Better DOF in After Effects?

[Olivié Charbonneau]

Ok guys you are going to like this :

In the Camera layer, expand the Camera Options settings and in “Iris shape” just pick another shape : the default is “Fast rectangle” but you have all iris shapes available here, exactly like in the Lens blur effect.
And you have many other usefull iris and dof settings there too.

Results get much much better and this is definitely a poor – or at least very “fast preview oriented” – default DOF setting…

Hope this helps