Script Editor: already bundled with macOS. There are many, many IDEs (Integrated Development Environment, basically software for writing code) out there. If you have experience with AS, I suggest checking out the next post in this series: Selecting Variants and ImagesĪs an introduction, we’re going to write a basic Hello, World to illustrate running scripts in Capture One. There’s obviously syntactical differences between the three languages, and for the purpose of these articles, I’ll be dealing mostly with AS.įor the rest of this story, I’ll be doing a bit of beginner’s intro to AppleScript and Capture One. Frankly, I’m most comfortable in AS, have fairly extensive experience with JXA, but little/none with AS-ObjC. scpt files in AppleScript (aka AS), Javascript for Automation (aka JXA), and AppleScript-ObjC. As of this writing, only Capture One on macOS (and OSX, if you’re feeling retro) can be automated via scripts.Ĭapture One can run. If you’ve made it this far and are on Windows, I’m afraid I can’t help you achieve peak lazy. If you haven’t tried Capture One 20, you can get a trial at. I’ll be using Capture One 20, since it’s known to be the most scriptable of the Capture One versions. Well, afaik you can’t automate rigging a crossbody strap to match the 799,999,999,999 previous, but I digress. Fast forward a few years, ~13 versions (Capture One 20-Capture One 7=Capture One 13, the math checks out, fight me), and there’s little from that day on set that can’t be automated. I figured there had to be a better way a way to be lazier, yet not fuck up. I did this for years and years to pay rent, in between the “fun” jobs that filled up my passport pages. If you’ve worked e-commerce, you probably had a similar flow. The actual “work” I was doing on that job was mostly completed in the setup day from the week earlier after that, it was scan the barcode, create a new Capture folder, name the capture folder, reset the capture counter, set the camera to Live View, set up the proper go-by as an overlay, make sure the stylist can see the Live View, take test shots, check focus, color tag images, process, comp in Photoshop, hit Chronosync, rinse, repeat ad nauseum. I look back fondly on those days, those mid-shoot conversations, the catering, but I think we can all agree that it wasn’t the most enthralling of experiences. It was one of those shit days where you arrive on set at call time before sunrise and just know in your bones that you’re not leaving before sunset.Īs an aside, if you’re reading this and you were on set that day, I don’t mean to offend. I was working with Capture One Pro 8 (iirc, maybe it was 7, honestly there wasn’t much difference for this workflow), and pulling up yet another go-by for styling reference. The photographer was (probably) retouching his latest editorial job on his laptop in the corner. 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. Years ago, in a warehouse in deep industrial Brooklyn, I was a digital technician on an e-commerce photo shoot struggling to stay awake. An intro series to scripting Capture One, with Ben Liddle
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