Academy Award-winning motion-capture technology developer VICON today announced the release of VICON iQ 2.5, the most recent installment of the company’s software solution for streamlining and automating motion-capture workflows. The new release adds features designed specifically for professional production, including a new real-time engine, improved kinematic fitting, faster labeling, frame-synced SMPTE and EBU timecode video and capture and control of multiple reference video streams in sync with motion-capture data.
VICON iQ is designed with intuitive controls and a user interface that simplifies the tasks associated with recording and managing complex motion capture data. The new features in iQ 2.5 provide tight integration between motion-capture and other production requirements, such as hardware-scalable real-time and live reference video on set. Support for frame-synced video and embedded timecode speeds the transport of 2D and 3D motion capture data to applications such as VICON’s Diva and Autodesk’s MotionBuilder software in the character animation pipeline. New capabilities in VICON iQ 2.5 also make it easier for users of VICON MX systems with high camera counts to save, manage and customize their system setups.
The new real-time engine in iQ 2.5 uses multithreading and is optimized to take advantage of multiple CPUs as well as today’s high-performance dual-core processors, providing users with highly accurate, multiple-character real-time previs and capture. VICON iQ 2.5 also offers improved data reconstruction and introduces 3D marker modeling to meet the new demands of full performance capture. 3D marker modeling provides an efficient way to differentiate and process data sets generated via simultaneous facial, hand and full-body motion capture sessions by specifying the size range of the markers.
Working closely with industry customers, VICON has integrated a number of requested features, including a new scrub time function, new file save functions and the ability to save and remember camera and hardware setups. Beta tests have shown that the new workflow tools, coupled with high-quality VICON MX data, can reduce processing times by as much as 60%. More information on VICON is available at www.vicon.com.
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