Mocha to AE - Editable Masks

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#1

Is there a way to import masks into AE that only have keyframes at the same frames they were made in Mocha?

For example, if I have a mask keyed at 1 and 100, Mocha seems to bake in all the frames in between. That does not allow me to practically edit them in After Effects.

 

 

#2

Unfortunately not. There are number of reasons for this:

  1. We convert any x-splines to bezier splines and need to keep a 1-1 mapping of animation in the conversion
  2. If you have tracked any layer, tracking information is per-frame and the tracks have to be collapsed into the manual keyframes to maintain the correct movement.

In general it’s a lot quicker to keep doing all the roto tweaks in mocha then apply the final mask back in AE.

#3

Makes sense. I work with a large group of people and we have a designated roto team. The current flow does not work well with a bigger team.

I suppose the simplest solution would for After Effects to implement X-Splines w/your math, interpolation and feathering paradigm.

Once it is implemented, it will be a third option - bezier, rotobezier, or X-Splines.

Then the round trip would be an elegant and 1-1.