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William Hudson is a User Experience Strategist who consults, writes and teaches in the fields of user-centred design, user experience and usability. He has over 45 years experience in the development of interactive systems, initially with a background in software engineering. William was the product and user interface designer for the Emmy-award-winning "boujou"; now an indispensable tool in many film studios. He has specialized in interaction design and human-computer interaction since the late 1980's. William has written and taught courses which have been presented to hundreds of software and web developers, designers and managers in the UK, North America and Europe. He has developed and presented courses for the Nielsen Norman Group. William is the founder and principal consultant of Syntagm, a consultancy specializing in the design of interactive systems established in 1985.
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He holds an MSc in Software Engineering and a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychological Research Methods. William is an Associate Lecturer in Computing at the Open University and has acted as an Adjunct Professor in Digital Marketing for Hult International Business School.
William was the Director of User Experience for the Intranet Benchmarking Forum from 2002 to 2009. In that time he conducted more than 200 expert design reviews for clients ranging from AstraZeneca to Vodafone.
He was the user interface designer for 2d3's boujou, a revolutionary new software package for the special effects industry which has been praised for its ease of use. Boujou allows computer special effects to be merged with live film footage with little or no manual intervention, creating some challenging user interface deign issues for providing optimal user guidance. Boujou has been used in a number of major films including Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Harry Potter, the Italian Job, Lara Croft and The Matrix Reloaded. Boujou itself won an Emmy Award in 2002. Other projects have included interaction design and evaluation for Ansbacher Bank, Harcourt Education, Jato Dynamics, Rational Software, Reuters, Smart Card Integrations and Vicon Motion Systems.
But I noticed that when i import it, the camera is facing strait down, and i cant move it without it screwing up the cam animation. So is there a way to move the camera to a different spot but have the animation be the same?
you have to run it from within a blender text editor window, simply copy and paste it, or just open the text file from your hard drive.
If you go down to line 144, you can specify the file path to your boujou export file (e.g.: C:/User/Name/Desktop/matchmove.txt)
after that, you just hit run script or alt+p, and the prediction points and your camera should get added to your scene.
This script animates the focal length of the camera, as well as it sets the render resolution to the resolution of your footage, and the sensor width of your camera to the calculated width from boujou.
Seamlessly add CG into your film or video footage. Emmy Award-Winning Matchmoving software that enables you to add computer generated effects seamlessly into your film or video footage. Building on its industry leading automatic toolset boujou software, boujou 5 allows you to solve complex shots even faster and to step in and work directly with the data. boujou 5 has a unique way of solving which radically accelerates the way you work, you can now solve even more shots in less time.
Developed for film and television post and VFX facilities, boujou has long been the industry standard for matchmoving, allowing users to add computer-generated effects seamlessly into film or video footage. When boujou was first introduced in 2001, it provided a completely different approach to motion tracking. Before boujou, matchmoving was an expensive and highly skilled process, adding significantly to post-production costs. Everything had to be done by hand in key-frame animation, or with laborious point-based camera tracking. boujou, with its ability to track hundreds, if not thousands, of points automatically, changed all that.
Despite its groundbreaking status, boujou was still very much a hit-or-miss proposition when it first came out. It either worked, or it didn't. An artist would bring in the background plate to be tracked, enter the lens data and hit feature track, and boujou would try to come up with a solution. When it worked, it worked well, and when it didn't, it was often easier to move to a manual solution. As the versions have progressed, boujou has added more and more functionality, giving users the means for increased refinements. It started out as very easy to learn, with just a couple of buttons to push. Now it still has that basic functionality, but it's been expanded with a lot more depth. Advanced users can do a lot more with it and take shots further than ever before without moving to a separate package.
Vicon recently released boujou 5, with a host of new features and improved functionality that will help the software continue to earn its reputation as the industry's leading matchmoving solution. Overall, I'm happy to see the changes in boujou 5. I've used pretty much every major matchmoving program that's come out over the last 13 years, and one of the great things about boujou is that it tries to exploit processing power and nicely crafted algorithms, and utilizes a large data set to come up with the perfect camera solve. With each version of boujou I'm finding fewer reasons to have to go to external tools, and boujou 5 is no exception.
There's always room for improvement with any software tool, and there are a few things I imagine will be incorporated into boujou in the future, but boujou 5 does just about everything I could wish for right now. This latest release represents the fulfillment of some of the most frequently requested features from boujou users, including an Automatic Sequential Solver, Reference Frames, a new Target Tracker and a fully functional Graph Editor, and they've been addressed quite well.
The Automatic Sequential Solver now available in boujou is a huge time-saver. Previous versions of boujou took the entire shot into account before delivering a solve. boujou 5 has the ability to look at a single frame at a time, enabling the user to intervene as needed and making the entire process significantly faster. This is perfect for users who want to sift through a problem area one frame at a time without having to create a solve for the entire shot.
Another useful feature in boujou 5 is Reference Frames, which enables users to import still images taken with any camera and use them to assist in a solve. Reference photos taken on set, on location, or even capturing different sequences during a shot can be used to give more spatial information to a shot than what already exists in camera. In the past, one of the problems with matchmoving was that you couldn't find an accurate camera solution without a certain depth of information. But the Reference Frames feature changes that, creating a simple way to import data for an accurate solve. Other packages have had similar functionality, so this represents a huge move forward for boujou.
The beauty of Reference Frames is that it's not complicated to use. Basically, you shoot a bunch of still pictures from different angles during a shoot, and if you run into a situation where you don't have enough camera data, you can add the information from the still images and come up with a solve. It's a very simple workflow that adds an enormous amount of additional functionality. Even a novice learning from tutorials will be able to use the Reference Frames feature, which means that beginning users of boujou 5 will be able to get a lot more out of it than with previous versions.
Another one of the new features in boujou 5, the Graph Editor, allows users to manually tweak camera data and, if necessary, re-solve it. boujou 5 also provides the ability to lock valid sections of solve data, or sections known to be correct, which can then be used to improve other areas.
A lot of what has been added into boujou 5, such as the Graph Editor and improved Target Tracker, are features that some of the more target track-driven software already had. But because boujou approaches matchmoving from a different angle than other solutions, its main focus has been on automated functionality, at which it really excels. With version 5, boujou has added more manual functionality and the controls to refine them, making it a more complete package.
It used to be that boujou handled automatic tasks really well, letting you blast through something quickly with results that even manually you'd have a hard time achieving, but that you would have to use a different package for manual controls. boujou 5 now handles everything a manual tracking program will do, and still burns through automated tasks.
The interface has also been refined in boujou 5. The way users look at the zooming window and target tracks has been revamped, and there is a lot more hot-key support, which creates a much faster workflow.
Each iteration of boujou has represented a major leap forward, and boujou 5 is no exception. The first version was a one-button solution that either worked or didn't. Version two gave boujou increased functionality, opening it up to use on a wider range of shots. By version three, boujou was able to set things up from within a shot, and version four brought in survey data and object tracking. boujou 5 has been greatly expanded from version four, and from what I can see it will only help to speed up workflows. There were times using version four when I would hit a brick wall and have to move to other solutions, but with boujou 5 I just push right through.
David Sudd is matchmoving supervisor at CafeFX. He previously was a matchmove supervisor and artist at MPC, where he worked on Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Sunshine, X-Men: The Last Stand and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, among others.
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