mocha for Final Cut
mocha for Final Cut is a stand alone 2D tracking and rotoscoping tool designed for the Final Cut Studio community. It is packed with features that help editors and VFX artists tackle more complex jobs and enable them to finish projects within Final Cut.
Tracking
mocha for Final Cut generates solid 4-point tracks based on Imagineer's unique Planar Tracking technology, giving position, scale, rotation, shear and perspective matched tracks and exports the data to Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express as XML files.
Rotoscoping
mocha for Final Cut can export mocha shape data, allowing rotoscoping shapes with variable, per-point edge feathering to be imported into Final Cut. Combined with mocha shape FxPlug for Final Cut, users now have the ability to isolate color correction and effects within the Final Cut timeline!
NOTE: You will need to purchase the mocha shape for Final Cut FxPlug to import the mocha shape data into Final Cut.
- Purchase mocha shape for Final Cut here
Finishing
Final Cut Studio users can optionally send their mocha tracking data to Apple Motion for advanced compositing functionality.
mocha for Final Cut tutorials
mocha for Final Cut quick start tutorial
This video tutorial for mocha for Final Cut covers the basic workflow for tracking in mocha and importing XML tracking data files back into Final Cut.
For more tutorials, go here.
mocha for Final Cut workflow
Ben Heusner from Curious Turtle covers mocha for Final Cut and multiple project workflows: tracking an iPhone screen replacement, stabilizing footage and tracking mattes to blur footage.
mocha for Final Cut & Apple Motion
In this tutorial, Ben Heusner from Curious Turtle, takes tracking data from mocha for Final Cut into Apple motion for some interesting compositing tips and techniques. Focus is primarily on Apple Motion and the various ways mocha for Final Cut tracking keyframes can be applied.
Why mocha for Final Cut ?
mocha for Final Cut offers editors and VFX artists using Final Cut the ability to do more within Final Cut. If you have ever wanted to do a quick screen insert or challenging stabilization within Final Cut, mocha for Final Cut is the tool for you.
The tracker in mocha for Final Cut is based on Imagineer's unique 2.5D Planar Tracking technology, which is significantly more robust than traditional point trackers, and easier to use. mocha for Final Cut will enable you to get a track, even in situations where you have objects moving out of frame, lack of detail, motion blur and heavy grain. mocha for Final Cut’s innovative AdjustTrack tool helps remove drift and enables you to extract offset tracking data for areas that go off screen.
mocha for Final Cut toolset
The Planar Tracker
Throw your old fashioned point trackers away- step up to Imagineer’s advanced Planar tracker. Watch in amazement as your splines magically rotate, scale, and shear in lock step with your shot.
Bezier and X-Spline tools
mocha for Final Cut offers several ways of shaping your splines to create accurate roto masks with ease.
Infinite Edge Control
Pull out feathers point by point. Move feather edges and control points together or separately. Serious point control in mocha for Final Cut.
Fewer Keyframes
Powered by the Planar Tracker, your splines will no longer need so many keyframes. Ben Grossman of The Syndicate reported a traditionally rotoscoped 88 keyframe shot needing only 4 in mocha for Final Cut. Less keyframes= tighter tracks, less work.
AdjustTrack
mocha for Final Cut’s AdjustTrack module takes track adjustment to another level by offering an innovative approach to the removal of drift. Coupled with mocha for Final Cut's ability to work with problematic footage, AdjustTrack is a tool that can save you a lot of tracking headaches!
Export Tracking Data
| mocha for Final Cut will allow you to export solid tracking data in Final Cut Pro XML Interchange Format to Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express. Tracking data is imported as Final Cut Basic Motion for scale, position, and rotation OR Final Cut Distort for corner pin perspective. |
Export Shape Data
mocha Final Cut allows you to export mocha shape data, enabling you to import XML data into the mocha shape FxPlug for Final Cut. (sold separately)
Send to Motion
| Final Cut Studio and Motion artists can send tracking data to Apple Motion to take advantage of complex compositing functions. |
Stable and Rapidly Evolving
mocha for Final Cut is built upon the same framework as monet and mokey - applications with a mature toolset that can be depended upon for stability and frequent upgrades.
mocha for Final Cut - FAQ
- I already own mocha for Final Cut, do I need to upgrade?
mocha for Final Cut v2 is a free upgrade and your license does not need to be updated. mocha shape FxPlug for Final Cut is a new product and does need to be purchased and licensed separately. - Can I export tracking for use on another Final Cut system?
Yes, you can export the tracking data as XML files, which you can then import into Final Cut on another system. Any Final Cut system with mocha shape FxPlug can import the shape data. - What versions of Final Cut are supported?
The tracking data exported can be used in Final Cut Pro 6 and Final Cut Express 4.
To Final Cut Pro 7 and Final Cut Express 4. - Can track data be imported directly into Apple Motion?
No, currently the workflow is to import mocha for Final Cut XML data into Final Cut, then send the sequence to Motion. Transformation, scale, rotate and corner pin key frames will all translate. mocha shape imports do need to be rendered in Final Cut before sending to Motion.
