Capture software for Windows 7 and XP

[alcol620]

In addition to Smartcap and Amcap what other capture software works well on Windows 7 and/or XP?

[ChrisLX200]

SharpCap2, Firecapture

ChrisH

[Kropster]

EZPlanetary

[michaelmorris]

Can I put in vote for the old but still beautifully functional K3CCDTools

[animaal]

Another vote here for Firecapture.

It's easy to use out of the box, but allows plenty of cusomisation. I especially like the way profiles are managed. Each target I like to capture can have its own profile, and sometimes I've even created separate profiles for different combinations of equipment (barlows etc).

[alcol620]

Animaal. When you say profiles do you mean the software settings to take the image?

[animaal]

Animaal. When you say profiles do you mean the software settings to take the image?

Yes. You can set up a list of profiles, typically one for each target. Each profile can have a different collection of settings (image size, gain, exposure etc).

I'm not sure if that's how they're meant to be used, but I also set up additional profiles for each target. E.g. Jupiter barlowed - I like the capture size to be bigger, because it's more lkely to move out of hte field of view. Also, the image is dimmer, so I have the gain cranked up a bit.

[alcol620]

Thanks everyone for your views, I will give them all a look.

Alec

[alcol620]

Tried firecap but it kept freezing and whatever setting i used it would only give me an actual frame rate of around 4fps. Not sure why.