Kuuvik Capture 6.5 is now available on the App Store. This release sports a couple of features developed specifically for video shooters.
Let’s begin with the most-requested thing: audio level indicators. As you can see on the screen shot on the right, the audio meters occupy the place of the RAW histogram in video mode. We’ve put it there, because there is no RAW histogram in video mode, and because I strongly think that the image area is sacred and not willing to pollute it.
Audio metering is a complete mess on the latest Canons (R8 and such), so we did stick with the properly labeled and equidistant scale that was used on the R5 and older bodies, each step representing a 2dB difference.
Going downward on the screen shot, the Record/Stop button now turns red during recording. This was also requested by a couple of our users. Think of it as tally lamp, informing everyone on set that recording is in progress.
With the arrival of the EOS R series, Canon decided to make the internal 1/8-stop aperture handling available to users in video mode – and is actually the default.
Fun fact: every single Canon EOS camera ever made handles apertures in 1/8-stop increments, it’s just not available to users.
Now Kuuvik Capture fully supports displaying and setting aperture in these fine increments in video mode.
The last feature I’d like to mention is something I made for myself, but you can benefit from it as well. I’m shooting an increased volume of CRM video files with my R5C, and working on to build and optimize my workflow with these. So the Mac version of Kuuvik Capture can now import CRM files from memory cards (including automatically renaming them using a filename template), and can display the embedded 2K preview image from the videos.
Kuuvik Capture 6.5 is a free update for version 5.x and 6.x owners, and can be downloaded from the respective App Store.
