MULTI AWARD-WINNING PLANAR TRACKING AND VFX


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Mocha Pro is a world-renowned software and plugin for planar motion tracking, rotoscoping, object removal, image stabilization, and PowerMesh organic warp tracking.

Essential to visual effects and post-production, Mocha’s tools have played a vital role in every recent Oscar-nominated film for Best Visual Effects. Learn how artists used Mocha Pro to help create Dune’s award-winning VFX.

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WHAT'S NEW

Mocha Pro 2023

  • Rotoscoping Improvements: Point selection falloff for more organic roto. Quickly split up complicated shapes into different layers. Snapshot layers to readjust or break up shots. Adjust inner, outer, or both edges faster.
  • Tracking Improvements: Merge tracks of separate planar layers. Move clusters of PowerMesh track points with falloff. Quickly jump to ends of tracks and set tracked ranges.
  • Rendering Improvements: Remove objects from locked or static shots without needing to track. Crop Insert Module ROI (region of interest) to the surface for easier manipulation.
  • Export Improvements: Generate tracking data directly in the Nuke OFX plugin. New 1-click generation for data where there is only one layer in After Effects and Nuke.
  • And much more!

Falloff Selection Tools

Mocha Pro’s selection tool now offers a falloff option to make organic roto and PowerMesh tracking much easier to manipulate.

Adjust spline edges or clusters of PowerMesh vertices using the same tool, easily adjusting radius and strength of the falloff as required.


Layer Spline Tools

Mocha Pro expands its diverse array of spline options with handy new tools to help you manage layer spline workflows.

  • Split Contours: Select points in a spline contour and split them off into a new layer, retaining the original layer keyframes and tracking data.
  • Snapshot Duplicate: Create a clean duplicate spline based on the current frame to break tracks into chunks.
  • Inner Width feather adjustment: Alter the inner or outer edge points of a spline using the Edge Offset properties.
  • Shrink and Grow Splines: Move the inner and the outer points together using Edge Offset properties.
  • Clear keyframes: Clear keyframes forward or backward from the current playhead position, making it easier to restart a section of work.


Tracking Tools

  • Merge Tracks: You can now merge the tracking data of multiple layers, making it easier to work with difficult shots.
  • Set Tracked Layer Range: One click will set the layer range to the tracked keys on the timeline.
  • Grid Scale: Originally a fixed size, you can now adjust the size of the Grid relative to the surface.
  • Preview Search Area: Visualise the search area in the Matte view options, helping to adjust how far out from the current frame Mocha will look.
  • AdjustTrack Point Lock: To avoid accidentally keyframing points in AdjustTrack, lock a selected point to disable it from further adjustments.
  • Nuke OFX Plugin Track Data options: Create track data nodes inside the OFX plugin node interface without needing to open the Mocha UI. Choose from linked or baked nodes.

Expanded Rendering Options

  • Static scene removal: Create a single layer to remove moving objects on static backgrounds in the Remove Module. Save time on tracking.
  • Improved ROI fitting: The Insert Module now makes it easier to crop an ROI (region of interest) to better manipulate PowerMesh and Grid warps.

WHY MOCHA PRO?

The Most Reliable Tracking

Rock solid planar tracking is at the heart of all Mocha Pro modules. VFX artists turn to Mocha for its ease of use and reliability when faced with the most difficult shots.

Mocha is versatile, so use it the way you want...as a standalone application, or as a plugin in your favorite host.

Mocha Pro can export tracking, roto shapes, lens calibration and 3D data in a wide variety of formats, or render to file or back to your host.

Using Mocha AE in After Effects? View the Compare Mocha Chart to learn how Mocha Pro compares with other Mocha solutions


PowerMesh

PowerMesh enables a powerful sub-planar tracking process for visual effects and rotoscoping. Now Mocha Pro can track warped surfaces and organic objects, making it even more powerful for match moves and digital makeup shots.

PowerMesh is simple to use and faster than most optical flow based techniques.

  • Render PowerMesh driven inserts as composites or RGBA cutouts.
  • Output a Reverse Warp/Stabilized view for advanced paint and VFX tasks.
  • Use PowerMesh to to drive roto shapes with less keyframes.
  • Export mesh vertices to After Effects Nulls, Nuke tracking, or Alembic for Flame, C4D, and more 3D support.

Watch PowerMesh tutorials


Roto with Less Keyframes

Mocha’s masking workflow features tracked spline tools to speed up shape creation and reduce manual keyframes. Export or render roto to most popular host applications.

