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  • Lens Blur Depth of Field, Does it ever work?

    Posted by Chris Arnold on June 12, 2009 at 2:01 am

    I am working in Cinema 4D creating a scene and rendering it out with an alpha as well as rendering a depth pass.

    Now bringing this into After Effects and using the Lens Blur effect it seems impossible to get clean edges where there is a high contrast in depth between foreground objects and background objects. I even downloaded the “lenscare” effect demo to see if that could better handle it but had no luck with that as well. Finally I rendered out the sequence in RPF containing z depth in the image and used the “Depth of Field” effect but wasn’t pleased with the edges from that either. What is the best route here to take? Can Nuke, flame, fusion handle this better and After Effects is just really not meant for such complex compositing?

    Roland R. kahlenberg replied 16 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
  • 3 Replies
  • Lau Meiling

    June 12, 2009 at 5:12 am

    want some reference about aftere effect new effect

  • Chris Arnold

    June 13, 2009 at 12:52 am

    yes please, what is that?

  • Roland R. kahlenberg

    June 15, 2009 at 3:28 am

    JUst takinga stab here – have you tried working in 16 or 32bpc?

    Cheers
    RoRK

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