Final Cut Pro AI Background Remover Plugin Showdown | mRotoAI VS RotoMatic

I have issues with rotomatic, if I click any area to add to the mask it goes straight into an infinity pinwheel and I have to close out FCPX and restart every time. I also have spec’d out Mac mini and it’s the only plugin that goes straight to pinwheel when I use it.

Thank so much ^Dylan!!!

AI Prompt in less than one year: " Mask the subject including lanyard for the device in her hand, give her a colorful Hawaiian floral shirt and have her doing a front toe kick with recovery spin as she continues back in the crouch position...also at the 11 sec mark show the effects on the subject as the environmental lighting changes from night time to full daylight and back again"

No one likes subscriptions Dylan, wish they switch to buy it outright. By the sounds of Philly's comment below Rotomatic sounds like it's got issues. Did you experience any? and are you running on M1 or intel? Cheers. Great demonstration though. You give it to us in a way we understand. Thanks.

Thanks for this, Dylan. However, a follow-up video to include Keyper would be worthwhile for your viewers, in my opinion. In terms of speed*, it is unbeatable. I have been using it extensively on *one-hour-duration videos since its launch and it operates instantly*. The tracking time for the rotoscoping tools you're reviewing here would *really add up for longer clips. (Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with the makers of the Keyper plugin. I bought it when it first appeared (on the basis of a video review back then by Mark Spencer of Ripple Training.)

Really hoping for an absolute Killer FCP update towards the end of the year that makes all of these plugins obsolete. Final Cut is just dragging behind in so many areas right now. But I am very hopeful that it will very soon be the absolute No Brainer for any Creator and One Person Crew with heightened demands that it has the potential to be!

I would say, none of them. For specifically removing backgrounds my favourite tools are object tracking tools in Davinci Resolve Studio and the background remover in capcut.

I switched to DaVinci long ago. I just don‘t see the point in paying 3rd parties for some functions that cost more than the cuttingprogram itself

I used Davinci resolve to rotoscope I think it's one of the best by far. I use final cut to do my captions and cut video but I edit in Davinci. In davinci I can group a 5 sec clip and add transitions but in final cut I can't. It doesn't recognize that there's enough time for the transition. Good video.

Both look go but I think I'll hold on to see if anyone else enters the market or Apple provide it as part of FCP. I can do this because I don't really need to rotoscope often. Subscriptions? Forget it!!! Too many companies have jumped on the subscription model but most of us can't afford to subscribe to every subscription service. I believe people are moving away from Adobe because of their subscription model. I don't recall any of these companies dropping their prices when downloading overtook software distribution by DVD. Moving to the downloading model must have saved companies like Adobe a small fortune. Just a bit of a Scottish rant! Great video as always Dylan.

I tried root magic but the timeline and button are at 25% opacity, I didn't have luck with it functionally, I found the scene removal to work better, if any wholes show up I figured I could duplicate the video and then use a mask to reveal the original video below the masked video where there are wholes. works pretty good, and is about as fast considering the keyframe oddness

Watching this video actually has me wanting to fully test out RotoBrush 3 in After Effects. While I do own/use FCP, DR and PP/AE, lately I've been using PP a lot more. Judging from the video, mRotoAI does have the edge on quality. From what I see here, RotoMatic results are unusable. Hoping Adobe can bring some of that AI magic to rotoscoping direct to PP in the future.

i think mRotoAI is clearly superior, but the pricing is such a scam.

RotoMatic Is The Best Because You Can Buy It mRotoAI Still Has That Dumb Subscription Plan

Awesome tracker plugin for Final Cut Pro. Thanks

I wish there was an option to subscribe only to mRotoAI instead of having to subscribe to the whole package, which I won't even use.

Price very High

mRotoAI was cool until I saw it was subscription based. Would've bought it immediately like I have many of their other plugins. Too bad I'll never support companies that take advantage of their customers like that. Sad to see so many going that route in this industry.

