Session editing

SteveOh

• 3 avril 2008 15:32

Hi,
Forgive the newbie question if the answer is obvious. I'm a new Capture One Pro user on a Mac Leopard machine. I don't seem to understand the workflow. I've setup everything and it works quite well until I got to the last step. Having loaded up a CF Card, I simply want to change the "destination" for all of the processing. If for example the session name is D100 and I load up a CF card with wedding pictures, I'd like to edit D100 so that all subsequent processing goes to "/temp/wedding". The next CF card may have mountain pictures and I want to edit the D100 session so that these go to "~home/scenery". I don't want to have to create a new session because that means recreating all the folder structures (e.g. reallocating my "Move to" folder etc) amongst other things. EVERYTHING needs to be the same except the destination folder but I can't figure out how to "edit" the session.
Hints anyone?
Thanks
Steve

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  Jonathan Gilbert

  • 3 avril 2008 16:09

  Hi Steve, simply add the folder you want to process to into the organize tool, and set it as process folder.
  
  http://www.phaseone.com/HOME/Content/Su ... 20-%20Main

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  SteveOh

  • 3 avril 2008 17:10

  Thanks for your response. In hindsight it's obvious. However, let me explain how I set up my workflow so that you can see why I was completely confused but also so that you can tell me why what I did is wrong.
  
  I've created a temporary location to process the D100 photos (/temp/C1);
  I created a D100 session that points to /temp/C1;;
  I assign the "Capture Folder" to the CF card subdirectory
  I create a "Move to Folder" (called raw) in /temp/C1/D100/Processed;
  I move the files from Capture to "Move to Folder";
  I make my adjustments to the individual images now stored in the "raw" subdirectory;
  I process them to various "Sub folder" under the Processed directory.
  
  Now all of my chosen (not all come off of the CF card) original, raw, unprocessed images are in /temp/C1/D100/Processed/raw (the "Move to Folder");
  My processed pics are in /temp/C1/D100/Processed/web etc.;
  /temp/C1/D100/Captures is empty but the session pointer is still to /CF/DCIM/100D100 (good since any new CF card is automatically loaded);
  /temp/C1/D100/trash is empty and I haven't found the proper use for it yet anyway.
  
  So this seems workable but here is how my confusion crept in. The "Process Folder" now seems to point to a specific folder (/temp/C1/D100/Processed) only. Having fixed that errant notion in my head, it appeared that my only recourse to alter my destination was to actually edit the session! This meant having to create a new session EVERY time I wanted to load a new CF card.
  
  So here's the next question. Doing your suggestion means that the processed images end up in my new "Process folder" (e.g. /temp/wedding/Processed/web etc) but the raw files still only exist in the "Move to Folder" which is still /temp/C1/D100/Processed/raw. What is the best way to move the files from the CF card to /temp/wedding/Processed/raw or some other directory that is not the one that is fixed in /temp/C1/D100? Apparently the only options in the "Process" tool require altering the image (e.g. TIFF or jpg) and the "Move to Folder" doesn't move with the "Process Folder" pointer change.
  
  I hope this makes some sense.
  
  Thanks for your help.
  
  Steve

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