I am not a huge fan of sitting for hours on end rotoscoping it is something I have to do out of necessity. Unlike most point trackers, Mocha tracks images using pixel patterns. It copes perfectly with motion blur, lens distortion and objects going off-screen. From my experience, there is nothing that Mocha cant handle when it comes to tracking. If there’s anything in the way of the object you’re tracking, draw a spline around it to exclude it from the track. Draw your spline, analyse, and Mocha will do the rest. This basically analyses anything in a scene, in the form of a planar surface. Mocha can handle the most complicated of tracking scenarios by use of its planar tracker. Initially, Mocha was mainly used by visual effects artists working on complicated tracking and rotoscoping, but now editors, motion graphics artists and colourists benefit from it too, and the industry expects everyone to be multi-skilled.

Mocha Pro started life as three different products Mocha, Mokey and Monet all of which were finally brought together into a comprehensive package. Mocha has become the industry standard for motion tracking and rotoscoping but does the new version live up to its reputation, investigates Alistair Rankine

Mocha has become the industry standard for motion tracking and rotoscoping but does the new version live up to its reputation, investigates Alistair Rankine Mocha Pro started life as three different products Mocha, Mokey and Monet all of which were finally brought together into a comprehensive package.

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