Mocha AE Course May 2014

Much of the work of the compositor and VFX artist is focused on disguising his creations so that they look natural in the shot. This often involves the animation of elements in order to be able to track objects or replace them.

In this Mocha AE course we will study one of the best rotoscoping and planar tracking tools. Integrated in After Effects CS6 and CC versions, Mocha AE is the indispensable tool for anyone who uses After Effects to perform Chroma key processes, rotoscoping, color correction and in general any process that requires maximum automation of object tracking.

PROFESSOR: José Carlos Panadero.

Jose Carlos Panadero is a trainer, editor and postproducer. He is an Adobe Certified After Effects (Adobe Certified Instructor) and Apple Mentor Trainer. He has combined advertising and film projects with his work as a trainer since 2004. Here you can see some of his latest advertising work.

DURATION: 8 hours

PRICE: 200€ (170€ if the reservation is made until April 30). You can get up to 20% discount if you sign up for several courses. Discounts are not cumulative.

WHEN: Saturday, May 31, 2014. The schedule is full day: morning from 10 to 14h and afternoon from 15:30 to 19:30h (may vary slightly).

WHERE: Campus Audiovisual Ces. See in Google Maps If you need any kind of information you can contact 709 MR by email or phone (668840783).

COURSE CODE: MCH24-310514

SOFTWARE USED: Mocha 3 in After Effects CS6

AIMED AT: Editors and assistant editors, post-producers, colorists, post-production directors, filmmakers and all those professionals who wish to incorporate Mocha AE into their compositing or graphic animation projects.

PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE: Basic knowledge of After Effects, notions of visual composition, editing, coding, etc.

CONTENTS:

1.- Introduction

• Complete introduction to Mocha AE.
• User interface.
• Examples of intercommunication between Mocha and After Effects.

2.- Tracking

• Differences between point tracking and surface tracking.
• Motion and spline adjustments in Mocha.
• Tracking of complex surfaces.
• Reticle.
• Animation with Keyframes

3.- Rotoscopy

• Creation of X-Splines and B-Splines.
• Editing of layouts.
• Timing Line Controls.
• Set the color space. Preferences.
• Layer, Mattes and Edge panel options.

4.- Advanced Rotoscopy Techniques

• Techniques to establish the best strategy to search for tracking surfaces.
• Working with large surface areas.
• Advanced animation.
• Export of masks.

Advanced Tracking Techniques

• Camera movements.
• Use of multiple splines in a single layer.
• Operations with splines.
• Stabilization.
• Keyframes during motion tracking.
• Manual tracking.
• Corner Pin
• Advanced motion tracking settings.
• Tracking data export.