Request a new feature, or support for a camera/lens that you would like to use in Capture One.
As a small-market professional, I rely on Capture One Pro daily. However, I’m disappointed to see key features like AI cropping and session subfolder building locked behind the Studio plan.
These tools aren’t exclusive to large studios—solo professionals benefit from them just as much. The session subfolder automation, for example, is something I can replicate in Google Sheets or Terminal, but it’s far more efficient with token support inside Capture One. Restricting that to Studio feels arbitrary. Similarly, locking AI cropping—unless it incurs outside licensing costs—seems unnecessarily limiting.
I hope you’ll reconsider this tiered feature strategy. Professionals like me support Capture One because it outperforms others in many areas, but penalizing smaller operations undermines that loyalty.
Current workaround
To build my session subfolder structure, I use a Google Sheets formula that generates command lines for macOS Terminal. I then copy and paste these into Terminal to create all the necessary directories at once—including custom folders inside the Capture, Selects, and Trash folders. Capture One’s built-in subfolder builder only applies to the Capture folder, which limits its usefulness. It would be far more helpful if users could define and auto-create folders within Selects and Trash as well. For context, I use a single ongoing Session instead of Catalogs, which I find too restrictive for my workflow. Sessions give me the control and flexibility I need to manage projects safely and efficiently. |
Hello Hal, thank you for your feedback.
I will mark this topic as "not a feature request" as it's mostly a suggestion for our business model. I do encourage you to create a feature request specifically for expanding the session builder to other main folders of the session, this is a great idea!
Both the session builder and the AI crop tools are available to users of the Pro version and they have more advanced features in the Studio version helping with automation or standardization of processes. We believe this is a fair approach.