• Adobe After Effects

  d.o.f. blur-expression using lens-blur/fast-blur (without camera)

  Posted by Wouter Dijkstra on June 11, 2019 at 6:36 pm

  Hi Guys,

  I’m looking for an easy way to focus on objects in space without using 3D-mode. Let’s say there are for objects and when I focus on object 1, I want object 2 to be blurry, 3 even more, 4 to be the blurriest.

  This I want to do in a logical way and a way that does give me the option to make things more blurry afterwards.

  I thought of making an expression like this:

  Object 1 BLUR: 10-thisComp.layer(“Object 2.”).effect(“Camera Lens Blur”)(“Blur Radius”)
  Object 2 BLUR: 10

  But it turned out that in this specific case, where I have a blurriness of 10 and only two different objects it works out alright. I’d like it to be a bit more interactive. Anyone an idea what would work, without me using the camera?

  Michael Szalapski replied 6 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Richard Garabedain

  June 11, 2019 at 8:16 pm

  i saw a good video co pilot tutorial about this…it uses camera blur with a gradient
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  Michael Szalapski

  June 20, 2019 at 9:21 pm

  I’d suggest using a linear() expression on each object pointed at a slider with an offset to each one such that, as the slider is at 1, object one is fully in focus and as it gets further from 1, object 1 gets blurrier and when the slider is at 2, object 2 is at its sharpest and gets blurrier as the number goes further…if that makes sense. 🙂

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