nuke and mocha...

[oldblindbob]

hi all,
I've just started learning Nuke after spending a short time in Shake, the majority of my roto work was done in Mocha, then exported the shapes/track data into Shake no problem.

but Mocha doesn't export shape data to Nuke...

...does anyone know a sneaky way to get the shapes out of Mocha and into Nuke or do i need to change my roto software? to Silhouette maybe?

thanks

[radders]

Is there any reason why you can't just render out your matte as an image sequence from Mocha and import that into Nuke?

[tommy138]

search the forums for the ssf importer for nuke...it'll let you import shake/mocha shapes

[Gravy]

search the forums for the ssf importer for nuke...it'll let you import shake/mocha shapes

Is that working again now?

[Diogo Girondi]

Use the import_ssf.tcl script by Remy Torre in Nuke. It's available for download at creativecrash.com.

To put it to work in Nuke you can use something like this:

import os
import nuke

def import_mochassf():
    
    '''
    Importa arquivos SSF no Nuke gerando Bezier nodes
    Necessita do script TCL "import_sff" do Remy Torre.
    '''
    
    ssf_files = nuke.getClipname( 'Import SSF File', '*.ssf', multiple=True )
    
    if ssf_files:
        for ssf_file in ssf_files:
            try:
                ssf = 'import_ssf %s' % ssf_file
            except:
                raise RuntimeError( 'No burger for you' )

[beaker]

Is that working again now?

I've never had an issue using it, when did it ever have a problem working? They did update it after 5.1.x came out so maybe you had the old version?

[Gravy]

I've never had an issue using it, when did it ever have a problem working? They did update it after 5.1.x came out so maybe you had the old version?

Ah that is quite possible. I believe it wasn't working for me in 5.1v5 or around that version.

EDIT:
If memory serves me right I got it from an fxphd class so it is very possible it was outdated.

[beaker]

I've been using it from 5.1v2-5.1v6, so no issues there. Just download the newest off creative crash.

[Gentle Fury]

it stopped working on 5.1v1 but as far as ive heard its been fixed.

[oldblindbob]

hey thx for the help guys... tried for hrs to install the ssf importer, unfortunately couldn't get it to work i got the node in the draw menu but when i tried to import an ssf it just didn't recognise the file path or directory... will try to load it again tonight!

[lou]

Yes I had that problem too... turned out, It didn't like the subfolder I assigned to it. I saved the ssf file in a root dir. (c:/) and it worked. If I added a sub folder, I got that error you're talking about.

[Diogo Girondi]

try replacing the ssf = 'import_ssf %s' % ssf_file bit for ssf = 'import_ssf "%s"' % ssf_file. It should work.

[farhaad_yousefi]

is there a way to import from mocha(or motor) only tracking and corner pin data like it is for after effect.!? so i could match a replacing surface onto an older one.?! like Monet does.!?

[Diogo Girondi]

Export the tracking data as Discreet ASCII files and then import them in Nuke's CornerPin in the correct order.

You can also use the Nuke track export of Mocha/etc but I think they did a poor job in that since for what I remember that format doesn't include frame numbers in it so things always get offset to frame 1 or 0, can't remember since I never really use it.

[farhaad_yousefi]

but motor doesn't export any more than ssf and gmask.!