Hi all,
I’ve been trying out Capture One Pro 8 and really like how it processes some of my RAW files. However, I’m a long time Lightroom user and don’t see myself giving up the cataloging, keywording, printing functions of LR. So, I need to find a way to integrate CO into my current LR workflow.
I’ve searched online to see how others have integrated the two programs into a workflow. It seems the typical approach is to import everything into LR, cull the images, export selects from LR as original RAW, import those RAW files into CO and process, then export from CO as a TIFF and import back into LR. I’ve tried this over the past few weeks, and it works. But, seems clunky and also results in additional copies of RAW files.
I’m thinking through another possible approach, and wanted to run it by the experts here. Here’s what I’m thinking:
- Import all images into LR, copying RAW images into a specific folder on the hard drive. Review, flag the selects, keyword, etc. Then save metadata to XMP sidecars.
- Open Capture One and import all images that were just imported into LR. Believe I can just add the folder where the images reside on the hard (same folder LR put the files).
- Have Capture One read the XMP files to get flags, keyword, etc. Process RAW images that were previously selected in LR.
- Export images processed in Capture One as a TIFF, and import that TIFF into LR.
Here’s my questions for the experts out there:
- Is it dangerous or ill advised to have both LR and CO looking at the same folders for raw files?
- To reduce chances of problems have both LR and CO looking at the same folders of RAW files, is it possible to prevent Capture One from writing metadata? I’m thinking that the reading/writing of metadata might be the biggest potential problem of my plan. But, I would only want LR to write metadata, and would only want Capture One to read metadata.
Appreciate any thoughts people familiar with Capture One might have.
Thanks,
Jeff
