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There are a lot "No frames with sufficent quality found" errors too! Eventhough it's a very sharp HD cam.
I asked for a refund now, but told DAZ to get me a few days to try to fix the issues, but I guess there's no chance. My other software (3D, Recording, Video edit...) is running flawless.
I wish there'd be a decent documentation. The internal help lefts more questions than it'll help.
I'm repeating a previous post of mine here: Try converting the video to a different format or different codec and try again. I had this error and the exact same video in a different format worked fine.
Seems like an option, but I don't see myself using it that much if I have to go through all that trouble.
I was getting this same error on every video until I recorded one against a blank wall. Before that I was standing in the middle of a well lit room that had sone furniture behind me. After I started filming against a plain BG, it stopped giving the "insufficient frames" errors and analyzed the videos fine.
Can somebody (where it's working) please post which "codec, file format & size" they used?
I've tested several combinations now and none did work for me.
Edit: I finally gave up and asked for a refund. I couldn't get it running after 5h+ of tests.
codecs are annoying and between my two computers some work or don't work entirely differently.
I never have solved issues in some programs
(iClone6 plays all mov files upsidedown and won't play mp4 on my Win7 for example using the K-lite one they recommended)
and simply cannot use some on one or the other, free codec packs are notoriously packed with Malware too.
I know this is little help, I too am having your issues on my Win7 PC but the Win10 one finally works with the right video (same one doesn't on Win7).
so many other glitches too, the DAZ strandbased hair vanishes a hundred or more frames in in animations for me too for exmple both in iray and Filament.
both computers
nobody else AFAIK has that issue.
That video was funny and kind of cool WendyluvsCatz
Thanks, .... and now for something quite disturbing
Have you tried 24 FPS?
I finally got PoseRecorder to work by using the technique Wolf mentioned above, by just dragging the .Duf from the file it was saved in onto a G8 character in DS. I really like the way in picks up the head movements from the video, but the eys and eyebrows can get kinda squirmy. I use a video of someone singing into the camera and noticed that the mouth movements are good at times and non existant at other times. There is a bit of delay in the mouth opening then suddenly speeds up and captures all the subtle movements of the lips and jaw. The video I used had the person facing directly into the camera the whole time. Are the any tweaks to make the mouth movements more accurate yet? How long does anybody think it will be before updates start happening?
You could see if fiddling with the interpolation curve for the mouth in the timeline does make things better. And how should we know? This is the first product from a new PA.
Yep, fiddiling is always an option, but if there are settings in the program that improve output that allows us to avoid doing things manually, that is what I am wondering. I'm aware that nobody knows what PA is actually going to do that is why I posed the question in a hypothetical manner "How long does anybody think it will be before updates start happening?" No harm, no foul we will all wait and see.
I mostly see it as a useful alternative to Mimic Live which I never liked, the 32bit still has the lipsync I use more.
The fact any face-shot video not just mine can potentially be used especially politicians, actors etc is rather interesting though subject to copyright.
There is public domain footage out there too and I guess virtual faces could also be used, something I want to test sometime, thinking game footage or cartoons.
Yeah Wendy I really thik this has amazing potential since it does eye movement and expressions. The biggest problem is that if the person moves their head around alot in the video capturing the mouth movements seems to suffer a bit. I downloaded 3 different videos of women singing the song "At Last" and the results in some places through the videos are amazing. Butthen in some places the the mouth simply freezes. I assume that happens when the mouth is not facing square with the camera. I know that After Effects has a tool that allows one to center the face on the camera, it would be great if this program had that ability.
Well based on all the chatter the PoseRecorder tool appears to be a much better investment then AniHead . I bought that thing a long time ago thinking it was heading in the right directions but there were no updates that i am aware of. Dont want to make the same mistake so hapil;y watching to see what you all can do with it.
BTW is it my understanding that i can also use this to track shoulder/neck movement as well. The thing about most of these is that your characters look a bit stiff. So if it can perform some basic ambient movement capturem then there is a value.
Can someone check if you can perform a shoulder shrug or head twist to see what it does or is it more for lip syncing?
I don't return products/assets so i'd rather do the research before purchasing them..
Tugpsx it does do the head twists very well but does not do the shoulders. You could easily do shoulder shrugs with a mocap setup such as Brekel or IPI. There is also something that is still being developed called "Pose Estimation" that allows you to extract body motions from video much like PoseRecorder, but last I heard it is still very glitchy.
Thanks for info
well I have two issues it cannot cope well with
it gave me a really silly video at least which might go viral
the one on your right uses DAZ mimic lipsync and the one in the middle has both
Update, my webcam does an abysmal 7fps in fact
I will have to go back to the iPad
@WendyLuvsCatz Thanks for sharing your projects. Looks like there are a lot of cool options to play with. One of these days I may grab this addon. I have a few others that work but have qwirks so waiting to see how this one turns out.
Ok so I just bought PoseRecorder and it doesnt load on my Windows 10 system
Getting the below error when i try to launch the application.
if you cannot solve it with your coding experience it is likely FUBAR
for me with no knowledge programs are totally hit or miss, if it doesn't work I just have to return them and get my money back.
good thing DAZ at least has that option
I did get it to eventually work on my Win7 as well as my Win10 but I am poking around in the dark with a stick and honestly couldn't tell you anything
I hate that it won't take a single image like png or jpg. Which makes no sense so you can tell it to use a single frame. I've found I have to take an image turn it into a 1 frame video and then it will take it. Dumb. Then the controls are whacked and the results are less than impressive.
I'm going to try the face one on blender that's like 7 years old. That actually has full face rigging.
It will create an expression. That's what I was using it for.
It is an ANIMATION PRODUCT
apparently not designed for making still images.
Admittedly the name "pose recorder" could be misleading
to those who only do still posing.
I would have named it "pantomime" or "marionette"
Having used the product (with mixed results)
I think,with some major finement, it has potential to be the first camera based facial mocap option that does not require the additional purchase of a luxury consumer product from Apple
You should request a refund if you are within your 30 day window
No, it is NOT dumb. It is simply the result of the creator using pre-existing libraries to access the video data. These libraries are made to handle videos, not images. To handle single images the creator of the program would have to add image handling separately - to a program that is designed to work with animations.
So did a few experiments and found that the application is a bit unstable.
Tested on Windows 11 Desktop and the application launched. I tested with a few video files and the app would crash during processing leaving only the thumbnail file.
Did a similar test on another Windows 11 Laptop and it was able to complete the conversion and save a duf file. The results were not great so will test with their provided video to see if there is something i am doing incorrectly.
Do you see that checkbox next to Frame Range? It says "single" meaning single frame. If it was ONLY intended for full animation clips why would the programmer have then added that? And if you have a feature to use just a single frame, then there is no good reason to not then also allow for a still image.
I also know the difference between supporting edge cases within the limit of an existing design or system and implementing aforementioned edge case as core feature.
FWIW, I've recently read that it requires an RTX video card to function. I've got a GTX now. When I get some cash for an RTX I'm going to try it out. It's the only one around that doesn't require an iPhone.