lens blur – repeat edges?

[Darby Edelen]

[jonkydong] “has anyone found a workaround for repeating edge pixels on the lens blur, when using a depth layer?”

Try putting a Fast Blur above the Lens Blur. Leave the Fast Blur at 0.0 Blurriness but enable the Repeat Edge Pixels and that should do it! Or at least it did in my limited testing =)

[Darby Edelen]

I just realized I did this without a depth layer… With the depth layer it didn’t seem to need repeating edges at all.

[Jonkydong]

hey wuzel, thanks for the answer!

this didn’t do the trick though. my depth layer is a simple ramp, on a solid the same size as the comp. the 0 to midgrey values are fine along the edges, but anything above becomes more and more blurred in from the edges of the frame.

i’m also getting the same effect with compound blur. there must be an answer to this.

anyone?

[Jonkydong]

hmmmm….i just inverted my ramp, and switched the blur focal distance, and now there’s no problem. awesome. solved in a wonderfully random way; adobe!

thanks again wuzel

[David Cabestany]

I’m using a depth layer exported from Cinema 4D and Frischluft’s Depth of field, and still getting the blurred edges, any way to get rid of them?

[Darby Edelen]

Can you post the offending images?

Darby Edelen

[David Cabestany]

Nah, don’t worry about it, it’s fixed now.

If anything can I ask you ask you a somewhat related question? I’m using a lot of mattes, and I need them to be blurred to so the lumas match the main rgb image blurred by FL Depth of Field, however I can’t apply the plug in on an adjustment layer because it blurs my background layer too and starts causing the blurry edges. How do I turn my mattes out of focus? Do I need to apply the plug in to each matte separately?