NAB 2024 Announces Mocha Pro as Year's Best Product
In the realm of visual effects (VFX), the latest releases of Mocha Pro have been making waves, with Mocha Pro 2024 and 2025 bringing significant advancements to the table.
The Mocha Pro 2024 release is hailed as one of the most significant in the product's history, making high-quality 3D camera solving accessible to a wide range of creators. This version offers faster performance with major render speed increases and improved tracking accuracy. It also simplifies matchmoves for compositing, animation, and motion graphics creation, thanks to its 3D Tracking & Camera Solve feature.
Mocha Pro 2024 also introduces features like Garbage masks and PowerMesh. Garbage masks allow users to exclude certain areas during the 3D camera solve, potentially improving the solve's accuracy, while PowerMesh can be used to create 3D meshes for more precise tracking results. Moreover, Mocha Pro 2024 can automatically detect, analyze, and solve 3D cameras with the speed of SynthEyes and the flexibility of Mocha Pro's award-winning planar tracking and interface.
John-Paul Smith, CEO of Imagineer Systems, is proud of the Mocha product team for their groundbreaking release. The Mocha Pro 2024 won the Best Product of the Year Award at the 2024 NAB Show in Las Vegas, a feat that Boris Yamnitsky, Founder and CEO of Boris FX, is thrilled about.
Moving on to Mocha Pro 2025, this version builds upon the strengths of its predecessor, introducing several new features and improvements. The process of transferring 3D tracking data from Mocha Pro to After Effects is simple, as demonstrated by Ben Brownlee.
A significant enhancement in Mocha Pro 2025 is the Area Brush tool, which speeds up the creation of Mocha layers by allowing fluid paint strokes that are converted into vector splines, accelerating planar tracking and masking workflows. This tool also supports Wacom tablets for pressure sensitivity, improving user control.
Moreover, Mocha Pro 2025 continues to offer the industry's most reliable planar tracking system with unlimited layers and an advanced AdjustTrack module to handle challenging situations like reflections, occlusions, noise, motion blur, and low detail areas. Color management remains robust with support for OpenColorIO and ACES, ensuring consistent and predictable color display across various professional workflows.
Additional improvements focus on reducing manual keyframing in rotoscoping through planar tracked spline tools for faster shape creation and more efficient masking. Mocha Pro 2025 also introduces two new AI tools called Object Brush and Matte Assist, and new camera solving capabilities for moving objects in 3D space.
In summary, Mocha Pro 2025 advances its core strengths in planar tracking and rotoscoping with AI-driven tools, enhanced brush capabilities, advanced camera solving, and industry-standard color management to support complex VFX workflows.
For those interested, the Boris FX Hub is a platform where Mocha Pro can be downloaded, installed, and a 14-day free trial requested. With these updates, Mocha Pro continues to be a powerful tool in the VFX industry, making high-quality 3D camera solving more accessible than ever.
Technology advancements in Mocha Pro are revolutionizing visual effects (VFX), as witnessed in 2024 and 2025 releases. Particularly, Mocha Pro 2024 introduced innovative features like Garbage masks and PowerMesh for improved 3D camera solving accuracy, while Mocha Pro 2025 added the Area Brush tool for streamlined planar tracking and masking, supporting Wacom tablets for pressure sensitivity.
