Mocha Import problem

[taylormade]

I'm getting a nice motion track in Mocha (I'm a newbee to the program) but when I import the tracking information into After Effects, I keep getting corner pin information rather than transform data. I am checking the export format as After Effects Transform Data (*.txt) but when I apply the data to the null layer in AF it always comes in as corner pin data. What am I doing wrong?

 

[story2rewrite]

Here's my process...

Once I track in mocha I save as a txt file. I usually name it something similar to the footage so I can find it easily.

Then you have to use the same exact footage that you exported to use in Mocha. Bring it into ae as a new comp and then click on the icon mocha import.

Then click on the load txt data. Find the file you save as txt and it will bring it in.

After you move to selection 2. It will give you varying styles of import. Under selection 2 it says choose what to do with the tracking data. Click on the arrow and scroll down to tf create stabilized precomp for selected layer. Then click apply. Once you do that it should give you 2 different comps. One is stabilized and one is not. You'll notice that one of them jiggles all over the place and another is stable. Apply any effects or stuff you want to the jiggly comp and it will apply it to the stable comp. You can click between comps to see how it's going.

Hope this helps. Not sure if I'm explaining it good enough. You can ask Mattius - he created the script. He's pretty good about getting back to people if they have questions. Here's a link to his website...

http://www.mamoworld.com/

Or let me know if you have any more questions. I can try to help as much as I can.

Here's an example of me using it if you want to check it out.

http://vimeo.com/21576867
It's nice because you can apply effects to the jittery layer (that's the technical term and it will apply to the stabilized layer. Instead of dealing with movement of mask. Makes life a little easier. Like anything sometimes it needs tweaks and can drive me crazy - could be just me - but it's a great tool I've used.