Cleaning motion captured animation curve?

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Hey,

I'm working with some motion captured data, since Houdini doesn't have a retargeting feature, the only way I could managed some sort of retargeting is by using blend constraint and bake the constrain in order to have the animation transferred.

Now, the animation comes ofc on each keyframe and I want to simplify the animation curve by reducing the keyframes. In 3ds max there is this option of simplifying the curve but I couldn't find anything similar in Houdini.

Is there something that I can use to achieve that?

Thanks
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RMB on parm/Keyframes/BakeKeyframes
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Animation Editor/Edit/BakeKeyframesOfSelectedSegments

check Refit Segments, set your tolerance, potentialy set the range or play with other settings, Accept
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Thank you for the detailed answer. It's exactly what I needed and it works great.

I'm using iphonex to track the face expressions and that comes out as blend shapes but I'm using nulls constraint to surface and then bake the constraint on those nulls so I get the keyframes and now everything is more manageable since I can simplify the animation curve.
Edited by azeroc - May 20, 2019 12:27:56
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