Digital photo management
using iView MediaPro 3
and Capture One PRO
How to integrate Phase One’s Raw workflow software
for color correction and Raw image conversion.
Y O U R C O M P L E T E W O R K F L O W S O L U T I O N
IMPORT & CATALOG RAW FILES SET UP
BATCH ASSIGN METADATA iView MediaPro Digital Camera
ARCHIVE PROJECT PUBLISH, PRESENT & SHARE
Transfer to Computer MediaPro Catalog
Review Photos with Client OPTIONAL Batch Process Edit & Retouch Open With Helper MODIFY PHOTOS Set Update Time
FOLDER WATCHING OPTIONAL
Print Contacts Switch On Auto-Update Backup to Drives, Discs Convert to TIFF, JPEG, Etc. Color
Correction
COLOR CORRECT & CONVERT RAW
Process Raw Capture One
PRO
REVIEW & MARK
Lightbox, Slide Shows Labels, Ratings PDF Export Catalog to XML file Color Profiles QuickTime Sync Metadata Backup to Drives, Discs
Print Movies Web Slide Shows
Annotations
Start by importing and cataloging Raw files in MediaPro. Review the images and mark the ones you wish to convert. These files will be sent to Capture One PRO for color correction and conversion, and re-cataloged by MediaPro. Your images can then be further edited, annotated and archived with MediaPro.
A. iView MediaPro setup
1. Create a new catalog. In the Edit menu, select
Thumbnails & Previews. Set your desired
thumbnail size, from 160 to 640 pixels.
. Turn on Use built-in thumbnails (Fig. 1).
. In the Images panel of the Preferences › Media
Rendering dialog, turn on the Color match setting (Fig. 2). This ensures that images are displayed to match the appropriate ICC color profile.
4. Customize your color labels in the
Preferences › Labels dialog. See Fig. 3 for ideas about how to name color labels to assist your photo management workflow.
B. Import & catalog Raw files
1. Create a job or project folder. For example:
Client Name_Job Name_DDMMYYYY (Date) Example: NYTimes_Spielberg_21022006
. Save your catalog in this folder. . Create a sub-folder called Orginals. 4. Open the Import dialog (File › Import Items ›
From Camera) and go to the Options panel. Turn on the Set file creation date to capture
date option. In the Annotate drop-down menu,
choose a metadata template to apply to your images during the import process.
5. Set the Originals folder as the download
Destination for your Raw files.
6. Click the Download button.
C. Review & mark media
1. Review images in Media View, Lightbox or
Slide Show mode.
. Using color labels or star ratings, mark your
favorite your photos. The number keys – such as 1,2,3 – correspond to each color label. This makes assigning labels simple and fast.
. Iterate the marking process until you have
decided which images you wish to convert.
4. Use the Find › Show Labeled or Show Rated
functions to filter the catalog to display only the images that are going to be converted with Capture One PRO.
Figure 1: Choosing this option instructs MediaPro to generate thumbnails based on the JPEGs embedded in Raw files. This speeds up the import process.
Figure : You can customize the colors and names of the labels to help track images throughout the workflow. You may want to use star ratings for your picks, which would free up several labels for other designations.
Second Pick Third Pick Delete | Unusable Client Pick Color Corrected Retouched Special Effects Archived First Pick
D. Turn on Folder Watching
1. Choose Edit › Folder Watching. Select the
Check every minute option.
. Use the folder drop-down menu (Fig. 4) to
Switch Auto-Update On for the Job folder. This
enables MediaPro to automatically import images as they are added to from additional media cards as well as import new versions as they are created in the editing process.
Optional
• Choose Make › Backup to create a copy of the original Raw files to CD, DVD or hard drive. • Print contact sheets of the images. Choose
Contact Sheet in the Print dialog (File menu).
E. Color correct and convert Raw
1. Launch Capture One PRO.
. Create a session by selecting New Session from
the Session drop-down menu (Fig. 5). Name the session and place the session folder in the Job folder. In this session folder, Capture One will create sub-folders called Captures, Processed: › Job/Project Main Folder
› 01 Originals
› 02 Job Name C1 (Session Name/Folder) › Captures
› Processed
4. Select the Raw files in the catalog that you
want to convert. In the Action › Transfer to Folder dialog, select the Duplicate files option (Fig. 7). This will move a copy of the Raw files designated for conversion to the Captures folder created by Capture One.
