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Photo migration towards Capture One 21 made Fast, Accurate and Secure with Avalanche
Avalanche for Capture One lets you transfer photo catalogs to Capture One ...
You can now turn your existing photo catalogs from Aperture, Lightroom, Luminar 4/AI and Apple Photos (coming soon) into Capture One catalogs ready to be opened and edited.
Like all versions of Avalanche, Avalanche for Capture One allows you to transfer photo catalogs from one application to another while preserving your modifications and settings made in the original editing software.
It also preserves the organization of your catalog, throughout the migration of albums, projects, annotations and tags.
Avalanche for Capture One features the same ease-of-use and migration quality that Avalanche is now renowned for, but it provides some specific features for Capture One users.
...while preserving your edits made in the original editing software
Preserve your organization, versions, masters, annotations and much more…
Avalanche has been designed from the beginning to preserve as much as possible of all the organization of your catalogs.
Metadata management is also at the heart of Avalanche. All Exif and IPTC metadata will correctly flow from your source catalog to Capture One.
Flags and color labels are properly handled.
Faces are not supported in Capture One, but Avalanche will preserve the faces labels as Keywords.
Avalanche also smartly migrates the GPS information present in your source catalog.
Avalanche for Capture One will, as you’d expect, create C1 variants for all versions of a given master it encounters during the migration.
It will convert collections/albums, projects, collection sets and preserve the hierarchy of your original catalog.
Differences in the functionality of importing your photos between Capture One and Avalanche
| Import with Capture On | Import with Capture One | Transferred Features | Import with Avalanche | Import with Avalanche | ||
| No | X | White Balance of JPEG images | ✓ | Yes Uses AI | ||
| Estimated | X | White Balance of RAW images | ✓ | Yes Uses AI | ||
| Basic conversion | X | Black and White from Aperture | ✓ | Advanced conversion with color mix | ||
| No | X | Black and White from LR | ✓ | Advanced conversion with color mix | ||
| No | X | Highlights, Shadows, Blacks, Whites | ✓ | Yes Uses AI | ||
| No | X | Edited GPS information in images | ✓ | Yes for edited GPS | ||
| Yes With hierarchy | ✓ | Keywords | ✓ | Yes With hierarchy | ||
| Yes | ✓ | Lightroom Collections, CollectionSets | ✓ | Yes | ||
| Yes | ✓ | Aperture Projects, Albums and Folders | ✓ | Yes | ||
| No | X | Smart Albums | X | No | ||
| Yes (Flip, Rotation, Crop,…) | ✓ | Geometrical effects | ✓ | Yes (Flip, Rotation, Crop,…) | ||
| No | X | Complex adjustments | ✓ | Estimation of Vignetting, Levels, Sharpening,... | ||
| Does not allow to move managed files out of their parent library | X | Managed vs Referenced Files | ✓ | Full options to control what happens to referenced files. | ||
| No | X | Copy master files to a new location | ✓ | Full control | ||
| Yes | ✓ | Videos | ✓ | Yes | ||
| No | X | Options | ✓ | Yes Many options | ||
| No | X | Conversion of Previews | ✓ | Yes Many options | ||
| No | X | Conversion from Luminar 4, AI | ✓ | Yes | ||
| No | X | Conversion from Photos | X | Coming Soon | ||
| Yes | ✓ | Conversion from MediaPro | X | No | ||
Note : Masks aren't yet supported by Avalanche
Going beyond the inbuilt import options
CaptureOne features an inbuilt function to import Lightroom and Aperture catalogs. Yet, Avalanche goes beyond that feature in a number of key areas :
More accurate conversion of RAW settings
Avalanche has been trained to understand how to best migrate your settings to CaptureOne
More accurate conversion of JPEG settings
CaptureOne ignores the white balance settings applied on JPEG files, where Avalanche tries to accurately reflect the original setting in CaptureOne.
More input catalogs
Avalanche supports importing from Luminar and will soon support it from Apple Photos
Conversion of specific Aperture effects
Aperture Levels
Includes GPS information
he inbuilt migration loses the GPS information as CaptureOne requires GPS information to be included in the EXIF file itself. Avalanche gives you the option to burn the GPS information in your masters during your migration.
The power of Machine Learning
During the migration, Avalanche uses several solutions for quality rendering.
First Avalanche uses geometric information to accurately transfer your crops, rotations, flips and more.
Avalanche makes extensive use of Machine Learning to find the values of image adjustments that best replicate the look and feel of each image in the original catalog. Adjustments such as white balance, exposure and light, color and tint, highlight and shadow are all treated using AI.
First Avalanche uses geometric information to accurately transfer your crops, rotations, flips and more.
Avalanche makes extensive use of Machine Learning to find the values of image adjustments that best replicate the look and feel of each image in the original catalog. Adjustments such as white balance, exposure and light, color and tint, highlight and shadow are all treated using AI.
Avalanche has been trained on a large collection of images that were manually adjusted for visual match in CaptureOne, Aperture, Lightroom and Luminar. From this extensive database covering many photographic styles, many cameras and formats, Avalanche has learned how to convert.
Questions about Avalanche for Capture One?
Find your answers here!
Avalanche needs macOS 10.14 or newer, running on any kind of Mac bought around 2015 or later.
Avalanche runs natively on Apple M1 macs and takes full advantage of the Apple chip for increased performances
Yes. It never expires, and all features are available.
Only the first 100 images will be converted.
Complex adjustment such as masks, non local adjustments, gradient based adjustments are not transferred.
Avalanche for Capture One will detect images that have such adjustments and put them in a dedicated Collection in Capture One, so they are easy to identify and review.
Yes. Avalanche for Capture One preserves all supported annotations in CaptureOne (IPTC, flags, color labels, Keywords).
Avalanche also preserves the GPS annotations when they have been edited (Lightroom or Aperture).
No in the foreseeable future.
We are sorry for our friends on Windows but porting Avalanche to Windows is currently out of scope.
Previews are JPEG files managed by some applications such as Aperture and Lightroom. They are an accurate representation of the edited image.
In some situations where the edits are complex and Avalanche will loose some information about the image, it is very interesting to activate the migration of previews. This will have the following effect: in addition to having the migrated RAW with imperfect edits, Avalanche will also migrate the preview with very accurate edits applied. The preview is a JPEG but can in some situations be of very high definition. Avalanche gives you plenty of options to choose when and how to include previews in your migration.
Please note that all the IPTC and annotations of the original version are copied inside the preview.
Previews are easily identified inside the migrated catalog as Avalanche puts them in a dedicated collection.
