compound blur

[Barend Onneweer]

1. Drag your footage into a comp

2. Create a new comp of the same size for the gradient.

3. Create a new solid in this comp, and apply the Ramp effect.

4. Drag this gradient comp into your new comp, below the footage layer and turn off visibility for the gradient comp.

5. Apply Compound Blur to your footage layer, and set the Blur Layer to your gradient comp.

Should work.

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[Chris Zwar]

Just as an aside, I find the quality of AE’s compound blur to be pretty poor when compared to 3rd party compound blurs. The Pinnacle one (which comes with Composite Wizard) gives a MUCH better result, and if there’s a Tinderbox, Boris or Saphire equivalent then I’m sure the difference will be just as noticable.

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[Peter Litwinowicz]

[Chris Zwar] “Just as an aside, I find the quality of AE’s compound blur to be pretty poor when compared to 3rd party compound blurs. The Pinnacle one (which comes with Composite Wizard) gives a MUCH better result, and if there’s a Tinderbox, Boris or Saphire equivalent then I’m sure the difference will be just as noticable.”

Also, our Gaussian Blur in our SmoothKit ($89.95) has a true compound blur, and not the box-blur equivalent of AE’s. Note that there are many other features of SmoothKit: blur without blurring over details, per-pixel directional blur, staircase step reduction, etc.

You can see more here (including the reason why you want our compound blur over AE’s): https://www.revisionfx.com/smok.htm

Cheers,
Pete Litwinowicz
https://www.revisionfx.com

[Roger Burton]

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