Curious Turtle is happy to announce the immediate release of a new HD video training course, Rock Steady : Successful Motion Tracking in Imagineer Systems Mocha & Adobe After Effects.  This training has previously only been available with our exclusive personal training courses but is now available for everyone.

The course uses Mocha for After Effects V2 but most of the information is just as useful if you're using Mocha AE V1 or the big boy Mocha.

Training is Not Just About Learning the Buttons

Throughout the fourteen exercises, you will master the art of Planar Tracking and find practical solutions to common & tough tracking problems.  Each project is a comprehensive look at a different challenge, designed to inform and inspire you to use new features and create great-looking effects.  You will quickly go from tracking neophyte to Mocha master.  This isn't a dry replacement for the Mocha manual - it's a practical guide about getting great tracks and what to do with that data in After Effects.

Move Beyond Simple Point Tracking

Discover more about the biggest reason to upgrade to After Effects CS4 : Imagineer Systems Mocha.  Planar Tracking gives you more from your tracks - much more.  Rock Steady is about using all of that data.  We will create deadly pits, quickly paint out distracting objects and replace logos using corner pins.  We will also take our other transform data  to create cool graphical effects, stabilise and smooth shaky cameras and all manner of things to speed up the arduous task of rotoscoping.

This is a fairly advanced tutorial for Mocha for AE V2, showing how to use the Shape Plug-in to create mask shapes in Adobe After Effects.  You will be expected to know the basic Mocha and After Effects interfaces.

The tutorial focuses on how to use Mocha for After Effects to help out on a paint job to remove an actor from the scene.

Following on the success of Film Wash for After Effects, Curious Turtle has released Film Wash for Apple Color Vol. 2. Allowing everyone to access the great power of Apple's color correction software.  Note:  This set contains different looks than those found in in Film Wash for After Effects.

Film Wash Color Effects Vol. 2 is a set of presets for Apple Color, utilising the Color FX room to give your footage a great, fully-customisable graded look. The package includes 55 unique effects, split over three distinct categories: Tone Wash, XPro and Black & White Wash.

As this product only uses the Color FX room, it keeps the rest of your grade completely unaffected.  Simply balance your clips as you would do normally, then add the rinse of Film Wash over the top. All the Washes remain customisable, making it a snap to dial in your perfect color grade.

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Curious Turtle's own Ben Heusner has won the grand prize in Imagineer Systems video tutorial contest.

Check out our full HD video training course - Rock Steady : Successful Motion Tracking in Imagineer Systems Mocha

To see the winning tutorials and other free video training click here. Find out more about our other video training courses: Complete Digital Video Color Correction and DVD Studio Pro Scripting Recipes.