Specialized Tools for Motion Capture (cont.)
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Post capture

Clean up
Elimination of peaks and spikes, compensation for confusion in data from optical motion capture systems (occlusion, marker swapping, etc.)

Keyframe reduction
Simplification of captured animation by reducing the number of keyframes, especially insignificant ones, greatly simplifies the animators task of working with motion capture data. (Less keyframes means less work needs to be done to alter the animation). Character Studio (3D Studio MAX) does this by letting the user limit importation to every nth keyframe (every 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc.) with a threshold to determine whether the amount of change warrants generation of a keyframe in the resulting animation. User's can view a skeletal outline of the original motion capture data so as to paste any significant joint rotations that were 'smoothed' over via keyframe reduction. Kaydara Filmbox allows the user to select Function curves (F-Curves) and convert the selected curves to Bezier curves for easier editing, and hand placement of key-frames along the curves.

Control-sets
Kaydara Filmbox allows the animator to control the various parts of the animation by adjusting the motion via inverse kinematic or forward kinematic keyframes that work in a non-destructive fasion on top of the captured animation (without the need to reduce the number of individual keyframes.) This modifies the effect of the underlying data without modifying the actual keyframes.

Layering
Similar to control set editing. Character Studio allows the animator to create new motion layers on top of the original layers. These additive layers contain only the keyframes that were added to the layer, and can be made active or inactive. When the effects have been made via the layers, all the layers can be collapsed to create a single animation.

Blending
Combination and integration of the various motion capture takes, as well as integration with 'hand-animation'. Character Studio facilitates this with its Flow Control editor, which allows the operator to control ease in and ease out of different motion capture clips. Filmbox takes this a 'step' further by allowing the operator to choose which parts of which takes (i.e., just the right arm, or both legs, etc) are blended and combined.