From the course: Creating a Short Film: 09 VFX Environments

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Tracking in Mocha

Tracking in Mocha

- [Instructor] In this tutorial, we're going to level up our tracking game by looking at Mocha. Now, I'm going to be using Mocha Pro for this, but if you just have After Effects, you'll have Mocha AE, which is like the free version that comes with After Effects, and will be able to follow along with this tutorial just as is. I'll be looking later in this chapter at Mocha Pro and the differences there. If you go to the Effects and Presets panel, there's a Boris FX Mocha, 'cause Mocha was purchased by Boris. And so, if you open up that, I have Mocha Pro, and you might have Mocha AE there if you have not purchased Mocha Pro. So, I'm going to apply this effect to my footage, and this workflow is a little bit different than it has been with different, previous versions of Mocha. What you would typically do before is you would select a layer, go up to the Animation menu, and choose Track in Mocha AE. And now, we apply the Mocha Pro effect, and then launch Mocha by clicking this button. It's…

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