Kuuvik Capture, as well as my other apps, used OpenGL and its mobile counterpart, OpenGL ES, as the base technology behind their display engines.
While it was working, ES was different enough so that I had to keep Mac and iOS code effectively separate, with serious consequences.
Then a year ago Apple announced that OpenGL is deprecated in its operating systems (and I guess it will be removed completely in a few years). So it was time to move on.
My new unified display engine, rewritten on top of Apple’s proprietary graphics technology called Metal, will debut in Kuuvik Capture 5.1. Both in the Mac and iPad versions.
The benefits are nothing short of breathtaking. Kuuvik Capture was always known to be amazingly quick. But now images appear on screen up to 2x faster… Live view CPU utilization is further lowered by up to 25%… Even previous versions used 10x less CPU for live view compared to Canon’s EOS Utility, so the difference is simply brutal.
You’ll be able to enjoy these enhancemets when version 5.1 is released later this summer.
Stay tuned!
