Capture Quartet Lighting Design Software

Save time with lighting design, documentation, and visualization software that is both easy to learn and rewarding to use! Capture Quartet is a native MacOS and Windows application that lets you work with the lighting, video, laser, moving scenery, and water elements of a show. Capture Quartet has been developed to enhance your design experience and help you stay on track while focusing on the work at hand.

Features:

• Quickly model basic venues and locations using a variety of built-in dynamic shapes in no time.
• Import 3D venue models with materials and layers using file formats like DWG, glTF, SketchUp, Cinema 4D, and more.
• Import and export patch information using CSV and XML files to and from lighting consoles and other design software.
• Use layers, filters, and scenes to manage and organize large designs with ease.
• Use the spreadsheet-style fixtures tab to quickly navigate and manage all your fixtures.
• Gain instant control of your fixtures' parameters using the control panel when working without a console.
• Connect to and visualize with any lighting console. Exchange patch information, focus positions and more with leading console brands.
• Simulate standard and transparent LED panels with correct pixel pitch. Set up back and front video projections.
• Simulate aerial laser effects and projections in with content from any laser control system.
• Simulate moving scenery controlled by external staging systems in real-time. Emulate staging systems using DMX.
• Create realistic image and movie renders of your design. Watermark with them with your logotype and project information.
• Export interactive presentations to send to your clients. Impress them with a real-time demo of your design looks!
• Specialized truss and fixture symbols produce readable plots packed with information.
• Use plot styles to customize the looks of and information available between different plots.
• Add dimensions and symbols to any plot to provide that extra bit of information.
• The plot editor lets you add any views and information you need to a plot, including automatic symbol and layer keys.
• Choose from a selection of configurable reports, groupable and sortable in different ways.

Specifications:

• Model file import formats:
  • glTF
  • DWG/DXF
  • MVR
  • Cinema 4D
  • SketchUp
  • OBJ
  • 3DS
• Ethernet DMX protocols:
  • Art-Net
  • CITP
  • Compulite VC
  • High End Hog visualizer connectivity
  • ETC Net 2
  • MA-Net2 (Windows only, MA software version 2.9+)
  • MA-Net3 (grandMA3 viz-key)
  • sACN
• Model file export formats:
  • DWG/DXF
  • glTF
  • MVR
• USB DMX devices:
  • EntTec DMX USB Pro
  • EntTec DMX USB Pro Mk2
• Data file import formats:
  • CSV
  • CSV, ETC EOS flavour
• Streaming video media protocols:
  • NewTek NDI
  • CITP/MSEX
  • Green Hippo HMap 3
• Data file export formats:
  • CSV
  • XML for Hog
  • XML for grandMA 2
• Streaming laser media protocols:
  • CITP/CAEX
  • LaserAnimation
  • Pangolin Beyond
• Video capture devices:
  • Any with Windows (Media Foundation) drivers
  • Any with macOS drivers
• Motion tracking protocols:
  • Blacktrax RTTrP
  • Kinesys K2
  • PosiStageNet
• USB devices: 3Dconnexion Space Mouse