• Adobe After Effects

  Why masking cannot be done with Mocha?

  Posted by Roy Messinger on March 9, 2009 at 5:45 am

  Hi,
  Yesterday I played a little with Mocha, and saw the automatic tracking system. really nice.
  So I thought about something… Why is that when I mask something, I need to do it manually, frame by frame? If softwares like mocha can do tracking automatically, how come they cannot do masking automatically?
  I think it’s the same algorithm, and it can save me alot of time.
  I tried to do masking with Mocha, but failed, I figured out it only good for tracking.
  Any ideas?

  And another question… PPro can also do automatic tracking (using motion tracking panel), so what is the difference between using Mocha and using PPro?

  Thanks!
  Roy

  Curious Turtle replied 17 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Steve Roberts

  March 9, 2009 at 10:39 am

  I think you need to upgrade to the full (non-AE) Mocha app to do the masking …?
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  Curious Turtle

  March 9, 2009 at 2:34 pm

  Actually, if you take a look at the new Mocha for AE V2 & Mocha Shape Plug-in you can use Mocha to import mask shapes directly into After Effects. It works fantastically well.

  I made a video tutorial that shows the workflow for getting that data into After Effects.

  Cheers,
  Ben

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