ACR 4.1 VS C1 Pro

[daveb]

I have been a die hard user of CaptureOne pro for "low these many years"
I found it fast and powerful enough plow through a 800 image shoot in a respectable amount of time.

On Saturdays shoot I had a problem - JPGS and Raws from 3 different Cameras (D2x D200 D70) and about 750 images ... the challenge get the raws converted ... the JPGS tweaked and all on line on less than 48 hours .

In comes ACR... what the heck ... it seems to gotten better... right??? Lets give a spin...

Here is the work flow

Dump all the images (jpgs Raws) in the same source folder

Rename the whole lot of em (ordered by camera time)

Open the source folder in bridge and append the correct metadata and keywords (for each performer)

Open in ACR each performer set (JPGS or RAW) Color Correct - crop save to output folder

After images are done - select all output images in Bridge run a local contrast enhancement and NR using a Batch in PS (and wait)

Run watermarking and resize for the web on the batched images in iMATCH.

Post to the web.

Total time 7.5 hours 658 images My time was less than 4 hours ... the rest batch time.

1st orders less than 24 hours after the end of the event !
Not really bad at all.

ACR was much faster and AND it handled the JPGs perfectly. I can tell the difference between the ones that started as JPG and ones that started as RAW but the customers never will.

ACR MAY break my RAW addiction for events such as this. I do want to see how it manages JPGS in tough lighting though.