Welcome to Capture Magic SD
With Capture Magic SD you can record exceptionally high quality DV, DVCPro25 and DVCPro50 direct to disk from multiple cameras. The clean and minimal user interface maximizes your work area and efficiently lays out all the tools you need.
Capture Magic SD also provides you with a host of tools that you can use in a studio or on location. Tools that traditionally cost thousands of dollars are now included so you can record amazing quality video that is demanded by todays broadcasters and their viewers.
If you are recording interviews in a studio, sports or musical events, or even a video pod-cast, Capture Magic SD will ensure that video footage you record is of the highest quality.
Record Direct to Disk
Recording directly to disk minimizes the need to buy and carry new tapes, gives you much more storage capacity, and lessens the chances of corrupt or dropped frames caused by problems with old or damaged tapes. And when it is time to edit your video, all your footage is waiting and ready for you on your computer. Fire up your non-linear editor and get productive immediately.
Multiple Camera Support
Monitor and record footage from multiple cameras at the same time. This is great for interviews. Just imagine, you can have two cameras set up for close-up shots of the interviewer and interviewee, and a third camera for a wider shot of both people. You can check all three cameras have the same color and lighting balance, and that each camera is recording legally for your final format.
If you are recording an on location event, be it sports, music or any other type, multiple cameras will allow you cover a wide area of the event with cameras located in different locations and framed for different shots.
Ensure Maximum Quality
Using waveform Monitors, vectorscopes, RGB parades and histograms you can ensure that the picture you record from the cameras are of perfect quality and broadcast legal. And because you can be monitoring from multiple cameras you can ensure their color balance matches perfectly!
Waveform monitors are the tool of choice for getting a well exposed shot. The vectorscope lets you check that your colors are vibrant, but not so vibrant that they will bleed on a TV.
As well as standard monochrome weighted waveform monitors and vectorscopes, Capture Magic SD also provides colored versions that make it much easier to spot the problem areas.
Time-lapse and Stop Motion
New in version 1.1 is support for time-lapse recording. With this great feature you can record spectacular video showing the awesome power of nature. This could be rolling clouds speeding through the sky; the tide sweeping in and out of the beach; or even the shadows of a lone sun beat cactus crawling across desert sands!
Also new in version 1.1 is support for stop motion animation. With Capture Magic you can tweak each frame, and then when you are ready you can record that single frame.
Special Lens Support
Do you have a 35mm lens attached to your camera and the image is rotated 180 degrees? Not to worry, with Capture Magic you can set negative scale factors to rotate the image 180 degrees too!
Or maybe you use a special anamorphic lens to get a true anamorphic 2.40:1 aspect ratio? Capture Magic will allow you to set up scale factors for the preview so that you can see what you are filming at the final aspect ratio.