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Screen Replacement with Mocha

Lesson 64 from: Adobe After Effects Fundamentals

Philip Ebiner

Screen Replacement with Mocha

Lesson 64 from: Adobe After Effects Fundamentals

Philip Ebiner

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64. Screen Replacement with Mocha

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Class Trailer

Chapter 1: Introduction

1

Class Updates & My Favorite CC 2020 Updates

06:22

Chapter 2: After Effects Basics

2

Understand the After Effects Workspace

05:39
3

Starting a New Composition

08:15
4

CC 2018 Update - Starting a New Composition from Footage

01:55
5

Adding Media to Your Project and the Timeline

05:08
6

Using the Basic After Effects Tools

10:20
7

Create a Perfect Circle, Alignment, and Shape Colors

03:04
8

Working in the Timeline

10:59
9

Layer Properties

08:57
10

Quiz: After Effects Basics

Chapter 3: Animating with Keyframes

11

Animating in After Effects

07:35
12

Position, Scale, and Rotation Animations

05:17
13

Tips to Make Your Animations Look More Nautral

04:21
14

Using the Graph Editor

05:32
15

Challenge - Bouncing Ball

01:01
16

Solution - Bouncing Ball

13:00
17

Quiz: Animating with Keyframes

Chapter 4: Shapes and Solid Layers

18

Working with Solid Layers and the Ken Burns Effects

07:07
19

Working with Shape Layers, Strokes, and Paths

06:24
20

Adding Layer Styles like Drop Shadow, Bevel, and Gradients

03:44
21

Shape Effects - Trim Path Animations, Wiggle, and Zig Zag

05:54
22

Quiz: Shapes and Solid Layers

Chapter 5: Important After Effects Skills

23

Track Matte Animations - Make Layers Appear and Disappear

08:37
24

Using Pre-Compositions to Group Layers

05:34
25

Easily Reverse Complicated Animations

02:14
26

Playing with Time

05:54
27

Blend Modes

06:05
28

Stabilize Shaky Footage

04:04
29

CC 2018 Update - Previewing and Favoriting Fonts

00:46
30

CC 2019 Update - Responsive Design Time

03:36
31

CC 2019 Content Aware Fill

03:55
32

CC 2019 Create Motion Graphic Templates

08:37
33

Quiz: Important After Effects Skills

Chapter 6: Motion Graphics Projects

34

Intro to Motion Graphics Projects

00:53
35

Clean Lower Third

09:22
36

Logo Reveal Animation Bumper

13:25
37

Colorful Transition

16:59
38

Text with Mask Path Animation

10:05
39

Text Bubble Animation

13:39
40

Weather App 1

16:41
41

Weather App 2

08:21
42

Weather App 3

06:59
43

Quiz: Motion Graphics Projects

Chapter 7: Flat Animation Challenge

44

Flat Animation Challenge

02:47
45

Phil Designs his Flat Animation Scene

01:23
46

Animating Fireworks with the Repeater Effect

15:02

Chapter 8: Flat Animation Challenge

47

Removing Green Screen Background

06:46
48

Adding a Background that Matches the Foreground

07:55
49

Adding Motion to a Still Image with the Puppet Tool

06:26
50

Adding Movement with the Ripple Effect

06:07
51

Quiz: Flat Animation Challenge

Chapter 9: Green Screen (Chromakeying)

52

Intro to 3D

10:04
53

Swinging 3D Text Animation

12:11
54

Build Out Your 3D Composition

05:47
55

Animating Our 3D Scene

07:38
56

Create Stars in After Effects

05:11
57

Quiz: Green Screen (Chromakeying)

