That's great, Robert. Happy to hear it!!

Thank you! So glad it helped.

Thank you for the kind words!

Thanks for the kind words! It means quite a lot. Just getting started, really. I've let it fall off a bit but plan to pick things back up shortly once we're on the road full time. Right now all my time is taken up working on our truck and camper. Hope to have more soon!

Glad it helped!

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks for the kind words! I'm truly glad you found the video helpful. I'll likely cover this in a future video, but really the best organizational method for you will be the one that lets you know where your images are outside of a piece of software. This will likely change person to person, and maybe genre to genre. For me, personally, I have catalogs dedicated to genres of work. For example, I have a landscape catalog. I also have a folder on my hard drive named "landscape". Within that folder, I have other folders for the locations I've photographed, starting with country and narrowing down from there. My catalogs roughly mimic this system. For example, I have a group for a particular country, then a project for the region of that country, then albums for specific locations and features within that region. I like for my catalog to look like the folder structure on my hard drive and vice versa. For me, date of capture means less, so I don't organize this way, especially since metadata (including date captured) is automatically written to these images so they can be organized by date with nearly any organizational software (even finder). For backups, I recommend chronosync (again, will cover this in a near-future video :-)

Thanks. I'm glad it's useful!

Thanks for the kind words! Don't worry- more to come :-)

You're very welcome!

I'm so glad the video helped clear things up!

Glad it was helpful!

Glad it was helpful!

I'm so glad!

You're welcome!

Unfortunately there's not a way I'm aware of to automatically organize BW images through creating smart albums, or through the "Show/Hide Filters" option found in the filters tool. The best way to organize all BW images in a given project in C1 would likely be to create a regular (dumb) album for BW images, press the ~` button on the keyboard to remove the viewer so that the browser takes up most of the screen, resizing thumbnails so that they are all quite small, then manually dragging each BW image into the new album. You could also highlight all BW images manually, then add a BW keyword of your choice.

I'm so glad! More coming, and if you want to see something discussed, just let me know!

Glad you find them useful! Like you said, it’s all about preference and your desired workflow. A Catalog’s primary strength is searching for individual images within a vast library, and perhaps over a variety of different hard drives. If you’re keywording a lot and prefer to search for individual images based off of metadata, catalogs can be a great asset. If sessions are working for you, or if your images are clearly defined by the individual shoot they were a part of, then the benefit of catalogs may be minimal and you may best be served by continuing to use sessions.

Thank you for watching, and for the kind words! I'm glad you find the videos useful. More are on the way :-) When I need to do what you describe, I generally just right click the folder in question, select "show in finder" on a Mac or the equivalent on a PC, and delete the folder there. In the Capture One Catalog the folder will still appear, but now with an alert icon indicating the path is no longer active. I then right click the folder while in C1 and delete it, removing it from the Catalog. I actually think its a good safety net to not be able to delete a folder on the disk level while in Capture One, as I'm of the mind that the software should easily be able to add folders and structure, but should be difficult or impossible to remove it.

Glad you liked it!

Thanks!

Files certainly must be kept in external storage. Simply moving the files to their final archive using C1’s folder tool, or Re establishing a path after the files have been moved will keep your local storage clean. I import directly to external storage, but leave the Catalog file local for best performance. This “referenced” catalog makes best use of resources and external storage.

Hi Ashton, completely understand. It's an easy thing to let happen. I'd avoid sending your entire library out at the same time, as it will be quite a lot of data and will take some time. I suggest moving chunks of images instead. My recommendation would be to use Capture One's "Export Originals" tool. File-> Export->Export Originals. In the following window you may check "pack as EIP". This will package the raw file in what is effectively a .zip file along with additional files capture one can use to understand what edits have been made to the image. Once all of your files are exported and organized to your liking, you can create a new catalog and import all of you recently exported images into it while keeping them in their existing location. Hope this helps!

That's super helpful, thank you very much!@@zendrson

Hi George, unfortunately Capture One doesn't (yet) have an AI powered search ability to do what you're asking. This would be a welcome addition, no doubt, but currently the only way to do this would be to manually add keywords yourself, then use the search function to find those keyworded images.

Thank you! In a catalog, Capture One stores the edits in the Catalog database file itself, (the same database that, when clicked on, will open the catalog in capture one) This does away with sidecar files. In a session based workflow, the edits are stored in files inside of a folder named "Capture One" which exist in the same folder as the originating raw files. Hope this helps!

thank you, it does help! @@zendrson

Thanks for the question! Yes, certainly possible to move the entire Catalog database file to a different folder or drive, just be sure to have a backup made before moving, just in case.

Hello! Yes, this is possible. Ideally you would store the catalog on a NAS drive. You'll need to ensure the catalog is closed on one machine before opening it on the other, as you won't be able to use them at the same time. You may run into issues with images appearing offline in a referenced catalog that require re-connection. It's not an ideal scenario, but from some quick research it does appear that some users have found a way to make this work.

Not a stupid question at all! You are correct, when you "delete" a photo while in a catalog C1 will send the photo to the catalog trash. If you navigate to the catalog trash folder, found in the library tool tab, you have the ability to select some or all of the images in the trash, right click, and select "delete from disk". This will remove the original file from the hard drive that Capture One is using to view the image. Hope this helps!