But after that, you must sync automatically or manually, just like in the one-way scenario. You still have the advantage that Capture One always reads metadata on the first opening. With two-way or bidirectional sync, you can enter the metadata with either Photo Mechanic or Capture One and see it in the other program. I cover that in the next section on the two-way metadata sync between Photo Mechanic and Capture One. NoteĪlternatively, I could make the changes in Capture One and synchronize it back to the images so that it also appears in Photo Mechanic. The Load Metadata command lets you read the images after opening the photos. You find this command also in the Metadata tool (3-dots action menu) and the Image menu. You right-click on the selected thumbnail(s) and choose Load Metadata. This option is better for accidental metadata changes as it has not the performance penalty that the automatic option has. My second option is to load the metadata manually for the selected images. The distinct advantage is that it is fully automatic, and the disadvantage is that it can make opening each Session or Catalog slower. The Load option in the Preferences tells Capture One to load metadata each time I open my images.

Here, I have two options to have Capture One catch up with the changes I made in Photo Mechanic: automatic and manual. Next, I take care that Capture One includes these changes. At this stage, I go back to Photo Mechanic and make the necessary changes. However, I sometimes missed a few keywords or made a mistake in the metadata description that I wanted to correct later. In this scenario, the default metadata options in Capture One work best. Next, the program reads all that metadata on the opening in Capture One. I include all metadata with the photos in Photo Mechanic. I typically use Photo Mechanic before opening my images in Capture One. Let us have a high-level view of both options and review configuration details later. Synchronization of metadata between programs, like Photo Mechanic and Capture One, can be either one-way or two-way.

Filter And Search Your Images in Capture OneĪbout rating and tagging, filtering, and searching images.

Showing different tools and workflows to geotag your images This post is looking into a metadata workflow with a tool outside Capture One

Sync Metadata Between Photo Mechanic And Capture One.

I have more posts on metadata to cover this vast area from different angles.Ĭovering metadata in general, and the Metadata tool in particularĭiscussing the use of keywords including both the Keywords and Keyword Library tools With this post, I focus on the user already using metadata. Information in this post may also be helpful in case you like to set up Capture One and another tool to sync metadata. I look into what you need to set up and which settings you must configure to achieve this goal. This post is not a brief review of Photo Mechanic, but it explores how Capture One exchanges metadata with Photo Mechanic. In case you are unfamiliar with it, Photo Mechanic is a product made by the dedicated team of Camera Bits. Many Capture One users I meet also have Photo Mechanic in their toolset.

I discovered that I am not alone in using this combination. And despite Capture One’s expanding capabilities over the years, I still love Photo Mechanic for what it does. I appreciate Photo Mechanic’s ingestion, renaming, culling, and metadata features.

This time I break with that tradition and discuss how I use Photo Mechanic in conjunction with Capture One. My experience with both Capture One and Photo Mechanic goes back many years. Sync Metadata Between Photo Mechanic And Capture OneĪt the Image Alchemist, I almost exclusively write about Capture One. Embedded metadata and sidecar files, as well as IPTC versus XMP, are examined. Here I discuss all related configurations to sync metadata between Photo Mechanic and Capture One successfully. Besides Capture One, I also use Photo Mechanic in my workflow for managing metadata.

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