Vicon launches boujou 5

1 September 2009, Oxford, UK: Vicon, developer of motion capture and image understanding systems, for the Entertainment, Life Science and Engineering industries, has today announced that boujou 5 is now available for purchase. boujou is the industry leading matchmoving software, famed for its established ease of use and automation.

Phil Elderfield, Product Manager at Vicon said: “The interest in boujou 5 at Siggraph this year was phenomenal. The feedback we’ve had so far has been great – I’m confident it will be our most successful boujou release to date.”

Some exciting new features that existing boujou users have been eagerly anticipating include:

• New Automatic Sequential Solver. Previous versions of boujou took the entire shot into account before delivering a  solve. Now, it can look at a single frame at a time, which not only enables the user to intervene, it can make the entire process much faster

• A fully functional Graph Editor, which lets the user manually adjust the camera data and, if necessary, resolve. boujou 5 also provides the ability to lock valid sections of solve data or sections which are known to be correct, which animators can then use to improve other areas of the shot

• The Reference Frames feature allows users to import still images taken with any camera and use them to assist in a solve

Customers can purchase boujou 5 from 31st August 2009. The software installer will be available to download from the 7th September 2009. For more information, please visit www.vicon.com/boujou

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