How To Import A Session Into A Catalog In Capture One Pro | Using C1 Sessions and Catalogs Together
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- In this video I talk about importing Capture One sessions that you've made in the field into a catalog so it can be archived and searched within your larger library of images.
Watch my videos on sessions and catalogs if you haven't seen them yet.
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Hi Zac! Thank you for your video! Maybe you can make video about NAS and internal hdd workflow.
Great suggestion!
Was looking for a video to explain this and you nailed it. Thanks so much!
Great! Glad it was helpful
Another great video! I’ve watched many CaptureOne tutorials by the brand, yet this is the first time the whole organizational system made sense as a whole🙏 Now I’m trying to figure out the C1 cloud system for collaboration, iPad, and multiple computer access to same in-progress-graded work files 🤔
Glad the explanation was helpful! I'll likely be making a video in the near future about cloud based workflow in Capture One.
Thank you so much. I did have one question; if I leverage my local disk for WIP sessions but use an external disk (slower) for final and archiving, is it best to relocate the session filles before importing the session into a catalog, or does make sense to move it once in the catalog? Perhaps, there is even a better workflow?
Great question! Ideally, the Session should be in its final resting place before importing it into the catalog.
It makes sense to use your faster internal drive for working in sessions while on location, especially since the sessions require access to raw files at all times. Once the session's heavy lifting is completed and its ready to be imported into a catalog, the session can be stored on an external drive and imported into a catalog which lives on your local drive.
This way you get the benefit of your catalog employing your fast internal ssd while leveraging the larger size of your external drives for storing sessions and large raw files.
Hope this helps!
Love the video. One tip though, set the microphone channel to MONO when editing the video. Stereo mic sound for videos like this is really disorienting.
Thanks for the feedback and kind words!
Hi Zac, thanks for this! Question about this from a wedding photographer:
I am still experimenting....It makes sense to me that a new client wedding would be loaded up as a SESSION. I would then use the session folders in culling, marking selections, outputting, etc. basically as designed.
However, as a wedding photographer, I would love to have a master CATALOG of all weddings I've ever shot and be able to quickly find 'all 5 star' images across many years of shooting, etc. With that being said, does sessions still work fit this concept? Or am I better off just creating a Master Catalog, photograph a wedding, and then import the wedding into the catalog and start work there?
Still having trouble wrapping my head around the pros and cons of both - or if I can use sessions to my advantage (if there is any?) and then import into master catalog - like you are showing here.
Thanks for any insights. Just looking for a basic understanding of the most efficient happy path.
Hi David! Thanks for the question. I think there are more benefits to catalogs here rather than sessions. A session's primary strength is the flexibility it provides, particularly in organizing a shoot in real time while tethered. If all of your organization takes place after the shoot is over, then importing into a catalog for culling and using virtual organization to divvy the day up into discrete parts is the simpler solution. Hope this helps. Good luck!
Zackzac this is super useful, very clear and pracrical!
I have howere started with catalogs ... And worse moving the images inside the catalog....
How can i unpack that catalog all again, regroup in sessions and then group the sessions in a new catalog
Help 😮
Not to worry! In the Library tool tab you'll see a section that says "folders". Click the "+" button next to "folders" and Capture One will bring up a browser window. Here, you can make as many new folders as necessary on whatever hard drive you'd like the photos to actually be placed. Each new folder you make will appear in Capture One's "Folders" section underneath "In Catalog". Once you have all the folders that you need, simply navigate to the images in Capture One that you want to move outside of the catalog and drag them over to the new folder that you've created. C1 will remind you that you're moving files around on the hard drive, which you'll say "ok" to. Just do this as many times as needed. There are other ways to do this, but I'd say this is the most straightforward, and doesn't require exporting and then re-importing images into C1. Hope this helps!
