Improve Capture One
Request a new feature, or support for a camera/lens that you would like to use in Capture One.
Request a new feature, or support for a camera/lens that you would like to use in Capture One.
What problem do you see this solving?
Videos on the catalog are not treated as first class citizens. In fact, they are barely supported. Pretty much all that works reliably is import and playing the video. Very little of the cataloging features work. As video media is an important part of many photographer's work now and catalogs are meant to be used to keep track of your media, this creates a major problem trying to manage any shoot that consists of both photos and videos. Here's a partial list of things that don't work for videos:
Note: I'm not asking for any editing features for movies (though Lightroom has some features built-in such as specifying output formats when exporting movies and simple movie trimming). I just want ALL features in the catalog to work with movies.
When was the last time you were affected by this lack of functionality, or specific tool?
Any shoot that includes videos.
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Current workaround
Are you using any workarounds or other solutions to achieve your goals in Capture One? There aren't really work-arounds other than lots of manual, time-consuming work. I'm unable to use many of Capture One's features like smart collections because they don't work properly with videos, so I have to do anything with a video manually and can't use the catalog. Because there aren't really work-arounds, I may have to abandon Capture One to use a catalog that treats videos as a first class citizen and supports ALL cataloging features with videos (such as Lightroom). |
The need by professionals for being able to catalog videos is indisputable, but even travel photographers and holidaymakers often have videos with their photo collections, so it would be great to have all the cataloging features applied to videos as well.
At a bare minimum though, could Capture One at least be able to read the date so that when you sort by date, any videos are displayed in the correct order.
And to reiterate, not asking for video editing tools, would just like to be able to manage video files together with any image files.
@,John Friend, and anyone else interested to know how to include videos in Smart Albums, as a workaround in the meantime you can by adding another search criteria after creating the Smart Album: [Display Name] [equals] [(video filename)]
Hi, I am surprised that more users haven't taken the time to voice there issues/desires related to video capabilities (or lack thereof) in Capture One. We have been using Media Pro to catalog and categorize hundreds of thousands of images and videos at my place of work since 2012. However, my employer will no longer allow us to install Media Pro on our computers even though we still have those licenses. I recently installed Capture One on one computer in order to test its functionality, especially with importing our past Media Pro catalogs. Unfortunately, I just discovered that Capture One will not allow us to set keywords for our imported videos, nor edit the keywords attached to previous video Media Pro catalogs that were imported. Medial Pro allowed us to do this in the past. We desperately need this video feature added to Capture One. If it is not addressed, we will transition all of our computers to Lightroom.
Fully agree with John Friend. I'm just asking for video to be ORGANIZED in the catalog, not to be edited or adjusted or anything else a proper software could do much better, with a plugin like Topaz Photo AI.
Yep, that's it. Just treat it like a regular element of the catalog that you can use the normal cataloging functions on - no editing required. No editing of video-specific metadata required. Smart Albums (based on keywords) is where I felt like I can no longer use a key feature of C1 if my family trip happens to have ONE video that I want in a smart album. The entire thing breaks. Then, heaven forbid, you want to export a selection that includes a video. Can't do that either. Can't rate. Can't keyword. Can't sort properly. It really does make you wonder why they even bother letting you import videos since most cataloging features are completely unsupported for videos.
Very well, I can agree it’s odd they even allow the files to import but they can’t be organized.
Viewing and modifying video metadata however is very different coding from image data, so I could see why C1 maybe hasn’t tackled this yet.
Yes, it's just about cataloguing (no editing). And so the video files have to sort in the right order with the image files to get a correct overview of the shooting timeline.
When importing with simultaneous adding date and time to the filename, I realized that the importer also does not recognize daylight saving time (just for the video files).
So when sorting by name, they are still not in the right order... (and also named incorrectly on disk...)
Yes, agreed, nobody here expresses the wish that C1 should add video editing capabilites or support a professional video editing workflow, whatever that means.
All we want is to organize the video files like the other (image) files from the camera. Rating, tagging, some metadata edits / keywording, sorting and filtering/smart filtering, searching.
11311553461277 - that may well be so. But it would still be useful to be able to do some stuff with videos. If I take stills and videos on the same occasion, it would at least be helpful to be able to set the same keywords on them, and to have them sort in the right order. For myself I don't expect to edit videos in Capture One, but at least enhancing the cataloguing capabilities for them would be welcome.
Ian
There are professional ways of managing video files, and C1 is not the tool for that. Nor is Lightroom. Photography and filmmaking are very different mediums, with drastically different requirements. If you need a pro post video workflow, hire an assistant editor or editor for video. Or consult with one to help you build that workflow yourself.
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