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Improve Capture One

Request a new feature, or support for a camera/lens that you would like to use in Capture One.

Status Awaiting review
Workspace Feature requests
Categories Capture One Pro
Created by Luca Gaidano
Created on Nov 1, 2025

Improve Catalog and import session two-way synchronization

It would be useful to improve the import of sessions into a catalog by ensuring that the session and the catalog synchronize with each other. That is, once a session has been imported into the catalog, if one were to make further changes to a photo in the catalog or in the session, the same change would be reflected and aligned in both parts of the catalog and in the session.

Current workaround

Reimport the photo in to

  • Den Denyer
    Dec 17, 2025

    Came here to post exactly this.

    I would love to have a master catalog that contains imported sessions, but the sessions and photos in them remain "Live" in their current locations, and if changes are made at the catalog level they are ported down into the sessions.

    The point being if I want to find all images of an image tagged "Lion", I can use the master catalog which will search across all sessions that were imported, but I can still easily work within one session & enjoy the benefits of the isolated session workflow.

    However if I want to just work on one shoot, I can work within that individual session, OR when I make edits from the master catalog, they are transposed into the respective session.

    Because I shoot session based on location, I do not use the catalog features at all, and lose "Cross Session" searching abilities which is a shame. Importing everything into a single catalog just isn't feasible due to volume.