Add to batch processing queue, without processing
Is there a way to add images to the processing batch queue *without* starting processing?
Process (ctrl-D) immediately starts processing which is not always ideal.
I find that when I adjust several images in rapid sequence Capture One is substantially slower in showing the adjustments when there is an image being processed in the background.
therefore it would be very good to be able to add an image to a "process later" queue. This would speed up the workflow when going through batches of images with many images.
When one has finished adjusting all the images one could then launch the batch queue and have all images processed (while getting a cup of coffee).
Process (ctrl-D) immediately starts processing which is not always ideal.
I find that when I adjust several images in rapid sequence Capture One is substantially slower in showing the adjustments when there is an image being processed in the background.
therefore it would be very good to be able to add an image to a "process later" queue. This would speed up the workflow when going through batches of images with many images.
When one has finished adjusting all the images one could then launch the batch queue and have all images processed (while getting a cup of coffee).
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You can stop the batch queue at any time. See the start/stop button at the bottom of the batch queue.
When you add images to a stopped queue, you get a question whether you like to start it. You can choose yes or no.0 -
[quote="Paul_Steunebrink" wrote:
You can stop the batch queue at any time. See the start/stop button at the bottom of the batch queue.
When you add images to a stopped queue, you get a question whether you like to start it. You can choose yes or no.
Instead of choosing yes/no just press "escape key".
I do the same when processing a few hundred at a time.
It would be better if one could set a default. Perhaps with a big red button appearing somewhere in the tool bar saying "batch process". Simple!
Software engineers don't seem to work with their own product. maybe they are just chefs but not photographers.0 -
Please, not more things to use on the toolbar! It's crowded enough as it is.
It's not that big a deal to turn off the batch when not in use. The setting is saved for the next time C1 is loaded.
If you want to run a batch at a time when you are not doing much else with the machine - which is pretty much what I do most of the time - just tag the images as you process them (or perhaps put them in the "Selected" folder) and then select them all and batch the processes when you are ready to run it. That's what I do (except I don't use the "selected" folder at the moment).
Out of interest, since I had not really tried it until now, I am running a large batch (1340 files output to 2 recipes, so 2680 output files) which is thindering away keeping the processor busy (i7 with 4 cores and Hyperthreading on so it is seen as 8 processors). I have logging turned on for later analysis. It looks like the entire process wil take about 70 to 80 minutes.
I have been doing some other experimental processing on a couple of images while that has been running and on this notebook it's difficult to tell whether performance has been altered at all. I suspect that the batch is de-prioritised. Editing speed seemed fine to me on this machine. (On my old 32bit system with C1 V6 it was rarely a great idea to be editing while running a batch - both actiities would be affected.)
One things that may affect the overall speed is that the cores are getting rather warm and I think the system will be adjusting throughput in order to manage the CPU core temperatures. The fans are already working at somewhere around their maximum continuous operational level.
I hope these obsevations are of some use.
Grant Perkins0 -
@ Paul S
Excellent! I hadn't found the stop button! 😊
@ Paul811
Yes, using Esc makes it easier but it is still a nuisance to have to hit escape every time. Would have been better if it remembered. Or if you had the option to turn off the message ("Don't show this message again" as you have on other dialogues). Or if you could set a keyboard shortcut (ctrl-shift-D ?) to "add to batch queue for later processing"
@ Grant
Agree. Better to keep the UI simple.
So, using your idea I figured out one way of doing it: assign Ctrl-shift-D to "1 rating" (I use the "1" key for something else). Then, at the end of my work, I can sort all the images according to rating so I get all the one-star images together, select them and process them.
(Unfortunately I can't use filtering on ratings since it seems that ratings filtering is only available when working with catalogues. I don't. I use sessions.)
How do you do it? Any cleverer (simpler/quicker) way?
That might even make it easier than using the stop button (with it's time wasting warning message).
Many thanks for all your comments! It was very helpful indeed!
-Per K
http://www.bkwinephotography.com0 -
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(Unfortunately I can't use filtering on ratings since it seems that ratings filtering is only available when working with catalogues. I don't. I use sessions.)
The Filter tool works identical in sessions and catalogs. However, with sessions it works by default on session folders, albums and favorites only. To affect other folders as well, add them to the favorites or create an album.
The catalog has the advantage that it works throughout the entire catalog from the start. But again, it works on both and in the same manner.0 -
Paul_S
[[Well, then I simply can't find the Filter. It says in the user guide "The Library Tool Tab has a Filters tool" (http://help.phaseone.com/en/CO7/Organiz ... lters.aspx). Mine does not. And there is no possibility to add any more tools to that tab as far as I can find.]] - I first wrote.
But looking around a bit more I finally found it in the Advanced Search Function. There I can indeed search for images with a particular rating or tag!
So now I can actually do what I want:
- I assign ctrl-shift-D to a rating (or colour - I think I'll use green. Makes more sense than a star rating, green for ready to process) and then
- I use Advanced Search to find the images I have tagged
- I select them all
- I launch processing (ctrl-D), and when done:
- I remove the colour tag (I'll assign ctrl-0 to remove the colour)
Magnificent! Thanks again!
You can do a lot of things with Capture One but it is often not easy to figure out how!!
This will be very useful when going through large numbers of images in rapid succession!
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The Advanced Search is the extended version of the basic (and fast!) Filter tool.
The Filter tool resides by default on the Library tool tab. In case it is deleted accidentally, restore the default workspace:
Window menu > Workspace > Default.
You can also add it manually to a selected tool tab (any tool tab you like):
View menu > Add Tool to <tab name> tab
The Advanced Search tool is great, but you really want the Filter tool back! And it is easy to do that.0 -
As I mentioned above I had no option to add a tool (e.g. filter) on the Library Tab. I could not add any tool at all to the library tab. When right-clicking there was not option to add any tools on the Library tab (as opposed to the other tab).
I fund out what was the problem:
It turned out that when the Library Tool is the only tool in the Library Tab (and the tool is open, which of course it is) then it fills up all the space in the tab so there is no place to right-click to bring up the Add Tool menu. (even though the folder tree is closed and the tool is just filled with a lot of empty space)
But when I closed the Library Tool then I could right-click and add the Filter Tool. Not obvious to figure out.
But now I have the filter tool there, in the Library Tab, (and the Library Tool reopened) which makes this even more convenient.0
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