- Boris FX introduces Mocha Pro 2022. The new release of the
industry's most popular and versatile tool for
planar tracking, rotoscoping, object removal and image stabilization. This release adds major new features and performance increases, including PowerMesh driven inserts, improved planar tracking
tools, user interface updates, new export formats, and significant architecture
and speed improvements, including faster rendering and
improved login performance. And we are now happy to announce support for the Apple M1 computers
and Adobe After Effects, multi frame rendering. And if that's not all Boris
FX is now celebrating the 20th anniversary of planar tracking. It all started 20 years ago and while our original and
innovative planar tracking algorithm has been widely emulated, it's never been replicated. We thank our users for many
years of feature requests and making our tools
part of your amazing work in television and film. Now let's dive in. For advancements in compositing, we've added PowerMesh
warp to the insert module, which greatly improves the
flexibility of working with inserted images in your scenes. Now users can drive inserts
with PowerMesh tracking and render organic and warped
surfaces with motion blur. This means you no longer
have to do pre comps or reverse stabilize to
insert mesh track content. Instead, you can add a clip to the surface and then adjust the insert right onto the warping PowerMesh. You can utilize mesh weighting to control how much the
PowerMesh influences your insert, and you can use mesh fall off to change how much to fix the insert outside the PowerMesh boundaries, giving you a lot of creative
control over the effects. On top of this, we've streamlined the insert
interface for a cleaner look and updated the grid warping
tools to make it easier to see, select and adjust the insert grid. To make all this fit together. We've also added blend modes directly into the insert preview, making it much easier to
visualize final results or to render inside editing hosts that have fewer compositing features. This makes PowerMesh inserts
much easier if you're using Avid, Premiere or Vegas Pro. Finally, for the insert module we've improved the overall
render quality allowing artists to choose the type of
sampling they prefer to use based on the current clips. Mocha Pro 2022 is chock
full of speed improvements and underlying architecture updates. The speed, the standalone
Mocha Pro application. Now renders object removals
and inserts faster. And we're seeing speed
increases of up to 35%. The Mocha Pro plugin also
shows faster performance, not only when rendering, but also for playing back
high resolution footage and hosts like Nuke where previously it
might've been a little slow. One of the biggest architecture
changes is we now support Apple Silicon M1 hardware
with the both the standalone and the plugin. Mac users can see some
very nice speed increases when rendering on their
shiny new hardware. This object remove on version
2022 is rendering 40% faster on the same M1 system. And for Adobe users, we have great news. Mocha pro is now ready
for After Effects MFR. Multi threaded rendering
is an Adobe beta feature that will be released soon When the Mocha Pro plugin not only supports MFR compositions, we're seeing a very nice speed
increase inside After Effects Beyond the speed improvements Mocha Pro is now updated to the industry standard
VFX Reference Platform 2021 with version updates for
Python, OCIO color management, FBX, QT, and Alembic. Mocha Pro 2022 adds a
range of new enhancements to planar and mesh tracking. Based on user request you can now select individual
RGB channels for tracking rather than just
luminance or order channel giving you finer control
over what's being tracked. We have also added separate
RGB channels to the viewer, making it easier to see details or spot problematic areas in shot. The quick stabilize tool now
allows users to select any track layer and stabilize
the viewer based on pan zoom. This makes it much easier to
control the view for speedy track evaluation and is
very useful right away. You can now also select and
link multiple layers to the same track using linked to track, making it much faster to
set up complex tracking or rotor tasks based on single tracks. The track module also
introduces a new way for mesh and planar tracking layers to interact. You can now link new layers to a layer that's already
been planar tracked Then just do the mesh
tracking on the link layer. This can be very useful for
mesh-driven rotor work or very difficult tracking shots. Moving onto the dope sheet. We now have some small but
long awaited improvements. You can now move a selection
or all key frames easily with this slide key frames field
at the top of the sheet, this makes it much easier
to mass shift key frames when needing to add to the top of an edit. You can now also quickly zoom to the current selection
of keys or all keys and control or command
zooming with the mouse wheel now focuses on the mouse cursor instead of the middle of the timeline. Mocha Pro 2022 expands the type of exports you can use with other applications. The PowerMesh to new tracker export creates a single nuke tracker node with individual tracker
points representing every vertex in the PowerMesh. This versatile export
means you have access to dense 2D tracking
points across your scene without having to set up
individual tracks or corner pins. The PowerMesh to Alembic
transform exports, the mesh vertex position
data to individual transform nodes instead of a single mesh. This 3D format is useful for artists who want to use the mesh vertex data for driving other objects or particles, and don't need the entire mesh structure. Silhouette shapes will now split out from the transform data
and making it easier to add new Silhouette shapes, which inherit the tracking data. In the same vein, exporting
to the new roto node now also splits transformed data, making it easier to add new
splines to a new rotor session and have them follow
the Mocha planar track. Finally, we've added
support for SGO Mistika. You can now support
Mocha planar train data to Mistika or Mistika boutique as a set of corner pin tracks. But that's not all. There's been a plethora
of tweaks, defect fixes and workflow improvements to make your Mocha life
just a little bit easier. Layer editing is now possible
outside the set layer ranges so you can quickly fix
properties of a layer that is trimmed in the timeline. 360 spline editing has been improved. So over warping no longer occurs on large perspective changes. Improved adjust track
parameters now adjust all track key frames based on the motion type selected giving a more predictable adjustment. And to create a mass now support the Unicode
layer names in After Effects. So after 20 years, our
team is still going strong and continues to develop
and improve Mocha Pro. The 2022 release enhances
the features you love and has new tools to make your work faster and more efficient. Mocha Pro 2022 is a free update for customers on valid support contracts or active subscription plans. To find out more information
on this new release, or view the newest training videos, please visit us at borisfx.com.
