Mocha to After Effects

A look at the delicate process of exporting Mocha tracking data to After effects. I've been receiving quite a few messages regarding this process, and also accidentally left it out of my previous tutorials. So here it is.

Hope it helps! Looking forward to making many more tutorials for you guys SOON!

Cheers,
SVANJA Productions ©2010

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[HallPassFilms]

WORST. PROGRAM. EVER. I export and badda bin bang jewish coordinates for every frame just random trash it calls motion

[svanjaproductions]

@HallPassFilms If you learn how to use it properly, then it works perfectly. This is a highly regarded piece of software in the film industry, and they can't be wrong :) Follow some of my other tutorials and maybe things will work out for you. Cheers.

[RedBird1997]

hello.. PLEASE HELP!! i did the exact same thing... and when i played the video in after effects, that square box's size will increase every second.. why!!???

[svanjaproductions]

@RedBird1997 hey man, make sure you have deselected "scale" in mocha... so that you're tracking with just "translation". If you need "translation", and "rotation"... track it with scale selected... then when you import into After Effects, just unclick the scale stopwatch on the null layer. That should stop the box's size from increasing. :)

[GangofThem]

hey, just curious, y do you reset the anchor points? . whats the reason for that

[svanjaproductions]

@GangofThem ask Imagineer Systems, lol... I have no real answer... I assume its just a perk of transferring the data between these two programs... :)

[HallPassFilms]

@kirkeric i did! it's a great program! I just had a rage quit thats all! look at the comment i wrote 4 comments down! i explained there! please do or else i will feel bad

[kirkeric]

@HallPassFilms I hope by now you have figured this out because this is a HUGELY popular program that does work. 

[kirkeric]

@RockerLittleE The reason it doens't make sense to you is because he was focused only on showing you how to properly bring in the tracking data. Tracking data equates to keyframes. You would then connect an object to that null to keep it hooked to the bushes he tracked. So, for example you wanted to place like a basketball on top of those bushes. You would use the tracking data to keep the ball precisely in place even while the camera moves.

[GHandPivot]

I didn't do that "reset anchor" point, but I tracked the entire scene in Mocha... did I do right :D ?

[thege1997]

i have tracked my thing and i did exactly same that you but then when i go to after effects i cant copy my traking it does nothing

[HallPassFilms]

@svanjaproductions sorry, i had an epic rage quit but as of now i am calm and have worked out the problem. thanks for the tutorials! :)

[BrotekkStudios]

@SlowMotionTechno That happened to me too. I just restarted everything and it worked again.

[RockerLittleE]

Don't quite understand why I would ever use this, but then I'm new to this stuff