BluffTitler requires DirectX 9 version June 2007 or later. Windows 7 and Vista run DirectX 9 side by side with higher versions of DirectX. So even on 7 and Vista you might have to update DirectX 9.

DirectX is available as a free download from Microsoft:
UPDATE DIRECTX

If the web installer refuses to work (or if you would like to install DirectX on an offline computer) you can download the DirectX end-user redistributable.

More info about DirectX

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If you do not like installers you can download the program as a ZIP file.

If the program complains about not being able to find D3DX9_34.dll you will have to install the latest version of DirectX.

How do I upgrade to the latest version?

Version 8.3.1.4

Released: Wednesday, Januari 18th, 2012

Free upgrade from version 8.0 or higher. Consult the release notes for version 8.0 for the upgrade details from versions older than 8.0

Changes since 8.0:

• Multiple viewports!!!
  When you add a camera layer with the new menu item Layer > Add Layer > Add Camera Layer... a viewport is added. Every viewport has its own camera layer with its own settings and keyframe animation.
• Full audio support!!!
  BluffTitler now exports the audio streams of your video textures and audio layers. This way you no longer have to add audio tracks in your NLE and your audio and video is perfectly synchronized!
• Possibility to set the resolution of your webcam
• New text layer effects: XY-Slices, Z-Slices, Straight Slices, Round Slices, Vertically Revolved, Tubular Square, Light Discs, Light Bulbs, Extended Outlines and Ornaments
• New text layer properties: Slices Position and Slices Rotation
• New particle layer effects: 3D Cubes and 3D Blocks
• New plasma layer property: Gradient Power
• New sketch layer effect: Square
• New sketch layer property: Shearing
• New model layer properties: Submodel and Rotation Centre
• Z-Bias properties in the text, EPS, picture and model layers to solve sorting problems.
• Possibility to attach a light layer to a camera layer
• Select a layer by double clicking on it
• Moving a layer by dragging it is now relative to the camera orientation
• Super fast shader antialiasing
• Motion blur export option
• Bugfix: fully transparent text layers are no longer capable of making the shadows of all model layers invisible

Version 8.0

Released: 2010-1-14

Version 8 introduces 3 versions:

• EASY, PRO and iTV versions. Choose Settings > Switch to EASY/PRO Version to switch.
• New layer: Container layer
• New layer: Lightning layer
• New layer: Lense Flare layer
• New layer: Voxel layer
• Playlists. Choose Settings > Playlist Window to display the playlist window
• Shell window. Choose Settings > Shell Window to display the shell window
• New menu item: File > Export as Template...
• Blackmagic DeckLink output (only in iTV version)
• Support for multi-monitor systems
• Advanced time tags in the text layer
• Options dialog: choose Settings > General Options...
• Vertical align composition effects in the text layer
• New light layer properties: Shadow Softness, Beam Colour, Flare Size and Flare Colour
• Shadows and lightbeams are now generated by text, EPS, picture, model and sketch layers
• New text layer effect: Single Sided
• New text layer property: Encrypt
• New picture layer effects: Single Sided, Skybox and 2D in Foreground
• New particle layer effects: Pointing Upwards and Pointing towards Flight Direction
• New particle layer properties: Chameleon, Effect Size, Launch Colour, Launch Colour Tolerance, Grid and Target Layer
• New sketch layer effects: Attached Layers point Upwards and Attached Layers follow Sketch
• New scroller layer property: Transparency
• New plasma layer effects: Horizontal, Vertical and Radial Gradient
• New sketch layer effect: Square
• New model layer property: Colour
• New passe-partout layer effects: Vertical Bars and Horizontal Bars
• All demo shows that come with the installer now have the widescreen (16:9) aspect ratio
• When editing, the active layer is rendered with a local coordinate system. This can be turned on/off by pressing <F2> or by choosing Settings > General Options...
• Optimized rendering for realtime applications
• Advanced IPC commands and command line options for system integration
• Option to export as compressed AVI with transparency info (compressed 32 bits RGBA)
• Bitmap fonts: press the new Select Bitmap Font button in the <F6> font dialog. Use Alphabix to create bitmap fonts
• Video texture is updated when timeslider is moved
• Attach borders to picture, video and video capture layers
• Maximum number of particles increased from 1.000 to 10.000
• Maximum number of characters in the text layer increased from 500 to 1000
• Maximum show duration increased from 3 to 60 minutes
• Use IE proxy settings option in the internet options dialog
• Premultiplied alpha channel in SDI output and video export
• Support for UNC paths
• Intuitive camera position mouse control
• Proper Would you like to overwrite? messagebox when saving show with all media files

Version 7

Released: 2007-7-24
Price: € 39.95, free upgrade for registered users!

