Quick Introduction to Mocha AE - Complete Walkthrough [NEW Boris FX Mocha AE]
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- Enjoy this intro tutorial to Boris FX Mocha AE - the Emmy award-winning planar tracking and masking plug-in bundled inside Adobe After Effects. See Mocha in a Minute and then take a more leisurely tour through your first project. Learn how to effectively track a screen, choose the right shapes to track and avoid common problems. In After Effects you'll apply motion tracking and masking data to complete your composition.
Video tutorial covers:
How to apply the Mocha AE plug-in.
Use Mocha AE for advanced planar motion tracking.
Use Mocha AE for advanced roto with tracked masks.
How to use Mocha tracking data in After Effects.
How to use Mocha masking data in After Effects.
Learn more about Mocha and Mocha Pro here : bit.ly/30FLFMZ
// U S E F U L L I N K S //
Download the footage and project here : bit.ly/mocha-quick-start
Watch the full Mocha Essentials course for free : borisfx.com/free-training/moc...
Watch the Co-planar Explainer video : borisfx.com/videos/mocha-expl...
Watch the 6 Top Mocha Mistakes video : borisfx.com/videos/top-6-moch...
//C H A P T E R L I S T //
00:00 Intro
00:23 Mocha in under a minute
01:13 Walkthrough - Adding Mocha to your footage
01:54 Mocha Workspace layouts
03:13 Creating the tracking shape
04:30 What to do before tracking
07:08 Using track mattes
08:25 Track options
09:11 Tracking the shapes
10:35 Trimming layers in Mocha
11:20 The most important lesson for Mocha AE
11:50 The Surface
12:59 The Grid
14:33 Inserting an image into the Surface
14:58 Creating a refined mask shape
16:01 Linking layers together
16:56 Making an exact mask shape
18:15 Using Mocha track data in After Effects
20:46 Using Mocha shape data in After Effects
22:38 The Handy Mocha Checklist
23:00 Conclusion - บันเทิง
This is the video I've been waiting for. Thanks! Now it's time to know this software :)
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Hola. gracias!! gracias!! no me animaba a aprender algo más y necesitaba usar Mocha para algunos efectos de A.Ef. y acá encontré una gran explicación para aprender. Gracias!! Saludos de Argentina. Carlos
Very helpful Mocha AE tutorial in my youtube search. Thanks a lot.
Excellent. That's what we love to hear!
Joy to watch.
Thank you. I'm glad you found it useful.
👍🏻 Compact, instructive, helpful and: didactically valuable. Thanks very much!
You're very welcome! Glad you got so much out of it.
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Perfect tutorial.
Thank you! Glad you found it so useful.
I love! And a lot smile! You're great at imitating!Greetings from Italy (near Venice)
Thank you so much!!
Finally some good explanation!
Glad it helped! Thanks for watching.
Thank you, this was a lovely tutorial! Very informative and engaging.
Thanks so much. We try to cover a lot in a short amount of time. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
thank for simple tutorial and useful
Thanks so much for the kind words. It's really appreciated.
Thank You for this video. It'c very usefull!
Thanks for watching and leaving a great comment. Appreciated!
wonderfull, very usefull
Excellent. Thanks for the comment.
impressive...very nice!
Thanks for the kind words!
Bel video spiegato molto bene grazie!!!!👋👍
Thank you so much.
This was so helpful. By far the most knowledgeable and easy to understand tutorial I've seen when it comes to Mocha and tracking. Thanks!
Thanks so much. I'm really glad you found it useful.
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Very easy and comfortable tutorial to learn for a beginner. Thanks a lot.
You are welcome! Thanks for watching all the way through. If you want to learn more about Mocha, we have a full free training series called Mocha Essentials. You can probably skip to Exercise 03 after watching this one : borisfx.com/free-training/mocha-essentials/
A professional level of tutorial. Thanks.
Always a pleasure. Thanks for leaving a comment.
This was a fantastic video tut, and just in time for a nearly identical project my granddaughter wants to work on tomorrow. Thank you for this!
Wonderful! Hopefully you found it helpful for your project.
Thank you so much!! I was wondering why my track looked jittery and poor and it’s because i forgot to precomp & fit to comp. Thank you!!!!!
That's the one that catches out a lot of people! Glad you managed to figure it out.
