FYI: Mocha tracker sale

Tech Diver wrote on 6/19/2014, 10:28 AM

FYI: I just got an email that Imagineer Systems is having a 3-day 50% off sale June 20-22 of their Mocha Pro tracker products. I noticed that if you have Mocha HitFilm you can get their $1500 software for less than $400. Fortunately, I qualify for academic discounts and can get it for just $99 (which sounds great but is still a considerable amount when your total annual income is a mere $18,000 a year from research stipends).

Peter

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Tech Diver wrote on 7/28/2014, 8:15 PM

I do not believe there currently is a way to import masks (unless someone writes some code). However, if you have Boris BCC you can import tracking data (I think John Rofrano a.k.a. JohnnyRoy, has a tutorial on that).

Peter

John222 wrote on 7/29/2014, 11:15 AM

It does save the full series of masked frames in the results folder. Which you can then import into Vegas via import media with frames option. However the mask are black and white. If there is a way to change either color to a translucent, they would be usable as a fully tracked mask.

The mask are definitely generated when you use the insert module, I think they may also be generated when the remove module is used. Check you "Results" folder for layer mask

Tech Diver wrote on 7/29/2014, 3:54 PM

Good call John, I totally forgot about those image sequences.

Peter

John222 wrote on 7/29/2014, 10:07 PM

You can import the mask layers as a sequence via import media in vegas. Then the vegas properties tab will open, where you can select what to do with the alpha channel. I tried setting it to straight and it imported the tiff sequence with the unmasked area as transparent. I haven't tried it on any projects yet.