Imports into a session with more than 10,000 images is painfully slow
Hi,
Imports are fast for me until I get past about 10,000 images in the session. At 12,000 images it gets impossibly slow. It seems to be non-linear. The load time grows faster that the number of images. I usually copy from the camera card to SSD storage and load from there so as not to tie up fast camera cards. Loading the first 8000 images into a session from the SSD takes a few minutes. Loading another 8000 images after I have already loaded 12000 images into a session takes about 14 hours. To avoid the slowness I am now in the habit of capping my sessions at 10,000 images which is about a half-day shoot for me. I'd prefer the session to be the full day. Is there anything else I can do?
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> David Tan: anything else I can do?
Yes, you can click "Submit a request" at the upper right on this page and ask Capture One for advice.
I use sessions, but I never use the import function, I just copy image files to the session's image folder (Capture by default) while Capture One is NOT running. That may be a little bit faster than having the import function copy the files. It may also indicate to you how much time you need to spend on plain file transfer, regardless of software/method.
The downside is that when you start Capture One and points it to the session, Capture One needs to do the other work associated with session import, such as update the database and generate previews. You may have to rename files, add metadata and whatever else you normally expects the import function to do for you.
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It's so funny that this is still a problem with C1, even C1 23 Pro. I ran into this issue on the last project I am still busy with. C1 slows down to a crawl like I'm working on a Celeron CPU. The "Submit Request" function at C1 sadly does not solve issues readily, especially performance issues.
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