Media Pro and Capture One integration
I had been using Media Pro for years since it was an iView product. I had set it aside after Microsoft bought it, turned it into Expression Media and pretty much dumped it on the back shelf. So, when Phase One picked it up, I grabbed the opportunity to upgrade. There are any number of reasons to like Media Pro over Lightroom, Aperture, Photomechanic or other options; but this isn't so much about Media Pro itself but rather its integration with Capture One.
Having bought my first product from Phase One, I was interested by the material for C1v6 on the web site and the video tutorials. I downloaded their trial, but I thought it was fairly bogus since it only provided the non-Pro version features. So I couldn't evaluate keystone corrections, skin tone corrections, or any of the other Pro features. I finally broke down and bought the Pro version though after comparing just the color accuracy of the Generic v2 profile for my D700 NEFs as against Lightroom v3 complete with the X-Rite ColorChecker Passport camera calibration profiles. IMHO, C1v6 was significantly better than the Adobe native profile and enough better than the ColorChecker calibrated camera profile that that justified my purchase on its own merits.
I won't bore you all with the details of what's to like about C1; I'd be preaching to the choir anyway. I do have some issues with integration of Media Pro and C1.
As I said, I've been using MP for years and it had been my practice just to have a large catalog of, say, tens of thousands of images all with keywords and whatever to make finding particular images out of the whole mess very easy. I mean, why have a DAM tool like that without having one central place to do a comprehensive search.
It seems though that C1 is driven by the notion of a session as far as finding items in its library is concerned. No doubt, this model was developed before Phase One ever thought of buying up Media Pro; and it makes some sense. So, with C1, you import your images into a session, and C1 builds a logical folder structure for that session. As well, C1Prov6 will let you import your session albums and folders into a Media Pro catalog. Now, for starting out from scratch, this wouldn't be too bad. However, the import process takes control of the folder structure for NEFs and alters it. It also would mean going back over potentially thousands of images in my original catalog and importing them into a slew of new sessions just for the joy of conforming them to the C1 session model after the fact.
Coming the other way, from my existing Media Pro catalog into C1Pro, I can certainly open up any arbitrary NEF; but then C1 wants to include it in some session or other, either the default or a new one. If I create a new one, then I seem to get stuck with all of the folder machinery that C1 wants to use. If I stick with the built in default session, then it gets increasingly cluttered up with the random detritus of unrelated image processing tasks.
This seems to be a serious lack of integration between the two programs; but maybe I'm missing something. The Phase One site doesn't seem to provide much clarity on the use of the two. I can't find a thing over there on this workflow model. There is certainly a lot of material on a C1Pro work flow with sessions; and that all makes sense. I can also see how C1Prov6 includes hooks to get session content into a Media Pro catalog. I can also see how to set up Media Pro to open a file into C1 (or any other editor for that matter). What I'm not seeing is any mechanism to take an existing Media Pro catalog and cleanly integrate that with C1Pro so that all of the work in setting up key wording, et cetera, isn't tossed.
The great thing about a large Media Pro catalog is that it makes it extremely simple to find images with some simple search criteria. This benefit breaks down if the scope of a catalog is only a handful of C1 sessions.
Any thoughts on this work flow process would be much appreciated...
Having bought my first product from Phase One, I was interested by the material for C1v6 on the web site and the video tutorials. I downloaded their trial, but I thought it was fairly bogus since it only provided the non-Pro version features. So I couldn't evaluate keystone corrections, skin tone corrections, or any of the other Pro features. I finally broke down and bought the Pro version though after comparing just the color accuracy of the Generic v2 profile for my D700 NEFs as against Lightroom v3 complete with the X-Rite ColorChecker Passport camera calibration profiles. IMHO, C1v6 was significantly better than the Adobe native profile and enough better than the ColorChecker calibrated camera profile that that justified my purchase on its own merits.
I won't bore you all with the details of what's to like about C1; I'd be preaching to the choir anyway. I do have some issues with integration of Media Pro and C1.
As I said, I've been using MP for years and it had been my practice just to have a large catalog of, say, tens of thousands of images all with keywords and whatever to make finding particular images out of the whole mess very easy. I mean, why have a DAM tool like that without having one central place to do a comprehensive search.
It seems though that C1 is driven by the notion of a session as far as finding items in its library is concerned. No doubt, this model was developed before Phase One ever thought of buying up Media Pro; and it makes some sense. So, with C1, you import your images into a session, and C1 builds a logical folder structure for that session. As well, C1Prov6 will let you import your session albums and folders into a Media Pro catalog. Now, for starting out from scratch, this wouldn't be too bad. However, the import process takes control of the folder structure for NEFs and alters it. It also would mean going back over potentially thousands of images in my original catalog and importing them into a slew of new sessions just for the joy of conforming them to the C1 session model after the fact.
Coming the other way, from my existing Media Pro catalog into C1Pro, I can certainly open up any arbitrary NEF; but then C1 wants to include it in some session or other, either the default or a new one. If I create a new one, then I seem to get stuck with all of the folder machinery that C1 wants to use. If I stick with the built in default session, then it gets increasingly cluttered up with the random detritus of unrelated image processing tasks.
This seems to be a serious lack of integration between the two programs; but maybe I'm missing something. The Phase One site doesn't seem to provide much clarity on the use of the two. I can't find a thing over there on this workflow model. There is certainly a lot of material on a C1Pro work flow with sessions; and that all makes sense. I can also see how C1Prov6 includes hooks to get session content into a Media Pro catalog. I can also see how to set up Media Pro to open a file into C1 (or any other editor for that matter). What I'm not seeing is any mechanism to take an existing Media Pro catalog and cleanly integrate that with C1Pro so that all of the work in setting up key wording, et cetera, isn't tossed.
The great thing about a large Media Pro catalog is that it makes it extremely simple to find images with some simple search criteria. This benefit breaks down if the scope of a catalog is only a handful of C1 sessions.
Any thoughts on this work flow process would be much appreciated...
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