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  • Way to send footage to Mocha from after effects for ease when using Dynamic Link?

    Posted by Nick Shaw on August 16, 2011 at 12:34 am

    I often use Dynamic Link between premiere and After Effects. So with that I am sending a segment of a whole clip to after effects rather that just editing the whole clip. My question is can I do this from After Effects to Mocha (just that segment) without having to render out that segment from after effects and then open it in mocha and track it? Because I dont want to import the whole orignal clip and track that

    Roland R. kahlenberg replied 15 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Todd Kopriva

    August 16, 2011 at 12:46 am

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  • Nick Shaw

    August 16, 2011 at 1:03 am

    Well is there at least a workflow that can speed this process up? If I’m working on a 20 minute film with 40 different shots I have to track you’re telling me I have to use dynamic link, export the clip, and put it into mocha every time? Is there no more efficient way?

  • Roland R. kahlenberg

    August 16, 2011 at 4:43 am

    As per Todd’s reply, there is no dynamic link between Mocha and AE. Mocha needs a fully rendered file. What you can do is to import the entire original 20-minute clip into Mocha and use Mocha’s Project In/Out points to define each of the 40 clips that you want to track in Mocha.

    Further, each layer in Mocha can be defined into its own In/Out points relative to a project’s In/Out points. It’s up to you how you would like to track the 40 segments. I would separate them into groups of 5 tracks per project, just so that the Mocha project doesn’t get too heavy.

    You should also take note that importing a 20-minute clip will result in a long Cache time in Mocha. Therefore, I suggest that you store the 20-minute clip on a fast storage device and disable Mocha’s Cache when importing the said clip.

    HTH
    RoRK

    Intensive AE & Mocha Training in Asia.

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