de focus effect

[Darby Edelen]

Well, Adobe includes the Blur & Sharpen > Lens Blur effect, which has controls for the shape of the iris, iris curvature, aperture, specular highlights and noise.

There are, of course, other 3rd party options. Many of which you can try for free, and three of which I found on Adobe’s After Effects plug-in page:

https://www.adobe.com/products/plugins/aftereffects/

Here are the ones I found:

https://www.reiji.net/iris-e/index.html

https://www.thefoundry.co.uk/pkg_plugins.aspx?ui=AD02E15F-9F7A-47FA-961F-8F0041440780
(part of the collection)

https://www.digitalfilmtools.com/cs/
(part of the collection)

Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

actually, last week at After Effects New York, Todd from GenArts showed a really nice Lens Blur Plug-in. I had never seen their tools, and was duly impressed:

https://genarts.com/sapphire-ae.html

I’m not sure what the effect was called but it had incredible control over the look of the blur. It should be a part of Box 3: Adjust, Blur+Sharpen, Composite & Distort.

Aharon Rabinowitz
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[Barend Onneweer]

Personally I use Frischluft Lenscare – it looks absolutely fabulous.

https://frischluft.com/lenscare/lenscare.php

Bar3nd

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[Todd Prives]

Sapphire has several different plug-ins you can use. RackDefocus will simulate a camera defocus, while ZDefocus takes a depth buffer to due a depth-of-field defocus. Aharon is referring to our Convolve plug-in which allows you to input a black & white Kernal as your lens shape for a custom lens defocus. You can download a free 3 week trial from:

https://www.genarts.com/download-sapphire-ae-windows.html

https://www.genarts.com/download-sapphire-ae-mac.html

[Darby Edelen]

[Barend Onneweer] “Personally I use Frischluft Lenscare – it looks absolutely fabulous.

https://frischluft.com/lenscare/lenscare.php “

Thanks for that link! I remember seeing those plug-ins before, but I couldn’t remember where to find them during our last round of purchasing… They’re in the bookmarks now! ZbornToy looks amazing too.

Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA