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An advantage and a disadvantage of programs like Capture One Pro (and Aperture before it) is that it doesn't change your master files, but stores your adjustments in the Catalogue. That's fine of course, unless or until for some reason you need to change course and use a different program. Leaving Aperture when adopting Capture One was made easier by the existence of Aperture Exporter, which would run (or perhaps wade, as through treacle) through your entire Library applying all your adjustments and exporting the files in a file structure that modelled the Library structure. I believe it did so by using Aperture's own export routines in some way (I am vague on the details, but it definitely applied all Aperture's adjustments correctly, unlike a direct import of the Aperture Library into C1Pro, which gave a much more flaky approach). IIRC I ended up with the original, un-adjusted set of master files, a matching set of adjusted master files, and a C1Pro Catalogue from its own implementation of those adjustments. I thought this gave a pretty good basis for the future. IIRC I abandoned the direct Catalogue import, archived the un-adjusted master files somewhere, and imported the adjusted master files into C1Pro. This may have been a more comfortable result for me as 90% of my files are the result of film scans as JPEGs. I have rarely felt the need to re-adjust those imported files.
I'm wondering about this as the sudden death of Capture One Express earlier this year has made me think about the possibility of a similar sudden death happening to the C1Pro perpetual licence. The actual licence terms imply this isn't going to happen, but we have no idea what the licence terms of any future version I buy might be.
I don't know of anything similar in action to Aperture Exporter that would work for C1Pro. As far as I can see, if I decide to abandon C1Pro for some other program, I will likely have to select and export each individual Project (which in my case is a roll of film... so several hundred of them!). I can probably safely ignore those Projects that got imported from Aperture, as very few of them have been adjusted since then, and could safely be imported into the new program (eg Darktable, for instance).
Is there any other structure-preserving export tool that I've missed that will apply my adjustments and metadata?
I'm not particularly planning to make a change now. But if the full export is particularly onerous, it will only get more so the longer I stick with C1Pro, so maybe there is a case for jumping sooner?
I'm wondering about this as the sudden death of Capture One Express earlier this year has made me think about the possibility of a similar sudden death happening to the C1Pro perpetual licence. The actual licence terms imply this isn't going to happen, but we have no idea what the licence terms of any future version I buy might be.
I don't know of anything similar in action to Aperture Exporter that would work for C1Pro. As far as I can see, if I decide to abandon C1Pro for some other program, I will likely have to select and export each individual Project (which in my case is a roll of film... so several hundred of them!). I can probably safely ignore those Projects that got imported from Aperture, as very few of them have been adjusted since then, and could safely be imported into the new program (eg Darktable, for instance).
Is there any other structure-preserving export tool that I've missed that will apply my adjustments and metadata?
I'm not particularly planning to make a change now. But if the full export is particularly onerous, it will only get more so the longer I stick with C1Pro, so maybe there is a case for jumping sooner?