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  • Paul Roper

    January 30, 2012 at 9:10 pm

    Not exactly sure what’s causing this, but I’d guess it’s the highlight controls under the depth of field settings. Change them back to their defaults: Diffraction: 0, Gain: 0, Threshold: 255, Saturation 0.

    Then, if you want the bright highlights-depth-of-field effect, GRADUALLY tweak these numbers to get the desired effect.

  • Kumar Srimali

    January 30, 2012 at 10:07 pm

    where are those settings ?

  • John Cuevas

    January 31, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    If that’s a PC project, if you post it(with a couple of the pictures) I’ll open it up it up and see if the same things happen.

    Don’t want to say I’ll open up the Mac project files, because I’ve discovered that Mac/PC people have different problems. But most likely a Mac guy will come along and take a look also.

    Johnny Cuevas, Editor
    Thinkck.com

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    —THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

  • Paul Roper

    January 31, 2012 at 6:04 pm

    Go to the camera in your timeline and open up the camera settings.

  • Paul Roper

    January 31, 2012 at 6:06 pm

    …That’s assuming you’re using CS5 or later (or maybe it was introduced in CS5.5? I’m not sure). Those additional depth of field adjustments didn’t exist in earlier versions of After Effects.

  • Michael Szalapski

    January 31, 2012 at 6:27 pm

    Check out the possible solutions posted in this thread: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/1013288

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