Mocha to After Effects Tutorial Pt. 1

[dathanb]

Where I can get the footage that you are using in all your videos?

[o0curiousturtle0o]

@dathanb Some of the footage is available if you buy the main Curious Turtle training products. But some is (like these packs) are not available for download.

Hope you get some good info out of the video anyway.

[ParanormalEnities]

Great tutorial!!



[scampbl]

Was that a real time rotoscope? I HAVE TO KNOW!

[o0curiousturtle0o]

@scampbl I'd love to say yes, but no :o) It was a quick roto sped up in post. Not any people want to watch a roto at normal speeds!

[AStickManProductions]

Oh my god. Mocha, is, the best!

[DvT093]

Can't you do motion trackign with AE itself? Then what's the difference with Mocha?

[o0curiousturtle0o]

@DvT093 Two very different motion trackers.

AE - Point tracker. Fast, but has a habit of getting confused with noisy footage, motion blur etc. Also need at least two consistently good points to track more than position.

Mocha - Planar tracker. Easy to get great tracks from tough footage - simple to offset tracking shape. Gives position, scale, rotation and distortion data as simply as getting simple position data.

Tracking data easily ties in to roto shapes, making rotoscoping much faster.

[MartinMauricioMusic]

Whenever I begin to track, towards the end as it is about to finish it stops and a window appears stating that "the tracking has stopped prematurely". It then asks me to reduce or minimize the pixel use for better results? Can anyone help?! much appreciated! Also it seems that the premature tracking is interfering with the file once it is pasted into AE . . .

[pwnage2own]

@MartinMauricioMusic that usually happens when the object you're tracking goes out of view, or maybe it changed form or something. If you're using the exact same footage in AE, there shouldn't be any problems.

[MartinMauricioMusic]

@pwnage2own Alright cool, Thank You!

[pavlatoar]

nice!

[DesignerLukeFX]

Nice Tutorial but why dont you just re-shoot with the cinemon chewing gum lol

[o0curiousturtle0o]

@DesignerLukeFX Only if you're paying the bill :o) Thanks for the comment.

[jshawn777]

hey uh i need help pls for some reason when i press the track button it gives me a "tracking ended prematurely" message pls help been stuck with this for a month now any help will be appreciated

[TheAlexChine]

Hi I got a really Breaking nerves Trouble, Three days without answer...

So ir it's:

I am working on a Traking video Shot with The Red camera 2K 2:1

2028 *1024

Sorry in advance if my English is not that good ...

[o0curiousturtle0o]

@TheAlexChine That's fine. There should be no problems tracking RED stuff. You just have to convert the footage to an image sequence or Quicktime movie first. Make sure the Pixel Aspect Ratio is set to 1 (HD) in the Clip tab.

[o0curiousturtle0o]

@pyProgrammer96 Yeah, I'm a bit old skool with that :D Trust me, if I know trends, in 15 years everyone will be back on the Alt-Tab for the true retro feel!

[skateboard19952006]

can I download mocha somewhere and use is with after effects cs3 ?????

[o0curiousturtle0o]

@skateboard19952006 Go to Imagineer Systems site. All the data can be used with CS3 (and any version above or below)

[jmeddnumba1]

Hey man, nice tutorial, i was wondering as i am new to windows 7 how to bring up that little thing in the middle of your screen with all your windows on it to change between them easily,

Answers would be much appreciated,

-Jonny

[o0curiousturtle0o]

@jmeddnumba1 Hi! You can do that with Alt+Tab and move between all open applications.

[jmeddnumba1]

@o0curiousturtle0o I found out awhile back, but thankyou.

I like using the Windows+Tab now as i can see what im doing on those wiindows ;)

[Th3Z0ne]

I didn't know Jimmy Carr was fluent in Mocca, pretty cool. Nah just messing, great tutorial and really helped me out.

Muchos gracias senor!

[jordofred]

thats great but HOW DO YOU GET MOCHA!

[o0curiousturtle0o]

@jordofred It comes as part of the CS4 or CS5 AE package. Or go to the Imagineer Systems site.

[TDMinfinityS]

how to minimize it? please help

[o0curiousturtle0o]

@TDMinfinityS Go to the preferences and choose "Window" in the UI Look and Feel. Restart the app and you're good to go!

