Say I download a video from youtube and want to use that face animation on a metahuman, would this be possible with only the .mov file?
I try to use the .mov file as a capture source but it doesn’t show up in the footage ingest in the Capture Manager.
Is it only possible with an iphone and the livelink serivce and all that?
Hey there @ridrodrad! Welcome back to the community! So the official answer, natively you would either need an iPhone or a stereo capture device/HMC (head mounted camera), though the community has implemented some ways around this or even DIY stereo video. Here’s a couple resources:
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https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/comments/14mqkb4/diy_stereo_hmc_for_metahuman_animator/
We have an upgraded version for facial capture that uses an NVIDIA graphics card.
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