HDR: Queue/Batch the processing

Much needed feature for HDR and panos !!!
Manual stitching is so time consuming and a very silly thing to do !

I come back from a forest shots with a lot of HDR shots. I spent 1 hour to merge the session as always.
So ,yes, PLEASE develop automatic merge HDR.

I absolutely need it !!

It's very strange that any professional photo developing app would lack this feature. Truly perplexing.

I keep coming to check on the progress, but not seeing many updates from the C1 team. Not implementing this feature is a huge oversight. With Lightroom I can set a machine to do the HDR processing and then get through other tasks while it runs. With C1, I end up wasting my time selecting each set and hitting shiftM. For large sets it can take a lot of time and I'm basically losing money with this workflow... I expect to revert to Lightroom soon, which is a shame.

NEED this feature. SO annoying that you can't just line them up.

I can't believe it's been years and this still isn't implemented.

Capture One, with all of its exceptional features, touts its focus on "efficiency" tools, yet the most inefficient time-wasting and productivity destroyer is the lack of a batch process for HDR-merged files. Thank you for the new portrait-related efficiency tools (which I use and enjoy), but the rest of us need help with our volume shooting. Please add this feature this year. Thank you.

This is surely a feature that should be added - just made the switch from LR (been loving C1 so far) but the lack of this really baffles me.

For architectural / real-estate work this is a must-have. At the moment, I am having to consider going back to lightroom... something I really would rather not do. It's really a shame that Capture One seems to be so far behind here.

I have the same request. It would already help if new HDR jobs would be added to a queue, rather than getting an error message when I try to start a new HDR merge while another job is still running. The main problem is loss of time.

I usually do batch merging in Lightroom and export DNG with Camera raw 5 compatibility settings. Then C1 understands these files. This is the only reason I still keep Lr on my PC. In addition, Lr allows to configure the merge more flexibly.
But this, of course, is too much complexity that is annoying on every project. I expect this to change since the release of HDR stacking

Definitely need to be able to queue HDR Merge requests. Having to wait for every single action to start another is so painfully slow and pointless. This must be such a simple thing to do.

Please can this get addressed. It seems such an important feature, to have batches for processes, when there is no auto batch function. I don't get why it's not being considered key, when really this type of functionality is something that would have been expected many years ago.

Thanks Rani.

Do you think the lightroom results are as good or better that Capture One?

We know batch processing is the solution which all other HDR software programs use!

I am on the M1 and about to upgrade, I was hoping that the new M2/M3 chips might help the Capture One HDR situation but guessing not.

Charlie Coleman,

Exactly, I prefer CaptureOne but when it takes 60 times longer for batch HDR files compared to Lightroom, so it's not usable at the moment for 30+ files at once.

Lightroom is a good alternative, you can "auto stack by time" and then mark all the files you want to make into HDR and you can create as many HDR files you want in one go.

About apple chips, I currently use the M2 Max chip and it has excellent performance in CaptureOne, many times faster than my previous 15inch 2018 macbook pro. But making 30 HDR files at once in Lightroom still takes a couple of minutes, it's not instant.

Yes, sure thing.

The biggest I think is discussing solutions to help the professional photographs working within real estate and architecture whilst making some noise so they might take notice of us (comment chat upvote).

Maybe publish in this post. It can make them listen to us more.

https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/articles/8861073819165-HDR-Merge?page=1#comment_17002872092061

16992381475101 or anyone else in this thread.

I totally understand how frustrating this problem is and it is by far the biggest bottle neck for estate/architecture photography in Capture One.

Has anyone discovered methods to accelerate this process? Do the latest Mac chips offer any bumps in speed?

Additionally, has anyone identified alternative software solutions as effective workarounds? Lightroom, Aurora HDR, etc.?

The issue I have with other software is I like the Capture One result but we all know the problem with it.

1901072955773, hi! For real estate/architecture photography that's the main showstopper to migrate from Lightroom to your product, guys. Having both products for different parts of the workflow doesn't make sense.

Image coming back after the photoshoot with i.e. 300 photos that will result in 60 final pictures after merging (5 pictures to be merged per final frame). I need to wait for 30 seconds until the picture is merged, then select another 5 photos and wait 30 seconds again so I can do the same action. Multiply that by 60 times and count the time wasted :) Even if that would be 5 seconds per photo - it does not make sense to sit and watch while it's being done. 

Instead, I want to start the first merge and add the remaining merge jobs in the queue so I don't waste time sitting by the computer while merging happens. 

Hope this will get prioritised one day :)
Cheers!