

With Mocha (which is a planar tracker) it looks for planes, so it's looking for a large plane area and contrast within that picture to track motion.The "Track Motion" feature will track using points/pixles, so it'll look for contrast in an image and do its bets to stick to those points of contrast.You can motion track using the "track motion" feature, tracking in Boris Effects Mocha (which we're going to use), or using "track camera". There are a couple of ways to motion track with After Effects. In my tutorial linked below, I cover everything you need to know about replacing a phone screen in After Effects by motion tracking it using Boris FX Mocha. This will pin the text layer to the corners of the motion tracking shape.Motion tracking and Screen Replacement are two of the most common and important skills you can have as a compositor. There are countless cases where skills like these will be called upon, whether it's replacing a billboard, removing a tattoo or changing a car's number plate - these all require the basics that you learn through motion tracking and compositing. In this example, use the Corner Pin option. You have a choice of applying the data as a Corner Pin or as Transform data. These dictate how the tracking data is applied and where it is applied to. Back in the plugin, you’ll see two fields for Export Option and Layer Export To. All that’s left is to apply this tracking data to another object.Ĭreate a text layer in your composition. With the tracking data generated, you should now see that the tracking keyframes turn blue in the tracking data list.

A popup box will appear, so make sure the gear icon is toggled for your clip layer and click OK. This time, in the Mocha AE Plugin in Effect Controls you are going to look at the Tracking Data dropdown box.Ĭlick the Create Track Data box to translate your motion tracking into data that can be applied to other objects. Once again, use the X-Spline pen tool to draw around the building and track the motion, closing the Mocha AE plugin when you are content with the track.
