- 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.