[Alexi Vanderstraeten]

First of all THANKS! For taking the time and for giving several options. I learned a lot from all this.

I understood and managed the first and third options but it’s not looking as good as I’ll like it to be. Nevertheless, a mix of option one and what I was already doing gave me the results.

For the second one, I blocked at point 4. It’s not following the window what so ever. As I wasn’t sure, I’ve try by setting the CTI at the first frame where the tracking starts (the one where we have the first information for the window to track) and as well set it to the first frame I started tracking from, the frame when we can see the window the best. Both give different results but none follow the window.

For the third one, I just found it not practical for compositing with precision, or I’m missing something.

Thanks!!!

[Alexi Vanderstraeten]

Thanks for your reply. It’s now corrected, the share wasn’t done properly.

In this one the Planar is set correctly:

This one is the same, tracked a few frame further and the planar moved out of the correct prespective:

This is the result I’m aiming at:

[Alexi Vanderstraeten]

My bad, even this version when rendering gives the same issues…

[Alexi Vanderstraeten]

10846_xmasadvertreducedv2.aep.zip

Try with this one.
I don’t know what you did but I recreated what you did from scratch and this way it works fine.

Can you please give me feedback if it works that way for you?

[Alexi Vanderstraeten]

In Mocha, I would use as much as possible of the wall, especially the lower part of it that has a different layout so Mocha can keep track of something.
I haven’t watched the Mocha tutorial you posted but by experience, when I started playing with Mocha, I found that YouTube tutorials use most of the time easy shots to track. I’ve had to use more keys in my tracking in general, going back and forth tracking back to the previous point each time I set a new key then tracking again forward.

[Alexi Vanderstraeten]

Is that the original quality of the footage? Because if so, yes, it doesn’t look like there’s any information for the veil using CC.

With Mocha and a bit of time you can get some result though. Gave it a quick try:
https://vimeo.com/193282723

[Alexi Vanderstraeten]

You could also set it to happen every 20 seconds then adapt it by removing and moving some manually afterward.

[Alexi Vanderstraeten]

I would say just making layers of the same image and on each one using a different mask to reveal only a part of it.
Then animate the whole thing by moving each part how you want it.
Adding some glow or any visual effects around it can help to make it look even more magical.

[Alexi Vanderstraeten]

The option to export directly do DNxHD from After Effects is not present on my After Effects. I can export to Quicktime with DNxhd codec but not directly into DNxhd MXF, no idea why. Found out several persons had that issue and used Adobe Media Encoder to do it.
Using the MXF instead of Automatic in Avid Link to Media did the trick.
Thanks for the help!

[Alexi Vanderstraeten]

I thought I understood what you were saying and couldn’t make it work but then when I found out what I though was another solution, it turned out to be yours.
Let me explain a bit better, in the last version of Avid, AMA plugin is installed by default but there’s not AMA import option available anymore. They change the name of the option to put everything under the option Link to Media.
I used that option in the first place but it never worked because I always use the automatic option. I never assumed Avid would not recognize a XMF file.
So, as you said, by selecting directly MXF from the Link to Media menu and import my footage, it worked!
Thanks for that!

Now I have another issue about the quality of the export form After Effect that I will post later in another section but will copy a link of it here as it’s link to the same workflow.