Output Naming
Hello. I have a question. Is there a way of changing the folder name when using the rating token? For example, when I set the rating of an image to 5 stars and then select the rating token, the output folder will be named 5. Is there a way to change the naming conventions, so the outputted folder is named something different? Thank you.
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> Luke Halliley: Is there a way of changing the folder name when using the rating token? For example, when I set the rating of an image to 5 stars and then select the rating token, the output folder will be named 5.
You do not state your variant of the Capture One software. I believe the Pro variant can do what you want using a properly set up recipe. You obviously know about the Rating token, what did you try that did not work?
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Hello! Thank you for your reply!
I'm using C1 21 Pro. Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear. I was wondering if there's a way to actually change the token values.
I use a lot of focus comps in my still life work and in C1 I like to use the rating system to differentiate what comps are for what part of the image. The annoying (and time consuming) part of my day comes when for example, we've worked on 15 images throughout the shoot and I've used the rating system in the following way:
5 stars for an overall shot
4 stars for a focus comp
3 stars for any fill comps
Before I send to my retoucher I have go in to each separate image folder and change the rating folder to MAIN, FOCUS COMPS etc. So my question is, if instead of the folder being outputted as 5 it could say MAIN instead? I've tried to figure out if I could change the colour tag values too but I didn't find a way, either!
Any help would be great!
Thnaks.
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I suppose I could write it in the metadata and use the description token but that seems like an incongruous way to do it but if there's a script that could be written that automatically updates the meta description, maybe that would work?
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> Luke Halliley: ...instead of the folder being outputted as 5 it could say MAIN instead?
I am not aware of C1 having a feature like that. You apparently want something along the line of
IF rating == 5 THEN output to folder "MAIN"
ELSE IF rating == 4 THEN output to folder "FOCUS COMPS"
ELSE IF rating == 3 THEN ...Changing folder name on disk (rename "5" to "MAIN") is completely different. You would notice if you (re)process a rating 5 image after renaming folder "5" to "MAIN", you would get a new sibling folder "5". That said, renaming folders can likely be eased/automated by a simple script.
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> Luke Halliley: I suppose I could write it in the metadata and use the description token but that seems like an incongruous way to do it but if there's a script that could be written that automatically updates the meta description, maybe that would work?
I would likely consider the field "Job Identifier" in the IPTC Status section. Adding Job ID "MAIN", "FOCUS COMPS", ... for Rating 5, 4, ... is script material. A script can set the Job identifier from the Rating code. I imagine an Apple script on a Mac can do that. If not, an external script (Python for example) can do that using only each image's xmp file, provided you Sync Metdata, run the script and then Reload metadata before processing for output via a recipe where token Job Identifier sits at the proper place in your output path.
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As far as I know, there is a possibility in the Mac version of Capture One to write scripts. But I didn't try it yet, and don't know it works and if it would be a workaround for you.
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