Can I extract the point data I get from the Kinect to be used in after effects?

Brendan_Wilson

Looking to somehow export the data the Kinect is using into a format that I can use in After Effects. Is there anyway to use the point data to export an obj sequence?

daGom

I'm also interested in this, how to export a depth map to a 3D obj sequence I would use in Blender

jeremydouglass

@daGom -- these are really two related questions -- Kinect depth export for After Effects, and for Blender.

1. Check out KinectToPin for Kinect motion capture in After Effects.
2. You could use the OBJExport library by Jesse Louis-Rosenberg ... if you first converted your depth map to a mesh. You could also try to convert your Kinect data to DXF.
3. For blender, convert to STL. Buy Greg Borenstein's book Making Things See for Kinect data. See ~p316 "Making a Mesh from Kinect Data"

See older related discussion:

• https://forum.processing.org/one/topic/export-kinect-depth-map-to-blender.html

...and a more recent example of Kinect-to-STL code based on Borenstein's book:

• https://forum.processing.org/two/discussion/9889/turntable-scan

The full example set from Making Things See (OBJ, STL, etc.):

• https://github.com/atduskgreg/Making-Things-See-Examples

jeremydouglass

Re: point clouds to meshes, see also the two libraries on the Processing Libraries page in the geometry section that mention the word "mesh."

daGom

Thanks man !