FreeMoCap Rough Cut Tutorial/Walkthrough/Brain Dump (Nov 2022)

NOTE - This is a work in progress kinda thing! This video was recorded in Nov 2022, if you're watching it significantly after that, it is likely out of date!

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Transcript for this video: https://share.descript.com/view/vsqpq...

This is a quick and dirty tutorial/brain dump about the use of the freemocap software.

It uses a pretty obnoxious workflow the involves recording synchronized videos in the `pre-alpha` v0.0.543 version of `freemocap` and then loading those videos into process in the `alpha` version of the GUI. This the current 'best' method of getting the best recording/mocap output possible, but hopefully that will change Soon™️as we develop new iterations/interfaces

The intention is to use this video as a reference point/brain dump that we can chop apart into viable documentation and knowledge base. We'll make a new 'how to get a freemocap recording' tutorial when the software hits a new stable point, which will be, like, ya know... whenever. As ASAP as possible. We'll get there 😅

0:00 Introduction
1:03 Cat 😺
1:09 FreeMoCap software installation
8:44 Camera Hardware (how to pick your webcam!)
13:08 Camera Setup (How to point your cameras at things!)
26:55 ChAruco Board
29:45 Recording Calibration Videos
32:25 Spot-checking Timestamp diagnostic plots (did the videos record good?)
33:01 Recovering from a crash lol 😅
36:31 (auto) synchronizing videos
37:00 (auto) processing calibration videos
39:54 Looking through a (pre-alpha) session folder
40:50 Recording motion capture videos! ✨
44:22 (auto-ish) processing motion capture videos
48:07 Cat + Cat = CatCat 😾😼
48:32 (auto) Exporting as Blender `.blend` file ( rigged armature for animators - filetype: `.blend`)
49:54 Examining Blender output file
51:31 Success! :D 🥳🎉🎊💀✨
53:09 Looking through an (alpha) session folder ( raw data for scientists - filetype: `npy` and `csv` )
55:29 Wrap up and goodbye!
56:47 ❤️