5. In Capture One, click on the Captures folder
in your session folder to show a thumbnail list of imported images.Use Capture One to batch color correct and convert Raw files to TIFF or JPEG. The converted files will be placed in the Processed folder and are automatically cataloged.
6. Because Folder Watching tracks all
sub-folders, any converted images saved in folders underneath the primary Job folder will be automatically cataloged (Fig. 4).
Figure 5: To create a session in Capture One PRO, select New Session from this menu, or click the plus sign.
Figure 4: To turn on Auto-Update, right-click on the folder name (Mac: Option-click) and select Switch Auto-Update On. All sub-folders of an Auto-Updated folder are also watched and automatically updated.
Figure 6: Click on the Captures folder in your session folder to show a thumbnail list of imported images.
Optional
• Review images with client before time is spent on retouching and corrections.
F. Modify photos
1. Create sub-folders for the next steps in your
workflow using the Create Sub-Folder function in the folder drop-down menu (Fig. 4). › Job/Project Main Folder
› 01 Originals
› 02 Job Name C1 (Session Name/Folder) › Captures
› Processed › 03 Color Corrected › 04 Retouched › 05 Client Finals
. Assign an image editing program, such
as Adobe Photoshop, as a Helper in Edit › Preferences › Helper Applications (On the Mac, it’s under the iView MediaPro menu). Select the images that need to be retouched or corrected and open them with your helper image editor (Fig. 9).
. Save the corrected file to the appropriate
folder, such as Retouched or Client Finals. Once saved, these files will be automatically added to your MediaPro catalog.
G. Embed metadata
1. Batch annotate the final image files (TIFF, JPEG
or PSD). Select the images you want to include in your batch. Open the Info Panel and type your information into the desired annotation fields (e.g. Caption, Keyword or Location), or you can apply a metadata template to the batch. Click the checkmark icon (Fig. 8) at the top of the Info Panel to confirm the application of of the metadata to all the images.
. Embed the metadata you just added by
writing the information in the original file (file header). Select Sync Annotations in the Action menu (Fig. 10). Choose the Export annotations
to original files option, then click OK.
Figure 8: Click the pencil icon to access your saved metadata templates or to create a template.
Click the checkmark to batch apply metadata Figure 7: Choose Duplicate files to move a copy of your Raw images to the Capture One session’s Captures folder.
Figure 9: After selecting images, you can execute an Open With Helper command two ways: In the toolbar icon’s (right) pull-down
menu, or through a contextual menu. Right-click (Mac: Ctrl-click) to access a contextual menu.
H. Publish, present & share
1. Distribute final images to client:
a. Burn a catalog with a copy of the original
files to a CD or DVD. Include a copy of the free iView Catalog Reader program to enable your client to open and interact with the images in the catalog. Catalog Reader is can be downloaded at: http://www.iview-multimedia.com/
b. Create high res contact sheets and prints. c. Export a slide show as a QuickTime movie. d. Email images with metadata summary. e. Create a HTML gallery to post on the Web. f. Create a PDF to email or post on the Web.
I. Archive project
1. Backup all files from the project. This can be
done two ways:
a. Select all files in the catalog. Choose Action ›
Transfer to Folder › Duplicate files. Pick a destination folder and click OK (Fig. 7).
b. Use the Backup function (Make menu) to
create a backup of all files, folders and the catalog to a CD, DVD or hard drive (Fig. 11).
2. Create a copy of your catalog (thumbnails,
metadata) as an XML file. This protects your data because it is stored in a open format that can be read by just about any database. To create an XML file from your catalog, select
Export to XML in the File menu (Fig. 12). In
the dialog, turn on the Thumbnails and Voice
recording options (if you have the disk space,
turn on the Original files option too). This will create a copy of these files in a folder of the same name. Click Export and choose a folder to store the package of files on the desktop.
Figure 11: MediaPro automatically scans your computer for available hard drives, partitions and removable media and places them in the Destination pull-down menu.
Figure 12: Create a copy of your catalog (thumbnails, metadata) as an XML file. This protects your data because it is stored in a open format that can be read by just about any database.
Figure 10: With this function, you can export (or write) metadata from catalog to the original image files. MediaPro supports the embedding of QuickTime, IPTC and XMP metadata into the TIFF, JPEG, JPEG 2000 and Photoshop formats.
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