My main goal as a filmmaker is to try and tell a great story, but the past several years have added another component to that. All of the HD cameras, inexpensive lens adapters, tools for production, and late versions of Final Cut make me feel like I also have a responsibility to control the quality of the images I create. With software getting faster and cheaper every day, we are now able to do things on our computers that were once only the realm of the major studios.
Now, instead of using 'dumbed-down' versions of the software the big boys use as we did in the past, our tools are the same. Many TV shows and films are edited on Final Cut Studio, and to save time and money they need quick tools that allow them to produce film quality effects. One of the tools they use is Mocha....and it's a tool we can all have at a very reasonable price.
Mocha is basically a tracking software, allowing you to easily rotoscope and track elements in motion on your video footage. This allows you to do many things...add effects that match the camera movement, cut out a moving object to make effects appear to effect the area behind them, or do some multi-level color correction. Rotoscoping and Tracking have historically been a painstaking process, but Mocha has changed that.
