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Corner pin tracking with After Effects

Corner pin tracking with After Effects

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Corner pin tracking with After Effects

- There's another option, when it comes to exporting data at the Mocha pro . And that's to use the corner pin data. Corner pin tracking, produces four motion paths, for the four corners of a rectangular shape. Corner pin tracking is ideal for tracking something in rectangular such as a TV screen, bill board, window and so on. That said, you don't have to have a rectangular shape inside a mocha pro to use it. In here you, you can see I have this trapezoidal shape, already drawn on this robot's shoulder. The trick to using corner pin data though, this is a fine and mochas planar surface. Its in by defaults, are the layer selected. You can turn it on by clicking this blue button with the S symbol show planar surface. When you do that you'll see a blue square. And this establishes where the four corners are, that produce the four motion paths. It's when you export data and go into programs such as After Effects, and then…

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