In May we will be releasing a new version of Capture named Capture Atlas, full of exciting new features, along with a new and more flexible product structure!

With Capture Atlas our product structure will change and become production size-based instead, with all Capture's features available in all our editions.

Last weeks annual Capture conference in Varberg, Sweden, contained several highlights which we are happy to share with you.

In order to make the best use of the time on our hands Vangelis Manolis will be taking over as Capture’s sales director and Lasse Berg will become our dedicated graphic designer.

We market Capture as a "lighting design, documentation and visualisation software" but there is a deeper thought behind this wording than just listing things you can do with the software. The cornerstone of Capture's philosophy is that these three tasks should be linked in such a way that you can easily switch between them and progress both your design and documentation while visualising.

When we started working with photometric data for version 21, the purpose was to enhance the realism of the visualization in  general and the footprints of beams in particular. So the plan was that once AtlaBase started supplying us with photometric profiles (typically the raw data loaded from IES files) we would simply apply them to the beams pretty much like gobos. However, we quickly ran into a somewhat unexpected issue: spill lighting.