When looking through plate material on a project, inevitably at some point and time, you will find the need to remove smudges or lens marks from a shot before any of your magical VFX skills can take place.

how to remove smudges and lens marks from footage using mocha Pro’s remove tool

Here, mocha Pro Product Manager Martin Brennand walks through the process of removing shot imperfections such as lens marks or smudges using mocha Pro’s Remove Module which makes short work of these types of tasks.

In the course of the video, Martin also looks at tracking a different area in the shot to assist with difficult masks and roto work, and when to stop using the mocha Pro Uber key, which will allow you to make global changes to masks over keyframes all at once.

Mocha Pro has been a real game changer for me and the studio, allowing us to set the focus to creating, rather than the tedium of simple mechanical fixes and tasks that can really bog down a production with a lot of shots.