I thought I already posted this, but it doesn’t appear in the forum. Not sure what happened, but if it’s a double-post I apologize.
Let me see if I can boil down my question and see how that goes. Can I import a new clip into a project and use existing Mocha track and mask layers on this new clip? The new clip is identical except that it’s not as tall. The file I tracked it on was slightly stretched vertically. I was looking to see if I could do a “replace footage” deal like AE and Premiere.
You can paste the shapes on to a new layer thats the same size as the footage you tracked and then you can alter the size down to the non-stretched height and use that as a masking layer in AE, but if your aspect ratio is changed you’re going to have a hard time lining the data up with a simple replace.
Please let me know if you have any questions and I will be happy to help you.
OK, so I dropped my 4K into a 1080 comp and exported that. Now I have the proper letter bars. I see the Import function, but no matter what I do, I’m able to copy anything in Mocha. I can now see both clips in the “Clip” tab drop-down. If I select the letter bar version here and go back to the “Track” tab, the existing layers don’t function at all. I’m not finding any way to copy and paste.
I mean you can paste the Data in After Effects, not in mocha. You need to create a masking layer and paste your mocha shapes on to the proper sized comp and use that as your masking layer. I am sorry, I should have been more clear.
You can also use a solid and precomp it with your proper masks,at the proper size, and drop that into your correct comp. Then you can adjust the size of the precomp.