X-Splines and Bezier splines with magnetic edge-snapping assistance and Area Brush tool help create detailed mask shapes — without requiring drawing skills.

PowerMesh warped splines deliver even more accurate results when masking organic moving objects like musculature, skin, fabrics, and more.

Learn some Mocha masking tips


Plugin Option for Flexibility

Mocha Pro’s integrated plugin option delivers an efficient workflow using the host’s media engine. Launch Mocha Pro from within your favorite hosts:

  • Adobe After Effects & Premiere Pro
  • Avid Media Composer
  • OFX Hosts: Autodesk Flame, Foundry Nuke, Blackmagic Design Fusion, VEGAS Pro, HitFilm, SGO/Mistika, and Boris FX Silhouette.

The plugin can be purchased by host. A multi-host plugin license is included with standalone application and Boris FX Suite.


Remove Objects and Wires

Remove unwanted elements, wires, rigs, tracking marks, and 360 cameras. Generate clean plates for massive time-savings.

The Remove Module is an amazing alternative to traditional clone techniques for removing objects. It automatically detects temporal clean frames to blend and align pixels with little user input. It's like Content Aware on steroids! View Remove Module tutorials

Now Remove objects in locked shots without tracking using the new “Static Scene” option.

Mega Clean Plates! Beyond object removal, this same technology can also be used to create a large, stitched image out of multiple frames.


Screen Inserts and Match Moves

Render accurate match moves and screen inserts with realistic motion blur or warped distortions. The Insert Module can be driven by PowerMesh and has improved ROI compositing with high quality sub-sampling and blend modes.

Use the Grid Warp tool to bend and deform insert elements to match curved and distorted surfaces.

Use preprocessing to enhance tracking and right-click on the surface to easily modify Inserts for general tracking challenges!

View Insert Module tutorials.


Stabilize Camera or Object Motion

The Stabilize Module can lock down camera motion or stabilize based on select tracking layers. Export stabilized tracking data or render a stabilized clip.

With PowerMesh tracking enabled, the Stabilize Module can produce an inverse-warped flattened surface for paint fixes. Original motion is easily propagated back to the original.

For general editing, a smooth option with selectable anchor frames helps reduce high frequency jitters while maintaining original camera motion. Center, scale or crop stabilized footage based on user-driven tracking.

View all Stabilize Module tutorials.


Lens Calibration Tools

The Lens Module provides a simple and easy-to-use interface to calibrate the distortion introduced by camera lenses. Remove unwanted lens distortion or match it to composite realistically. Use built-in line detection or splines for calibration.

Save calibration settings for lenses to reuse them or export Lens Calibration data can to read into Nuke’s STMap node or other VFX applications.

View all Lens Module tutorials.


Stereoscopic Workflow

Stereo 3D planar tracking, masking, and object removal workflow.

Mocha supports native stereo 3D and 360/VR stereo formats. This unique workflow uses planar tracking analysis on “both eye views” to reduce manual offsets and tedious keyframe work on stereo 3D rotoscoping, tracking, 3D camera solve, and object removal.

Mocha Pro is the ultimate companion for stereo 360° projects in Adobe After Effects & Premiere Pro. Watch Video


3D Camera Solver

Solve 3D match moving capabilities with planar ease.

Unlike feature based camera tracking, Mocha solves the 3D camera based on user-selected planar data. This fast and easy-to-use solution is ideal for set extensions, 3D text, and particle tracking. Additionally the 3D solver can be used to assist other 3D tracking applications on difficult shots with low detail or significant foreground occlusions.

Export to FBX for Flame and Nuke support or install the free AE 3D Track Import plug-in to paste into an After Effects composition.

360/VR

Optimized for 360/VR

Award-winning 360° video tools for tracking and masking, horizon stabilization, camera and object removal, nadir patching, and spherical video post.

Now remove static 360 cameras without tracking in Mocha Pro 2023, using the “Static Scene” option!

A native mono and stereo 360° optimized workflow simplifies spherical video post-production challenges. Work across seams with less pre-comps, nesting, or rendering.

