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If you would be willing to switch to Maya you can just switch to Maya Live and model and animate while looking at the footage/tracking devices.
I'm not sure if 3DS Max can use movies as a background- but you could link a plane to the camera and make it transparent with the models and full smoothshading and textures viewable.Then when rendering either take to plane out and just add the video in through Alpha Channels etc.. in Premiere, Combustion, Shake etc.
Just make sure that there are no Bleeding Color Edges or Lighting differences of it will look very crappy