Thank you for the answers. I am indeed trying to use mostion capture data to animate my game models. I found this motion capture software package that looks like it works pretty good, and is on sale atm. it *looks* like it makes motion capture as simple as hooking up a kinect camera (or some playstation eye cameras) and hitting record on the software.

Im sure theres more to it than that, but the idea of desktop motion capture that I could actually afford is just exciting me.

I already know that I can use it in DAZ studio to animate my renders, but if i could use it for MED model animation as well, that would make it easily worth the price.

I'll check out Blender, Mr. Guest. If it can import and BVH file and export to a .3ds file, that makes things relatively simple. MED can import .3ds.