[magkas16]

hi there great tutorial actually.but i have a problem with mocha. Everything starts ok, I import the clip and choose the destination folder.

But everytime i create an xspline layer and press the button to track forward or track next frame an error pops up saying "Couldn't write file cache. Please ensure that the cache directory specified in preferences is not full or write protected"

I had never encountered this problem before and i had used mocha before many times.. :/

[magkas16]

@magkas16 am i missing something?

I would very much appreciate a reply, as mocha is probably the most important program i have along with AE

thanks in advance

[o0curiousturtle0o]

@magkas16 Is your drive full or did you unplug a removable drive? Basically it's saying that it can't write to your disk for some reason. Go to Prefs and it's at the bottom. If you have it set to the default option, you've probably filled up your system drive.

Don't forget to restart mocha once you have changed this setting.

[magkas16]

@o0curiousturtle0o I fixed it finally. Thanks man, really appreciate your help :)))

[o0curiousturtle0o]

@xMRxGaMeRz Just start a new project and use the import wizard that shows up there.

[o0curiousturtle0o]

@magkas16 If it's tracking but not perfectly then I think it could be a problem with pixel aspect ratio. In mocha what is it set to in the Clip > Film tab? If you're working with CS4 or above make sure it's set to CS4 aspect ratios *before* you start to track. Other thing could be the frame rate. Check that the keyframe data matches from the mocha data to the AE project.

I go through this stuff in more detail in the Rock Steady course.

Thanks for the comment!

[o0curiousturtle0o]

@magkas16 640x480 is a square pixel format, so weirdly "HD" is the correct setting. Are you sure that your AE project is set to square pixels to? Hit Ctrl-K (Cmd-K on Mac) and check the composition settings there.

[NinjATuNaFLip]

can u use m2t files in mocha?

[o0curiousturtle0o]

@NinjATuNaFLip No. You'll have to transcode them to another format. What you can do is use the tracking data from that file back on your original footage. So no loss of quality. I show how to do that in one of my paid tutorial courses (Tracked).

It works and isn't tricky at all.

[AgentEnigma]

Cheers big ears

[ezelop]

In Spanish?

[ArturCherkasov]

Thanks!

[232laser]

buen tutorial man, muy bueno, y por favor sube mas tutoriales, gracias.

[o0curiousturtle0o]

Thanks. Really appreciate it.

[CharmerLlama]

Great tutorial! Thanks

[o0curiousturtle0o]

No problem. Thanks for the comment.

[r2builder]

Thanks.

[o0curiousturtle0o]

My pleasure. Check out my channel for other Mocha stuff.

[GaliexpoReven]

hey great work on the tutorial!!!

just wondering are u using Windows 7 64 bit, or Vista 64¿?¿?

Great Tutorial man, Peace!

[o0curiousturtle0o]

This tutorial was done on Vista 32, and the original project on XP! Looking forward to the move to Windows 7 64 though.

Can never have too much raw power for this stuff!

[michael86734]

hey cool tutorial it looks like a cool program

to learn I think its allot easier then shake

can you stabilize video? and can you import 3D models

or 2D? cool cheers michael..

[o0curiousturtle0o]

Good comment. You can use that same tracking data to stabilize video by using it a bit differently.

Check out my other tutorials or go to the Curious Turtle website and look at the Rock Steady training course.

You have to use lots of workarounds to work with 3D models in After Effects and it's still a bit limited. After Effects is a 2.5D application really.

[mulletlogic]

jesus god.. fast rotoscope!

[o0curiousturtle0o]

This has everything to do with hundreds of hours of practice.

Nothing to do with speeding up the video for the tutorial. Absolutely nothing :)

Thanks for the comment.

[philipanddown]

hahaha

[ClintWRea]

holy cow man, that would've taken me 5 minutes hahaha

[mulletlogic]

i hear that.. im a singer and i know all about the hundreds of hours. singing is like breathing to me now.. except.. easier.. haha.. :P

[MADDKNOCKER]

just got this program, how do you input text?

[DragunnLabbStudios]

5/5 Fav...keep it up

[o0curiousturtle0o]

Thanks for the comment. Good luck in your projects.

[DragunnLabbStudios]

Thank you, you as well, best wishes, i'll stay in touch to learn more from your vids, thank you again...