• Software Antialiasing
  With software antialiasing your exported video and picture files always look super sharp, no matter what graphics card, video driver and hardware antialiasing settings you are using. A nice side effect is that you no longer have to keep the render window visible when exporting
• Create videos with resolutions bigger than your desktop
  For example you will be able to create the highest HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 on a 1024 x 768 desktop. Resolutions good enough for printing are also possible, like creating a 4000 x 4000 picture for use on a party flyer. In the File > Set Show Resolution... dialog you can select a view of 50%, 25% or 12.5% to indicate that the exported resolution should be 2, 4 or 8 times bigger than the render window
• Support for shader model 3
  Advanced effects like median filters, morphing effects and fractals are possible with shader model 3. Of course these effects will only work if your graphics card also supports shader model 3 (Geforce 6, ATI X1800 or better)
• Effect properties
  Effect files used to abuse existing properties to make them controllable by the GUI. In version 7 effect files can add properties to layers. For example it is possible to create a Mandelbrot fractal effect that adds the properties Max Iterations and Colour Cycling Speed to the picture layer. Another example is plane-to-donut morph effect that adds a Morp Stage property to the picture layer
• Subtle material effects
  Combine lighting, texture mapping and reflection mapping in any ratio: fine-tune your materials from dull to 100% reflective
• New file formats
  Stills and numbered frames can be exported in the following file formats: BMP(24 & 32 bits), TGA(24 & 32 bits), JPG(24 bits), GIF(8 bits), TIF(24 bits) and PNG(24 & 32 bits)

Version 6

Released: 2007-1-18
Price: € 39.95, free upgrade for registered users!

• Sketch layer: animate EPS files created with Bixelangelo
• Full unicode support: select the unicode character set in the Media > Change Font dialog
• Browser panel with Back, Forward, Refresh, Stop Loading and Home buttons, URL combo box and status bar
• All media files including textures, videos, models, effects and .BT show files can be downloaded from the internet by using paths starting with "http:"
• Hyperlinks: add links to layers with the new menu item: Layer > Active Layer Properties
• Successive shows: automatically open and start a new show when the current show ends with the menu item File > Show Properties
• Video and audio files can be streamed from the internet. Choose Settings > Internet Options to turn streaming on/off
• New menu item: File > Save Show + All Media files which is handy when copying shows to/from another computer or a web server
• New menu items: Favorites / Add to Favorites and Favorites / Organize Favorites
• New menu item: Settings > Internet Options
• Textures, meshes, models and pools are shared between layers and successive shows: shows load faster and use less memory
• Support for multiple webcams
• BluffTitler can create AVI files bigger than 2GB (OpenDML Extensions)
• New model layer property: Specularity
• Correct rendering of Hebrew, Farsi, Arabic, Thai and Khmer

Version 5

Released: 2006-5-1
Price: € 39.95, free upgrade for registered users!

• Smooth scroller layer
• Support for DirectX effect files
• Bump Mapping (normal maps)
• Cube Mapping (with .DDS files)
• Multi-Texturing effects
• Tonal Art Mapping (realtime hatching)
• Realtime filter effects in the picture, video and video capture layers
• Text morphing effects
• New particle layer property: Z-Bias
• Filmstrip support in the picture layer
• New model layer property: Transparency

Version 4

Released: 2005-12-19
Price: € 39.95, free upgrade for registered users!

• 3D model layer
• Shadows
• Lightbeams
• Cloth simulation in the picture layer
• Dynamic content: use BluffTitler to read RSS news feeds or as a photo browser
• New picture layer property: Bounds
• 3 new text layer properties: Decoration Density, Bounds and Character Size
• Maximum number of characters increased to 500
• Possibility to move the drop-down menu to the tool window and back

Version 3

Released: 2005-7-1
Price: € 39.95, free upgrade for registered users!

• Optimized code resulting in ultra smooth realtime performance
• 6 new pixel effects: Pixels, Cornered Pixels, Rounded Pixels, Floating Cubes, Floating Spheres and Floating Cylinders
• 3 new particle effects: Blobs (meta-balls), Spheres and Pipes
• 5 new text compositions: Spiral, Roll, String, Left and Right
• 2 new texture modes: Masking and Additive Reflection Mapped
• 3 new text layer Properties: Transparency, Decoration Size and Font Size
• 5 new plasma effects: Line Segments, Circles, Triangles, Rectangles and Rays
• Passe-partout layer
• New menu item: Layer > Attach Plasma

Version 2

Released: 2004-9-1
Price: € 30, free upgrade for registered users!

• Cool new skinnable GUI
• Optical kerning
• Draggable keyframes
• 2 new particle layer properties: Trail Density and Rotation
• New camera layer property: Arm Length
• Undo/redo functionality
• 32 bits AVI export
• New menu item: Layer > Attach Border
• New menu item: Layer > Attach Particles
• Presets
• Plasma layer
• Particle layer
• EPS layer
• Video capture layer
• Audio layer
• Command line options
• Video textures

Version 1

Released: 2003-8-5
Price: € 30

• First release!