Capture 2024 Licenses - Lighting Control Software

With Capture 2024, Capture Visualisation have introduced new features but also redesigned existing ones to be less dependent on the operating system, giving more control to the application and the user, increasing accuracy, predictability and speed.

By introducing the “My Licences” page on the website users can now self service their licence installations and move between computers. With the new connectivity status window all protocols discovered on the network can be reported which makes configuring and troubleshooting easier. Apart from PDF import it is now possible to import images, and also scale them. On top of this the new scale mode can scale imported objects by basing it on a known imported distance. Plots have now been enriched with the ability to add a report into them, and also a brand new grid plot inset for easier measurement reference. Visualisation quality has also increased with improved beam sampling and other fixture enhancements.

Last but not least one of our favourite highlights is the animated objects that can now be imported as glTF objects, and will breathe more life into your projects and presentations.

Lighting design software

Save time with a lighting design, documentation and visualisation software that is both easy to learn and rewarding to use! Capture is a native macOS and Windows application that lets you work with lighting, video, laser, moving scenery and water effects. Where Capture truly excels is with its ease of use and seamless switching between design, documentation and visualization. This provides an unprecedented level of flexibility and ability to support different types of design processes. It encourages you to try out new workflows and find faster ways of working.

Designing with Capture

Whether you’re looking to create a simple 2D sketch or a full-blown 3D plot, Capture has you covered. Try as many fixtures as you need, at different hanging positions and with different gels or gobos. Adapt easily to any set design changes or sudden new restrictions. Do even more with Capture’s impressive 3D model import capabilities and excellent integration with other lighting control and design products.

Documentation comes easy

Great plots and reports are never more than a click away in Capture! Design changes are instantly reflected in your plots and reports. Plot information like patch, filters, gobos and other accessories appears automatically for all fixture types.
Capture documentation is clear and easy to read, with a wide range of configuration options that give you total control. All that is missing is your personal touch!

Visualise with brilliance

Bring lighting, media and motion into your visualisation. Our rendering engine’s outstanding colour accuracy and amazing performance will impress you right away! With a complete library of lighting fixtures, trusses, LED panels and video projectors you have everything you need to make your ideas come to life. When your design is complete you can render it to high quality image and video files. You can also export Capture’s unique, stand-alone, presentations which deliver full interactivity with your design.

Product Features:

• Highlight Improved licence handling. It is now possible to move your Capture licence key file between computers any number of times.
• GPU driver date check. If your GPU driver is more than twelve months old you will receive a warning on startup to update your drivers.
• Connectivity status. New dialog that reports on the status of Capture’s connectivity providers. It is available via a button in the universes tab.
• Connectivity options. Network protocols now allow selecting a network interface rather than an IP address. Configuration sticks even if the IP address changes.

Design:

• Images. Support for images that are visible in wireframe and plot mode has been added. Images can be added from the Built-in / Dimensions section of the library, or through model import from DWG or PDF files.
• Scale mode. The new Scale mode allows you to select imported objects, measure a distance and have the entire selection rescaled to match another distance.
• Importing from SketchUp. Importing from SketchUp now preserves groups, imports components as groups, sets drawing block names, handles materials better with regard to layers, adds support for hidden, shadow casting and opacity usage properties (on both object and individual face level). 
• SketchUp 2023 version file support.
• Improved DWG import. Performance has been improved thanks to optimisations of shell face edge visibility handling and only importing block definitions once.
• Drawing name and drawing block name. These properties are now available on groups and images as well, since these can be imported.
• Visualisation aspect ratios. Several new aspect ratios have been added to the view settings. An option between transparent or black aspect ratio masking has also been added.
• Automatic filter inclusion. A new filter option has been added that controls whether new layers and universes are automatically included to the filter set. This was always the case before and now it can be turned off.
• Fixture orientation reference. A new indication design to help orient fixtures is now drawn at the center of fixtures in wireframe view, when they are selected.
• Replace with motion fixture. Imported objects can now be replaced with motion fixtures.
• Scene storage. Transformation and hidden state of objects in scenes is now stored in the objects themselves rather than in the scenes. Therefore measures (distance, angle, line, ruler and cables) as well as snappers now function properly in scenes.
• Select all by Model. A new command that selects all other imported objects with the same model as any already selected object.
• Select layers used by selected objects. This new command in the layers category of the design tab lets you select all layers used by the currently selected objects.
• Fixtures tab commands. Fixture related Edit menu commands are now available in the Fixtures tab.
• Measure mode in presentations. Measure mode is now available in presentations.
• Generic sections in library on top. The Generic section of the Truss, Fixtures and Fixture Symbols categories have been placed on top of the list with a pin icon.
• Console patch. Fixture information in the console patch window has been expanded for better understanding of fixture identification. Fixtures that have been both identified and have position information can be imported directly using the new Import At Position button. It is also possible to drag fixtures from the console patch window onto existing fixtures in the project in order to associate them.
• Circular snapper. A complement to the line snapper.

