Mocha Pro 12.5.3

Mocha Pro 12.5.3

Mocha Pro is the industry-standard planar tracking and roto-masking application from Boris FX. Its unique, award-winning planar tracking engine excels at tracking objects and surfaces that have no discernible points, such as smoke, water, moving fabric, or featureless walls. It integrates seamlessly as a standalone application and as a plugin within leading hosts like Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and Avid Media Composer, providing powerful VFX tools that streamline complex post-production tasks.

🎬 Primary Users

Mocha Pro is developed for visual effects (VFX) artists, compositors, film/TV editors, and post-production specialists. It is specifically designed for professionals who need to perform advanced planar tracking, object removal, rotoscoping, and screen inserts in complex, challenging footage where other trackers fail.

✨ Key Features & Capabilities

• Academy Award-Winning Planar Tracker: The core technology excels at tracking surfaces and objects by analyzing patterns of pixels, motion, and luminance, even through motion blur and occlusion.

• Mega Plate Module for Object Removal: Advanced workflow for creating clean plates by stitching together multiple clean frames to remove objects, people, or rigs from complex moving shots.

• Powerful Rotoscoping & Masking: Bézier and X-Spline tools for creating precise, adjustable masks, with the unique ability to link spline points to planar tracks for automatic mask animation.

• Lens Correction & Stabilization: Built-in tools for removing lens distortion from footage and applying advanced stabilization or match-moving.

• 3D Camera Solver & Export: Calculate a 3D camera solve from your 2D footage and export data (including 3D meshes) to applications like Cinema 4D, Blender, or After Effects for seamless integration of 3D elements.

• Insert Module for Screen & Sign Replacement: Specialized workflow for tracking and replacing content on screens, billboards, or signs with proper perspective, blur, and lighting matching.

• GPU-Accelerated Rendering: Leverages the GPU for faster tracking analysis and rendering of complex composites.

🆕 What’s New in Mocha Pro 12.5.3

This update focuses on enhanced performance, new GPU optimizations, and workflow refinements:

1. Native Apple Silicon (ARM) Support (macOS): Full native support for Apple Silicon Macs, delivering significant performance improvements on M1/M2/M3 systems.

2. Improved GPU Acceleration for Tracking: Further optimization of the planar tracker to utilize GPU resources more efficiently, resulting in faster tracking analysis on supported NVIDIA and AMD GPUs.

3. Streamlined UI for Common Tasks: Redesigned export and application settings dialogs for a more intuitive workflow when sending tracks and masks to host applications.

4. Enhanced 3D Camera Solver Accuracy: Improvements to the 3D solver algorithm for more robust camera solves from difficult footage with limited tracking planes.

5. Bug Fixes & Stability: Resolution of various issues related to project file handling, specific host application integrations (particularly with DaVinci Resolve 19), and memory management.

🖥️ System Requirements (Windows – Recommended)

• OS: Windows 10/11 (64-bit)

• CPU: Multi-core Intel or AMD processor (Intel Core i7/i9 or AMD Ryzen 7/9 recommended)

• RAM: 16 GB minimum (32 GB recommended for high-resolution footage and complex projects)

• GPU: Recommended: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20-series / Quadro RTX or AMD Radeon RX 6000 series with 4 GB+ VRAM. GPU acceleration requires a CUDA 11.8 (NVIDIA) or OpenCL 2.0 (AMD) compatible card.

• Disk Space: 1 GB for installation + substantial fast storage for cache and media files (SSD recommended)

• Other: A graphics tablet (e.g., Wacom) is recommended for precise roto work. An internet connection is required for installation and activation.