Thanks Leonard! We'll see how easy it is. I'm not entirely confident in my ability to sort through XML files and turn it into something useful...
-Paul On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Leonard Koch <leonardkoch...@gmail.com>wrote: > Okay, it seems it is available as xml data. This should be really easy to > parse and getting the bezier curves to be accurate won't be too difficult > either. > > Here is the email from Kessler Crane's lead software engineer Bruce Werf: > > * > Hi Leonard, > > Right now, the kOS for Windows application stores moves as Bezier curve > segments in an XML file located on your PC here: > > c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Kessler1366/app.kslx > > This same file format is used when you select File->Save from the main > menu. > > You will want to follow the file down the path <Kessler> -> <Axes> -> > <Axis> -> <KeyFrames> -> <KeyFrame> > > There you will find a plethora of information about each key frame with > both absolute and normalized (0.0 -> 1.0) values. > > For example: > > <P0 Time="0.000" Position="0.471"/> > <P1 Time="0.151" Position="0.471"/> > <P2 Time="0.849" Position="1.000"/> > > This describes the location of the key frame in time and space relative to > the length of the run and the number of motor encoder points. P0 is the > location of the key frame itself, and P1 and P2 are the Bezier control > points between that key frame and the next. > > We plan to create a leaner XML export at some point soon, and we are also > interested in exporting this information in other industry-standard formats. > > Please let us know what would be useful to you in this regard. > > - > Bruce Vander Werf > Kessler Crane, Inc. > > * > *So, what would be "useful to us in this regard"?* > Having to go use a custom script that needs to be updated by a third party > upon changes to the CineDrive shouldn't be the final state of solution for > this. > > But in the mean time you need not worry, if you end up in the position of > having to get a hand on that motion data, you definitely will be able to. > > > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Paul Griswold < > pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com> wrote: > >> Haha - thanks Leonard! Tell him this is for Film Riot and he'll know >> exactly what you're talking about. (he was just on an episode of the show) >> >> -Paul >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Leonard Koch >> <leonardkoch...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Currently emailing with Eric Kessler. We should know soon enough. >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 4:42 AM, Sandy Sutherland < >>> sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za> wrote: >>> >>>> I had experience with motion control before - not sure what make it >>>> was - but the operator who was an awesome guy ex DD gave me excel >>>> spreadsheet files with all the data in, and I used a script that someone at >>>> that time had handily written to connect to excel to pull in the data - was >>>> not very difficult, but was a while ago now - I can see if I still have >>>> those scripts if you like as I should imagine it is highly likely they can >>>> give you something simlar. >>>> >>>> Or xml - not difficult to parse using python >>>> >>>> or text files should be easy to parse and extract data from >>>> >>>> S. >>>> >>>> * * >>>> Sandy Sutherland <sandy.sutherl...@triggerfish.co.za> | Technical >>>> Supervisor >>>> <http://triggerfish.co.za/en> >>>> <http://www.facebook.com/triggerfishanimation> >>>> <http://www.twitter.com/triggerfishza> >>>> ------------------------------ >>>> *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [ >>>> softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] on behalf of Paul Griswold [ >>>> pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com] >>>> *Sent:* 30 January 2013 00:07 >>>> *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com >>>> *Subject:* Kessler motion control data? >>>> >>>> Does anyone here know what kind of data you can get out of a Kessler >>>> motion control camera setup? Specifically, is there anything it can output >>>> that can be directly read by Softimage? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Paul >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >
