Hi

I am looking for video production software that is oriented towards
assisting with 3-D computer animation, and more specifically motion
capture.  The program in question must be able to do one (1) or both
of the following things:

A.) Have the ability to convert/export live video (that was done for
the purpose of motion capture...ie. just a bunch of points moving
around) into a format that contains a simple scripted list of vectors.
 Any format type will do, as long as it's a list of streaming numbers
representing the points in the live video.

B.)  Or, have the ability to splice up the live video into a series of
still frames (automatically...that is, not just the ability to
manulaly grab frames and save them off...instead, the ability to just
click on "frame-ize this video" wherin we would end up with a bunch of
image files representing the frames in the video.

Thank you...if youre answer includes web URL's please indicate if they
have a limited licence / temporary download available (with full
functionality)..

Have a good one!

Reffering to your request for "have the ability to splice up the live
video into a series of still frames (automatically...that is...",
could you be asking for something like the "filmstrip" file format
that Adobe Premiere and Photoshop supports, where you can take video
footage in premiere, and the file format turns it into a "strip" of
still images, which can then be altered, one after the other within
photoshop?

Also, Premiere, like many good video editing packages, can save off
any video as nothing but still images, sequentially named.

www.dvgarage.com has some affordable tools with free trials.

I have seen the guy that runs this site on TechTV so I went to
techtv.com and searched for "dvgarage".  Lots of stories will be
returned that give you an idea of what the software does.

The following link talks about how their software can read motion
capture data:

http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/showtell/story/0,24330,3383905,00.html

Get both of these software packages

Final Cut Pro V3.0
Adobe After Effects V 5.5

FCP will help you edit the video while AAE will help you with 3D and doing effects