I'm a longtime Lightroom user but a new C1 user exploring version 20.0.2 on a Windows 10 workstation (HP Z800, 36GB RAM, NVIDIA RTX 2060 Super discrete graphics). One of the first things I noticed in the UI is that tracking of mouse movements and clicking seems "sluggish."
For example, while experimenting with Sessions to understand how they work, I created sub-folders under my Session "Capture" folder to make it easier to subdivide images in the Session. In the Library panel, I single-click on one of those subfolders and I see my images that have been placed there. Then if I single-click back on the top-level "Capture" folder, C1 asks me if I want to move files from the sub-folder!! It's as if C1 thinks I did a click-drag rather than just single clicks on different folders. If I wait for 5 seconds then click the top-level, it works as expected.
Also I'm seeing many cases where I have to click a menu item, folder, or tool TWICE to get C1 to recognize that I have clicked something. Having built a few Windows GUI apps of my own, my experience tells me that C1 is somehow losing mouse focus or is significantly slow in responding to mouse click interrupts.
Has anyone else seen this? I've verified that C1 is not doing anything else in the background when I observe this behavior, so it seems like purely a UI performance or design issue. If this is "normal" for the C1 interface, then I doubt I will invest much more time in it.
Dave
If what you were describing was common behavior enthusiasts let alone professionals would not be using C1Pro. :-) Works instantly on my 6 year old i7 Sandybridge desktop :-)
First port of call with most issues these days is to update your graphics driver. Choose the Studio version rather than the normal game version, assuming you are not gaming :-)
Important Question. You are adding these sub-folders as session favorites which is the mechanism for telling C1 what folders you want to look at in this session?
I used LR from V1-6 and naturally stated on catalogues because that was what I was used to. I now use sessions as this is how I prefer to work. Sessions are very flexible and I actually prefer to flatten the sessions structure by using the Windows directory commands. For example I normally transfer images from sd card to computer using Windows File Manager to a suitably named directory. If you then create a session and replace the Capture field with 2 periods then C1 makes the folder I targeted with the session the capture folder and my images automatically appear in the session.
You also have the option of creating a session album or smart album to separate images virtually?
From personal experience looking at different software is difficult. You tend to look for controls with names that you recognise and just pull those sliders. However, just because a slider has the same name doesn't mean that it does the same job. Take the Black and White sliders in C1. In LR these set your black and white points. In C1 these sliders are giving you fine control over the whites and blacks over a restricted range taht enables you to fine tune contarst in highlights and shadows using the set White and Black points as essentially hard stops.
How do you set Black and White points in C1? Using the Levels control as in virtually every other image editing software. LR doesn't have a Levels control which is why it needs the Black and White sliders. If you are unfamiliar with Levels it would be worth looking up the info as it is a very useful tool, particularly as it can be used in local adjustments. Levels are essentially a simplified curves control.
Local edits are where C1 excels as it uses layers like PS rather than the brush and pin UI of LR and virtually all of the tools can be used locally. Layers are far better UI than brush and pin but unfortunately the guy who developed LR had an "anything but PS" approach and that is why the crop in LR works the opposite way round to every other image editing program. This approach makes moving from LR more difficult because it is the one program that doesn't obey the standards.
Local adjustments are all about selecting parts of the image and then adjusting them. In C1 you have the normal ways of selecting parts of the image brushes, gradients, Luma range etc as well as with colour using the Advanced colour editor (needs to be studied as it is superb) but then you can feather and refine selections like PS. With the adjustments on layers you can turn layers on/off, vary the opacity (strength) of your adjustments to fine tune and if you set the initial layer opacity to 70% then you can make several adjustments and then fine tune by varying the strength of your adjustments up and down. This speeds up work flow.
Selections can also be copied to other layers and selections can be inverted. Thus select a sky and make your adjustments, copy that mask to a new layer, invert it and you have a mask for the foreground. You can even copy masks to other images. This is most useful with parametric selections like Luma range which will adjust to each image.
Then there are tools like the Luma curve which is again not in LR that allows you to change image contrast without impacting saturation. Think Luminosity blending mode in PS.
Those are some of the differences between LR and C1 and there are many more. LR provides more functionality than C1 with things like book, maps, HDR, panos, slide shows etc whereas C1 focuses on image editing. Personally I find I only have to go to PS or Affinity Photo when I want to do major pixel mangling like object removal or sky replacement. Given all of the selection tools in C1 simply means that you can do all of your normal editing in C1. Also the UI is completely user configurable.
Given all of that and remembering I have been where you are, unless you are really interested in moving to C1 I would stick with LR. There is a lot of new things to learn as well as different tools and techniques. It took me 3 tries before I moved to C1, so save your self a lot of time, LR is excellent software and the market leader you can't really go wrong with it.
Ian