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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
Created by Yehuda Bergstein
Created on Sep 15, 2026

Link RAW+JPEG pairs by filename across folders, so ratings, color tags and keywords stay in sync

I shoot RAW+JPEG (Sony a6400) and keep the files in separate subfolders on disk, e.g.
Trip\ARW\DSC02479.ARW
Trip\JPEG\DSC02479.JPG
Base names are identical. The catalog references about 5,300 such pairs.

Problem: Capture One treats the RAW and the JPEG as two unrelated images. A color tag or
rating set on one never appears on the other. Image > Sync Metadata writes each image's own
sidecar (ARW\DSC02479.xmp and JPEG\DSC02479.xmp), so the two never meet. "Pair RAWs and JPGs"
only affects file naming at import, and the documented shared-XMP workflow only works when
both files sit in the same folder.

Last affected: September 2026. I color-tagged 36 of 87 RAWs from one day, synced metadata,
and every matching JPEG still had no tag.

Request: a way to link a RAW and a JPEG with the same base name regardless of folder (an
import option and/or an "Link RAW+JPEG pairs" command for already-imported images), so that:

  • ratings, color tags and keywords applied to one are applied to its pair

  • Sync / Load Metadata keeps both sidecars consistent

Current workaround
  • Manually selecting each RAW and its JPEG and applying the tag, or using the Metadata tool's
    "Copy specific from Primary". That copies from one image to many, so it takes one pass per
    color/rating and I have to find the matching JPEGs by hand.

  • An external script that copies the label and rating from each RAW sidecar into the matching
    JPEG sidecar, followed by Image > Load Metadata on the JPEGs.

  • The alternatives are worse: moving RAW and JPEG into one folder breaks my folder structure
    and means moving thousands of files, and importing RAWs only loses the JPEGs from the catalog.