General FAQs

1. Fundamentals

2. Motion capture

3. Camera Settings

4. Motive and Data Streaming

5. Developer Tools

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General FAQs

1. Fundamentals

1. How is 3D motion data obtained in an optical motion capture system?

2. What is the recommended capture environment?

3. How should cameras be placed?

4. What is the maximum distance that markers can be tracked by OptiTrack cameras?

2. Motion capture

1. What type of motions can be captured?

2. Is it possible to use props and have them captured along with the skeleton data?

3. How many actors can be tracked over time?

4. How many rigid bodies can be tracked by the OptiTrack system?

5. Is it possible to track outdoors?

6. Is finger tracking supported?

7. Is performance capture (i.e. simultaneous face and body) supported?

8. How accurate is the tracking?

9. Can the motion capture data be synchronized to external sources?

10. Can fast motions like baseball bat and golf club swings be captured?

11. Is the 3D data processed in real time or after the capture?

3. Camera Settings

1. Is it possible to get grayscale video from the camera?

2. How do the various camera video modes work?

3. What is the LED illumination (LED) setting, and how does adjusting it impact tracking?

4. What is the Exposure (EXP) setting, and how does adjusting it impact tracking?

5. What is the Threshold (THR) setting and how does adjusting it impact tracking?

6. What is the Frame Rate (FPS) setting, and how does adjusting it impact tracking?

7. What is the Gain setting, and how does adjusting it impact tracking?

4. Motive and Data Streaming

1. What is the difference between Motive:Edit, Motive:Tracker, and Motive:Body?

2. Is Motive capable of real time tracking and skeleton solving?

3. How does a Motive:Body license tell the difference between multiple actors/skeletons?

4. Are custom skeletons supported?

5. In what file formats can Motive export the tracking data?

6. What operating systems does Motive support?

7. What 2D and 3D data formats are available?

8. What coordinate formats are available for the marker position data?

9. Can NatNet stream real-time motion capture data over the Internet?

10. What data can be scripted against via NMotive or the Motive Batch Processor?

11. What other FEM-CAD and graphic applications are compatible with the OptiTrack system?

12. Can Motive export reference videos?

13. Can Motive export audio?

5. Developer Tools

1. Which OptiTrack developer tool is best for my custom application?

2. Is there a cost to use the OptiTrack Camera SDK?

3. Can OptiTrack cameras be synchronized when used with the Camera SDK instead of Motive?

4. Can OptiTrack runtime components be repackaged into installers and distributed with applications based on the Camera SDK?

5. Can I redistribute the Camera SDK installer with my application that uses the SDK?

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