We all know how frustrating it can be to try and search for the "perfect" fixture for a gig. If you need something with 2 gobo wheels, searching through forums or manually dragging in 10s of fixtures into capture to find something that matches what you need can be tiresome.
Capture has probably the leading fixture library, with every element of a fixture meticulously documented - could it not be possible to have a more advanced searching feature? Search features such as whether or not the fixture was a scanner, a composite or a moving head might have been essential 10-15 years ago but now we need to know how many prisms a fixture has, how many gobo wheels, how many gobos, what lumen output, what colour mixing scheme it is.
Would it be possible for some kind of database to be put together, or at least a better search system in-program where you could set a range of properties you needed a fixture to have and Capture could find it for you. It seems almost a waste to have such a fantastic fixture library at our fingers yet know so little about the many fixtures ignored within it.
Many thanks.