Sequences for Cameras other than Phase1
Implemented
In many photographic operations sequences of images are a vital part. For example, HDR photography, Focus stacking, panorama creation and action photography.
A single shoot typically results in the creation of many sequences.
Management of these groups of images is currently rather cimbersome in Capture One, it would add significantly to the functionality if Capture One could recognise sequences.
Currently this is only done for Phase One cameras, but the bracketting and burst features exist and are used on just about every brand of camera.
There are easy ways and difficult ways to implement this. (low cost and high cost)
One way would be for Capture One to read the EXIF of the image file and extract the sequence number, if present. This will result in high support and development costs; I don't propose this.
Another way to do this is based on observation that in most cases the time difference between images is less than a second. An image sequence can be found simply by grouping images which are less than 2 or 3 seconds apart. Aperture did this by by allowing the user to set the interval threshold, some users would make it 2 seconds but users making panoramas might set it to 30 seconds.
If it is done this way some user controls are needed
- remove an image from a sequence
- re-evaluate sequences in selected images
- set default sequence threshold time
- import menu: enable/disable seqeunce evaluation
- import menu: set sequence threshold time
Done this way, there is no dependence on image file metadata, support, development and verification costs will be lower.
Some thought is required what to do about RAW JPEG pairs. Not straightforward when you might ahve 20 pairs taken the same second, every second. Perhaps the answer is that a separate sequence is created for each file type.
The following small increment will add considerable more capability:
If the user can edit the sequence name, and can disable the sequence threshold (by setting it to 0??) then this feature will be useable for other type of image groups which are not strictly sequences.
Useful future enhancements might be to split a sequence after the selected image, or to combine two sequences.
This approach still leaves the door open to read sequences from the image file metadata for certain selected camera types, but removes the pressure to do that for every camera type.
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Hi Eric,
Thank you for feedback on Capture One - this is always welcomed and encouraged among our users and we appreciate the time you've taken to contribute towards the development of the software.
I have forwarded your comments and suggestions to our Product Management team as something to consider in a future release.
Whilst we cannot comment on future releases, we take all suggestions on board, and hopefully, your feedback contributes towards a future version of Capture One.
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Would be a really useful feature. There could either be a "group" feature or an easy way to move the sequence images into a sub-folder on the hard disk.
Frank
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Capture One already has Metadata fields for identifying sequence groups and other sequence information. The advanced search, filter and smart albums can uses this metadata, but right now these can only be used for images from a Phase One.camera.
If this proposal become reality, it should be of considerable to those of us who are managing multiple bursts of 20-100 images, multiple image groups from bracketing and HDR functions, and image groups used for Panorama stitching.
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I currently use subfolders in the Nikon camera for identifying sequences while importing. Focus stacking generates these automatically (if the option is chosen) but for all others I need to do it manually and sometimes forget it.
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