Mocha and Mocha Pro are consistently great tools for tracking and visual effects work; Most recently, mocha landed as part of the HitFilm bundle and Axel Wilkinson takes a look at getting a good track on a long pan shot.

We take another look at mocha HitFilm, this time examining how to track long pans which don’t have any consistently visible elements

You would think that tracking shots where things consistently enter and leave the frame would be fairly difficult, but mocha makes short work and really excels at tasks like this.

Simply by unlinking the tracking spline, it will stay in the center of the frame while still collecting tracking data.

Recently FXHome had great success funding the macintosh version of HitFilm, offering another alternative to After EFfects, and the bind of Creative Cloud.