Depth of Field techniques and camera movment…

[Alon_a]

If you’re trying to create DOF on a video file (rather than an actual 3D comp with varios elements placed in 3D space), then I don’t see how you could get away from rotoscoping and blurring the foreground elements. Depending on the footage, you might be able to duplicate the video layer and use various adjustment and levels effects to create a matte for the foreground, for instance if you have sort-of well-lit characters over a sort-of dark background. You can then use this matte as a filter or track matte for a blur effect. But I don’t expect this would be perfect; in the end, you’ll have to roto – always a grueling task.

The question on camera movement comes up often, and the typical answer is Rick Gerard’s tutorials here on the Cow. They’re really great tutorial but of course they can’t cover every situation. They’re the top two here:

https://www.creativecow.net/articles/script_gen/authorsort/gerard_rick_script.html

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[Joe Falcione]

Thanks so much for the info.. I’ll check out the tutorials to be sure. I figured I was kindof in the pitfall of rotoscoping, but was hoping for the “Magic Bullet”.. I’ve seen some work out there, it was just beautiful and the only way it could have been done was a.)using 3d models, Not likely or b.)rotoscoping each frame, again not likely unless the person doing it was a real beast.

Anyway, in my research I will of course post what I find. Thanks for the response!

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