BluffTitler technical specifications
Import file formats | |
| vector fonts: | True Type (.TTF), Open Type (.OTF) and Type 1 fonts. |
| bitmap fonts: | Bitmap fonts created with Alphabix. |
| pictures: | .BMP(including 32 bits), .TGA(including 32 bits), .JPG, .PNG(including 32 bits), .DDS (including cubemaps and volume textures) and .DIB. |
| video: | .ASF, .AVI, .MPG, .MPEG, .QT, .WMV and animated GIF. BluffTitler uses DirectShow to play videos. For example it requires a DirectShow MPEG-2 decoder filter in order to play MPEG-2 files. GIF animations are played using GDI+. |
| audio: | .MP3, .WAV and .MID. |
| vector drawings: | .EPS (limited support) |
| 3D models: | .X |
Export file formats | |
| pictures and numbered frames: | .BMP(including 32 bits), .TGA(including 32 bits), .JPG, .GIF, .TIF and .PNG(including 32 bits). |
| Video: | uncompressed AVI, uncompressed AVI with alpha transparency (RGBA) and Compressed AVI. BluffTitler uses the OpenDML AVI File Format Extensions to create files bigger than 2 GB. BluffTitler is a visual effects application, only the visuals are exported. |
Realtime modes | |
| Editor, Player, Command line and VJ MIDI controlled. | |
Layers | |
| Types of layers: Camera, Light, Text, EPS, Picture, Video, Video Capture, Plasma, Particle, Audio, Passe-Partout, Model, Scroller and Sketch. | |
| Layers can be animated independently and have their own timeline. | |
| Operations on layers: add, delete, clone, attach border, attach particles, attach plasma, remove all attached layers. | |
Animation | |
| The result can be played in realtime by the editor, the player or exported as an AVI file. | |
| Tweening methods: Constant Speed, Accelerate, Decelerate, Accelerate and Decelerate, Damper, Bouncer, Outside, Pumping, Pingpong, No Animation, Bezier Spline. | |
| Resolutions: anything your graphics card is capable of. | |
| Framerate: in realtime mode this depends mostly on the power of your graphics card. On a GeForce 4 a typical BluffTitler animation runs around 60 frames a second. When exporting as an AVI file the framerate can be anything between 1 and 100 frames a second. | |
Innovative special effects | |
| Realtime shadows | |
| Lightbeams | |
| Blob (Metaballs) rendering | |
| Built-in particle system | |
| Layer Hierarchy | |
| Vertex and pixel shader effects including sphere mapping, cube mapping, bump mapping and tonal art mapping | |
| Realtime morphing | |
| Plasma textures | |
| MPEG-2 video textures | |
| Realtime filter effects of live video | |
| 3D model particles | |
| Dynamic content through XML | |
Video tools | |
| Export to uncompressed AVI with transparency and serial TARGA frames with transparency for maximum quality and compatibility with DVD authoring tools. | |
| Presets like SVCD, DVD and Widescreen in NTSC and PAL format. | |
| Screen and pixel aspect ratio (DAR & PAR) support. | |
| Correct NTSC framerate export of 29.97 frames per second. | |
| Safe area and Crosshair display while editing. | |
| Chroma key and transparency export support. | |
| Realtime video capture layer. | |
| Field rendering in PAL and NTSC. | |
Timeline | |
| Keyframe functions: create key, delete key, delete all keys, copy key, paste key, move key. | |
| Timeline functions: scale to new length, attach/remove time, insert/remove time, jump to next/previous key. | |
Player command line options | |
| BluffTitler path [/?] [/F] [/L] [/Q] [/W=x] | |
| /F Fullscreen | |
| /L Looping | |
| /Q Quits after playing | |
| /W=x Plays the show in a child window of x (unsigned decimal number) | |
| Type "BluffTitler /?" from the command prompt for more info | |
Render qualities | |
| Low, Normal and High quality. For example: in low quality mode an Arial 'S' without a bevel is built out of 144 triangles, the same character with a round bevel in high quality mode is rendered in 3224 triangles. | |
Character sets | |
| The following character sets are supported: Unicode, ANSI, Baltic, Central Europe, Greek, OEM, Cyrillic, Symbol, Turkish, Vietnamese, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Japanese (Shift-JIS), Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Korean (Johab), Korean (Hangeul). | |
Localisation | |
| The built-in language is English. The GUI has been localised into 34 different languages, including Dutch, German, French, Spanish and Italian. All GUI texts, except error messages are translated. | |
Skinning | |
| The buttons of the GUI can be changed by loading a special .BMP file. | |
Special Effects
BluffTitler supports DirectX effect files for advanced material, lighting and animation effects.
Innovative vertex and pixel shader effects include reflection mapping, bump mapping, cube mapping and tonal art mapping.
Perfect Kerning
BluffTitler features optical kerning, resulting in perfect kerning for any font!
Unicode Characters
BluffTitler fully supports unicode.
Dutch language
BluffTitler even supports the Dutch language. Echt vet!
Levels of detail
Characters can be rendered in three levels of detail.
Antialiasing
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BluffTitler has been designed for video:
- Export your titles in any resolution, from 320 x 240 up to full HD in 1920 x 1080
- Presets for all SDTV and HDTV standards in PAL, NTSC, progressive & interlacing
- Export as 32 bits AVI with transparency info
- Export as 32 bits TARGA, PNG and BMP frames with transparency info
- Export in 16:9 (widescreen) and 4:3 aspect ratios
- Correct NTSC framerate of 29.97 fps
- Field rendering in PAL and NTSC
- Safe area and crosshair display when editing