Options - New Capture One User - Current Lightroom

Carl Cullison

• 2017年11月28日 12:20

I am excited about switching to Capture One, long time Lightroom user. I have started but will search and read the related postings. The purpose of this thread is to identify some considerations for my strategy.

. For now I will keep files separate and start learning C1
. LR is one large catalog of 60,000 files
. I only use RAW, do not cut a separate master, very few TIFF
. Export to JPEG which I am not concerned about changing

Long Term Options
. Keep current files in LR, new in C1 and purchase LR vs the monthly subscription
. Slowly convert LR folders to C1
. Convert LR catalog to C1 -- most attractive if my edits move over vs just original files
. Do not convert LR to DGN (this is what I have been reading)

I know that I need to do a lot of research on my own but any quick suggestions for consideration would be welcomed.

Thank you.

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  Permanently deleted user

  • 2017年11月28日 13:46

  Hi,
  
  60,000 images is quite a large catalog, and an import of the LR catalog into Capture One won't be straightforward. Accordingly, your way of thinking the switch seems good to me (I did the switch about 3 years ago, after having used LR since its beginning...). Moving little by little is the good way to do it. Most of your settings won't be kept going from LR to C1 (only ratings, crops, IPTC such as legends, titles, copyrights, EXIF of course, white balance, exposure, maybe contrast...), but you will find a real pleasure to develop previous LR processed images with C1, as the result is far better.
  Cheers,
  Robert

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  Stephen Christy

  • 2017年11月28日 15:15

  [quote="tenmangu81" wrote:
  Moving little by little is the good way to do it.

  
  
  I strongly agree with that. I recently moved from Lightroom to Capture One and, although I have a much smaller catalogue than the original poster, I did transfer photos from the old Lightroom catalogue in stages. I now have all of them in various Capture One catalogues.
  
  

  [quote="tenmangu81" wrote:
  Most of your settings won't be kept going from LR to C1 (only ratings, crops, IPTC such as legends, titles, copyrights, EXIF of course, white balance, exposure, maybe contrast...), but you will find a real pleasure to develop previous LR processed images with C1, as the result is far better.

  
  
  Again, I strongly agree with that. I found that a reasonable number of Lightroom adjustments transferred fairly satisfactorily but have discovered much better results by applying native Capture One adjustments.
  
  The move does involve quite a lot of hard work but taking in stages makes it easier and the end result is, I think, well worthwhile.
  
  Stephen

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  Carl Cullison

  • 2017年11月28日 16:48

  Thanks everyone. I will do a slow migration and probable only the ones I want to reprocesss

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  Permanently deleted user

  • 2017年11月28日 18:00

  Did you think about starting in Capture One with the session mode ? And keep your LR catalog (tiff, jpeg, raw,...) ? Many people do that.

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  Carl Cullison

  • 2017年11月28日 20:17

  I do not know what session mode is but I will look it up. Thanks

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  SFA

  • 2017年11月28日 21:23

  [quote="NNN635150554595518329" wrote:
  I do not know what session mode is but I will look it up. Thanks

  
  
  A session is what saves you from the tyranny of catalogues!
  
  😉
  
  👿

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  Carl Cullison

  • 2017年11月29日 19:44

  A session is what saves you from the tyranny of catalogues!

  
  
  I know what a session is and in LR, I used folders to store files with their Catalog.
  
  C1 catalog seems very flexible, import to from other C1 catalogs. Do I need to know some of the pitfalls? I will not keep my files in the catalog but catalog vs session is something new to me. I know the general pro and con but are there issues with corrupt catalog. Not sure the performance hit if I have too many or a large catalog.

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