Capture One tether automation

Your tethered sessions, pre-culled.

C1 Tether Intelligence auto-rates every capture the moment it lands in Capture One. Sharp and well-exposed gets 5 stars. Soft or blown gets 1. You review selects - not everything.

How It Works

01 — Capture fires

Hook exports a 640px preview the instant the shot lands

02 — Claude Vision scores it

Sharpness, exposure, and moment quality analyzed in under 2 seconds

03 — Rating written to C1

5 stars for selects. 1 star for rejects. Color tags applied. All before you look up.

Requirements

  • Capture One (Mac, any version with tethering)
  • Claude Desktop
  • Anthropic API key (~$0.01–0.03 per frame with Haiku — you pay Anthropic directly)
  • macOS

Setup

  1. Purchase and download
  2. Run install.sh — installs the hook and saves your API key
  3. Create "C1 Hook Preview" Process Recipe in Capture One (JPEG, 640px, output to /tmp/c1-hook-preview.jpg)
  4. Add c1-mcp to Claude Desktop config
  5. Start a tethered session — ratings appear automatically

Price

$29.99

One-time. No subscription. Yours forever.

Get C1 Tether — $29.99