

The plug-in won Best of Show at Apple Macworld in Boston, MA the same year. The former Media 100 engineer (a member of the original Media 100 launch team in 1993) released “Boris FX,” the first plug-in based digital video effects (DVE) for Adobe Premiere and Media 100, in 1995. Multi-Host License: One license will work in all three hosts.Team photo in front of the Boris FX booth at NAB 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada.īoris FX was founded in 1995 by Boris Yamnitsky. Individual Host License: As a plug-in for individual hosts: Adobe, Avid, OFX (Choose OFX for Nuke, Fusion, Vegas Pro & HitFilm). Standalone Application + Multi-Host: The standalone application option includes the multi-host plug-in license free of charge. Mocha Pro can be purchased with various license options: For this scenario, the standalone is best fit. Some VFX artists like the flexibility of keeping Mocha and Nuke (or AE) always running on the same system to multi-task and set up Mocha to run on one monitor and Nuke on the other. Multi-tasking: Running Mocha as a plug-in is modal, meaning that while Mocha’s interface is active, you work in Mocha, then close it to return to your host.This depends on many factors and is different for each host, but if you want to track high-res footage with a computer that doesn’t have much RAM, the standalone application will be faster.

There are some situations where Mocha Pro standalone will render or track more quickly than the plug-in version. Mocha Pro can render screen inserts, object removals, image stabilization, and roto mattes.

In these cases, the Mocha Pro standalone might be a good fit for its ability to render a finished shot or element. There are many video applications on the market and not all of them support plugins and some may not have a supported workflow to import tracking and roto data. Working with unsupported hosts or collaborations.Facilities with a finishing artist working in Flame or color grading suites such as Resolve or Baselight often have an assistant station handling the tracking, roto, or object removals, and Mocha Pro standalone supports these sites well.

If they spend all of their time in Mocha, using the standalone version avoids the facility needing to buy host software seats for these artists. Some of our customers have a large number of roto artists, who only do roto. Large roto projects or assistant stations.For many Mocha Pro users, the plug-in is the best choice for usability and integration with your host application, below are some situations where you might want to use the standalone application. Mocha Pro can be run as a standalone application or a plugin.
