This movie runs you through an entire sample project (based on demo materials Adobe used in that year’s NAB show), including defining what surface to track, dealing with obstructions that may overlap or move in front of the surface you are tracking, and the workflow required at the time to get a track file into After Effects. And if you’re a pre-Creative Cloud user still getting by with an old license of After Effects, these movies are still completely relevant. Of course, a lot has changed in 10 years, its feature set and how it looks, but these movies remain a good introduction to the way Mocha “thinks” and how to approach using it.

We created the following set of three movies to acquaint the traditional AE user with how Mocha thinks. However, Mocha has a different user interface and workflow than After Effects users are used to – it opens its own application where the tracking work takes place, and data is exchanged between Mocha and After Effects using a plug-in. It’s a high-end tool that added significantly to AE’s visual effects toolset.

and track them with accuracy for later manipulation, from color correction to item replacement. Mocha is a “planar tracking and masking” tool, which means it’s designed to look at surfaces such as walls, buildings, the sides of cars, cards added on set, etc. After Effects CS5 – released 10 years ago – saw the introduction of Mocha Shape for After Effects.

Mocha ae 2020