View all 360/VR videos

Need 360 editing plug-ins for Avid, Adobe or OFX? Check out the Continuum VR Unit

Monthly Subscription

$75/month * Cancel at anytime $37/month * Cancel at anytime
Supports one of the following hosts on a single workstation: Adobe, Avid, Flame, Nuke, VEGAS Pro or Hit Film Supports any of the following hosts on a single workstation: Adobe, Avid, Flame, Nuke, VEGAS Pro or Hit Film
Always up to date with automatic monthly billing Always up to date with automatic monthly billing
Includes improved planar tracking, faster speeds and PowerMesh Includes improved planar tracking, faster speeds and PowerMesh

Perpetual License

$1,495 $695
Supports one of the following hosts on a single workstation: Adobe, Avid, Flame, Nuke, VEGAS Pro or Hit Film Supports any of the following hosts on a single workstation: Adobe, Avid, Flame, Nuke, VEGAS Pro or Hit Film
Includes 12 months of free upgrades and support Includes 12 months of free upgrades and support
Includes improved planar tracking, faster speeds and PowerMesh Includes improved planar tracking, faster speeds and PowerMesh

TECH/SPECS

Product:

Release Number:

Mocha Pro 2023

v2023

Requirements:

macOS: 10.15-13.3

Windows: Windows 8.1, 10 and 11 on x64

Linux: CentOS 7-8, or a compatible Linux distribution on x86_64

Hardware:

Recommended Hardware:

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent

Memory: 16 GB +

Disk: High-speed disk array or NVMe SSD

Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro K4000 or equivalent
See support graphics card list

Monitor: 1920×1080 or higher

Network: Must have an enabled network adapter (wifi or ethernet)

Minimal Requirements:

Processor: At least 1-GHz Pentium IV

Disk: At least 1 GB

Memory: At least 1 GB

Graphics card: Must support OpenGL

Monitor: Minimum resolution 1200×800 pixels

Licensing options:

Full purchase or U/S upgrade. Annual or Monthly Subscription options. Node-locked or Cross-platform, floating license.

For enterprise floating and render licenses, contact us.

Mocha Pro 2023 plug-in support:

Adobe After Effects & Premiere Pro CC 2014-2023

Avid Media Composer v8-2022

OFX: Autodesk Flame, Boris FX Silhouette, Foundry NUKE, Blackmagic Fusion, VEGAS Pro, HitFilm Pro, SGO Mistika

Workflow support:

Adobe After Effects & Premiere Pro
Avid Media Composer
Apple Final Cut Pro 7 & Motion
Autodesk Flame, Maya & 3DS MAX
Assimilate Scratch
Blackmagic Fusion & DaVinci Resolve
Boris FX Continuum
Boris FX Sapphire
HitFilm Pro
Magix Vegas Pro
Maxon Cinema 4D
Foundry Nuke
Silhouette
MochaBlend for C4D

For a detailed list of tracking, mask & 3D data exports, view the exports chart.

FAQ

Mocha Pro can be easily installed for Adobe After Effects with a few easy steps. First off, make sure you have downloaded the correct Mocha Pro for Adobe installer, which can be found here. We made a short video to guide you through the rest of the process installing Mocha for After Effects. Mac users can click here, and Windows users can click here.

Mocha Pro can be easily installed for Adobe Premiere Pro with a few easy steps. First off, make sure you have downloaded the correct Mocha Pro for Adobe installer, which can be found here. We made a short video to guide you through the rest of the process installing Mocha for Premiere. Mac users can click here, and Windows users can click here.

We offer many different pricing options for all different types of customers. The Mocha Pro plugin for Adobe, OFX, or Avid costs $37 per month and $295 per year. If you would like a perpetual license, that would cost $695 and come with a free year of upgrades and support. If you would like to use Mocha Pro in multiple different hosts on the same workstation, you would need to purchase a multi-host license. A Mocha Pro multi-host license is $75 per month and $595 per year. A perpetual multi-host license for Mocha Pro costs $1495. For floating license and enterprise pricing, please contact sales.

Your Machine ID is your Ethernet ID/MAC address. It consists of 6 pairs of numbers and letters A-F. You may see these pairs un-separated (d312a930bc7f), separated by colons (d3:12:a9:30:bc:7f) or separated by dashes (d3-12-a9-30-bc-7f). To find your Machine ID, please follow the steps below:

On Windows - Go to the Start menu, then in the search box type “cmd” and hit Enter. In the cmd window, type “ipconfig /all”. Find the line that reads “Physical Address”. This is your Machine ID.

On Mac - Go to System Preferences > Network and select your active network interface (e.g., Ethernet). From the list on the left. Click on ‘Advanced…’, then on ‘Hardware’. The Machine ID is listed under “MAC Address”.

