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The Stats
- Developer: 2d3
- Version: 2 - boujou bullet has been discontinuued and replaced with 2d3 boujou silver bullet and 2d3 boujou bullet SD
- Platforms - USB dongle license freely interchangeable between Windows, Mac OS X & Linux Red Hat Network licenses
- Network dongle for a Windows & Mac server serve all 3 cross platform clients. Full monitoring tools for Administrators. Network licenses can be Permanent or Time limited Parallel Port (Windows or Linux) or USB (Any OS)
- Host Applications: Adobe After Effects
Purchase Boujou Bullet
Boujou bullet has been discontinuued and replaced with 2d3 boujou silver bullet and 2d3 boujou bullet SD
Description
All of the following information is for the last release of boujou bullet. Boujou bullet has been discontinuued and replaced with 2d3 boujou silver bullet and 2d3 boujou bullet SD
Overview
boujou was launched as the world's first automatic camera tracker in 2001. The core technology was designed at Oxford University's Vision Science Department in the UK, with over 3 years proven reliability in production environments, this version has been tailored for the occasional or beginner user and includes all the tracking power and features of boujou2.
At a more affordable price, boujou bullet is first choice for any small to medium sized post facility and the ideal site-wide install for larger shops. Expand your portfolio of solutions with the original auto tracker.
No feature restrictions allow you limitless opportunity to take on new projects in-house. The full set of tools available in boujou2 has been extended to boujou bullet.
To make tracking even easier for the occasional or new user the bullet wizard walks you through the process of tracking and trouble-shoots as you go, this helps you to solve more difficult shots and learn the tools while working on a project.
Features
- Wizard & trouble-shooter :No time for tutorials, hate reading manuals? Then train productively using boujou's unique and brand new wizard interface. Load in the sequence you need yesterday and get boujou to train you as you go.
- Superior automatic technology: Tried and tested over 4 years, bullet enables your facility to fulfill your client's requirements in-house and often at the touch of a single button.
- Manual tools: Learn how to negotiate trickier shots through the wizard, step by step guidance that maximizes the use of specific tools for specific tasks. Gold tracks, target tracks, lens distortion correction, thorough feature tracking are all a part of the package.
- Intelligent interface: Improved and adapted, customizable settings make for only one initial set-up for the way you work, integrating bullet immediately into your pipeline to save you time and avoid any difficult setup procedures. So you can concentrate on animating or your project and let boujou bullet do the tracking.
- Read a [case study] about how boujou bullet helped a project.
Automatic Tracking
- Tracks hundreds of features in each frame automatically
- Retains only the most accurate tracks automatically
- racks scenes where little or no obvious trackable detail is apparent automatically
Features integrated into the wizard workflow
- Multiple camera solutions
- Thorough Feature tracker
- User defined frame range tracking
- Localized Deflicker ensure quality feature tracking where images include sudden changes in brightness
- Locators allow user defined predictions to be created or to help you get a better solution
- Built in Mask creation or import mask images
- Full lens distortion correction function
- Target Tracks, pattern match user defined shapes for difficult blue screen shots that can assist the automatic solver
- Gold Tracks" Semi-automatic assistance to guide the tracker in the direction you want to go
Track
- Free Move or Tripod (Nodal Pan) shots
- Solid moving objects
Import
- Import formats: MOV, AVI, Cineon, JPEG, PGM, PPM, Softimage PIC, SGI, TGA, PNG and Tiff
- Import images at any resolution
- Film, progressive scan or interlaced video
- Create your own with the fully customizable camera presets
Additional Tools
- Quick refresh view window for easy to use, single value, lens distortion assessment
- Hide unwanted areas by creating masks in boujou2.1 or import your own
- Use locators to obtain 3D information from anywhere in the scene with just a few clicks and without the need for retracking
- Check the quality spatially and temporally using the graphical Errors overlay
- Add 3D Test Objects to view simple CG objects before export
- Set Scene Geometry and Scale before export
- Export camera track to all major 3D and 2D packages with a 3D camera
Export
- Export camera path and 3D geometry directly to: 3D Studio Max (*.ms), Cineon (*.jdf), Combustion (*.cws), Filmbox (*.fbx), Flair (*.mrmc), Flame/Inferno (v5 & v7 *.action), Houdini (.hip), Lightwave (*.lws), Maya (*.ma), SoftImage and SoftImage XSI (all versions)
- Export camera path and 3D geometry via plug-ins to: After Effects 5.5 and Cinema4D
- Export 2D tracks to Shake
- Constrain animation to camera, scene geometry or panning camera + translating scene geometry
- Export only the geometry that you require
Interface
- Image window can be split to show up to 4 panes, allowing alternative overlays, different time frames in 3D and 2D views
- Sequence playback with scrub, zoom and pan including selective frame range and lock to point playback
Samples
- 2003 boujou showreel, 20.35 MB
- 2004 boujou showreel
Reviews
- http://www.cgarchitect.com/news/newsfeed.asp?nid=3D2335, by Jeff Mottle
- http://www.fxguide.com/article199.html
Press Release
2d3, the leading developer of professional 3D camera matchmoving software, today announced the release of boujou bullet, a development of the Emmy award-winning boujou2 with a new wizard-based user guidance system and breakthrough pricing.
Aimed at small to middle-sized facilities where tracking volumes do not justify a dedicated department, boujou bullet delivers the full feature set and automated tracking benefits of 2d3's award-winning boujou2, and adds a comprehensive wizard-based help and diagnostic system designed to make the process accessible to animators and compositors who don't specialize in tracking work.
boujou bullet's tracking wizard makes years of tracking expertise available to guide users through every aspect of the tracking process and offers context-appropriate guidance for all tracking conditions. With the tracking wizard occasional users or even complete beginners can deliver perfect results every time without having to acquire special skills or remember how to use the software between tracking jobs. Guided by the tracking wizard, animators can quickly and easily take care of their own tracking requirements without calling on the specialist skills of dedicated tracking staff, or sending the work out of house.
"We've always wanted to use boujou for our tracking jobs," says Dotti Colvin, CGI animator at London-based Loose Moose, who used boujou bullet for the first time to match CG elements into four animated shots for the latest in a series of Kraft/Nabisco Chips Ahoy! commercials for US television.
2d3's But being primarily an animation production house we didn't have the high-volume throughput of tracking jobs to justify the investment. With the launch of boujou bullet the economics really make sense for us now and our experience on the Chips Ahoy! spot totally satisfied our expectations. We had no prior knowledge of the software, but we got the tracking on this spot done automatically in no time at all96 without even looking at the manual."
2d3's ground-breaking automatic tracking technology, proven in thousands of productions including major effects-intensive movies like The Matrix series, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Troy, is at the core of boujou bullet, allowing users to leave the software to solve most camera tracking challenges by itself. For specific requirements like object tracking, boujou bullet guides users through the use of advanced techniques using Gold Tracks, target tracks, lens distortion correction, and feature tracking facilities.
boujou bullet makes the best automated tracking solution on the market available cost-effectively to a wider range of users for the first time, said Product Manager Ed Bolton. The pricing makes it accessible, and we've also ensured that occasional users whose core skills are in other fields like animation don't need to learn the software in order to use it effectively.
For larger facilities wanting an expanded tracking capability, site-wide installation of boujou bullet makes it possible for animators and compositors to deal effectively with much of the tracking work without passing it to specialists. boujou bullet is entirely compatible with boujou3, 2d3's upcoming specialist tracking solution for top-end facilities, with licenses running on Red Hat Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.
Categories
Motion Tracking, Motion Stabilization
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