

Now to close out this path, I'll just right-click and that completes the path. And so I'm drawing out a shape that isolates just the side of the van. When I let go, I'll be back into the X spline tool and I can continue drawing. And I can also hold down X to temporarily switch over to a hand tool, and that allows me to pan around in my shot.

And while I'm doing this, I can actually hold down Z on the keyboard to temporarily switch over to a magnifying glass. And with it selected, I can start drawing my shape. Now what I'll do is come over here to my X spline tool. And what we want to do is scrub our footage to find a good frame, where we have the side of our van. Here inside of Mocha, I'm using the Essentials workspace. Now that we've done that, let's select our button and go into Mocha AE. By doing this, we give Mocha all the pixels available in our footage to come up with the best track. And before we hit the button to step into Mocha AE, let's make sure that our resolution is set to full. Let's double-click this to open up the effect controls. Let's step into Mocha AE, by first right-clicking on our footage, coming over to effect. Here in this 03 composition, we have the same shot. It's Mocha's strength of tracking planar surfaces that helps separate it from other trackers. That's something a point tracker would easily fail at solving. In this shot, Mocha was able to track the side of the van even though it's off screen at the start of the shot. This results in better tracking with less effort. The same tool used to easily create animated masks, can also be used to follow a defined texture as it moves throughout the duration of the shot. In addition to the point tracking tool we saw previously, Mocha AE is another tracking tool that can be used for more difficult shots.
