• Adobe After Effects

  Soft Focus with 3D camera

  Posted by Gusto King on February 7, 2008 at 7:39 pm

  Hello,

  I’m creating a comp with a 3D camera (35mm d.o.f. off) moving from precomp to precomp. I noticed that I can’t achieve perfect focus on any of my shots through the active camera. Is there a special way to tweak the camera so that I can get the focus as sharp as the precomp itself? Do I have to sharpen the shot after the fact? What is the correct resolve in this situation? Thanks for any advice…

  Gusto

  Darby Edelen replied 18 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Darby Edelen

  February 7, 2008 at 8:10 pm

  [Gusto King] “Is there a special way to tweak the camera so that I can get the focus as sharp as the precomp itself? Do I have to sharpen the shot after the fact? What is the correct resolve in this situation?”

  I’m not clear on how you’re working. If you have DOF off then the camera cannot go out of focus. It sounds more like you’re getting too close to a layer and suffering from the same sort of softening that you see when you scale a layer up too much. Can you give us more information on the layout of your composition?

  Darby Edelen
  Designer
  Left Coast Digital
  Santa Cruz, CA

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