Human motion capture data, as a new type of multimedia data, is widely used in many areas because of its high fidelity, but the expensive motion capture equipment yields the high cost of the use of motion capture data. Therefore, the technologies of motion capture data reuse become the effective means to solve the problem. However, the complex structure and characteristics of motion capture data make the motion capture data reuse challenging. Even it has been researched for many years, there are still many problems to be solved and more attentions and research efforts are needed. In this paper, in terms of the important technologies used in the process of motion capture data reuse, we give introductions on the research significance, difficulties, strategy and used models of current methods and so on. And we give a detailed description on some representative methods. Finally, we conclude the research advances of motion capture data reuse and discuss the possible directions for future works. This aims to cause the deep thinking of this field and provides a valuable reference for the future research.