Automation workflows with Monogram
The following was done with Monogram Creator (beta) and a set of the new Monogram Creative Console Studio tiles, in C1 v20. This week I was lucky to enough to get hold of the new Monogram kit for evaluation. We sometimes get clients looking for a simple “push this big button -> do workflow” for reducing C1’s somewhat idosyncratic techincal cruft, and so I wanted to see if it could be a useful solution. For the uninitiated, Monogram could be equated to a sort of modular “midi controller”; buttons and dials that… Read More
Get Started With AppleScript – Conditional Processing pt1
The following project/idea I originally produced for the Project Lemonade series for Digital Transitions webinars. The following is a short version of it, if you want to see the full webinar visit and sign up to the DT archive here. Before we get started… For part 1, we will concentrate on writing the script as if we are mirroring the same logic of using Capture One UI and UX concepts. I’m fully aware there are several approaches, model shortcuts, logic and advanced syntax to ultimately achieve the same results. However, this “parity”… Read More
Get Started With AppleScript – Scripting Selections
An intro series to scripting Capture One, with Ben Liddle Splitting hairs: Variants v. Images The thumbnails in Capture One’s browser pane are technically variants. A variant is a unique set of rendering instructions for a given source raw (or TIF, JPG, etc) image file. These instructions are lightweight (few hundred Kb at most), so you can think of these as virtual copies of your image files. Every image file you view in Capture One has at least one variant; unless you objectively create a new variant, there’ll be a 1:1 ratio… Read More
Get Started With AppleScript – Basics
An intro series to scripting Capture One, with Ben Liddle Preamble Years ago, in a warehouse in deep industrial Brooklyn, I was a digital technician on an e-commerce photo shoot struggling to stay awake. It was 3:30 in the afternoon on a crisp winter’s day, and the stylist was diligently stringing up the 80 billionth (by my estimate) crossbody’s strap of the day. The photographer was (probably) retouching his latest editorial job on his laptop in the corner. I was working with Capture One Pro 8 (iirc, maybe it was 7, honestly… Read More