Mocha AE Manual Track Tutorial | Track Difficult Shots in After Effects

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Are you STUCK trying to track a difficult shot? Are you getting TRACKING ERRORS and not sure how to fix them? Learn to use Mocha AE MANUAL TRACK to track almost anything!
Mocha AE is a powerful FREE planar tracker within Adobe After Effects!
In this tutorial I want to show you how to track difficult shots and fix common tracking problems by using Manual Track!
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0:00 Introduction
1:48 Tutorial Start
3:15 Mocha AE Classic Workspace
4:08 Rotoscoping start
7:37 How to add additional shape points
7:57 How to deal with cutouts in shapes
9:11 How to use MANUAL TRACK
12:10 The Dope Sheet
14:58 How to create the Screen Insert
16:19 How to mask out foreground elements
18:26 How to add brightness and glow
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@SurfacedStudio 2 жыл бұрын

💥 NOTIFICATION SQUAD! What other tutorials would you like to see for Mocha AE (or Pro)? 😀 🕑 TIME STAMPS 1:48 Tutorial Start 3:15 Mocha AE Classic Workspace 4:08 Rotoscoping start 7:37 How to add additional shape points 7:57 How to deal with cutouts in shapes 9:11 How to use MANUAL TRACK 12:10 The Dope Sheet 14:58 How to create the Screen Insert 16:19 How to mask out foreground elements 18:26 How to add brightness and glow

@ramizshould 2 жыл бұрын

So cool mate long time no see

@themuckyman 2 жыл бұрын

Would love to see some uses for the create nulls feature that power rmesh has m8.

@danielxmiller 2 жыл бұрын

THIS is the tutorial I needed!!! You helped me fix my project, I kept having so many tracking issues! I am so grateful and thankful for this video! You explain things so well!

@SurfacedStudio 2 жыл бұрын

You’re very welcome and great to hear you found the tutorial helpful :) It can take a little to get the hang of Mocha, but once you do you got a lot of power on your hands!

@JeremyY 2 жыл бұрын

Terrific, thorough tutorial on Mocha. I love that you showed things going wrong and not acting like you had a perfectly clean, unobscured screen to track.

@SurfacedStudio 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the feedback! I always try to cover all the things I remember that used to throw me off (and often still do) to hopefully make it a little more realistic - and maybe even useful :D

@JeremyY 2 жыл бұрын

@@SurfacedStudio it certainly was useful. Glad to see your channel has grown so much. You've been committing to helpful videos for years and I hope it continues.

@SurfacedStudio 2 жыл бұрын

No plan of stopping :) I'm just slow at making them haha!

@jimmycoulter 6 ай бұрын

Finally a tutorial for Mocha AE that talks about using MANUAL tracking. I have rarely been able to get a solid Mocha track on an object EVEN when I place a mask over the foreground obstruction. It always goes haywire! I think I'll try the Manual Tracking you talked about on this tutorial next time. Usually I get so disappointed I just rotoscope the clip manually in After Effects. Which works great if the screen replacement video is not moving around- almost impossible if it is. So this is a huge find for me going forward! Thanks so much for your awesome tutorials!

@ArizonaGhostriders 2 жыл бұрын

VERY helpful, Tobias! Thank you.

@SurfacedStudio 2 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome :) I never knew about Manual Track when I first tracked this shot and it's made my life SO much easier! In my old tutorial that uses this clip I don't even try to explain how I did the 'tracking' as most of it was just hacked in at the time haha!

@ArizonaGhostriders 2 жыл бұрын

@@SurfacedStudio LOL! I understand. Sometimes we make it work....then not remembering how!

@grzegorzpajak 2 жыл бұрын

One of the best (if not the best) Mocha tutorial on YT - thanks mate! 👏

@SurfacedStudio 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it! Thank you for the comment :)

@themuckyman 2 жыл бұрын

Another great,easy to follow tutorial Tobias. Thanks for taking the time to do these helpfull videos.

@SurfacedStudio 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your comment MuckyMan! Glad you're finding these tutorials helpful :D

@borisfxlearn 2 жыл бұрын

Great job!

@SurfacedStudio 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Had a lot of fun finally showing how I managed to track this shot :D

@Blake-gh8xl 2 жыл бұрын

Full frontal disclosure, love it!!! Love ur channel

@SurfacedStudio 2 жыл бұрын

:) Thank you!

@TheMarcoRocks 11 ай бұрын

Great tutorial. I found this tracking easier than the mama cooking 3000 which gave me a big headache!

@vfwarlordforever9589 2 жыл бұрын

Great video . Good presentation . Subscribed.

@SurfacedStudio 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Glad to hear you liked the tutorial :D

@LonelyWolf2k1 2 жыл бұрын

love love , thank u so much

@SurfacedStudio 2 жыл бұрын

Most welcome 😊

@rossshain1893 2 жыл бұрын

Very useful video for After Effects users!

@SurfacedStudio 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ross! I certainly felt like my skills went up a whole level when I learned how to use Manual Track properly so I really enjoyed finally making a tutorial for it :D

@phreakii 2 жыл бұрын

Great, thanks!

@SurfacedStudio 2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome :)

@diddypablo2006 Жыл бұрын

This is the absolute best tutorial I've ever seen on this, many of the ones from the company are so long and convoluted that you end up giving up. It's important to show when things do not go right and how to mitigate them what you did. Excellent job. One question I do have is about tracking imaginary corners that are not on screen, for example, a television that has the top two edges off screen, do you put those points in the canvas or do you put them where you think the TV should end? Either way is producing terrible results for me with tracking.

