Hey Benjamin,

If you patch fixture in your showfile, you can select them and set them as you like. When you're happy, head over to the snapshot tab and add a snapshot. It's super easy. Just make sure all fixtures you want to capture have a DMX address. 

- Tyler

This seems a bit unintuitive. I've heard from multiple users that they were not aware that Snapshots do not record anything without a DMX address. I wasn't myself at first, either. I've suggested renaming the Snapshots to DMX Snapshots or something. Or maybe set a warning when there are no patched channels at all when you try to record a snapshot. Or at least show a black preview image when the snapshot is recorded with no levels.

New Capture user here. This definitely tripped me up until I discovered that patched fixtures would save but unpatched wouldn't. The issue for me is that the set I'm modeling includes a bunch non-DMX practical lights, and I either have to patch them to dummy DMX channels, or manually set their light settings every time I open the capture file.

Plese share your project with us at support@capture.se. We might be able to suggest a better workflow. 

Maybe Capture could bring up a pop-up if you are trying to save a snapshot without anything patched. This would still not catch a partially patched show, but it would give users a heads-up. It is just not clear out of the box that you can 'save' a snapshot, but that nothing is actually saved—unless you patch the fixtures, that is.