Spout capture
Low latency, lossless local video capture
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More power in every performance
New in WATCHOUT 7.8
What's new
WATCHOUT 7.8
WATCHOUT 7.8 raises the bar for visual quality and opens the door to broadcast-grade workflows.
Discover the new high-fidelity video pipeline — with 10-bit capture and output, wide color gamut, HDR, and state-of-the-art HAP encoding, giving you the precision demanded by LED walls and broadcast environments.
Check out the completely rebuilt Optimizer with re-optimization that lets you adapt content to any project without going back to source files.
Move your favorite shows from WATCHOUT 6 with the smart show importer designed to make it easy to finally take the leap to WATCHOUT 7.
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The headlines
Features
How to import a WATCHOUT 6 show
Video Capture
- Spout capture - Low latency, lossless local capture up to 32-bit float RGBA
- NDI extra IPs - Discover NDI sources by IP address
- Color space override - Manual color space selection for MediaFoundation, Deltacast, and Spout capture
- Capture source grouping - Better synchronization on multiple capture devices (adds latency when necessary
- Added refresh button for audio/capture devices
- Added support for HDMI 2.1 Deltacast cards
Variable Inputs & Control
- PosiStageNet (PSN) Support - Real-time tracking data as input method
- Countdown/Countup in external protocol
- Playstate changes instead of full updates in external protocol
- Time-based interpolation shows in SSE and user interface
- Circular interpolation on variable inputs
- Input interpolation duration – optional transition rate
- Hit test implementation – Sends coordinates, returns which cues are hit
- HTTP output protocol - Output cues can now send HTTP requests with configurable method, path, and content type
Display
- 64-bit SDR desktop mode - Higher BPC desktop mode on modern NVIDIA hardware
- 16-bit output mode
- Improved GPU Synchronization
Producer Interface
- Visualization of disabled cues – Now with grey striped overlay and opacity reduction
- Timeline zoom to fit / zoom to selection - Ctrl+0 keyboard shortcut
- Faster asset replacement - "Select cues using asset" workflow
- Visualization of missing assets – Now shown with name and in red text
- Improved multi-director handling - Warnings and director selection
- Show information section added to the Show Properties window (statistics, number of used assets, technical details)
- Dynamic columns view – Now possible to show/hide and sort by any column
- Comprehensive keyboard navigation - Extended to all table views
Diagnostics
- GPU memory & temperature graphs
- Node error states - Visual indication when nodes fail to report
