You are right. Photo Mechanic doesn't put images into LR or C1. But then, for me, I don't want that. I only want to import the images I can use into LR. I don't particularly like the C1 cataloging, so do all that in LR anyway. I don't know about anyone else, but most of my images aren't keepers in my eye. My travel stuff is the only work I ever import all of in LR, mostly because a "large travel shoot" might be a few hundred images. A typical fashion shoot is many tens of thousands...
Hello.
I am aware that this is a REALLY old topic but since both programs have been updated many times it might be interesting for others if I'd share my findings.
I shoot fashion catalogue for a living and produce a lot of files. Sometimes over 3000 a day.
Recently I updated to Capture One 11 and switched over to the Sony A9. Long story short: I have been extremely unhappy with the performance of Capture One, especially when I attempted to create a catalogue from the session I was working with containing roughly 28000 images. It took more than 16(!!!) hours. I attempted the same thing with the latest Lightroom and was done in 45 minutes.
So I began once again testing and comparing C1 to Lightroom. A program I only left behind a couple of years ago when I switched to C1.
And what can I tell you? The latest version of Lightroom (Classic CC that is) is so much faster in the areas that are the most time consuming in my workflow.
I Imported 364 files from the Sony A9, uncompressed RAW files.
Capture One 11 took 4minutes and 40 seconds for an import. With building the previews it took all together 7 minutes and 48 seconds.
Lightroom managed to do this ALL in 3 minutes and 34 seconds.
The export of the same files into JPGs, 50% size and 75% Quality took in C1: 13 minutes and 3 seconds. Lightroom was done after 5 minutes and 42 seconds.
All these tests were done on a Macbook Pro 15 inch with Retina screen form 2016, using the internal card reader and the internal SSD.
I do not know what Phase One has done but they clearly seem to have dropped the ball there.
I'd love to hear what other people have found.