Capture Magic SD 1.2

Capture Magic SD is the first system for the Apple Mac that can record from multiple DV, DVCPro25 and DVCPro50 cameras, direct to disk. It will provide all the features from Monitor Magic to ensure the highest quality video is recorded.
Capture Magic SD builds upon the high quality scopes and monitors provided by Monitor Magic and adds a never seen before feature on the Apple Mac: simultaneous direct to disk recording from multiple DV, DVCPro25 and DVCPro50 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.
Special Lens Support
Do you use a special anamorphic lens to get a true anamorphic 2.40:1 aspect ratio? Capture Magic SD 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. Not only that, but it will allow you to flip the preview vertically or horizontally!
Main features:
- Support standard definition consumer DV, DVCPro25 and DVCPro50.
- Record from multiple DV cameras at the same time.
- Record directly from camera straight to disk saving time.
- No generational loss caused because of a decompression/compression cycle.
- Preview monitor with helpful guides to compose a shot.
- Preview different aspect ratios.
- Luminance and chroma zebras to highlight broadcast illegal areas.
- Scale and flip the preview to support anamorphic lenses.
- Weighted waveform monitor.
- Colored waveform monitor to help track down problem areas of the picture.
- RGB parade.
- Weighted vectorscope to check colors.
- Colored vectorscope to help track down problem areas.
- Luminance histogram to help contrast.
- RGB histogram.
- Pause input for accurate analysis.