[Novalug] Motion Capture from MPEG video files

[Ben Creitz]

On 7/11/07, Cliff Palmer <cliff at palmercs.com> wrote:
> Jon and Maxwell - thanks for your replies.
> The goal is to convert the MPEG to file used by animation programs such
> as Poser, Qanimator, Blender or SLAT.  Typically these programs use file
> formats such as BVH or AVM.
> Animation file formats are not binary images, they contain component,
> x-location, y-location, z-location, x-angle, y-angle, z-angle.
> Thanks again.
> Other input and comments are welcome..
> Cliff

Ahhh... you mean like the video equivalent of Photoshop tracing a
photo to turn it into vector graphics?  You may need to turn to a
commercial package for that (probably a very expensive one).  Here are
some folks talking about vectorizing video:

  http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23181

But deriving the x,y,z angles from a video?  That is a bit more work.

I think what somebody would actually do is build the models from
scratch in Blender or whatever, then define the camera angles and
object motion by running the video underneath as a ref point.  Just a
guess, I have no experience doing that sort of thing.

Ben