OT. Quite glad mocha is better. Otherwise the entire market could be replaced 
by Nuke which is never healthy. 

Howard

On 19 Jan 2013, at 05:15, Darren Coombes <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for the reply guys. Yes i have mocha here at home and use it all the 
> time, works perfect. We don't have access to it where I'm at the moment, so i 
> thought i'd ask around about the planar tracker in nuke. Hopefully nukes 
> planar tracker will get better as time goes on.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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> On 19/01/2013, at 8:20 AM, Tahl Niran <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> 
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