Have done a LOT of testing in both apps for a show I worked on a little while back. We did side by side comparisons of Mocha Pro and Nuke 6.3x on a range of shots and elements.
I strongly agree that Mocha's tracker is just much better at correctly analyzing the planar surfaces and motion. Most of the time it will get it pretty close to perfect first pass. Nuke will do a fine job on clear 'planar' surfaces like a wall or floor, but mocha can make sense of anything like a face or limb. Its pretty impressive to be honest. There are a couple of things worth mentioning. Nuke wants the Roto/mask shape to be very accurate to the planar surface, whereas Mocha benefits from a slightly looser shape. I find that adjusting planar tracks is much more fluid in Nuke though. The adjust track function in Mocha is still clunky and annoying. ----------------------- Tahl Niran vfx compositor www.tahlniran.com From: [email protected] Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:02:37 -0800 Subject: Re: [Nuke-users] Planar tracker and roto To: [email protected] Yes, same - not sure if you're talking about mocha, but they really nailed the whole planar tracking thing and their planar algorithm is way ahead of everyone else. I can whack Nuke and Silhouette's trackers into behaving but it takes a lot of work, when you'd have a lock with Mocha usually the first pass using essentially the same setup. Silhouette's is really good at handling occlusions though, fwiw. actors walking in and out of the tracking area, etc On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:24 PM, adam jones <[email protected]> wrote: I can say yes I do use "a" planar tracker to help with roto but I do the planar tracking in another app and bring the resulting corner pin into nuke and apply it to the rotos I create in nuke. I find the planar tracker in nuke a bit hit and miss, in my supporting app it is nailed 9 time out of 10 in the first go if all is set up right. -adam On 17/01/2013, at 1:05 AM, Darren Coombes <[email protected]> wrote: Does anyone use the planar tracker to help with roto? Just wondering. Darren Coombes - VFX Compositor Check out some of my work… www.vimeo.com/53990514 Mob: +61 418 631 079 Skype: darrencoombesTwitter: @durwood81 _______________________________________________ Nuke-users mailing list [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users _______________________________________________ Nuke-users mailing list [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users _______________________________________________ Nuke-users mailing list [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users
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