I for one, would like to hear that LR edits are automatically imported into
Capture one….. but my limited attempts have all failed.
Try doing this with a simple test… Take a random image in LR and crop it.
Import into Capture One.
Doe the cropped or full image appear?
PS: Capture One also comes in a $10 month by month option…..
Cloud????? Not for my $0.02
But I do believe that this is the direction of Adobe in the future….. and then
they REALLY own you. Pay up or lose your photos.
Frank Filippone
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Sent: Monday, November 18, 2019 12:53 PM
To: The Leica Reflex Forum
Subject: [LRflex] Re Capture One
Dear Aram, Philippe, William, Frank and Bob,
Thank you for your frank and helpful comments about contemplating moving from
LR to Capture One.
Reading the Capture One internet text, I understand that Capture One uses a LR
Catalog that is exported from LR by LR without any change to LR so I am free to
try it without bothering my LR in any way, which is my initial provisional
step.
Their text implies that moving takes all LR editing with the move so we will
see if that is a “true fact,” as my brother used to laughingly say.
More important is why would I ever think of doing this? The answer comes in
several flavors.
First is this article which caught my interest:
https://luminous-landscape.com/adobe-why-have-you-forsaken-us/
It is one man's opinion and his guess as to what Adobe is planning to do with
LR in the future, more near than far, ending with no desktop app but an all
cloud future. He could be completely off base, partially correct or turn out to
be accurate.
Only time will tell. But it made me think, “Would I want that? All my photo
files in Adobe’s cloud?
Of course I’d retain the original digital files here on terra firma, or as firm
as any desk top hard drive can be.
To be frank, my Mac Mini and and Master Lightroom hard drives are backed up by
two sets of duplicate hard drives here on earth as well as by both Crashplan
and Backblaze in their clouds. It is called “belt and suspenders."
What tipped my thinking? I have had a year long battle with the Digital Asset
Management (DAM) portion of LR such as when importing by "Adding files at their
current location” LR does not do that and creates duplicate files as well.
It is true that I have never been a fan of LR’s Keyword scheme interface
although I have tried several times to create a useful keyword structure but
have never made it work for me.
I have never been able to make the Keyword indention feature work as I think it
should, IMHO, and not show the Master Category along with the Subordinate
Category and not just the latter. But that’s the way it is, as Walter Cronkite
would say.
And as you know, LR does not move source files, i.e., the LR virtual file
structure cannot match the source file structure on my Master Lightroom hard
drive. Is that important?
I am not sure because that has been a “feature" of data bases since I met my
first one in the early 1970s.
So one thought is to separate the DAM function from the image manipulation
function for the benefit of both. It’s too long a story for this discussion but
I learned to distrust dual purpose devices and that goes for software as well.
Maybe I could learn to use another approach with other DAM software.
Back when I was first scanning old family photos in the early 1990s I used
Canto DAM software until they ditched their personal software and went to an
all business orientation, where they exist this day. From that experience I
concluded there must be some DAM software out there for me.
As for image editing, I use very little of LR’s magic and probably could get
any with Adobe Elements as my two sons do with their voluminous output to
Flickr.
So that’s where I am at this juncture, perhaps chasing a fantasy of a solid
digital asset management system and usable image manipulation software that
meets my basic "tidy up” image editing needs.
Thanks again for your thoughts and for sharing them and for listening. You’ve
helped me clarify my thinking which I deeply appreciate.
With best regards,
Bill
