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By: 28 Magnificent Mocha Tutorials | Tutorial51

28 Magnificent Mocha Tutorials | Tutorial51 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:03:32 +0000

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By: Adam Avery

Adam Avery — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:07:33 +0000

Thanks for the reply, I’ll check out that tutorial again with that in mind.

By: Mathias Möhl

Mathias Möhl — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:32:17 +0000

If you work with an undistorted precomp, RG warp first undistorts the image to get the undistorted precomp and then redistorts it again, to apply your modifications to the original comp. This always leads to a little bit loss of quality. You can avoid that by keeping in your precomp really only the parts that you changed.

See for example this tutorial:
http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/vfx/creating-a-tracked-head-wound/
I create the head wound in an undistorted precomp and once I finished the wound, I deactivate the background layer. By that the background is transparent in the precomp and hence has no loss in quality (and no unwanted additional motion blur).

By: Adam Avery

Adam Avery — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:11:35 +0000

Hey there–

Great script, I use this all the time. One question–when I use it in conjunction with RG Warp, the quality of the object I’m pinning seems to degrade a bit. So for example if I paint out a part of the frame, mask it out, freeze frame it, and then apply “RG Warp–Keep Frame”, the quality goes down a bit of that layer. Same thing using the undistort function. I’ve messed around with the Warp settings but I can’t seem to figure it out.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

By: Juan Hernandez

Juan Hernandez — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:04:15 +0000

I must add that I am also using MochaAE V2 so I seem to be all up to date in third party apps/scripts on AfterEffects CS3….

By: Juan Hernandez

Juan Hernandez — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:02:22 +0000

Hi Mathias, you are a pure genius and love the plugin. Only I am having difficulties utilizing the script in CS3. I have installed Red Giant Warp tool and your script but I dont have access to the action drop menu list in the Mocha Import palette. All options are still ghost out even after my repeated efforts of installing both plugins, yours and Red Giant. When I manually paste the script in Mocha Palette, it works but I just dont have the various options in action list. I have also made sure the frame duration is of the same footage and exported tracked data to that time frame. I have exported in all types of text files from Mocha Tracking Export and still, options for action list in Mocha Import palette still ghost out. Mocha Import 2.04 is used on AfterEffects CS3 on windows Vista. Could you or others provide suggestions? I am so eager to use this tool for a project and would love to have immediate response. Thank all for reading and aiding in technical support. Best of care.

By: Mathias Möhl

Mathias Möhl — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:46:41 +0000

Hi Frank,
thank you for your support.
Have you tried it now again? If you still have problems, let me know.
Best
Mathias

By: Lloyd Alvarez

Lloyd Alvarez — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:46:15 +0000

Hit the “Add To Cart” button then checkout. The script will be available for download immediately after checkout.

By: hede

hede — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:58:05 +0000

where is download?

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:43:44 +0000

hi mathias, i just wanted to download your moch import script. after filling out the required details (3 times!) i checked out (i thougt you cant do anything wrong!?) and ended up with… nothing. empty page (http://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/ppdirect.php) and no idea, where to download. HELP!!!
cheers & beers
Frank

By: Juan Hernandez

Juan Hernandez — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:53:10 +0000

Ooops site didnt go through…hahaha go figure. Great work once again…

http://www.BaguaKungfu.com

By: Juan Hernandez

Juan Hernandez — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:51:10 +0000

Mathias,

You are genius and so kind as well to share your script! I still need to try it all out, getting Warp 1.0 right now just so I can play! Thank you for your knowledge. I hope all goes well on your venture on attaining PHD. Dont go astray from us when you do. I will test out your goodies super soon.

Hold on to your lug nuts, its time for an overhaul.

-J

By: Filmmaking » Planar Tracking: Introdução (Screen replacement)

Filmmaking » Planar Tracking: Introdução (Screen replacement) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:07:43 +0000

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By: Mathias Möhl

Mathias Möhl — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:23:03 +0000

@Mark: Did you load the tracking data from a file or tried to do cut and paste? The cut and paste is not possible with the current version of the script (since it sometimes causes errors due to After Effects Bugs concerning the clipboard). You have to store the tracking data from Mocha in a file and load the file with the script. If you still have problems, you best send me a bug report via email as described in the “report a bug” section above.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:02:47 +0000

just donated for your Mocha Import script but it does not work like your tutorial shoes, I paste the Tracking data into AE9 and select the layer hit apply and nothing happens?? If i past the Tracking data straight to a null and it works fine so the tracking data is there.

Why i use your script the null is created with the parameters activated for animation but there are no keyframes, I made the seq bigger to see if they were pasted earlier or later but no luck,

Thanks Mark