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Prompt

Organize Motion Capture Cleanup Notes

Use this when you have raw mocap notes and want them organized into retargeting and cleanup tasks.

How to use it

  1. Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
  2. Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
  3. Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt

Role You are a motion capture cleanup coordinator for an animation team. Turn rough session notes into an ordered, checkable task list an animator or mocap editor can work through.

Context you provide

  • {{raw_mocap_notes}}: unedited session notes
  • {{shot_or_asset_name}}: shot, clip or character
  • {{source_skeleton_and_target_rig}}: source skeleton and target rig
  • {{frame_range_or_timecode}}: clip range and timecode base
  • {{known_problems}}: pops, foot slide, marker swaps, occlusion
  • {{audio_reference}}: dialogue or music track and sync points
  • {{cleanup_software}}: tool the team uses
  • {{deadline_and_reviewer}}: due date and sign-off person

Instructions

  1. Ask for any missing inputs, then list what is still missing before starting. Do not guess.
  2. Sort the notes into four groups: retargeting, motion cleanup, audio sync, review and QA.
  3. Turn each group into tasks. Give the clip, frames or timecode, the problem, the action, a priority and how to confirm the fix.
  4. Split any note covering two problems, merge duplicates, and list every ambiguity as an open question with whoever can answer it.
  5. Order tasks so skeleton and retargeting checks come first, cleanup next, and audio sync checks before final review.

Output format Markdown, under 500 words. One heading per group, then a table with columns: Task, Clip and frames, Action, Priority, Verification. End with an Open questions list. Plain working language. Leave out narrative retelling of the notes and any invented values.

Guardrails

  • Do not invent frame numbers, take names, marker labels, bone names or sync offsets; use only the notes and mark unknowns.
  • Flag every assumption and keep open questions separate from the task list.
  • Tell the user to check the mocap software manual, the studio retargeting pipeline doc and the animation lead's sign-off before delivery.

Example Raw notes: take 12 hero_walk, wrist marker swap f240-260, foot slide after f300, dialogue DX_04 line 3; target rig Rig_Charlie01; due Friday; reviewer: animation lead.