This was incredbly easy to understand, thank you so much, i was afraid buying it was going to be a waste of money cuz i wouldn't know how to use it but not anymore, thank you agian.
You're very welcome. Thank you so much for the kind words. If you want to go even deeper in the training if you need to, with our free Essentials course here : borisfx.com/free-training/mocha-essentials/
Great tutorial. I would however suggest to use the rototool (for a bit more advanced follow up) for the finger instead of the second more precise track...
You could do that if it works for your shot. But remember, you already have the main track data available to create your finger already. That might offer more flexibility if your finger has a lot of motion blur or doesn't key easily with the rototool.
Really useful, thanks Ben
Happy to help! Glad you found it useful.
brilliant, I've paid for online courses on this and they where poor, thesis great
Thanks so much for the kind comment.
This is great. What if this phone is in front of a TV though? I am trying to do two screen replacements where the phone partially covers the TV.
It's basically the same. You'll have to do the process twice. At the end you will have multiple layers though; the original, the TV insert, the phone insert, and any foreground objects in front of the phone.
This comment is for mocha pro, I always think what if mocha can provide us with the facility to track using different planner trackers within the same layer independent of each other just like we track in Syntheyes or PFTrack. I mean to say we need to have full control over each shape in a layer which is being used for a co-planner track, Like its duration, deactivation at the time of any occlusion and manual keyframing along with parametric animation like when should a particular shape become the part of the entire track and when it should isolate itself just to provide enough tracking data to get a solid track.
I hope I'm not as vague as I consider myself lol. But I can create a demonstration video about what I think needs to be the part of mocha pro.
Please post this video on the Mocha Pro forum. It will be easier to see what want like that. Thanks for wanting to make Mocha Pro better!
@@BorisFXco Sure
Hi, great tutorial, thanks for that. Now, I'm having a problem when I export and apply the tracked data to a layer (the screen footage), it doesn't stay exactly in the place of the screen, it runs in such a way that it is outside the composition. I have followed all the steps! what can it be?
Thanks for the comment. I think you're running into mistake #6 from this video : borisfx.com/videos/top-6-mocha-ae-problems-common-track-data-mistakes/
Is your insert layer *exactly* the same size as your background layer/composition? If not, it will do exactly this. Simply pre-compose the insert layer and rescale it so that it fits to the edges, and your track data will work as you expect.
@@BorisFXco I keep having this same issue and my layers are the same size. I precomposed and tried with the image being the same size itself. Nothing works, my video ends up being tracked at the bottom right of the screen :( I've tried with different projects too, I can never get it to work..
I followed the first minute of your tutorial. My precomp with my picture in it is even the same size/dimensions as my normal comp, and after I followed your steps, my picture looks squished.
Does it looked squished in the precomp? If not, it should! Right-click on the layer in the AE timeline, then go to Transform > Fit to Comp. It should look a bit goofy, but when you go back into your main comp it will look correct.
Hi, Random but i do videos with narration and wanted to know how did you get your audio like that? i have a shure mv7 and cant get the dead silence and crispness you have in this video
Sorry for the late reply. Room treatment is the biggest "secret" to this. There was quite a lot of work that went in to the choice and positioning of different audio absorbers, diffusers and even mic placement. A lot of this you can probably cheat with Crumplepop now though! crumplepop.com/ A bit of light EchoRemove and AudioDenoise goes a long way!
Do you know how I would export the x and y positions from mocha instead of a combined position?
If you're using the plugin and After Effects 2023 or above, Mocha will automatically paste the separated X and Y positions onto a layer, if you have the dimensions separated in After Effects. If you needed X or Y on its own, you can take them from there. Does that help? If not, what are you trying to do with the data afterwards? Maybe I can help with that.
If there are more fingers on the screen, what should be done to track?
Do the same as with the single finger. Cut out any objects that aren't coplanar. If the fingers are just sat on the screen, but aren't moving, you may use those as part of the track, if they are co-planar with the screen.
i followed the instructions from you from begining and do it repeatly, but my screen replace wont placed to the screen that i tracked on mocha ae. whats wrong with it? any solution? :(
Any of these help : borisfx.com/videos/top-6-mocha-ae-problems-common-track-data-mistakes/
im rounding my edges but then when i go to insert clip and choose "grid 16x16" your grid doesnt the edges as rounded. how do you fix this?
