28 Magnificent Mocha Tutorials
We so appreciate Imagineer Systems sponsoring our March Desktop Wallpaper Contest that we decided to throw together a collection of awesome Mocha tutorials for you to enjoy. There is a lot to learn from Mocha, being such a powerful tracker, so I suggest you brush up and hone those skills!
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Martin Brennand – Unlink Tracking Techniques
Martin shows up some interesting techniques to implement when dealing with tricky pan shots that can cause for a difficult track.
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Carl Larsen – Horizontal Replacement and Roto
Carl Larsen from Telescope Media Group shos you how to use Mocha effectively for replacing skies as well as some good roto techniques.
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David Torno – Face Replacement
You probably saw this a while back, but David Torno has an awesome tutorial on how he replaced the faces of characters from the Golden Girl with faces of a band for their video… spectacular.
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Ben Heusner – Using Mocha Shape in a Compositing Workflow
Well… the title was kind of a mouthfull, and really basically tells you what you are about to watch. Learn how to use the Mocha Shape addon for MochaAE as an awesome tool in your compositing shots.
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Carl Larsen – 2.5D Rig Removal
Carl shows you how to remove objects within a shot using MochaAE as well as Photoshop. This is an essential technique to learn… trust me… I have run into it many times.
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Carl Larsen – Tracking for Broadcast Graphics
In this sweet tutorial, Carl show you how to track some footage of a gun with some blowback to crate some cool graphic overlays.
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Ben Heusner – Roto Techniques
Again, using Mocha Shape in conjunction with MochaAE, learn how to create spectacular mattes in less time to ease your compositing tasks.
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Eran Stern – Red Giant Warp and Mocha
Eran walks you through exporting your tracking data for use with Red Giant Warp instead of the basic corner pin effect in AE.
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Ross Shain – Adjust Track Module
In this tutorial Ross shows you how to adjust your tracks midway through for a very thorough and awesome track for your footage, whatever it may be!
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The Basics of Mocha
In this tutorial, Ben Le Tourneau shows you all the basic features on getting you up to speed on using the software.
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Exporting Data into After Effects
This is a simple walkthrough on how to export your tracking data into After Effects.
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Aharon Rabinowitz – Exporting Mocha Data
Similar to the one before, this one features one of our buddies, Aharon Rabinowitz showing you how to export tracking data from Mocha into AE.
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Martin Brennard – Top 5 Workflow Tips
Pretty straight forward eh? So yeah, this is a must see if you work in Mocha a lot. I mean you might learn something new… you never know!
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Chris Heur – Convert 2D to 3D
In this awesome tutorial Chris shows you how to take an old movie like Nosferatu and take it from 2D into 3D using tools like Mocha.
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Martin Brennard – Tracking Foreground Obstructions
This tutorial shows you how to compensate for things that get in the way of your track, and how to make Mocha ignore those when it comes time to track the things that matter.
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Ben Heusner – Logo Replacement
Learn how to use Mocha’s roto tools for use in replacing a logo on a candy bar.
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Ben Heusner – Exporting Track Mattes
Learn how to stabilize and export track mattes into After Effects for use later for task such as eye replacement.
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Sasa Jokic – Matchmoving Multiple Tracks
This is by far one of my favorite tutorials for Mocha. In this you learn how to track a ton of different planes of people holding up green cards so that it creates a specific image.
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CMIVFX – Advance Planar Tracking
In this tutorial you will learn some advanced techniques for planar tracking in lots of real world situations.
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Ross Shain – Image Stabilization
Instead of using this just for tracks, you can also use Mocha for tasks such as image stabilization, something that I am sure we all need every once in a while.
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Mathias Mohl’s MochaImport Script and Tutorial
Mathias has created a spectacular script to let you import Mocha data into After Effects and onto certain layers. He shows you how to use that data to track makeup onto actor’s faces.
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Jeff Foster – Motion Tracking with Mocha
In this tutorial from Jeff he shows us how easy it is to take some impromptu footage shot on the street and use Mocha to replace the side of a semi truck with whatever you want!
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RGTV Ep. 27 Building an Airport Scene Part 1 – Backplate
In this tutorial, Mathias creates the backplate for which we will be creating this airport scene.
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RGTV Ep. 28 Building an Airport Scene Part 2 – Compositing
In this next tutorial, Mathias shows you how to track with Mocha and use the data with MochaImport to create a sweet looking composite.
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Eran Stern – Bionic Lab
Using Mocha in this tutorial, Eran tracks footage to a computer screen as well as offsets different layers of numbers to create a cool looking lab text animation.
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Richard Harrington – Mocha Walkthrough
Another one of those basic tutorial, Richard Harrington for Layers Magazine takes you through some of the basics for MochaAE.
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Aaron Zander – The Gatorade Effect Part 1
In this first part, Aaron takes a look at the toolset within Mocha and how it can be used to create the look desired.
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Aaron Zander – The Gatorade Effect Part 2
In this second part Aaron shows us how to use Mocha link splines to other tracks, adjust tracks and keyframes, and finally rendering.
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