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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
Categories Capture One Pro
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 21, 2023

Provide AppleScript Support for Keystone Adjustments

What problem do you see this solving?

I am looking for a solution to copy the Composition adjustments (usually Rotation, Keystone, and Crop) from one variant to another with a single click or keystroke. Support confirms that Capture One can't do this directly. Capture One can currently read and write Rotation and Crop (I haven't tried the latter, but it appears to support all of the necessary properties).

I assume we will need separate AppleScript properties for the Vertical, Horizontal, Skew, and Aspect adjustments.

When was the last time you were affected by this lack of functionality, or specific tool?

As an architectural photographer, I copy composition from one variant to another very frequently. This is because I often have multiple exposures of the same scene that need to be combined in Photoshop. I often make fine adjustments to rotation and vertical keystone after revisiting a set of variants, which need to be copied to the other members of the set before exporting and bringing them into Photoshop. The separate variants also have very different settings for color correction, which means that I can't simply use Copy and Apply to update the composition adjustments (since this would copy other adjustments that need to remain different).

Current workaround

Are you using any workarounds or other solutions to achieve your goals in Capture One?

For years, I manually switched to the Shape (or Composition?) tab, Shift-clicked the Copy and Apply button for each of the three adjustments and then switched back to the Quick tab. Last week, I created a macro with Keysmith to do this for me. It's relatively slow and prone to breaking if the adjustment panels happen to be opened or in a different order than Keysmith expects, but is doing the job for now.

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