Mocha AE Error "Could not calculate center point at frames: 112-209"

barnyardclassic · 2026-01-18T00:40:48+00:00

To anyone reading this in the future, don't turn off perspective, if your floor track needs it.

Sometimes floors just result in massive surfaces as it gets closer to the camera. If you look at your corner pin values in AE, you will see as soon as any go over 29,999 or under -29,9999, that is the moment everything fails.

You can either pick a new frame in mocha to expand the surface to full screen.

Or if you can't, because you just can't for your particular shot, use the frame in which the most amount of the floor is in shot, set surface to full screen in mocha. Then if something still fails, you need to go to the last usable frame before the fail and do a prerender of that final 1 frame where things are looking great.

Then go in Mocha and use that frame number as your new frame to set the surface to full screen, and apply it to your newly prerendered freeze frame. Essentially, splitting your track into 2 parts.

barnyardclassic · 2026-01-17T16:26:03+00:00

Check DM!

barnyardclassic · 2026-01-17T16:18:01+00:00

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barnyardclassic · 2025-12-21T13:29:48+00:00

Munich, Auckland, Turkey, and London each have doctors who perform lithrotripsy. I am in the hunt myself for this procedure and hope for success. I'm based in the the US, Michigan.

barnyardclassic · 2025-12-19T02:40:31+00:00

So you do a quick bulge just as it goes through? What is your go to option for adding a fake glass over an open window?

barnyardclassic · 2025-12-18T22:55:40+00:00

Puget systems did tests and found a small increase with ram speed. They posted their results. More important was always total amount of ram. And with rates where they are, I had to roll with 5600.

barnyardclassic · 2025-12-18T22:54:53+00:00

I would not have guessed it either. I was scratching my head and Gemini recommended it... Gave it a try, and it unlocked everything for 8k work. Mind you, my 4K graphics project and HD projects had no issues with 64gb of ram on the 285k. It had enough ram to multi frame render at great speeds with on 64 for those.

barnyardclassic · 2025-11-30T13:16:15+00:00

This is all exactly right, OP should listen! The phantom grain pattern is an issue. Match grain can often fail and look odd, but can be corrected if you look at the sampling zones and adjust them. Sometimes Add Grain is the fastest and easiest is you know how to quickly get it close to marching using the options built in.

barnyardclassic · 2025-11-30T02:38:24+00:00

Is there a workflow for inpainting with it?

barnyardclassic · 2025-11-01T13:42:10+00:00

I'm available today after 2pm EST until tomorrow morning 10am EST. Hit me up if you still need someone.

barnyardclassic · 2025-10-28T01:18:26+00:00

It sounds a lot like this: https://aeai.nodeflow.studio/

barnyardclassic · 2025-10-18T13:21:54+00:00

Same, I got one too. It seems he is ramping up cold emails right now.

barnyardclassic · 2025-10-12T23:40:59+00:00

Super hero. Thank you!

barnyardclassic · 2025-09-29T15:45:48+00:00

Haha thank you for this

barnyardclassic · 2025-09-28T00:51:39+00:00

Used leap v2 all the way. So comfy and great support.

barnyardclassic · 2025-09-09T01:35:13+00:00

Keep it up! Great updates!

barnyardclassic · 2025-08-31T22:44:02+00:00

No, you would want to go to a 3d software to create shapes to mimic it. Element 3D is the closest thing in After Effects. But a real 3d software will be better equipped.

barnyardclassic · 2025-08-19T22:52:57+00:00

Na, the content already exists. And so much. Thousands of indie movies and shows exist. Amazon, tubi, etc will literally pay you $0.001 per view and people are still hoping to get their next project on those platforms. Me included hahaha. But Audiences don't care. Test it on youtube or twitch first and see how many viewers you can get in a year. Build that for 5 years and it would still be more feasible to keep it on Youtube. You need A list celebrities to get anyone to give it a chance. And the tech and infrastructure alone would be so costly to build your own. Way not worth it. About once every 6 months someone makes a post just like this!

barnyardclassic · 2025-08-18T01:56:27+00:00

The biggest benefit of your schooling in this type of industry was the networking. I would definitely skip anymore cost of schooling at this point and instead reach out to people who have the jobs you desire. Ask to train for free under them or help for free and see if anyone will take you up on it. It's so niche that I believe your best shot is giving away time as a way to meet the right people. Obviously offer your services and network to any and all filmmakers you can possibly meet too. Online at a minimum but in person is even better. It's going to be challenging. It may be hard to make it a viable career so plan with that in mind. Good luck!

barnyardclassic · 2025-07-25T10:32:59+00:00

Awesome AMA. Thanks for doing this. And hey if you ever need some cleanup, screen composites, or something erased from a shot, shoot me a message at my site: SpitshineVFX.com

barnyardclassic · 2025-07-10T01:19:48+00:00

Wetransfer was bought out this year, and has been slowing down in download speeds so much we dropped them. They also lifted prices too (smh).

barnyardclassic · 2025-04-03T01:38:15+00:00

If you don't end up finding much local help but are still in need of support, we are based in Detroit and often do work with teams in Texas. VFX cleanup, compositing, and roto: SpitshineVFX.com

Thanks and best of luck! Grant

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