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Gerald Harris
July 29, 2013 at 11:09 pm in reply to: Tracking, Mocha, Masking or both?

I see what was going on. As long as I used a solid or clip that was the size of my main comp( 1920×1080 ) and applied the tracking/corner pin data to it, it would scale down and fit the spot I tracked.

Thanks for the help and I’ll take a look at that link; I need more practice at this and the track adjustment feature in Mocha!
Gerald Harris
July 19, 2013 at 1:02 am in reply to: Tracking, Mocha, Masking or both?

I found something out. As long as the object I want to corner pin is a video, pasting the Mocha data onto it makes it snap right into place like it’s supposed to! But a JPEG or shape results in things disappearing. I really appreciate your help with this. I love what Mocha can do and the corner pin with video is very accurate. Now I just need it to work with a still image 🙂
Gerald Harris
July 18, 2013 at 11:54 pm in reply to: Tracking, Mocha, Masking or both?

You were right! I’ve got the perfect track in Mocha AE – I can use the ” insert clip ” option to display the Mocha logo and it flawlessly does what I want it to do in AE. I export the tracking data from frame one, select ” After Effects Corner Pin ” and ” copy to clipboard “. In AE I have a basic comp of the windows and a picture. Once I’m back in AE, I paste the Mocha data onto the image, not the video( video is the first layer and the picture is second layer ) every time I paste it I either get an outline of something with no image, a track path with no image or a black screen with a tiny mask of the video.

All of the tutorials I’ve come across are for older version of Mocha and AE and the steps I’ve taken should make the image snap right to where I tracked the object in Mocha. Is there a different way of getting the data into AE in CC now or am I missing something else?
Gerald Harris
July 17, 2013 at 2:05 am in reply to: Tracking, Mocha, Masking or both?

One more question. Mocha does a great job of tracking those windows, but if I wanted to fill in the panes with black accurately, is there an easy way to do that?

My first thought was to make a black solid layer beneath the footage and somehow cut the white portions of the panes out revealing the black. Is there an easy way to do that?
Gerald Harris
July 15, 2013 at 2:11 am in reply to: Tracking, Mocha, Masking or both?

Thank you so much, Erik. I’m using Ae CC and tried the camera tracker as you suggested. It wasn’t the exact effect I had envisioned, but I like the results and it’s really easy to attach text and keep it stable compared to just motion tracker.

Now that I’m finally at the section of the clip with the windows, I’ll start messing with mocha.