Hasta La Motion!

This is a major new release of Ocula with many new features, improvements and bug fixes.Release Date
8 October 2009

Requirements

1. Nuke 5.1v3 (or higher) on Windows XP SP2, XP64; Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" (32-bit and x86 only); Linux CentOS 4.5 (32-bit and 64-bit).
2. Foundry FLEXlm Tools (FFT) (5.0v1 or later) for floating license support.

New Features

There are three new plug-ins in Ocula 2:

1. O_Solver – Some of the functionality from O_DisparityGenerator has been seperated out into this plug-in, to allow a more flexible workflow. O_Solver determines the geometrical relationship between a stereo pair of views by detecting feature matches. If you have more than one sequence that were filmed with the same camera rig, it is only necessary to do this calculation on one of them; the same O_Solver can then be reused for the other sequences. It also offers the following advantages over the old DisparityGenerator:
   • An Ignore input so you can tell it which regions to ignore when detecting features.
   • The ability to calculate the camera relationship over a temporal window, for greater robustness.
   • The ability to calculate the camera relationship at intervals and interpolate smoothly between them for better temporal stability.
   • A Camera input, allowing you to use pre-tracked cameras.
   • Interactive editing of feature matches in the viewport.
   • The features and camera relationship are stored as metadata, so they can be saved and reused further downstream.
2. O_DepthToDisparity – a new plug-in to generate a disparity field from a stereo pair of depth maps plus a camera set-up. This is intended for use with CG scenes.
3. O_DisparityToDepth – a new plug-in to generate depth maps from a disparity field, given the stereo camera set-up.

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