Pretty sure that with Rotomatic you can also move the points around to get a better mask

one time payment is a no brainer which one to choose from, i'd argue that rotoAI looks a tiiiiny bit better but not enough where $34 a month is worth it so definitely looking to get RotoMatic...hope that they give another update to just finetune a few things like you mentioned.

I have sooo many plugins from motionvfx, i actually have all their other plugins included in cinestudio, but i would never buy mrotoAi with a subscription... thats why i bought last week rotomatic and used it right away for a music video...
If mrotoai was available as a regular purchase, i would have paid a looooot for it...

I'd get mRotoAI if it weren't a subscription, but I just can't (and won't) pull the trigger on that.

Costa troppo
costs too much

yeah I think it's clear what's better

Cool comparison. But those are Huskies, they are dogs, not wolves. ;)

These people flew you and the others FCPX gurus to Poland and gave you some goodies
in exchange for free promotion on your channel,
Now you only get NEGATIVE COMMENTS in your own channel and you have to live and see them every day
Bad CHOICE Mate.
Great tuts otherwise.
Thank you Dylan.

Da Vinci Resolve Studio is $295 for life and has arguably an even better roto tool built in (as well as so much more). MRoto AI is $348 for 1 year.

Hi!! Somewhat unrelated to this but I have no one else to ask.

Do you know if there is a way to add the “audio” movement behavior on a drop zone and publish it as a generator to FCP? This is so that I can then link it to an audio from FCP instead of doing it in motion.

I hope that makes sense. When I’ve tried publishing the Audio behavior, I only get a checkbox in FCP that says “Audio” so I’m unable to link it to an audio source in FCP. Thanks in advance!

Thanks Dylan for the video, I didn't even know there was anything else besides mRoto iA. In my opinion, mRoto iA wins in terms of simplicity and easy of use, something close to Davinci Resolve. I would like to see the same comparison in view of the recent update of Color Finale 2.9, where the mask for roto was added for free. Thanks again!

I haven't bought anything from MotionVFX since they started using a subscription model.

Well FxFactory's RotoMatic seems to be a one-time purchase, vs mRotoAI being subscription only. Nuff said.

Not giving an opinion leaves you with the option of one of them sponsoring you. Clever but would have liked your honest review instead of leaving room for sponsors

I have downloaded and been working extensively with this. In trial mode, after 1,000 frames, it stops working despite it being advertised as fully functional in trial mode plus the addition of a small watermark overlay. Do you know if this a limitation on the trial version, or is this frame limitation also in force in the paid version?

I have commented before and here comes another one Dylan. Every person purchasing a subscription for mRotoAI should be fully aware that whenever they use the tool during a subscription and save the clip to their library, and then they drop out of the subscription for whatever reason, their work is NOT AVAILABLE TO THEM UNLESS THEY GO BACK IN AND RESTART THE SUBSCRIPTION. That is to say, they have to sorta pay a ROYALTY under the guise of SaaS (Software as a Service) no matter what they already paid to use their own property that they created using tools that were already paid for while in subscription. All your work is held hostage until you pay a second, third, fourth time and so on. This to me is unethical. Their work that they thought was complete and finished will appear tattooed with a watermark until the syndicate is paid again. You can export it out when the rotoscoping is complete, which is some consolation, but if you do not export it out and it sits you must pay again to have the background and associated watermarks cleared. Buyer beware.

Hi, good video. Unfortunately Rotomatic does not have the ability to invert the mask

Great video! Will you do a likewise review of the Colorfinale roto 2.9 plugin?

For sounds sub.
For plugin sub.
For video effects sub.
Wtf i need to pay like 30€ per month for everything?^^

Hey - Command (Apple) + Click is to delete the selected points you are arrowed over on the canvas. You do not have to redo the entire keying. Alt + Click creates the subtractive zones (as you expressed). Solid video, hopefully improvements in their edge feathering in the future. The outline "glow" edges created by this mask as it stands are pesky! We need more options for greater feathering and spread (+100). I'd also like to see a faster "render", and not having to redo processing if we change a key frame. It's a great start however, a few refinements, and it might be better than MRoto.