Via AE Portal News: In his  latest video tutorial “Creating a Tracked Head Wound” Mathias Mohl teaches you more about tracking and replacement using After Effects, mocha , MochaImport and Red Giant Warp. Mathias Mohl composes a wound on a moving head and use the Mocha tracker in combination with his script MochaImport. Instead of a wound you can of course also apply a different effect if you need something less bloody.

Mathias Möhl shows in his 3 Minutes Video Tutorial how you can use the After Effects script MochaImport. Mathias explains also how Red Giants’s Warp plugin. Red Giants’s Warp plugin helps to compensate the perspective distortion which you may have when the track is changing the perspective.

MochaImport features:

• create corner pin
• create CC power pin
• create AE trackpoints from Mocha track
• stabilize footage
• move layers according to track
• create a precomp in which the footage is stabilized while maintaining the movement in the original composition.

You can download  MochaImport.jsx directly from Mathias Möhl web site.

Visit Imagineer’s Store and get 15% off selected  imagineer systems product. This July Sales runs until July,31st 2009. You can get 15% off from nodelocked products like mocha for After Effects, mocha for Final Cut, mocha shape for After Effects and mocha shape for Final Cut plug-ins. The 15% discount is available in the shop, there is no discount coupon needed.

Imagineer did introduce mocha shape for Final Cut. To support the launch of mocha shape for Final Cut Imagineer has released updated versions of  mocha,  mocha for After Effects and motor. 

“For years, Final Cut editors have asked for better masking tools to perform tasks such as isolated color correction and the blurring of objects,” said Ross Shain, chief marketing officer for Imagineer Systems. “The new mocha shape FxPlug, combined with mocha shape for Final Cut offers an affordable and easy to learn solution.  Now editors, can quickly track masking shapes to objects, import the XML data and finish their shot within Final Cut rather than another finishing software.”

mocha shape for Final Cut is designed to import rotoscoping shape data exported from mocha into Final Cut, mocha shape for Final Cut enables Final Cut Pro users to easily import multi-layer shape data with variable, per point edge feathering.  This new development significantly saves render time and improves the workflow between Imagineer’s mocha family of desktop VFX products and Final Cut Pro.

Imagineer’s mocha shape FxPlug for Final Cut is supported currently by mocha v1.5, motor v1.5, mocha for Final Cut v2.

mocha shape for Final Cut features:

• import XML roto shape data from Imagineer’s products to Final Cut Pro
• variable per point edge width feathering
• mocha layer names translate to Final Cut
• high quality rendering
• works with Final Cut Pro and Express

If you want to learn more about mocha shape for Final Cut you jump over to the tutorial that is available on imagineers systems web site where Ben Heusner from Curious Turtle covers mocha for Final Cut and the mocha shape FxPlug to track shapes and import them into Final Cut.

Imagineer published also maintenance releases for some of their products which fixes several bugs and adds support for several new tracking and shape export formats.

New  mocha 1.5 features:

• After Effects Corner Pin has been changed to provide motion blur on the translation, rotation and scale components when rendered in After Effects.
• Shape data export to mocha shape for After Effects (sold separately) is included.
• Tracking data export to Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express is included.
• Shape data export to mocha shape for Final Cut (sold separately) is included.

New mocha for Final Cut v2 features:

• free point release for existing owners
• adds mocha shape for Final Cut export
• now supports all ProRes QuickTime formats

New motor v1.5 features:

• free point release for existing owners
• adds mocha shape for Final Cut export
• adds mocha shape for After Effects export
• now supports all ProRes QuickTime formats

New mocha for After Effects v2.0.3 features:

• free point release for existing owners of v2
• now supports all ProRes QuickTime formats

Imagineer recommends that Mac OS X user should save a copy of the license file before installing. When updated mocha I did run into little issues under Windows Vista 64 as well so I recommend to save a copy of the  license file before installing  on Windows and Mac OS X.

Pricing and Availability
mocha shape for Final Cut, mocha for Final Cut v2, mocha v1.5 and motor v1.5 are all available immediately and are priced as follows:

• mocha shape for Final Cut:  $99.00 US
• mocha for Final Cut v2:  $199.00 US
• mocha v1.5 (full version):  $995.00 US
• motor v1.5:  $495.00 US

For more information on these solutions or to place an order, please visit www.imagineersystems.com.

Carl Larsen of Telescope Media shows how to use  mocha for After Effects v2 and mocha shape plug-in for sky replacement and rotoscoping on this challenging effects shot. Horizon replacement and roto tutorial!

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