The edges of the shape are used for tracking and masking. The corner pin/Insert will be a straight-lined quad. To round the edges, use Apply Matte in the plugin parameters back in After Effects.
can you help me understand how to make adjustments once ive saved the tracking.. for example I want o change my screen shape as its bait off but after going back into mocha doing the change and then saving im stuck on how to make it change in after effects? I apply the export again but it makes the screen replacement go a funny shape and shrink? thanks
Absolutely. The problem here is probably that you didn't clear the corner pin effect that was applied the first time around. Now you have two corner pins making the screen go all strange. Always delete the old corner pin effect and hit the Create Track Data button again after making adjustments.
You can find other quick tips to solve problems like these here : borisfx.com/videos/top-6-mocha-ae-problems-common-track-data-mistakes/
This isn't the most easy to find video so I like to link it whenever I can!
Good luck on your project.
@@BorisFXco amazing thanks for the reply, i actually worked this out in the end. Ill still watch the lesson. Im interested in paying to learn as i want to improve.
I have another question if you could help me out.. ive put so many hours in trying to get this right as its an important project and i dont want it to look amateur.. i wish i could send you a video but ill do my best to explain here .
So ive tracked my screen, added an planer shape (rectangle) to the screen and added my pre comp to the tracking data.. all good… my issue is making it fit better and selling the effect.. ive tried using key light to take the green from the original content but the issue with this is for that to work the pre comp needs to be under the keylight (original clip) to be seen… but for the screen to show up with my tracking i was told the pre comp should sit ‘ontop’ of my original(tracked) clip…
So the im struggling to get the key light way to work..
So i looked into how can i manually change the shape of the screen thats shown in the finial composition.. this bit is where i get lost.. so the blue planar is also the area that will show my precomp image/video.. but what if i want to cut a shape like the design of the phone to sell the effect?
I was told i could ‘’mask it’ but thats vague and im not sure of the process.. so ive tried converting the trackdata to an AE mask so i could play with the shape but it makes everything go black on my screen except the phone im ‘add’ mode.. so i click ‘subtract’ and then the image returns but the phone screen disappears!
Im really stuck on how i can get my video clip to sit neatly inside the phone rather than a over the top shape… can you help me understand the tools and process .. thanks
We've got some tutorials that cover that exact scenario.
If you want to see the keying version check this out : th-cam.com/video/VYxN1g9pjOg/w-d-xo.html
Then there's another one that goes into creating a copy of your original clip and putting it at the top with a mask here : th-cam.com/video/wUtuMFyCaIk/w-d-xo.html
...so I save the project, close mocha, and nothing. When I go back into mocha my track is not tracked anymore. Why?
Something is definitely off here. Like I said in the previous comment, please let us know more through Support or the forums and we'll get to the bottom of this > forum.borisfx.com/ or support.borisfx.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
After Effects 2021
Mocha Pro 2023 work in software plz replay
Yes. This combination should work fine. Please check out the Mocha documentation on the website for full details
Does it work with FCP ?
No. Mocha comes as part of some Continuum FCP filters but not as a separate plugin : fcp.borisfx.com/continuum-fcp-units
"Could not calculate centre point at frames 0 - 381 " ?
This sounds like there's something strange happening with your track. Can you let us know a bit more about your project and maybe a screenshot or short screen recording. If you post this to the forums or directly to Support, we'll be able to help you more there : forum.borisfx.com/ or support.borisfx.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
This did not work at all. I am trying to fit a 9x16 video into a phone screen video and when I do all the steps including the pre comp, it just layers the pre comp all distorted, it does not fit within the bounds of the phone at all.
Make sure when you precomp, that your precomp is the same size as the original clip (16:9). Stretch the 9:16 video to fit the bounds of the precomp, and then when you're back in the main comp, everything should look great. If you're still having an issue, join us on the forums : forum.borisfx.com/
You may find this video helps. It's the most common problems and their solutions : borisfx.com/videos/top-6-mocha-ae-problems-common-track-data-mistakes/
Ben wants to continue when he swiped one picture changed to another
Always! Have to save that part for a different tutorial though
@@BorisFXco I agree the lesson is excellent, and most importantly with the footage, I tracked in standalone, saved the project, then drove it to AE everything is fine
I laughed out loud at the "T in their tummies" joke. That was an unexpected delight.
I'm happy to say that hit quite a lot of people. 😂
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