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Capture Sweden  Navigation:   HOME | Capture Sweden overview > Capture 2005 > features Capture 2005 software features     Capture 2005 software [Enlarge] Realtime show design Capture lets you focus on the creative parts of lighting design. It is very easy to create a lighting concept, and then experiment with different aspects: Get a feeling for the stage, set and physical environment Experiment with throw distances, coverage and angles Mix and balance colors, projections and breakups Assist with physical rig design and measuring. Setting up the stage, adding fixtures, filters and gobos is all done very easily and quickly. Capture is so efficient that you can use it as a tool when discussing the lighting with directors and customers, in detail as well as outline, live! Capture features a number of preset objects from which you can create a stage set, including boxes, cylinders & even staircases. Other supplied objects include furniture, musical instruments, and even people. Selected items are dropped on to the CAD plan and can then be edited using the properties window to enter the exact dimensions of the object. In addition to the objects above, Capture can import objects in AutoCAD (DXF and DWG) format (Capure 2005 Extended version only). No more limitations! All objects in Capture are fully modular with variable dimensions which can be entered in imperial as well as metric units. Using the built-in shapes you can create almost any stage in no time! In Capture 2005, old limitations of one-at-a-time object property editing have been removed, leaving you with complete freedom. Moving lights & console feedback As well as conventional lighting, Capture simulates multi-channel moving lights with all of its parameters (such as gobo and colour wheels, colour mixing, movement speed and lamp intensity). Capture even takes in to account the difference in light output between different fixture types. All fixtures are connected to channels in a 512 channel universe, just as in reality. Capture allows you to connect any universe to an external DMX source for real-time simulation. A number of DMX providers are available through Ethernet protocols, or via external DMX boxes. Capture is also capable of sending back channel selection and fixture parameter information to lighting consoles that support the Capture CITP protocol. This feature can greatly improve the focusing time as multiple moving lights can be selected and then focused to the same position with only one click of the mouse. Live visualisation The live visualisation concept has grown very popular lately and Capture is one of the best live visualisers available on the market. Light beams are visualised with colour, size and gobos in real time with no rendering time. Capture has been designed to be as realistic as possible. Capture is not only one of the most realistic looking visualisers on the market, it is also one of the most interconnectable! With Capture you can work with a wide variety of consoles without extra hardware. Capture supports DMX feedback, fixture selection and even patch transfer. Apart from the standard features you would expect from any similar package, Capture's live visualiser also features: Live rotating fixture bodies Frost simulation Correctly sized and visible fixture apertures The most physically correct visual output available on the market. Capture uses OpenGL for the live visualisation - which means that you can make good use of the industry high-end graphics cards available. Investing in a good graphics card is just as important as your software investment! Paperwork Being able to document your work for rigging and distribution purposes is important. With Capture you can create traditional plots as well as reports. The reporting functionality is tightly integrated with the fixture list that is always available for easier fixture identification. Plots Capture features full plotting capabilities, among which you can find the following functions: Mixed view insets Free text insets Header insets Per-inset layout options Per-inset free as well as set printing scale You can keep any number of simultaneous plots on different paper formats to match your needs. Reports Capture includes a unique report generation tool with which you can select any columns you need to include in your report. The contents of the report are then grouped in a very special way which makes the reports really easy to use! All reports can also be exported to HTML format which can be read by, for instance, Microsoft FrontPage or Microsoft Excel. HTML documents can also be e-mailed to other persons. Competetive pricing Compared to the competition, Capture has a very attractive price. One of the intentions behind Capture has always been to bring computer aided lighting design software to the parts of the market that have a restricted budget. See also: Go back Capture 2005 new features Capture 2005 software overview techref.info website © Copyright 2006-2012 Please read the Conditions of Use of this website. Need help? Go to Helpdesk