Help with tracking. Point or Planar???

I am making a short action sequence for fun and am having extreme difficulty tracking some of the explosions and blood splatter effects in the short. The main blood splatter I tracked with a point tracker in AECS4 and it's extremely shacky and you can cleary see how fake it is. So then I looked into it and realized planar tracking with Mocha existed and I can't seem to figure out how to make it work. This is a link of a RAM preview of what I have with the point tracker. Am I even close to being on the right track? SOMEONE HELP PLEASE!
http://vimeo.com/21179009

> I looked into it and realized planar tracking with Mocha existed and I can't seem to figure out how to make it work.
There are lots of tutorials for using mocha. Start here.

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Ok the video that you can see on my youtube is the one I need help with. The video is actually in 1080p and I have no idea why it is showing in such a low resolution, but that is not the problem. I need to track the gun and add a null to that track, after that I want to add a red solid layer and bring down its opacity a little, to simulate a laser sight from the gun.Then I tried to parent and SHIFT parent the red solid to the track, the end product would have to look like what you can see in the picture. I have watched a TON of videos about tracking and just can not the the result I need. the laser needs to follow the gun as I aim up and bring the gun down. How should I do this.......? Please someone help or link me a tutorial that will be helpful.....

You have a couple of problems. First you don't need to use shift parent, just parent. Second, your red solid is a 3D layer and you have applied 2D tracking info to the solid. Actually, there's another mistake and it is in the tracking. You should also be tracking scale because the gun moves from left to right as well as up and down. This changes the distance between the front and back tracking points.
My workflow with this project would be:
Track Motion of the front and back of the gun including position, scale and rotation
Apply the track info to a null called GunTrack or something like that
Add a solid and apply the beam effect or mask the red solid to simulate the shape of a laser sight
Change the blend mode of the solid to ADD
Move the anchor point to the center of the starting point of the laser
Parent the solid to the Gun Track null
That should do it.

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alan, I've been trying to figure out a solution.
You can initialize it like this
private Action saveAction= new Action();
     private Action saveAsAction=new Action();
THE ABOVE WILL NOT WORK.
because Action is an interface. An interface does not have constructors. However, interface references are used for polymorphic purposes.
Anyway, all you have to do is find some class that implemets Action interface.... I cant seem to find one. Or maybe this is not how its supposed to be done?
Hopefully, someone can shed some light on this issue.
FYI,
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/swingdoc-api-1.1/javax/swing/Action.html

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Re: Hello, I have created a distribution kit for my program.The problem is that the when the program is installed onto another computer, it fails to communicate with field point (Using FP-AO-200 and FP-AO-1000). Help is greatly appreciated, Thanks faen9901Faen9901,
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