I am trying to use Mocha to generate tracking data that I can use with text. However, the examples on the internet show the use of an image and even a clip. When applying the same steps to text I don’t get the text to appear in mocha or vegas.
The steps I am following:
In Vegas:
Add video clip
Add video track
Add text media to new track
On video clip ‘Make compositing Child’
On video clip ‘Compositing Mode’ | Custom | Mocha Pro
Launch Mocha UI
In Mocha UI
Create spline and track
Select ‘Insert Layer’ from ‘Insert Clip’ dropdown
Save and close Mocha
In Vegas
In ‘Module Renders’ section, selected insert:composite and checked render checkbox
<at this point , still no text appears>
I’m using VP15 B361, so I’m interested in this too. Just to be clear, are you wanting some text from a Vegas Text Event to follow a “moving” Object that you’ve tracked in MP?
Have you tried using the Insert Clip drop and importing a PNG with alpha for text tracking? This should work. I do not know Vegas Pro workflow well, but will look into it.
It would be great if it were possible to track text in Vegas Pro using Mocha Pro, but it doesn’t seem to be possible.
I’ve looked at many YouTube tutorials re tracking text in VP, and most address this via VP’s track motion. I couldn’t find any using Mocha Pro (not to say that there mightn’t be one hidden away somewhere). But I do recall from many years ago a HitFilm tutorial showing how to use Mocha in HitFilm to track and then get another object to follow that track within HitFilm.
Especially watch from 18:00 which shows how the tracking data is transferred from Mocha to HitFilm and then the process used within HitFilm to get the glow object (child) used in the tutorial to follow the selected track data path (parent). There’s no reason that a title can’t be used in place of the example used in the tutorial; in fact, I found that it works just fine in HitFilm with text.
Mocha Pro only allows the export of camera solve data to a few NLE compositors: FBX format, AE, Nuke and HitFilm. In fact, from the Mocha Pro user manual, Vegas Pro doesn’t get a mention as a destination to export other data such as tracks or mattes and clips.
As the HitFilm tutorial pre-dates the free HitFilm Express (HFE), the process demonstrated may or may not work in HFE. You might want to see if Mocha Pro does work as a plug-in in HFE (it certainly does in full HF), and whether or not the process demonstrated in the tutorial also applies to HFE. If it does, there’s another avenue to achieve text tracking which can be rendered and used in Vegas Pro.
Add video Track (differentiating this track from the track that has the video clip)
On video clip, Under track Fx, ‘Make Compositing Child’
On video track, under track Fx, Add BCC Title Studio effect
Launch UI
In Title Studio
Create the title
Close title studio and answer yes to the save question
In Vegas
On video track, under track Fx, Add ‘Compositing Mode’ | Custom | Mocha Pro
Launch Mocha UI
In Mocha
Add tracking data (be sure the Planer surface is large enough to accommodate the title or else it won’t show up
With the video layer selected, select ‘Insert Layer’ from the ‘Insert Clip’ dropdown. At this point you should see the title. If you don’t try making the planer surface larger.
Close mocha and answer yes to the save question
In vegas
In the ‘Module Renders’ section, select Insert: composite if it is not already selected.
In the same section, check the render checkox
If you need to reposition the text, you can use the X|Y position section of the Title Studio Fx in Vegas.
