
Adjust inner, outer, or both edges faster. Snapshot layers to readjust or break up shots. Quickly split up complicated shapes into different layers. Rotoscoping Improvements: Point selection falloff for more organic roto.The folks at Imagineer have done it again. As if they didn’t impress with Motor, which pioneered planar tracking and applied it to the seldom-liked task of rotoscoping, and their follow up Mocha, which took that technology and added the ability to export their tracks to compositing apps of all flavors. now they give us Mocha Pro, a rotoscoping/tracking/insertion and removal tool. You might be asking, “Why do I need another application when my compositing app can track and roto?” The answer is quite simple: two weeks vs.

The core of Imagineer’s latest productivity enhancing extravaganza is still their incredibly fast planar tracker, which instead of tracking a single point or pixel or collection thereof, tracks entire planar surfaces in your scene. Think of it as a pattern or surface tracker. Mocha Pro can track an entire region of the frame and compute not only its translation, rotation and scale in standard 2D, it also tracks perspective and shear changes in 3D space.

So logo replacement, or even full on face or body part replacement, can now all be handled within this one application. Mocha Pro, which is a complete 64-bit app, adds the ability to automatically remove objects from your shot, insert objects into your shot, stabilize your shot (beyond the typical anchor point track of most compositing apps) and handle lens distortions as well. Some of you readers out there may recall, several years back Imagineer was responsible for VFX applications Monet and Mokey, which handled this sort of task but cost many thousands of dollars. Well, the good news here is they’ve poured all that technology and innovation into the new Mocha Pro and are still charging the same affordable price for the program.Īs an active visual effects house, we use Mocha Pro literally on every project.
