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Serious Firepower

I recently had the opportunity to create some tutorials for Imagineer Systems highlighting some of the key features of their new product, Mocha for After Effects Version 2… and I have to admit, we’ve had a lot of fun making them.

If you’re not familiar with their products, check them out. They really make some great stuff. Now that I’ve become accustomed to doing tracking and rotoscoping in Mocha, I doubt I’ll ever go back to doing it in After Effects except for the simplest of jobs.

In the first tutorial, we demonstrated some of the key tracking features of Mocha for After Effects including planar tracking, the adjust track module, and exporting tracking data to After Effects. I also tend to think that it’s a cool tutorial simply because it involves my wife, a high-power handgun, and flames.

…speaking of which, our friends at Artbeats were kind enough to allow us to use their flame footage in the tutorial and include it for free with the project files. So even if you don’t have Mocha yet, it’ll be worth your time to download the project files along with the tutorial so you can play with the source footage on your own.

 

  1. Mark Fogarty Apr 15th 2009

    Carl

    Thanks for the excellent tutorial… our ministry recently purchased CS4 Production Premium and, to be honest, I totally overlooked Mocha amongst the goodies received.

    Thanks for expanding my software world, after going to their site I can see how using Mocha would be a giant leap forward for rotoscoping and tracking.

  2. Carl Apr 15th 2009

    Thanks, Mark.

    Like any tool, you have to be willing to learn how to use it to get the best results, but I’ve definitely enjoyed working with Mocha AE.

  3. Eran Apr 15th 2009

    Wonderful tutorial Carl, Sharp, Good pace and very useful technique as always – Keep on the great job buddy, I’m proud of you :-)

  4. Carl Apr 15th 2009

    It’s an honor, Sir. Thanks, Eran.

  5. George Andreoni Aug 18th 2009

    Carl,
    Its very good tutorials, USA as a clear language and excellent learning. Download files from this tutorial but the angel_gun_2 is not playing in quicktime, video is just black.
    Maybe you could please check for the QuickTime plugin which needs to run the video, because I could not find.
    If not it could be posting the video in another format?
    Sure your understanding and help, thank you.

  6. Carl Aug 18th 2009

    George –

    The tutorial is currently pointing to an old link which contains Sony XDCAMEX footage. Since you don’t have the codec on your system, you aren’t seeing the picture.

    We’re working on getting the files switched out to a generic H.264 file.

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