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Event Scripting
Events are the coolest way to utlize automation scripting, however the infrastructure for it is complex and pretty impenetrable for the uninitiated, so I wrote this article. The idea of events is that Capture One will initiate scripts automatically and repeatedly when a particular event happens. This means you can develop and extend Capture One’s behaviour to be reactive to certain repetitive conditions. Examples might be: As soon as an image is captured, process it. When I scan this bar code, do a vLookup in Excel and give me all the data… Read More
Store coming!
Over the last few weeks I have been burning hours on fine tuning, code signing, stapling and testing a bunch of apps and widgets for the DIT community using Capture One – and – with the help of some awesome people at FastSpring will finally be able to get these off my desktop and into the world. Still some work to do on the back end, but over the next few weeks or so we will have the first releases available to download, starting with Capture One ’20 support, with ’21 supported… Read More
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 – 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
How to shortcut almost anything in Capture One Pro (Mac)
Shortcuts to a faster workflow