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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 Pete Axford
Created on Nov 10, 2026

Allow export/import of sessions

I shoot into my laptop on the road, or generally download cards onto it, but once I've got home I will back up onto an SSD. If I then make edits on the laptop, the only way to update the SSD copy of the session is to:
a) copy the whole session (including the capture folder)
b) run a backup utility across the whole laptop/ssd
c) do a 'bodge job' by copying the cosessiondb file and the CaptureOne folder

Some kind of simple 'export session data' (which included ratings, colours, keywords, edits, etc.) would be so helpful. I appreciate that it can't work when the files are moved to Trash/Selects/Output - but it would still be super useful.

It would also allow assistants to edit a session remotely and send back a file with the updates (rather than working on the raw files).

Current workaround

a) copy the whole session (including the capture folder)
b) run a backup utility across the whole laptop/ssd
c) do a 'bodge job' by copying the cosessiondb file and the CaptureOne folder