John – thank you SO MUCH for putting this together! This is really above and beyond the call of duty. Once again I am swamped with other things but I will try this out sometime in the next couple of week hopefully. I’m not that experienced with AI so I might have some annoying questions at that point. Again I really appreciate the effort you put…

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Hi John –

Thanks for replying – and so sorry to leave you hanging! I got taken off the project where I was tracking this knife, and had to deal with a stack of other things, and now I’m back on it.

We don’t have any stock footage like that – but the problem is basically the same as the one outlined here at around 6:37 –

https://www.youtube.com/watc…

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Hi!

I having trouble with a track and hoping you wizards can help.

I signed an NDA so I can’t share images, but the problem is easy to describe.

I’m trying to track the surface of a shiny knife so I can add a blood streak.

Tutorials I’ve found are all for tracking things like monitors, phones, ipads etc. Normally I would draw a tracking spline…

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Hello All!
I’m not allowed to post pics of what I’m working on but the scenario is pretty simple: I’m coloring an object in a shot by masking it with a power window:

I drew the power window, did my color corrections, set the first keyframe to dynamic, move ahead a couple frames to tweak the power window, and do this until I’m at the end. I’ve never…

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Yes – it is RGB. Is that right or wrong?

Hi Hector,

restarting AE / ending task doesn’t work, but thanks for the suggestion. In terms of problems in the file format – what should I be looking for?

Thanks,

-j

Thanks Eric – this is how I had it formatted:

Hi all –

I’m in Mocha Pro in After Effects 2023 and have run into another annoying wall.

The project I’m working on has me using the power mesh to track on a little patch to hide the edge of a malfunctioning prosthetic nose.

I’m using the Insert Module to do this, but when I bring my patch as a .tiff from photoshop, I get this message: “Failed to…

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Getting mocked at work is an important part of the process!

My friends,I’m in Mocha Pro in After Effects. I’m trying to use the mesh tracker to track in a little patch to cover the edge of a character’s prosthetic nose. I signed an NDA so I can’t post anything here unfortunately, but I’m sure if seeing the nose would actually help that much. Here was my process:
Masking Tab

> Draw mask
> Set Uniform grid

>…

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Thanks Andy! Unticking the perspective did it. I also was tracking a wall unnecessarily which might have been confusing the situation…

Hey All –

In a previous post, I was asking for help in getting my clean plates to stop drifting around, but there are deeper levels to my troubles.

The object being removed is over a rug, and getting the pattern of the rug to line up has been the hardest aspect of dealing with this shot. I’m set to “use clean plates exclusively” and step is set to…

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Hey gang,

Dr. Stupid over here needs some tracking / remove / clean plate advice.

I’m getting a lot better with tracking, but my clean plates are still sliding around. I’m attaching a screenshot to let you see what all I’m dealing with in this shot. The piece is shot in sort of a verite style, so the camera moves around a bit.

I tracked the wall…

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Hi Hector –

Thanks for your response! It actually turned out to be two things: 1. I found that there was an overlapping occlusion mask right over the object I was removing, and 2. turning off “perspective” on my floor and wall tracks got the planar movement under control.

Thanks again,

-Josh

Hi all….

I’m having trouble removing objects from a shot (I’m in Mocha Pro hosted in After Effects 2023).

I think I’m following the steps right: 1. track and mask occlusions, 2. track the object to be removed, 3. track the floor and then the wall, 4. render from the remove module.

Even with a clean plate, literally nothing happens – no inserted…

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Thanks Graham –

I’m actually not allowed to post it – BUT – the issue turned out to be a mesh expansion issue after all. I had it at the default value – the object being puppeted in the original clip has some movement of its own, and the mesh was getting confused about what was inside and what was outside. I set the expansion to 72 and that gave…

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Hi everyone –

I’m trying to apply puppet pins to an object that has a simple mask around it. When I move the pins to animate the object, part of it will bend with the pin, while a shard of it stays behind where it was

I re-did it with the object pre-comped but got basically the same result. I’ve also tried with the same object cut out using the…

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Thanks – turns out it was problem with the track after all – it was picking up objects that confused it and made it jump around….

Hi All ~

Dealing with another issue using the remove module in Mocha Pro, in After Effects.

It’s a short clip (88 frames) so I was able to do it with one clean plate on the first frame, and one on the last.

The area inside the removed object’s mask slides around – it’s a rug with a pattern so the movement is pretty obvious. Could this be an issue…

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Thanks Eric! Seems that the original background track was the issue – the area getting tracked was not underneath the object being removed. I think that’s what it meant by “no active layers”?

Hi –

I’m having trouble trying to remove an object from a shot – using the remove module in Mocha Pro, in After Effects. I think I’m following the tutorials properly: 1. track the object to be removed, 2. track an object that moves in front of it, 3. track the background, 4. make a clean plate in photoshop, and 5. back to Mocha.

The object to be…

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