Documentation:

• Reports in plots. A new report plot item makes it possible to add a report from the project in a plot.
• Reference grid plot inset. A new reference grid plot inset has been added.
• Scene selection in plot views. Plot view insets now have a scene property where it’s possible to explicitly select a scene for the plot view. When not set the view shows the current scene.
• Current date plot text variable. Two new plot text variables for inserting the current date have been added.
• Plot adjustments. It is now possible to enable and disable plot adjustments through a command in the edit menu as well as assigning a keyboard shortcut for this.
• Annotation selection. The Select Only.. Annotations command has been split into three different commands to differentiate between front, centre and tail annotations.
• Vertical ruler text orientation. The text orientation of vertical rulers is not orthogonal to the ruler.
• Patch universe and channel report columns. Two new patch columns have been added that make it possible to group reports by universes, containing a channel column that doesn’t repeat the universe name.
• Circuit property for panels and report items. Both panels and report items now have circuit properties that are visible in plots and reports.
• Reports unit column. The unit column has been added to the Rigging Point, Cable and Other report tables.

Visualisation:

• Improved beam sampling. The way the beams are sampled has been improved in order to greatly reduce slicing and pattern misalignment artefacts.
• Animated objects. Added support for importing animated skinned glTF assets.
• Multicolour LED fixture simulation. The performance and visual stability of colours (hues and intensities) from multicolour LED fixtures has been improved.
• Multiaperture barndoor visualisation. The effect of barndoors on beams is now visualised for multiaperture fixtures as well.
• Gobo visualisation. Gobos are now scaled to match the field angle of fixtures.
• Prism visualisation. Prisms take into account the size of the field angle in the final size of the beam. Focus and frost is applied to the individual facets, before the prism effect is applied.
• Zoom response curves. The library now supports zoom response curves.
• Star cloth texture generators. Generates luminance textures for star cloth materials.
• Emissive objects precision. Rendering of emissive objects has been reworked to improve precision and avoid glitches.
• Movie rendering settings. New options that allow rendering movies with different levels of quality and with different levels of protection have been added. Visualisation and control of multiple frost in fixtures like the Elation Artiste Monet.
• Duplicate, import & export material mapping regions. Material mapping regions can now be duplicated as well as imported and exported in CSV files.
• Separate HDRI lighting intensity. The lighting intensity of an HDRI now has a separate property. An HDRI’s “master” intensity is controlled by the existing property.
• Presentation connectivity options. Exported presentation files now include the current connectivity options, ie. sACN settings or number of PangolinLD projectors.
• Media player DMX control. It is now possible to select 256 instead of 8 playlist entries in a media player over DMX.
• Windows HDR support. Continuous automatic detection of HDR on Windows, both when enabling/disabling HDR on monitors and when moving windows between monitors.