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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Capture One Q&A => Topic started by: douglevy on July 08, 2015, 09:17:40 pm

Title: Editing board for C1?
Post by: douglevy on July 08, 2015, 09:17:40 pm: I've chatted with the folks at CI about this last year, but I thought I'd post here too. Does anyone use an editing board like these LR options for C1?

http://www.pusherlabs.com/
http://palettegear.com/
http://www.rpgkeys.com

I'd love to pick one up. Thanks!

-Doug
Title: Re: Editing board for C1?
Post by: JimDK on July 16, 2015, 06:50:51 am: What kind of thing would you need it for? Imagine I play devils advocate for just a second, isn't a slider and mouse good enough?
Title: Re: Editing board for C1?
Post by: douglevy on July 16, 2015, 07:05:28 am: Currently I'm using RPG keys and LR for weddings and C1 for everything else. The time savings from a one button push of "sync to previous" alone is immense. Saving 3-4 seconds per image times 600-1000 images times 30 weddings a year is a huge savings. I'd love to ditch LR for good, and I have customized and memorized C1 keyboard shortcuts, but it's not quite the same.
Title: Re: Editing board for C1?
Post by: Doug Peterson on July 16, 2015, 10:54:35 am: Quote from: douglevy on July 16, 2015, 07:05:28 am
Currently I'm using RPG keys and LR for weddings and C1 for everything else. The time savings from a one button push of "sync to previous" alone is immense. Saving 3-4 seconds per image times 600-1000 images times 30 weddings a year is a huge savings. I'd love to ditch LR for good, and I have customized and memorized C1 keyboard shortcuts, but it's not quite the same.

Most of the RPG functionality can be achieved using keyboard shortcuts and applescript. We touch a bit on this in our Capture One Masters Program (https://digitaltransitions.com/event/training/capture-one-masters-program-advanced-workflow-10-07-2015).

For instance you can assign a specific (pre-created) style, cycle through your style list, copy adjustments from the previous image to the current image, toggle between workspaces, access any menu tool (whether you can set a shortcut for it within C1 or not) etc.

Do be careful though. Automating some tasks can be great time savers. Attempting to automate others can be a black hole of time:
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/automation.png)
As an example, I wrote a script (triggerable by keyboard shortcut if desired) the other day that scans the crop of all images selected and sets the width/height of all images to the width/height of the largest width and largest height present amongst the selected images, without modifying the center of the crop for each individual image. Took about 6 hours to create and troubleshoot for all unusual situations. In this case the use-case is libraries/museums using our book scanning systems (http://dtdch.com/page/dt-rgc180-capture-cradle) and autocrop (http://dtdch.com/page/capture-one-ch) tool hours every day, so the time was worth it. A good rule of thumb is make an educated guess how long it will take you to script something, then add a zero; I'm only sort of joking.

If you want to list the specific tools you use in RPG Keys currently and I'll give you a rough guess how long each one would take you to accomplish them by AppleScript.
Title: Re: Editing board for C1?
Post by: Doug Peterson on July 16, 2015, 10:59:29 am: By the way Doug... great Boston Marathon portraits on your website!
Title: Re: Editing board for C1?
Post by: douglevy on July 16, 2015, 11:02:21 am: Thanks! That was a fun project. Only problem re: applesscrips is that I'm a PC'er on my main machine