Vicon Blade

Vicon Blade includes all the crucial elements needed for motion capture, simplifying everything from system configuration to actor setup and delivering mocap data of the highest accuracy. Aimed at film, game, broadcast and post studios, Blade ensures what you capture is what you deliver.

Blade 1.7 New Features

SUPPORT FOR WINDOWS 7
SUPPORT FOR BONITA CAMERAS Optical capture is now more accessible for smaller studios, can be used for a time-saving range of motion setups prior to capture in larger volumes and perfect for facial capture in smaller volumes.
SCRUB LAST TOOL Cache previous takes and scrub through them on the timeline so you can review the quality of your takes.
NEW RECONSTRUCTION OPTIONS Users can now opt to reconstruct their motion capture data with 2D tracks, for maximum speed or 3D predictions, for more precise accuracy. The choice is yours.
NEW PIPELINES A series of new scripts are available to simplify workflows by grouping a series of actions for one-step processing of tasks including actor calibration, production skeleton setup and solve, plus many more.

 

1.7 is available free of charge for all Blade users on their current license.  For full details on how to download and install please visit your Vicon Support Account.

Benefits

KILLER KINEMATIC SOLVER
Blade’s optimized kinematic solver provides ruthlessly fast and controllable results that are a accurate representation of your captured performances.

COMPLETELY CUSTOMIZABLE
Blade's open architecture, configurable UI and fully scriptable workflow enables complete customization so you can always work how you want. You’re guaranteed as your motion capture needs change and grow, Blade grows with them.

NATIVE 3D VISUALIZATION
See every detail of your performance with Blade’s native real-time visualization engine and virtual camera before working on your captured data offline.

END TO END SCALABILITY
Distribute your capture load and speed up your pipeline by running multiple instances of Blade simultaneously. Capture in one, real-time solve in another and process captured data offline in multiple copies, all at the same time. Blade has real-time data transfer capabilities, on-set and offline tools for the whole, end to end mocap process.

FULL PERFORMANCE CAPTURE
To support the growing needs of performance capture Blade includes tools for multi-pass reconstruction, modeling, kinematically assisted labelling and multiple configurable solvers to handle the most complex data, consistently and accurately.

CREATIVE CONTROL

Blade ensures you have all the tools to work how you want. Whatever the size of your studio, whatever your requirements, you’ll always be in creative control.

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PDF Downloads

	BLADE BROCHURE - LOW RESOLUTION Click on the pdf icon to download.  This file is 89Kb
	BLADE BROCHURE - HIGH RESOLUTION Click on the pdf icon to download.  This file is 1.6Mb