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mocha AE

By: Imagineer Systems

Description

mocha AE is a stand alone Planar Tracking and rotoscoping utility optimized for After Effects, Final Cut and Motion users. The advanced mask creation tools, simple user interface and copy/paste exchange with AE helps take the complications out of motion tracking and reduces keyframing headaches.

mocha AE helps solve problematic shots that challenge the built in tools of After Effects and FInal Cut by bringing advanced planar tracking and matte creation tools in a simple, easy to learn interface. Accurate roto masks can quickly be created with variable per-point edge feathering in record time. Included mocha shape plug-ins allow users to import roto shapes directly to an After Effects layer or Final Cut timeline. mocha AE generates corner pin, scale and transform tracking data as keyframes for the most accurate screen inserts and match moves.

A bundled version of mocha AE is included with Adobe After Effects CS4-CS6. The new mocha AE v3 adds features not included in the After Effects bundle including: 3D Camera Solver Module, mocha camera import plug-in for AE and the added support for Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion and Boris FX.

mocha AE v3 New Features

3D Camera Solve: Access Planar Tracker to solve camera motion for After Effects
New Roto Tools: Transform Tool and Join Layers designed to edit roto more efficiently
Layer Management: View, organize, color code and group layers
Dope Sheet: new keyframe editor simplifies animation. Copy & paste keyframes

mocha AE Features

2.5D planar tracking
64 bit optimized
Improved user interface
X-spline and Bezier roto tools with per-point edge feathering
Open EXR Support
Optimized for 64 bit operating systems
AdjustTrack module
mocha shape plug-ins to import roto data with variable per-point feathering.
Export 2D tracking to After Effects CS3-CS6, Apple Motion, Final Cut v7 and Boris FX.
Export 3D Camera and Null data to After Effects CS4-CS6.
Export roto masks to After Effects and Final Cut v7 (mocha shape FX plug included)

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Version / Release Updates

mocha v3.33 Released

Owners of valid mocha v3 licenses can use the auto-update software feature found in preferences OR manually install.

Videos

Mary Poplin, Imagineer Systems

Mary Poplin is an experienced visual effects artist who has worked on 3D Hollywood feature films such as The Last Airbender, Gullivers Travels, and Jackass 3D. As Imagineer Systems' west coast product specialist, Mary consults with studios and provides hands on training to help evangelize the power of mocha and planar tracking.

Advanced training with a signature quirky humor and style.

What is mocha Pro? Planar tracking and more.

Covers mocha features and comparison between mocha Pro and mocha AE.

Duration: 10:56 play now

Removing a Blemish. mocha Pro for Digital Retouching

Covers Remove Module and Clean Plates

Duration: 3:34 play now

How mocha Thinks.

Covers Remove Module and Clean Plates.

Duration: 16:06 play now

Aaron Benitez, The VFX Bro

VFX Bro creates popular viral videos, tutorials, presets, and scripts for the After Effects community. For more info and videos: www.vfxbro.com

Popular with AE users and the new generation of online indie filmmakers.

Make a Pikachu in After Effects & mocha: Part 1

mocha's tracking and rotoscoping for isolated color correction. Paste to AE.

Duration: 20:06 play now

Make a Pikachu in After Effects & mocha: Part 2

More tracking and roto to make an animal talk.

Duration: 11:32 play now

The Final Project

See the short film that has received over 1.5 million views.

Duration: 1:38 play now

Click here to view mocha V3 demo by Steve Wright at NAB 2012

Click here to view the mocha V3 demo by Mary Poplin at NAB 2012

Specifications & Licensing

System Requirements

Hardware Requirements

Recommended Hardware
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent
Memory: 4 GB +
Disk: High-speed disk array
Graphics Card: NVDIA Quadro FX 1500 or equivalent
Monitor: 1920x1200

Minimal Requirements

Processor: At least 1-GHz Pentium IV or PowerPC G4
Disk: At least 1 GB
Memory: At least 1 GB
Graphics card: Must support OpenGL
Monitor: Minimum resolution 1200x800 pixels

Working with high-resolution footage such as 2K or HD is very demanding on system resources, a system with at least 4 GB of system memory and 256 MB of texture memory should be used.

Operating System

Mac: Mac OS X 10.5.0 or higher, on Intel or PowerPC.

Windows: Windows XP Professional SP2 or higher, Windows Vista Business or Ultimate, Windows 7 on
x86 or x64.

Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, CentOS 4, or a compatible Linux distribution on i386 or x86_64.

Compatible Third-Party Software

mocha can export tracking and shape data to a selection of third-party visual effects software. These are
the versions we have tested:

Supported Exporting

Export track data to:

Export 2D tracking to After Effects CS3-CS6, Apple Motion, Final Cut v7 and Boris FX.
Apple: Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express
Apple Motion
Export 3D Camera and Null data to After Effects CS4-CS6.

Export roto data to:

Apple: Final Cut Pro (with mocha shape for Final Cut plug-in)
After Effects CS3, CS4, CS5, CS6 (with mocha shape for After Effects plug in)
Export roto masks to After Effects and Final Cut v7 (mocha shape FXplug included)

Supports: Avid Media Composer, Sony Vegas & Adobe Premiere via Boris FX (not included)

Licensing

Single user / Nodelocked Licenses Allows you to use the software on a single computer. When you generate your license, you will be asked to provide the computers ID, and the license will be specific to that computer.

Floating license are used where one or more users within a facility wish to share licenses. This requires installing a small license server program the computers on the network, which serves the licenses to the others.

Dongles are available and come with a license that allows you to run the software on any computer that the dongle is plugged in to

Note: USB Dongles are not currently compatible with 64-bit versions of our software on Mac OS X

Additional Info

Upgrades / Support

Imagineering Systems offers the following Upgrades and Support options:

Imagineering Systems Maintenance

Yearly maintenance includes upgrades to new releases
Online technical support

Upgrades

Upgrade from Adobe AE CS4 or CS5 to mocha AE v2.5

Support

RFX is available for all your support needs.

Imagineering Systems offers technical support via email with active maintenance

Related Products

mocha AE is compatible with the following applications

Adobe After Effects
Apple Final Cut Pro

Training / Resources

Training

Custom Training

Go to swdfx.com for custom training from Steve Wright

Steve Wright is a senior visual effects artist and trainer with over 20 years of production experience creating digital effects for over 60 feature films, including three years working with the Digital Intermediate process. As a senior digital compositing artist and 2D Technical Director he has an unusual combination of both artistic and technical understanding of Digital Compositing and Digital Intermediate.

His independent services include:

Master Compositing Trainer
Nuke, Shake and mocha Training
Freelance Digital Effects Artist
Feature Film Titling
Speaker & Lecturer
Visual Effects & Digital Intermediate Writer