Exporting Mocha track back into After Effects.

[Martin Brennand]

Hi Brute,

If you are using text, you will need to precompose the layer first, as a layer with different dimensions to the composition will be distorted with corner pin data. See here in the docs on how to do this:
https://www.imagineersystems.com/support/Documentation/exporting-tracks#idp24192

Martin Brennand | Product Manager | mocha – Imagineer Systems

[Tom Daigon]

Mocha is a very powerful but can be complicated to use if you dont spend the time learning how to correctly use it. Check out Google for tutorials. Its not something you can just open up and intuitively use.

Tom Daigon
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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

[Tom Daigon] “Check out Google for tutorials.”

Accck!!! We’ve had COW users who have been misled by a few horrendously misleading mocha tutorials on youtube. It becomes a huge task to have them un-learn the bad stuff.

I’d much prefer that we recommend folks to FIRST get a thorough grasp of mocha with Imagineer’s own set of online tutorials before they venture out into the woods on their own. This will allow them to be able to discern incorrect information as well as to properly experience the varied uses of mocha when watching other folks provide tracking examples/solutions.

Cheers
RoRK

Intensive mocha & AE Training in Singapore and Other Dangerous Locations

Imagineer Systems (mocha) Certified Instructor
& Adobe After Effects ACE/ACI (version 7)

[Brute Wolf]

Martin and Roland,

Thank you for your replies. I’ve been working through the lynda.com tutorials, but wasn’t aware there were tutorials on the Imagineer Systems website. (As for Google video tutorials, I prefer not to be trained by twelve year-olds, no matter how bright the kids are.) I’ll work through this over the next couple of days and let you know if I still need help. Thanks again.

Brute Wolf

[Tom Daigon]

Lynda.com is an excellent reliable source for training generally speaking. For more Mocha training check out Curious Turtle dvds.

https://www.curiousturtle.com/79-paid-tutorials/imagineer-systems-mocha/71-fundamentals-of-mocha-complete-freemium-tutorials.html

The Fundamental course is more detailed then even what Imagineer has to offer. And I dont think they have any smart 12 year olds on staff, since that seems to be an issue for you 😉

Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxPrG3WUyz8
(Best viewed at 1080P and full screen)
HP Z820 Dual 2687
64GB ram
Dulce DQg2 16TB raid

[Tom Daigon]

Ha ha Roland. When did you start using the editorial “We” when speaking about your personal preferences and experiences? Unless you suddenly have multiplied yourself into a group of people, it sounds a bit patronizing. 😉

Ignoring your presentation, you make a valid point about the internet. Generally speaking, there are great sources of training (Video Copilot) and not so great sources as well.

In another response I shared another good choice for Mocha training that “I” have found to have great courses (Curious Turtle). Their Fundamentals is better then anything I experienced even on the Imagineer website. 😀

Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxPrG3WUyz8
(Best viewed at 1080P and full screen)
HP Z820 Dual 2687
64GB ram
Dulce DQg2 16TB raid

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Hi Tom, I’m sorry if you found my post patronizing. Over the years, there have been a number of COW users who have been misled by very poor mocha tutorials on youtube. I know that there are excellent tutorials on youtube but it’s not sufficiently prudent to ask folks to reach into that domain when they are new or relatively new to mocha.

The time and effort required to ‘un-train’ a misled COW user is quite substantial where mocha is concerned.

HTH
RoRK

Intensive mocha & AE Training in Singapore and Other Dangerous Locations

Imagineer Systems (mocha) Certified Instructor
& Adobe After Effects ACE/ACI (version 7)

[Ross Shain]

Here are a lot of free mocha training links:

mocha Fundamentals: 4 hrs of free training. You can optionally purchase and download for a very fair price:
https://www.imagineersystems.com/mocha_Fundamentals

View all mocha training:
https://www.imagineersystems.com/videos?tagFilter=%25tutorial&sortBy=Newest

You can browse videos by tagged subject to find specific info.

mocha online documentation:
https://www.imagineersystems.com/support/Documentation/

Martin Brennand has done an amazing job of keeping this online documentation up to date.

Mathias Mohl/Mamoworld:
https://www.imagineersystems.com/videos?tagFilter=mochaImport&sortBy=Newest

Really excellent tutorials and AE script.

Lastly, you can purchase training from Curious Turtle. Anything from Ben Brownlee Heusner is recommended:
https://www.imagineersystems.com/products/training

Enjoy,
Ross

Ross Shain
Imagineer Systems
http://www.imagineersystems.com

[Brute Wolf]

Thanks! I appreciate the rapid responses.