@grantinolim1585 Жыл бұрын

You save my life!

@SurfacedStudio Жыл бұрын

I’m happy to hear it helped!

@Wes12940 6 ай бұрын

great video sir, this was so much better than boris fx's own tutorials! thank you so much

@SurfacedStudio 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for the awesome comment! Glad you enjoyed the tutorial!

@miguelgnz 2 жыл бұрын

thank you so much :')

@SurfacedStudio 2 жыл бұрын

No problem!

@Adeno 2 жыл бұрын

I remember the Ringu video from 2 years ago I think, that's where I learned how to do this stuff! It was fun making a ghost appear in my rear view mirror lol :)

@SurfacedStudio 2 жыл бұрын

Hehe, yeah it was a little while ago, glad to finally cover how to do the actual tracking for this shot :D

@timmonta7765 11 ай бұрын

thanks

@SurfacedStudio 11 ай бұрын

Welcome

@SupremeSkeptic Жыл бұрын

How are you doing this differently from the advanced rotoscoping video you made 6 years ago? It seems like you were tracking more things in the previous video. Why was that? And are there any update in the process to make things more efficient/better?

@pixienix Жыл бұрын

Hi, I'm running into an issue where after creating manual Mocha tracking in "classic", I tried to click "create track data" but the points don't move at all when I scrub through the timeline. Do you happen to know why that is? Would really appreciate your help!

@nikolanikolov13 Жыл бұрын

save my life bro!!!

@SurfacedStudio Жыл бұрын

@schulze420 Жыл бұрын

What about tracking a ball that rotates? I am trying to get a logo on a ball and I want it to go around the ball as the ball rolls.

@LabbaikFoods Жыл бұрын

How can i get powermesh option in mocha ae

@SurfacedStudio Жыл бұрын

You can’t unfortunately. PowerMesh is a feature of Mocha Pro :)

@timbowen5267 Жыл бұрын

I did some manual tracking today. Moved the Spline then hit the "create keyframe" icon. The problem I ran into was that Mocha would not translate the keyframes I made manually to the "Tracking" portion of it's timeline... in other words, it created keyframes for the spline but not for the tracker.... What am I missing.... my technique has worked in the past. Help Appreciated!

@SurfacedStudio Жыл бұрын

Does everything look correct within Mocha AE with the movement of your splines? The splines are attached to the track, so any keyframing of them will be on top of the movement you may have captured during tracking

@ahmetbaykara.mp3 2 жыл бұрын

Why do we need re-comp again "The Well Comp" to add Curve and Glow FX?

@SurfacedStudio 2 жыл бұрын

You don't "need" to, but it keeps things cleaner and well encapsulated. Also, some effects work differently depending on the size of the layer as well as any masks applied so pre-comping matters

@nkedt 2 жыл бұрын

Hi sir! I have a problem. In my AE CC 2017 Element 3D is not working. When I opened it, it's showing Update OpenCL and when I enters the scene setup, it's only black nothing is showing. Do u have any solution for this. If yes, pls make a video on that. Anyone had this problem pls reply!

@SurfacedStudio 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, do make sure you have the matching version of Element 3D installed from the Video Copilot website and try clearing your cache and updating your graphics card drivers. If that doesn’t fix it you may have to contact the Video Copilot team directly to help you out :)

@nkedt 2 жыл бұрын

@@SurfacedStudio I will check it out sir. Thankyou for the reply!

@mikkohakkila 2 жыл бұрын

Please, could you help me! I'm on the edge of losing my mind, cause every time I create AE masks to my comp, they appear correctly but they aren't resizing along the tracking movement. My TV insert is tracking correctly though. What could possibly be wrong?

@SurfacedStudio 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, I'm not sure I completely understand. Does everything work correctly in Mocha, e.g. are all the shapes correctly animating within Mocha? Once you generated your AE masks, can you see the keyframes?

@k4kerem 2 жыл бұрын

@@SurfacedStudio I also have a similar problem - masks appear and work correctly in mocha as well as the screen insert in ae, but as soon as I copy the mocha effect into the pre-comped screen insert to create the masks, all the masks and the track on the precomp get shifted and rotated into wrong positions. I'm also about to lose my mind.

@k4kerem 2 жыл бұрын

@@SurfacedStudio ok it was so stupid, when I pasted the mocha effect into the precomped insert i was always at a timeframe around the middle... so everything that was pasted was time-shifted... geez. I was losing over this for the last 3 hours, and it only took to shift all the pasted keyframes to the start of the sequence.

@poorvanshvyas588 2 жыл бұрын

You told you will make projection mapping tutorial without any plugins andv using this to paint out someone.... Please create this tutorial

@oden13 Жыл бұрын

When I copy and paste mocha, my tracking mask freeze and doesn't move. Can you help me?

@SurfacedStudio Жыл бұрын

How do you 'copy and paste mocha' ?

@oden13 Жыл бұрын

@@SurfacedStudio ctrl c + ctrl v

@SurfacedStudio Жыл бұрын

From where to where? What do you have selected? Where are you (in Mocha or in AE)? What are you expecting to happen?

@oden13 Жыл бұрын

@@SurfacedStudio I made mask on layer with environment in Mocha. Then in AE I copy Mocha plugin from environment layer to screen layer. There is mask that i made but no keyframes. I want to make the same thing like in video