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Batch Processing
Capture One in its help file gives this warning right before Batch Processing Chapter: “An advice and warning: Do not enable this feature if you’re processing a large amount of images, as your computer may freeze up”. Honesty is best policy here. The Capture One converter is indeed unable to process large numbers of images. The large number, as I found out started from over 50 or something. Inconvenient for big collections.
Apart from that Capture One batch processing is very flexible. You can add files to the batch by simply clicking the thumbnail (and default setting will be applied), or do it after editing. You can process the image right away or add them to the batch without processing to do it later. Whatever you do the processing is performed in a background mode and does not interfere with the editing process. You can add to the batch as the conversion of other images goes on as well. Or remove unprocessed yet images.
The Batch Process tab will show you the progress of every image conversion together with the percentage of work load already done and estimated time.
The function is operated through a set of quite easily understandable and recognizable (once you get used to them) pictograms, as everywhere throughout the program.
File manager
The first step of working with any image is to open it from the place it’s stored in. Capture one provide standard interface for it: Folders tab, thumbnail panel and preview window. As in most similar image file browsers the size of any panel can be changed to best fir your needs. The thumbnail size and visibility/invisibility of exif information can be toggled with pictograms and arrows on the upper tab. The thumbnails can be tagged and untagged, sorted in a number of ways, and sent to trash (or restored from it).
The not so widely spread feature is the add annotation effect – you can add some additional information to your file, it’ll be kept with it.
The clicked thumbnail will enable the preview of the image; it can be zoomed to any size.
A good thing Capture One allows is comparing of several images. Nice when you have a series of shots very similar to each other. I missed it in many of other programs. You can’t accurately judge the quality of the image by the thumbnail even of a big size and can often set the images next to each other only after conversion in some image editor. Here the choice of a better image can be made before conversion.
Uninstall, Support, and Conclusion
The program is unproblematically uninstalled from the computer with no files remaining after it.
The provided manual provides good guidance. But being in .pdf format it is a little old fashioned for me next to more spread now interactive helps.
Phase One has an online support forum on its site to compensate for it, may be.
The overall impression from the program is very good with quality of conversion being the main issue here But the interface is also both convenient and self intuitive. But all this best qualities are only good when you have the right camera model out of a considerably narrow list.
You can buy Capture One Pro at www.phaseone.com for $499 or download the trial version.
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