Visual3D Principles

Metric values

This video discusses what metric values are and how you can use them in Visual3D. Metric calculations give you a single numerical value that can be analyzed on its own or compared with other metric values.

How to use active files

Within Visual3D, you can choose to view and process data from a single file, a group of files, or all files at once. This video discusses how to use active files to easily select data for analysis.

What are tags?

This video introduces the concept of tags in Visual3D and the advantages to using them. Tags are an easy way to categorize your files so that you can easily group them for calculations, pipeline actions, and reports.

Reports in Visual3D

Reporting data is a key part of communicating the findings from your biomechanics lab. This video discusses how you can use the “Reports” tab in Visual3D to create a customized report with the elements you want to analyze.

Computing model-based data

In this video, we explain the Compute Model Based Data feature in Visual3D and show an example of how to use it. This feature allows you to calculate your data using biomechanical models that have been scientifically validated.

Why use pipelines?

Once you’ve established the steps in your Visual3D workflow, you can automate the entire process through a pipeline. This not only ​saves time compared to manually completing the steps but it also reduces the potential for user error.

Visual3D workflow

This video walks you through a typical workflow in Visual3D: opening motion files, adding calibration files, defining segments, applying models, processing, creating reports, and outputting data.

Data collection to data analysis

This video discusses how to analyze your motion capture data as efficiently as possible. The key to a streamlined workflow is using Visual3D pipelines, which can automatically apply models, perform calculations, and output data.

Processing your data in motion capture software

Is it better to process motion capture data directly in the software or wait to do it in Visual3D? In this video, we discuss which types of data processing you might want to do in Visual3D, and which could be done before the data is exported to C3D.

Cropping your data

A common practice in data processing is to remove unwanted data from the beginning and end of a motion capture trial, but is it a good idea? This video discusses the advantages and disadvantages of cropping your data and shows a practical example.