As a hobbyist nature & landscape photographer, I work with sessions. I start with a folder ie 2023 Sessions. Within that folder, I have sub-folder sessions 2023-01 Nature, 2023-02 Astro, 2023-03 Nature etc. Once I'm done and I know for sure I"m no longer needing to work on them, I import into a yearly catalog ie 2023 catalog. I'm lacking using tags, keywords etc. to better organize my catalogs. I want to be able to find all my photos in the same/similar way to Google Photos. Btw, I export all my high resolution JPEGS to Google Drive and Small resolution to Google Photos. I appreciate any additional tips. Thanks
I am not familiar with sessions...so my question is. Do you copy your images after your shooting from the sd card to the particular folder..eg: Nature, Astro etc? I am going to travel to asia next year for two month. And I am not sure if I should use many small catalogues (eg: Bangkok, Penang, Singapore etc) or should I use sessions. And when I should use sessions, do I make a session for each day.....or is it depending on the number of images? Thank you, Michael
Hi Michael, there are many answers to your question. Sessions work well when storing up to 3k or so images, so I might suggest making a new Session for each new location as you describe (Bangkok, Penang, Singapore) and then, once you've returned from your (exciting) travels, incorporate all of those sessions into a catalog. There are of course other options, but this would likely be my own method. Hope this helps, and enjoy!
Zac . . . This is a very informative video; thank you! One question . . . Can I add keywords to images once the session has been imported into a catalog? Regards, Rick
Hi Rick, glad it’s helpful! Any keywords you add to the session and assign to images will be kept when importing those images into the catalog. Keywords may also be added into the catalog after session import. 👍
Thank you Zac. Your RUclips videos are all on the mark!!
When I launch COP24(Capture One Pro 24) in Catalog mode, the loading of my large Catalog is very long. Is this normal? How do you work around this, or do you? If using Sessions and the data is small (new or much smaller Session, loading time is insignificant. Thoughts?
How large is your catalog (rough number of images)? Is the catalog file on an external drive, or local? If the images are on an external drive, is it a reasonable fast drive?
Hi I saw your video, really helpful. I have some questions which I don't know if may be helpful and someone could help me.
Once I made a catalogue of sessions, I tried deleting some pitcures i didn't need (from the catalogue) however if I load the session in which the pictures are located, the deleted ones are not in the trash folder, but still in the same one. Same thing going in the opposite direction: if from a session already connected to a catalogue I make some changes as delete pictures (which go to the session's trash) then these information are not registered by the catalogue. Is there a way to synchronize the two? And from the main catalogue where do the deleted pictures go? Is only the picture link deleted but the physical picture still remains in the session's one?
Thank you
Hello! I'm glad the video was helpful. After a session is imported into a catalog, there's no real reason to return to the session. The session and catalog won't speak to one another, and so changes made to one will not reflect in the other. If you're looking to delete images that you no longer need, it will be best to do this in the Catalog after you've imported the session. To delete images from a catalog, you'll need to highlight the images you wish to delete and either drag them to the Catalog Trash (found in the library tool tab), or highlight the images you wish to delete and navigate to the "Images" drop down window from the very top of the screen and select either "Move to Catalog Trash" which will remove the images from the browser but not delete the files from the disk, or select "Delete from Disk" in the dropdown menu, which will remove the images from the catalog as well as delete the files on your hard drive.
@@zendrson thank you for the clarification! I somehow like the session structure, because it helps me to address pictures of a same "topic" and when I delete some I know the pictures are stored in a folder which, later on, I can access directly from the disk/drive and decide whether to delete them permanently. From the catalogue I don't feel this "safety", so that either i remove from the catalogue but then if I want to clean space I have to go and find it again in the physical location, or I have to permanently delete it immediately, with risks if I may change my mind in a second time. When I found out about the possibility of having a catalogue of session it seemed the solution I was looking for: all my images, but still organized as a session individually. However I saw that as you said the catalogue and connected sessions are independent. To obtain a sort of result that I was looking for I should open the session, make my changes, and then go back to the catalogue and synchronize it, but this may take a while and is not so handy. I don't know if it's a recommended way of working, but if you know this would be something I'm interested in. Thank you again!
