Updated 3D Tracking Streamlined in Mocha Pro 2024.5: Enhanced Simplicity in 3D Tracking Features
The Mocha Pro 2024.5 release by Boris FX brings several significant improvements and features, particularly in the areas of 3D tracking, workflow enhancements, and export options.
### 3D Tracking Improvements
Mocha Pro 2024.5 continues to strengthen its 3D Camera Solver capabilities, allowing for solving camera movements in 3D space based on planar tracking data. The solver integrates seamlessly with planar tracking to aid in complex match-move tasks, although no new 3D tracking features are explicitly mentioned in the 2024.5 update. The ongoing refinements build on Mocha’s existing GPU-accelerated planar tracking and camera solve tools, enhancing performance and reliability for 3D workflows.
### Workflow Enhancements
Mocha Pro 2024.5 includes workflow upgrades such as improved user interface elements and acceleration for common tasks. The release advances temporal frame analysis combined with planar tracking to enable the creation of Mega Plates, a unique workflow feature that generates extended stitched frames for visual effects operations like object removal, sky replacement, and set extension. New Area Brush and Quick Mask modes allow for faster and more dynamic masking and tracking adjustments. The update supports Python 3 scripting, which gives users more powerful customization and automation capabilities within their pipelines. Integration with OpenColorIO (OCIO) brings consistent, industry-standard color management supporting ACES workflows, essential for high-end VFX and finishing.
### Export Options
Mocha Pro’s export capabilities continue to support a wide range of host applications including Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and Foundry’s Nuke. Export options have been enhanced for planar tracking data, rotoscoping shapes, and 3D camera solves, facilitating better interchange and compositing workflows. The software supports industry formats and standards, including GPU-accelerated rendering and improved spline tools, accelerating exports. Stereo 360/VR tools are included, providing additional export options for stereoscopic and spherical workflows.
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### Summary of Key Enhancements in Mocha Pro 2024.5
| Feature Area | Improvements & New Features | |---------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------| | **3D Tracking** | Refined 3D Camera Solver integrated with planar tracking | | **Workflow** | Mega Plate module for stitched extended frames; new Area Brush and Quick Mask tools; Python 3 scripting support; OpenColorIO color management | | **Export Options** | Enhanced export for 3D camera data, roto shapes; support for Adobe, DaVinci Resolve, Nuke; GPU-accelerated rendering; stereo 360/VR exports |
These enhancements aim at accelerating post-production workflows, improving tracking accuracy, and broadening the creative and technical export capabilities within Mocha Pro 2024.5. The new release includes quality of life improvements and 2D tracking & roto workflow enhancements, as well as two quick tip tutorials to boost 3D tracking confidence.
In addition, the Mocha Pro 2024.5 release features a user-friendly 3D tracking workflow, powered by SynthEyes' technology. The new Inverted Mask tool helps the 3D solver focus on the desired tracking area in shots with objects in the distance or lots of moving elements. Object Filtering allows organizing multiple 3D objects in the 3D Object panel based on colour, selection, or visibility.
3D tracking data can now be transferred directly into compositions in Adobe After Effects, and PowerMesh takes advantage of Extrapolate track, making it easier to skip past difficult areas in 3D tracking. The new release also adds 3D Alembic Export by popular demand to its list of options.
The Boris FX Hub can be downloaded to install Mocha Pro, and a 14-day free trial is available for users who are ready to try it out. Selected Point Python Properties are now accessible, allowing users to get and set the selected state of contour points & mesh vertices, and other improvements include reworked 3D Export Options, SNI Export, and MultiPoly Fusion Export. 3D Model Placement Nulls enable the export of the position of any imported model in the solved scene.
In the Mocha Pro 2024.5 release, the user-friendly 3D tracking workflow is reinforced with technology from SynthEyes, incorporating features like the Inverted Mask tool for focusing on desired tracking areas and Object Filtering for organizing multiple 3D objects. Technology is also integrated in the enhancements to export options, as 3D Alembic Export is now available.
