[Lori Waite]

I think that’s a good plan that you suggest: that the mixer has access to all the WAV files along with the AAF file. I’m not in the same location as he (I’m in Nashville, he’s in L.A.) but all the files are in the cloud, I’m told.

My encounter with this issue of making an AAF plus a handful of other issues does make me wish I were back on Avid. In general, I find the Resolve NLE very glitchy, especially with audio files. Sometimes when I match frame to the original audio clip so I can replace the boom with the lav, for example, what ends up getting spliced onto the timeline is sound from a different take entirely. Like there’s corrupt media. (Maybe its once again the camera reference track.) Finding workarounds to all these glitches eats into valuable editing time.

As for trying to generate a proper AAF in Resolve, the Black Magic tech support person said the Resolve workflow is different from all of the other NLEs. For me to find out what Resolve’s AAF workflow is, I need to subscribe to Ripple.com and work through the tutorials. Amazing. I offered that maybe they should just include it in the Resolve manual. He didnt have a response to that.

Thanks for your help. I’m glad to know its I’m not missing something after all.

[Lori Waite]

Thanks again, Roei, for your help and for the words of encouragement and links!

[Lori Waite]

That was the ticket – thank you again, Roei! This was my first time using MOCHA and your demo explained so much to me of how it works. The next time I have a tricky tracking shot on a project that actually has a budget, I can look you up?

[Lori Waite]

Thank you, Roei – I could not have done this in a million years without your help! The demo you posted was invaluable. I was able to do the tracking effect successfully with only a little bit of movement when the van door is opened. Even though the track matte does not move when the man opens the door, the tracking of the logo gets bumped ever so slightly even though I tried many adjustments to fix this. If you have any thoughts, please pass them along. Otherwise, because the movement is so slight, I think I can get away with it.

Again, thank you for your expert help!
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[Lori Waite]

Great, thank you!

[Lori Waite]

Thanks for your response, Ross. The two videos you recommended were good and illuminating, thanks, but do you have a video to share that shows the offset tracking technique you refer to that is step-by-step and in detail?

[Lori Waite]

Thank you again, Mark, for you help. I’ve joined the BorisFX forum and will put this to good use!

[Lori Waite]

Thank you, Ross, for the tuturials. They have helped me in general with understanding how MOCHA ‘thinks.’

[Lori Waite]

Thank you, Roei, for your input. I’ve attached the uncolor-corrected shot. I’ve watched some BorisFX tutorials (as recommended by Ross of BorisFX on this thread) which have helped me in general with understanding how the software works, butI’m still have diffulty tracking this shot, as you can see. I could not get MOCHA to track the van’s exit screen right, so you can see how the logo speeds up and also the corner pins change shape. THe resulsts of my trying to get MOCHA to track smoothly past the edge of the shot. And, I’ve tried to fix this problem in AE, but end up making things worse.

THere’s also the issue of the logo getting pushed to the right when the door opens. Another thing I’ve tried to correct in AE by deleting the tracking keyframes at this spot, but, weirdly, it affects the logo’s positioning when the van is moving before it stops. It drifts to the left so that its ends up right by the keyhole. Frustrating.

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[Lori Waite]

Your comment clued me in that my in and out points for the tracking in Mocha were not at the hds and tls of the whole shot. And I pasted the MOCHA tracking data the hds of the shot, not where the inpoint was on the shot in MOCHA. Thank you for your help, Mark!