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#Motion Tracking Data?

    06-Mar-94 14:04:07
Sb: #Motion Tracking Data?
Fm: Bill Niemeyer 71534,3342
To: All
I'm with Mechadeus, a CD-ROM producer in SF. (We did the Critical Path CD-ROM which is shipping now.) We're in production on another interactive movie which will use live action actors matted into 3D animations. We are going to use a motion tracking camera head, probably the one from Ultimatte, which will give us a data stream of camera postion information. We want to be able to move the camera and still matte into animations accurately. We'll wind up with an ASCII file of time / postion data. My question is… Does anyone know of IPAS or other utilities which we can buy which can translate ASCII camera postion data into 3D Studio keyframes. We could have one of our programmers write a custom IPAS routine to do this but it would be nice if a good one existed already. We don't want any more smoke to come out of our programmer's heads. Thanks in advance… Bill Niemeyer