If anyone is interested in checking out free motion capture - take a look at plask.ai

Interface is decent - extract motion data from uploaded video.

Can be a bit slow - but the price is great.

It's quite good, I've just tried it.
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As with all the products of the same type that we have seen so far, there is always the problem of slipping feet.

the foot slipping is a quantum dynamic,  the workaround is in the 4th dimension and adjusting the frequency of the steps

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This seems a pretty good tutorial. It is aimed at Blender, but talks about cleaning up including foot-sliding.

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I mentioned a free program for iClone.




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I've tried out a lot of these and the trajectory is nearly always the same - folks will end up with a mocap suit.  It's just the way it is.

You will get decent results (and by decent I mean you can make something that satisfies you and perhaps your friends and family who would be impressed by nearly anything) and then you will look at it and go "hmm, how can I make this better?" and eventually you will end up with a suit.  I know, been there, done that, bought the t-shirt (and the suit).  But for those who want to explore mocap it's certainly the gateway drug to use one of these freebies (there are some video capture ones that will charge and I would NOT pay one cent for the quality of capture and work you need to put into these).

Like any hobby we continue to want to do better, and there's nothing wrong with that.  Just like with any drug, the first taste is (usually) free.

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hi
tryed out the plask it was giving to many errors in the final step for the rending 29 mins and then the error
and i tryed another dance video no luck , i may try it again soon......the program has a nice lay out if i can get it to work
i just may pay the fee from time to time

stay safe and take care

Plask AI is fabulous. I've downloaded a ballet routine, extracted the animation file and now making Pepe the Frog doing the Dying Swan routine with it.
Plask is perfect for doing that. Only downside: you need a fixed camera viewpoint to get a decent animation file. if the camera moves during filming, you will need a LOT of edits to get your character to move the way you want.

Good Luck with Plask. 
Pepe says Hi!

Here's a link to get the plask doing perfect animation extractions for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXWTA07Jbfg&t=210s
(excellent YT channel btw)
I am getting perfect results with it. 
the trick is to only use videoclips with a fixed camera viewpoint. Otherwise you need to edit your animation too much.
Its working so perfect that I'm doing a project having my favorite Pepe Character dancing The Dying Swan ballet from a ballet instruction vid I found online.
It's perfect! really recommend it. Here's a sneak Preview.