Great explanation! But if I edit an image in the catalog, does it also take over the editing in the session? And vice versa?
Thanks for the kind words! So after a session is imported into the Catalog, there's not really a need to return to the session. The session and Catalog won't speak to each other, so changes made to an image in one will not reflect in the other, as the two use very different methods for recording those edits. The workflow is:
Shoot into Session on location -> Place Session in long term location on hard drive -> Import Session into Catalog -> Use Catalog to access images from there on out
Perfect thank you Zac! Slowly I get into Capture One.. 😁
So session and catalogue are under one roof but editing from both sources export differently without interfering @@zendrson
Hello!
I have used sessions for years now but i recently got into catalogs and I have a question:
Can i merge one Catalog into another?
I hope there is a way because I mistakenly used a Catalog as a temporary solution for a project to edit and rate etc. and now i can not get the work to show in my master catalog that i created days later. I hope you have an Idea on how I can merge the two Catalogs or none at all🤣 maybe i am screwed. I have searched for answers on the Web but could not find anything so i would be very grateful for some Input!
Cool videos, i know i will be watching them often as i am learning the ins and outs of CO1.
Thanks for the question! No worries- you're not screwed :-). Just go into your master catalog and select File -> Import Catalog -> Capture One Catalog. C1 will open a browser window which you'll use to navigate to the catalog database file (the file that, when double clicked, opens the catalog in question), and then click "import". This process is very similar to how importing sessions into a catalog works. Hope this helps!
@@zendrson I imported the Catalog into the Master one, but it did not import the changes (Ratings, Color tag and B&W) i made to the pictures... Is there a way i can also import the settings and not only link the files? Because when i Import from a Session, i get literally every setting along with the pictures. When i Imported the Catalog i did not see the changes i made. I hope you understand my question xD
How do you Projects in your workflow (or do you)? Why or why not?
In my landscape catalog I use projects to hold images from a similar region or park. For example, I use a group for the state and make a project for, say, Death Valley. That way I have many search criteria available to me over a large number of related images. Hope this helps!
If there is any chance you see this today I am in desperate need to help on cap one
Great video - thank you. Very much. I have my catalogue photo files all in a specific place (I.e. external harddrive). I would like to physically move the session photo files to that drive. Just drag and drop? Also I have a temporary work session where I drop my files to quickly edit them. It’s life a big ‚garbadge’ can filled with all different raw files. Is it possible to only import single edited files from a session into the catalogue? Best regards, Bernd
Hi Bernd, That's part of what makes sessions so nice! Just drag and drop the parent session folder onto the hard drive that you'd like to store them on. And yes, it is possible to import single files into the catalog, however I highly recommend those individual files to be placed where you intend to keep them long term before importing them into the catalog, as if you decide to move them in the future you'll need to re-establish the link to the catalog. Not a difficult process, but can be time consuming if it's not something you're used to doing often. Good luck, and thanks for watching!
What’s missing from the video: So how do you view the images in the catalog once you’ve imported the session?
At 4:12 you see me click on an album containing images that are then displayed in the browser on the right side of the screen. Clicking on one of the thumbnails will bring them up in the viewer like in any session or catalog 👍
Thank you for the quick answer. I thought maybe they would show up generally in "All images" as part of the library of images in the catalog.
@@almostgreen9498 Sure! This is also accurate. The All Images function in the Catalog will show every image regardless of whether it is contained in a project or group, or whether it was imported from another session. Edit: There's also an "All Images" album that was brought over from the session, which is placed in the project that will show all images contained within that specific project (the imported session). This is useful when you want to look across every image from a specific session that you've imported regardless of how it's been organized within the session.
@@zendrson I really appreciate your help. Thanks!