 180 books since 1997)
Sorry for the long text,
Ralf
Edit: Abbott was quicker to answer. My ebook recommendation is the same as his.
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