open panel useful?

studio78

• 2009年09月17日 18:25

Is there a good reason for the open panel on launch? It doesn't seem to me to be complete enough. Open Default Session seems useless and Locate Session is unintelligent. The best option seems to be to hit Cancel and select one of the more intelligent options in the File menu. Please feel free to correct me if I've missed something.

Best,
Dave

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  Jonathan Gilbert

  • 2009年09月17日 18:47

  That dialog will only open if the previous session was closed before quitting C1 or it cannot be located. In that context I think it makes sense... You can locate the sessions new location if moved, or you can open the original default which is in Pictures > Capture One Library. It could be more detailed for sure, maybe a list of recent sessions, but I think it accomplishes what it should.

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  studio78

  • 2009年09月17日 19:01

  Thanks Jon, I don't know when you'd prefer the Default Session over a New one, or why the Locate option doesn't know where the sessions are and asks you to navigate when Capture One has a record of the sessions and knows where they are when you use the File menu.
  
  Granted if you keep all your work in one session I suppose the Default session has value but that seems a bit limiting to me from an asset management point of view.
  
  Thanks for the reply,
  Dave

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  Robert Frith

  • 2009年09月18日 11:59

  It depends on one's workflow;
  
  100% of our work is initiated on a laptop (for locations) or an iMac (in our studio).
  Subsequently the sessions are moved to our main server using Retrospect. Generally raw conversions from a particular session will be performed in a single session. As a consequence pretty much the only time we open C1 the previous session will have been moved (the exception is following a C1 crash!).
  
  In the shoot context the dialogue box presented on opening C1 occurs almost every shoot and it is useless and a waste of a mouse move and a click, the only option is the rather pointless "cancel". If the dialogue box at least had a "new" session option it would make more sense.
  
  In the post production context "locate session" makes some sense, but we frequently locate the col.45 file and open the session from the Mac Finder - after all we're going to have to navigate there anyway - saves click in the dock doing it this way 😊
  
  A few apps offer a dialogue box on opening but in my experience they all offer "new" as an option and they all offer to open recently used documents; Filemaker and Pages come to mind.

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  Permanently deleted user

  • 2009年09月19日 14:22

  For me it seems to be the same kind of problem we discuss in the "Importing images and Sessions confusion"-thread.
  My feeling: when PhaseOne created 3.x they had some one who designed a verym good real-live- pro-workflow. Now they designed a very stylish surface and forgot about the workflow.
  
  

  [quote="Robert71" wrote:
  It depends on one's workflow;
  
  100% of our work is initiated on a laptop (for locations) or an iMac (in our studio).
  Subsequently the sessions are moved to our main server using Retrospect. Generally raw conversions from a particular session will be performed in a single session. As a consequence pretty much the only time we open C1 the previous session will have been moved (the exception is following a C1 crash!).
  
  In the shoot context the dialogue box presented on opening C1 occurs almost every shoot and it is useless and a waste of a mouse move and a click, the only option is the rather pointless "cancel". If the dialogue box at least had a "new" session option it would make more sense.
  
  In the post production context "locate session" makes some sense, but we frequently locate the col.45 file and open the session from the Mac Finder - after all we're going to have to navigate there anyway - saves click in the dock doing it this way 😊
  
  A few apps offer a dialogue box on opening but in my experience they all offer "new" as an option and they all offer to open recently used documents; Filemaker and Pages come to mind.

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  studio78

  • 2009年09月23日 19:01

  Yes little things that together add up to time wasted. Preview prefs and UI window size reverting to defaults when launching into a new session, all your processing recipes selected and no scroll bar sliders available to facilitate de-selecting with a stylus, not that they should all be selected in the first place. Niggling little things that previously weren't an issue.

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