If you haven't heard of Capture before, it may be because its two founders, Berg and Lars Wernlund, have largely kept their heads down for the past 11 years, putting their energies into developing Capture to its current level. In that time, the two lighting designers have based their product on three major philosophies, as Berg explains: "We want the program to behave as we as LDs would like to see it; it has to be highly competent and user friendly, and finally, the users are the best developers."
When Berg and Wernlund joined forces in 1993, they had two things in common - lighting design and computers. "We also belonged to the enlightened members of the world who used a computer called Amiga," adds Berg.Capture V1.0 saw the light of day, on the Amiga, after a year. Demos were distributed mostly on diskette, and the response was positive. The inevitable conversion to PC, although resisted, occurred around 1995, with Capture V2.0 appearing in 1998. Again, the response was positive, only this time the hugely increasd Internet distribution gave the product a worldwide audience.
Six years later, Capture V3.0.17 has just been released. "It's a completely different program compared to the first version. We can proudly say that we now compete with other similar visualizers and design software in the market," says Berg.
The demo has so far been downloaded by over 1,200 people in about 75 countries and now, with resellers in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Belgium Spain, Russia and Portugal it seems the audience has expanded once again.