Chapter 10: 3D Animations and the Camera Tool

58

Using the Rotoscope Tool

06:55
59

Cleaning Up Your Edges

07:21
60

Finishing Our Rotobrush Animation

07:33
61

Quiz: 3D Animations and the Camera Tool

Chapter 11: Rotoscoping

62

Easy Screen Replacement with Masks

09:56
63

Replacing a Screen Version 2

13:49
64

Screen Replacement with Mocha

07:13
65

CC 2019 Update - Native Mocha AE Plugin

05:08
66

Quiz: Rotoscoping

Chapter 12: Screen Replacements

67

Using the Puppet Pin Tool

04:33
68

Animating Your Puppet Pins

03:04
69

Animated Blinking Eyes

08:21
70

Adding Perspective with Animated Clouds

07:10
71

CC 2018 Update - Advanced Puppet Pin Tool

02:08
72

Quiz: Screen Replacements

Chapter 13: Puppet Tool Animations

73

Applying Text Animation Presets

05:59
74

Create a Page Turn Effect with CC Page Turn

10:05
75

Radial and Linear Wipes

03:20
76

Color Correction in After Effects

03:33
77

CC 2019 Update - Selective Color Adjustments

03:25
78

Quiz: Puppet Tool Animations

Chapter 14: Motion Tracking

79

Motion Tracking Basics

09:51
80

Tracking Text and Visual Effects to Video Clip

06:21
81

Tracking Rotation and Scale

11:33
82

Adding Details to Our Text

04:04
83

Quiz: Motion Tracking

Chapter 15: Character Animations

84

Intro to Character Animations

01:31
85

Design Your Character

14:32
86

Rigging Your Character

02:50
87

Animating Our Character

09:55
88

Adding the Animated Background

09:12
89

Adding Details to Character Movement

06:46
90

Adding the Paper Cut Out Look

05:29
91

Quiz: Character Animations

Chapter 16: Exporting from After Effects

92

Exporting an H264 File from After Effects

07:03
93

Exporting from After Effects with a Transparent Background

04:03
94

Exporting from After Effects through Adobe Media Encoder

04:40
95

CC 2018 Update - Exporting an Animated GIF from Adobe Media Encoder

02:14
96

Create an Animated GIF from After Effects CC 2017

07:03

Chapter 17: After Effects Workflow & Tips

97

Audio Tips for After Effects

02:19
98

Working with Premiere Pro

05:54
99

Quiz: After Effects Workflow & Tips

Chapter 18: Expressions

100

Expressions Basics

07:24
101

Animate a Flickering Light with Expressions

17:35
102

Quiz: Expressions

Chapter 19: Conclusion

103

Conclusion

00:44

Final Quiz

104

Final Quiz

Lesson Info

Screen Replacement with Mocha

are you ready to take it to the next level? Because this lesson hopefully will blow your mind as much as it did when I learned this skill. So for this lesson we're going to be replacing this screen right here, which is a moving device, the camera's moving, the hand is shaking. And so in the past, if we were trying to figure out how to replace the screen like we did with the last two TVs, well we wouldn't really know where to start. There'd be key frame animations, all kinds of stuff, but there's a much easier way to do it with a tool that's built in to after effects. So go to after effects and take your screen replacement video clip and drag it into a new layer. This works best with any footage of this kind of green screen on a device. So it is beneficial to shoot or record your video with the device that has a green screen image like this that has these little targets or something similar. So there's a little bit more detail, not just the green screen, you can do this for computer scr...

eens, for tv screens, mobile devices like this. Now with this layer selected, go to the animation menu up here and choose track in mocha e, which is this add on tool I've been talking about. So this is going to open up another program. So wait till that opens. What happens is it starts a new project in mocha and it will match the settings of your video clips. So unless you want to change the location, which it will save the results, the data from what you're doing in this program to the same location as where the video clip lives itself, just leave everything the same. If you want to change that location, it's this option right here. So I just click Ok though there's lots you can do in mocha but all you need to know is this workflow. So first click the little pen tool with the X icon right there along the edges of the screen, click And you don't have to drag just click once and then click around the corners. And as you can see, I'm just clicking 123 four times. It's not perfect but that's okay then right click when you're done. So just right click anywhere. So that's our first sort of selection. Then we have to go in and select the corners and fine tune it. So click this little s buttons show Planer surface. Now you get this blue rectangle and we're going to take the corners of this blue rectangle and move them to the corners of our screen. So I like to put them just a little bit outside of the screen because you get a little bit of that glow from the green screen along the edges and this is going to remove that. It's going to actually remove the entire screen plus a few pixels out the edge. So go around each corner, make that selection and you have that little pop up that helps you see what's happening and it's good if the screen starts where there's not a finger across the screen. So if you see that you need to move things out just a little bit more. That's totally fine. Next we're going to let mocha do the work but there's a few settings you can change down here. So under pre processing for minimum Percentage Pixels used if you wanted to do a little bit more work and have an even better result type in 100 under motion. Make sure you check perspective because with this shot there is a perspective switch with that screen moving around even though it's subtle and then just click this track forwards button. It's the one on the far right that has the t with the play button. So mocha is going to go through the entire shot frame by frame and it's going to track the motion of the screen. So let's let it do that. Once it's done you can go scroll back through the timeline and see if it works. So you can just play through it and see if it was tracking properly. If you need to make adjustments, just go back to the start, move your points around. But if you're happy with it, which you should be because it does a really good job, click the export tracking data button down here from this menu, it gets a little confusing. What you want to do is just click copy to clipboard now it doesn't seem like anything happened. But if we go back to after effects again, this is a confusing workflow. But this is what you want to do. Go up to layer new solid or command. Why create a blank solid and call this screen or whatever you want? And then press paste. So command V on a Mac or control D on a Pc and you'll see what happens is that it basically moved this white screen to the screen itself. If we scrub through this now that white screen, it has replaced the green screen. Now the next thing we want to do is pre compose this. So right click pre compose screen replacement and then make sure it's leave all attributes in screen replacement, click OK. If we open this now we have this full screen and this composition is where we put any asset we want to add to the screen. So if I put it in the ocean video, for example, what happens when we go back to the screen replacement is that it actually squeezes the ocean to this size so this ocean screen is now squeeze so we don't want that necessarily. So we want to find some sort of image or asset or you could build a complete motion graphic composition within the screen that matches the sort of aspect ratio. So it's not being squeezed. One example of this is if you go to the graphics folder, I've added an apps, screen image. This is just the screen of my homepage for video school online and if I bring that down here into the composition, well look what happens if we go back to screen replacement, it looks all funky, Right? But if I go back here, right, click go to transform and go to fit to comp. What happens is it stretches this image to this full composition. But when we go back to screen replacement, it squeezes it back to the right aspect ratio. So I know it's really weird how this works but that's what you're going to want to do when you're replacing your image. So here in the screen replacement. Make sure that whatever you add you right click go to transform and choose fit to comp or you can find that from the layer transform, fit to comp menu. So that is basically how you can replace this screen. Of course this would work too. If you had a shot of this person clicking on the app and then so if you want to animate the app itself, what you would do is animate whatever is in the screen replacement. If you think this is too bright. For example, what you can do is add a little bit of, you know, darkness, add a new solid, make it black and then decrease the opacity, you could find something from within this shot or from another shot and add some sort of reflection to make it look a little bit more natural. You could do all kinds of things within here to make it look better. But now you know how to use mocha to replace a screen, a green screen that is moving, it doesn't actually have to be a green screen as long as the corners of the device are clear. Cool. So if you have any questions about that, please let me know, I know this is a confusing lesson, but just rewind and follow the steps step by step and you'll be able to get it. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you in another lesson.

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