The problem with these low-end solutions is the amount of clean up or use of what effectively turns out to be rotoscoping to get the motion. If you can't find a commercial or free motion capture file for the motion, you can always do front/side video cameras with/wo markers and do the work of keyframing (rotoscoping) yourself. This is probably the most cost-effective approach. The Visual Marker software is very similar to photogrammetric applications in that you have to correlate points on each and every frame and then it creates the motion file. I guess this is an inexpensive stop-gap solution, but still requires tons of work. I've found that rotoscoping video in Poser into keyframes can be a much quicker workflow that only creates keyframes as needed for interpolation and not on a sampling basis. But that's me. ;)

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