Capture One Pro 11 vs Lightroom... wow what a difference.

Richdog said:
Has anyone noticed that with C1 the exported JPEG files are ******* huge when the slider is set to 100% quality? I'm talking 2x or more larger than equivalent Lightroom JPEG's... sometimes close to the size of a compressed Sony RAW file (40MB)!
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I would assume they're not equivalent, all things being equal those smaller files from Lightroom can only be achieved by having a higher level of compression (unless they've got some amazing compression technique but that seems unlikely) regardless of how comparable the slider is between each program.

As you've got both do a direct comparison and see what the difference is in output at 100%.
 
DeathStorm said:
I would assume they're not equivalent, all things being equal those smaller files from Lightroom can only be achieved by having a higher level of compression (unless they've got some amazing compression technique but that seems unlikely) regardless of how comparable the slider is between each program.

As you've got both do a direct comparison and see what the difference is in output at 100%.
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Actually I was being a ninny, the files are roughly the same size from C1 and LR, I just didn't take into account the double resolution of my Sony a7rIII when I first started working with it (I was using 24MP for so many years). Still, to have a JPEG produced which is the same file as the compressed RAW is quite surprising as my Fuji files were significantly smaller than the RAW's. Different formats and methods are seemingly sometimes very noticeably different. :)
 
rodders said:
Dont like it, too used to lightrooms.
As slow as lightrooms is, think I'll stick with it as it's a nicer layout.
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Lightroom, no s on the end.

Lightroom is better in terms of interface and ease of use, but the slowness is simply too much to bear and I will be buggered if I am going to spend extra hours editing large numbers of files just because Adobe can't optimise an application. I will possibly go back to it if or when they do fix it.
 
rodders said:
Whats the version number, mines still dog slow, but my PC is 6 odd years old
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If you have no SSD and a slow CPU/HDD then yeah it will likely be dog slow no matter what. The latest update to the cloud versions was meant to bring serious performance improvements, and on my system it certainly looks like it has.
 
Have a SSD, but an old i5 2500K overclocked.

I don't use the cloud version, maybe I should

When I check the resource manager, the CPU is at 100%. I have to 'set affinity' to drop 1 core so the PC can do other things whilst using lightroom, i.e. stream music

Guess its time for an upgrade!
 
Lightroom literally just said there's an update. Lets hope it helps!

Edit - Seems to have helped a bit, even though I don't have the 12g ram it recommends.
 
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