I have found my strategy of keeping my original raw files for each year in single year catalogs to work very well. The following dialog (below) will tell you what settings will be imported, which includes Collections, Crop, Rotation, and Orientation information as well as White Balance, Exposure, Saturation and Contrast settings, and Metadata, including IPTC, Rating, Color Label and Keywords.Ĭapture One Pro stores more information and previews inside the Catalog than Lightroom does, which I imagine is the main reason that Catalogs can’t contain that many images. If you are creating year catalogs like me, just give your catalog a name like 2018, or whatever year you need, then from the File menu select Import Catalog > Lightroom Catalog. I personally prefer to work with Catalogs rather than Sessions. To import a Lightroom Catalog, open Capture One Pro, and if you don’t already have a catalog to import to, create one from the dialoag that is displayed. Importing Lightroom Catalogs into Capture One The export process is quick, and once you have your bite-sized Catalogs exported from Lightroom, you are ready to import into Capture One. In the Export dialog in Lightroom, uncheck the three checkboxes to Export negative files, Build/include Smart Previews and Include available previews in the new Catalog. If unlike me, you already have multiple Lightroom catalogs, you will need to decide how you want to organize these in Capture One Pro, and export your various catalogs accordingly. I exported this as a separate catalog as well, in preparation to migrate. It’s like my Keepers folder and has images just in year subfolders. I have one special folder that I call Finals, and this contains a copy of every image I’ve ever shot that is worth a hoot. I was able to select multiple folders and export them as a single catalog for years 2000 to 2005. To prepare to import these years into separate Capture One catalogs I right clicked each year folder in Lightroom and selected Export This Folder as a Catalog. My main archive of raw images lives in a folder called Photo Originals, and at the time that I migrated, had a one catalog for 2000 to 2005 images, and then a separate year catalog for all years from 2006 to 2015. I think this makes backing up hard work, and is less transparent and therefore error-prone than referencing images in a separate folder structure. Note that in both Lightroom and Capture One Pro, I do not keep my images inside the Catalog. When I was using Lightroom, I had every image I’ve shot since 2000 in a single catalog, but Capture One Pro does not work well with this many images in a single catalog, so it’s best to split images into multiple smaller catalogs. I also talked about cleaning up Catalogs, to avoid extra work after the migration, but this is no longer necessary either, although a bit of spring cleaning doesn’t hurt. You can keep them in your library as they are. In case anyone recalls my original post on jumping ship, I’d like to mention that Capture One Pro now supports Photoshop PSD files, so it’s no longer necessary to convert any PSD files that you might have to a different format. Recent changes to the Lightroom product strategy have lots of people asking for help, so when my friends at Phase One asked me to write a post outlining points to consider when migrating from Lightroom to Capture One Pro, I jumped at the chance. Two years on, I can confirm that this has been the best thing I could have done for my photography. At the time, it seemed like a brave move, but after an afternoon of testing I felt somewhat confident, so jump I did. Two years ago, I decided to jump ship from Lightroom to Capture One Pro. To learn more about our latest version, click here. NOTE: This article discusses an outdated version of Capture One.
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