On Linux - Open a terminal/shell window, and type “ifconfig”. Look for “Hwaddr” under eth0. This is your Machine ID.

It's easy to open Mocha Pro inside Adobe After Effects with a few quick clicks. After you’ve downloaded and installed Mocha Pro onto your machine, open After Effects, add your footage, and select the footage layer you’d like to track. Next, you’ll go to the Effects panel in AE, find “Boris FX Mocha,” and click on “Mocha Pro.” Click the launch Mocha button in the pop up and you’re well on your way. You can also find helpful info in our Quick Start guide.

Mocha Pro is an Academy and Emmy Award-winning planar tracking and masking plugin that helps you tackle advanced VFX tasks inside Adobe After Effects & Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, Foundry Nuke, Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve & Fusion, VEGAS Pro, and others.

COMPARE

Compare Mocha Pro & Silhouette
 

Mocha Pro 2023

Mocha in Continuum/Sapphire

Mocha AE / Mocha HitFilm

Planar Tracking

Roto & Masking

PowerMesh & Mesh Warp Stabilization

Python Script Editor

AdjustTrack Module

AdjustTrack 2.0

Alembic Export

Essentials Interface

Area Brush

Remove Module w/ Clean Plating

   

Mega Plate Module

   

Stabilization Module w/ Auto-Fill

   

Lens Module

   

Insert Module for Match Moves w/ Mesh Warper

   

3D Camera Solver

 

(HitFilm Only)

360/VR

   

Stereoscopic 3D

   

Standalone Application Option

   

Integrated Plug-in Option

 

OpenColorIO

 

Floating License & BG Render Options

 

GPU Acceleration

 (AE Only)

GPU Accelerated Remove Module

Magnetic Spline & Freehand Spline Tools

 

Export track, roto & 3D data to wide range of hosts (see exports chart)

   

macOS & Windows Support

Linux Support

(Sapphire Only)

 

Magnetic Spline & Edge Snapping Roto Tools

 

 

NATIVE DATA EXPORTS

Running as standalone application and plug-in, Mocha can render tracked composites, tracked inserts, masks, object removal, stabilization, reorientation and lens correction.

Mocha also exports native tracking, spline and 3D data in a wide variety of host formats:

Hosts and Formats

Mocha Pro 2023

Mocha in
Continuum/Sapphire

Mocha AE /
Mocha HitFilm

Adobe After Effects CC

Tracking, Splines, 3D1, Lens2

 

Tracking & Splines (Mocha AE only)

Adobe Premiere Pro CC

Splines

   

Assimilate Scratch

Tracking

   

Autodesk Flame Family

Tracking, Splines, FBX, Alembic

 

Autodesk Maya & 3DS Max

FBX, Alembic

   

Blackmagic Fusion

Tracking, Splines, FBX, Alembic

   

Floxbox

Tracking

   

Foundry Nuke

Tracking, Splines, FBX, Alembic

   

HitFilm Pro

Tracking, Splines, FBX, Alembic

 

Tracking, Splines, 3D (HitFilm Pro only)

Maxon C4D

FBX, Alembic

   

Mocha Blend

Tracking & Splines

   

Silhouette & Silhouette Paint

Tracking & Splines

   

Quantel Rio

Tracking

   

1Requires the free 3D Track Importer plug-in for After Effects (download)

2Requires the free Mocha Lens Importer plug-in for After Effects (download)

COMPARE MOCHA PRO & SILHOUETTE

 

Mocha Pro Plugin

Mocha Pro Application

Silhouette Plugin

Silhouette Application

Standalone application for macOS/Win/Linux

Mocha Pro planar tracking interface

Recommended for video editors (Media Composer, Premiere Pro, VEGAS Pro)

Node-based compositing with color correction and image processing filters

Advanced paint tools with AutoPaint and detail separation

Includes Mocha node for Silhouette

Includes Sapphire effect nodes for Silhouette

Includes Particle Illusion node for Silhouette

(macOS & Win only)

New Roto, Tracking & Paint Bundle! We now offer Mocha Pro + Silhouette together. Run the industry’s leading tools together at great savings. Learn More.

VIDEOS

LEARN

Getting Started in Mocha

Whether you are working in Mocha AE, Mocha Pro, or the integrated Mocha tools in Continuum or Sapphire, we recommend watching our Mocha Essentials series.

Featuring over 7 hours of training videos to help you get up and running quickly.

Stream it for free or purchase here for downloadable projects and assets.