Imagineer Systems announced the immediate availability of mocha. The company's new standalone tracking station leverages Imagineer's advanced 2.5D planar tracking technology to simplify and significantly accelerate the tracking and rotoscoping workflow for VFX artists.
mocha's proprietary Planar Tracking System enables artists to quickly generate accurate corner-pins that can be exported to industry standard compositing and editing systems. Additionally, mocha intelligently tracks and transforms roto splines that can also be exported. This new approach to tracking and rotoscoping results in highly accurate 2D tracks and mattes of superior quality while requiring far fewer keyframes and adjustments.
"I've been using pixel tracking for years, but it wasn't until I tried my first experimental planar track with mocha that I realized what I've been missing all this time," said beta tester Tony Jover of U.K.-based HD Heaven. "It's not just that it was so easy; it was the uncanny accuracy that totally blew me away. I was immediately aware of how 'dodgy' my tracks have been up until now. All of a sudden, new opportunities opened up in front of me; jobs that I would previously have told the client were impossible are now easily achievable. Exporting the clip from my Avid DS, quickly tracking it in mocha and then importing the curves to the DS tracker is a simple and painless workflow. I can then do the composite the way I'm used to, safe in the knowledge that the track is rock solid."
mocha is a stand alone 2D tracking tool packed with features that make the life of the effects compositing artist easier and less stressful. With mocha's advanced planar tracking technology, compositors can avoid the guesswork and inaccuracies that result from the painstaking and time-consuming process of hand tracking difficult shots. The process of generating solid four-point tracks, giving position, scale, rotation, shear and perspective matched tracks is significantly accelerated by Imagineer's next-generation tracking. Once the track is complete, mocha is designed to seamlessly export the data to the industry's most well known compositing and finishing packages such as Inferno, Flame, Flint, Smoke, Combustion, Avid DS, Quantel generationQ, After Effects, Shake and Digital Fusion, providing artists the freedom to finish shots in the most comfortable compositing application.
mocha is available immediately and is priced at $2,995 for single node-locked licenses.
Imagineer Systems Ltd. (www.imagineersystems.com) innovates and markets next-generation visual effects solutions for film, video and broadcast post-production and has made its mark on CASINO ROYALE, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN and HARRY POTTER. Imagineer's product line consists of monet -- placement station, mokey -- removal station, motor -- roto station, mofex -- plug-in for Shake and moxel -- standards station. Imagineer Systems was founded in 2000 and its headquarters is located in Guildford, U.K.
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