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  • Blurring Camera Animation

    Posted by Jason Brown on June 22, 2016 at 6:14 pm

    Newbie question.

    Okay set up: camera parented to null, cam focus distance pickwhip’d to cam position.

    I was under the impression that with this set up everything would stay in focus, however when I zoom in (with null z-position) my asset goes out of focus.

    Now am I correct in thinking that I just have to keyframe the blur in the camera properties from 100 to 0?

    Just wondering if there’s another way so I don’t have to keep keyframing the blur.

    Thanks
    – Jason

    Jason Brown replied 10 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Juliette Backey

    June 22, 2016 at 6:40 pm

    Depending on the effect you are going for you can actually link the Focus Distance to a specific asset. So if you never want that object to go out of focus you would select the layer and the camera, right-click on the camera layer, select Camera… from the flyout menu, then select Link Focus Distance to Layer.

  • Jason Brown

    June 23, 2016 at 2:32 pm

    Thanks for the reply. I’m using a single-node camera and this option isn’t available unfortunately. I’ve gone with keyframing the blur, looks better than I thought.

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