Video Files ?
Are any Video Formats supported in Capture One?
I Cannot Keyword or Colour Tag any Formats I have tried.
James
-
No.
I suggest you submit a feature request, the more people do the higher the chance it would be inplemented:
https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
0 -
Actually, you can keyword, color tag and annotate IPTC metadata for videos, but the workaround is strange. I only have tried this with mov formatted videos, but I don't see why it wouldn't work for others.
The process is unintuitive. The metadata cannot be entered directly to the mov file. However, if you select any other image file and the mov file, you can copy the IPTC metadata, Color Tag, and rating from the image file to the mov file.
You can take advantage of this to transfer metadata to the video. If you have a still image of the same scene as the video (actually, any image image will do), enter the metadata on the still image that you want to appear with the mov video file, select the video file and the still image file and copy the metadata from the still image file to the video file. The video file will now be populated with the IPTC metadata, color tag and rating of the still image file you copied it from. You can now edit the still image metadata or delete the still image without affecting the video metadata if you wish.
This workaround has worked for the last several versions of Capture One. Why Capture One does not allow video files to be annotated directly is quite strange. Just because you can't edit a video should not mean that you can't annotate it.
0 -
John,
You may have replied before reading my post. The workaround applies to any view only/read only file Capture One will not allow you to edit in addition to videos, such as files that are too small or in an unsupported format.
You can tag and keyword videos indirectly as I described, but it is cumbersome and needs to be fixed to be straightforward. Applying a keyword to the video (or videos), just like applying any metadata, requires you to copy it from another image and then apply the metadata to the video (or videos). Once you apply a keyword to the video, it will appear in a smart album that searches for that keyword. It should work for other searches on other metadata, but I have not specifically tested. You can sort on any metadata field that appears as metadata if you copy it from another image to the video.
As you said, you cannot export a video from Capture One with or without other images in a collection.
All of this is a cumbersome workaround. Given, metadata can be copied to a video from another still image file, or synchronized from a sidecar file, it would seem to be a fairly simple thing to code Capture One to be able to enter the metadata directly.
Jerry
0 -
When video is an important part of your work, Capture One’s limitations on annotating and exporting video would be disruptive. Capture One added the ability to import and view videos, but is not designed to do anything with video beyond that. Going to another product may be your best move.
As John Wayne said, “A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do.”
0 -
It looks like those who have projects with stills and video need a product that can organize and process both well. This would require a seamless integration of a Lightroom or Capture One with an Adobe Premier or Final Cut, unless all you want to do is edit short individual video clips, in which case Lightroom will do. Even Adobe recommends another product, "[i]f you want to string together multiple clips, create scene transitions, add visual effects, or make other large-scale changes."
The bottom line is no single software product available today does both robust video and still editing in an affordable single software product. If one came along, I would definitely want it.
0 -
I understand, John, and that's what I would be satisfied with, too. Even the limited video editing features of Lightroom are not necessary. All Capture One has to do is allow typing in the metadata fields. If you kludge data in them the way I described, Capture One allows you to sort videos by keywords and other metadata and create smart albums. This should not be a heavy lift to code.
As to exporting, Capture One would have to change its attitude to what you can do with unsupported files it allows you to display and redo the software accordingly. If enough users make a request for these features, perhaps we will see them in the future.
0
Please sign in to leave a comment.
Comments
6 comments