pic: depth of field adding grain to flat images

[Tristan Nieto]

Short answer is no. Grain artefacts usually happen in AE when blur settings are too high. It happens a lot with the Radial Blur effect too.

You can try taking the project settings up to 16-bit colour (or 32) and that might help, or try dialing down the Blur Amount.

If you’ve got the time, there’s always the Remove Grain effect, or you can simulate DoF using gaussian blurs with expressions linked to distance from camera and what not, but it’s more trouble than it’s worth.

Tristan Nieto
Visual Effects & Motion Graphics
tristannieto.blogspot.com

[Jason W. miltt]

thanks. I ended up doing it by hand applying fast blur to the layers i wanted.