The video was created by Imagineer Systems, the company that created Mocha.

In the following video we will take a look at this situation and hopefully shed some light on some circumstances where one might be superior to the other. If time were an unlimited resource this wouldn’t be a problem, but because you are likely on a time crunch you need to know when to use the native trackers built into After Effects and when to use Mocha. However, that’s not to say Mocha is perfect.īecause Mocha isn’t a native plugin or effect inside of After Effects it takes extra time to import your footage in to Mocha, track, then export that information back into After Effects or Premiere. Tracking data in Mocha can be easily integrated with After Effects and Premiere Pro making it a great tool to use alongside an Adobe workflow project. Mocha is a third-party program included in the Creative Cloud that can be used to get accurate and consistent tracking. That’s where Mocha AE CC comes into play. This was a significant improvement over the original two point tracker in After Effects, but it still isn’t perfect.

Simply put the mask tracker allows users to draw masks around their object to track only certain objects in your scene. One of these new features is the Mask Tracker in After Effects. However, over the last few years there have been some significant improvements to motion tracking features in the Adobe software, making the entire process much easier. Motion tracking can be an extremely frustrating part of the post production process, especially if your footage is less-than-ideal.

Tracking your video footage? The following video tutorial from Imagineer Systems demonstrates when to use Mocha and when to use After Effects.

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