Hi Sean,

to track an area, but don't move the mask you need to set the option "Link to Track" of the layer in mocha to "none".

To create a panoramic out of your pan, you can use the technique I show in these tutorials:

http://www.mamoworld.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=262:tutorial-ultra-smooth-pans&catid=35:tutorials&Itemid=85

http://www.mamoworld.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=96%3Atutorial-stabilize-motion-without-the-need-to-zoom-in&catid=35%3Atutorials&Itemid=85

Follow the tutorial and just skip the step to move the stabilized image again - since you don't want a smoothed movement but no movement at all.

In these tutorials, I create duplicates of the layer and shift them in time. 

I do it to fill the borders of the stabilized clip, but if you use a larger comp, you can use the same to stitch a larger image instead of reconstructing only the borders.

Cheers,

Mathias

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From: Sean Kennedy <mack_dadd2@hotmail.com>
Subject: Mocha to create plate
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 19:11:17 -0700

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Hi all=2C
I only have the version of Mocha that comes bundled with AE CS6.
I have a long tripod panning shot. Basically=2C I'd like to create one long=
image that is basically a huge panoramic of the entire scene that is panne=
d across. Isn't there a way for Mocha to do something like this? I seem to =
remember a tutorial where the camera pans up or down a blue sign with Asian=
characters on it=2C and you can tell mocha to kind of lock the mask to scr=
een space=2C even though it is tracking what's passing through the mask.
Is there an easier way to do this that to just grab every few frames and pa=
ste them all together on photoshop?
thanks=2C  sean          =