This means that even if I’m traveling, I can plug in the external hard drive, and access every half decent image I’ve ever shot, no matter where I am.Īnd, my current year folder is also on that hard drive. One final note on this, is that I always keep my Finals folder on an external hard rive, and it goes everywhere with me. This also means of course that I can search across all of my final selects too, which I think is important to be able to do. I tend to open this Finals catalog more than any other as I’m working on various tasks. This means the year catalogs become more of an archive, and I can open just the one Finals catalog to get access to all images that I think are worth a hoot from 2000 to the present day. Then when I have completed my editing for any given shoot, I copy my final select images into my Finals catalog, separated out into year folders. So, my year folders contain all images that I didn’t delete from all shoots, and I do all of my rating and keywording initially in these folders. I also maintain a separate catalog called my Finals, and into this I copy all images that I consider my final selects. If I could do that, this strategy would be totally stress-free for me. The only thing I wish I could do but currently cannot, is to search across multiple catalogs. I can also switch easily between catalogs, with the Catalog pulldown under the Library section, as you can see in this screenshot (right), and it only takes about 10 seconds to switch, so this is a workable solution. My 2016 catalog is currently about 21GB, and will probably become around 30 to 35GB by the end of the year. This strategy gives me more manageable catalog folder sizes. My 2016 folder is of course work in progress at this point, but once this year is over and I’ve finished all my editing, it will simply become the archive for this year and I’ll create a new 2017 catalog for next year. So I’ve split up my previous year folders. I now have an one catalog called ~2005, which has everything up to 2005, then an individual year folder for each year from 2006 to 2016. Capture One Pro just cannot handle this number of images, which incidentally was around 165,000 of them. Also, when I tried to select All Images under the Catalog Collections, Capture One became unusable for around 15 minutes, so I had to force quit the program, and that corrupted the catalog and it was not recoverable, so I had to throw it out. I tried to put all of my images from 2000 to 2015 into a single catalog, and it ended up 174GB in size, and took around 3 minutes to open, then another five minutes or so before you could navigate around. Although in Lightroom I used to have my entire library of images in one catalog, this really doesn’t work with Capture One Pro, because there is too much data held inside the catalog folder. Multiple Catalogsįirst of all, I’d like to talk a little about my Catalogs. Today I’m starting a more in-depth series that I’ll build on as time allows, and it makes sense to start with importing and organizing images from shoots, although I’ll start with some background on how I’ve organized my catalogs and other considerations. If you want help with actually migrating from Lightroom and importing your archives, take a look at episode 534 first, as I cover this in that post. I don’t necessarily want to simply emulate my Lightroom workflow, although there are things that Lightroom does better, so I want to get as close to this as possible. You might remember from episode 534 that I have just switched to Capture One Pro from Lightroom, and so my goals are to maintain as much of the control that I had in Lightroom as possible, while making use of the powerful features now available to me in Capture One Pro. As I switch my digital imaging workflow to Phase One’s Capture One Pro 9, I’m learning how to bring out the most from this powerful raw image processing software, and today I’m going to share how I’m now importing and organizing my images.
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