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Tracking with mocha AE

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Tracking with mocha AE

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- [Narrator] The motion tracker built into After Effects is far from perfect. And in this shop we played around with earlier where we had to do a four corner pin perspective track, we had a lot of problems with the trackpoints jittering and moving on what should be a stationary shot. But it's just because the tracker doesn't really know that there's a relationships between these four corners. The shot is, in essence, a solid plane or panel that needs to be held together. For trickier shots like this, After Effects CS4 and later does come bundled with a far more advanced tracking system called mocha. mocha is actually a standalone piece of software. There's also other very thorough resources out there on how to use mocha, but I want to give you just a quick example of the work flow for a shot like this so it doesn't seem like a complete mystery the first time you open it. First we're going to go back to my MRI layer, my composition here. I'm going to remove the effects we previously…

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