Soft Focus for FCP

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Soft Focus can have lots of meanings.

The “Gaussian Blur” filter can do much (usually TOO much) to soften the image, but if that’s what you want, its right there in Effects (tab) > Video Filters > Blur > your choice.

If you want a “dreamy” look (like a “ProMist” Tiffen Lens filter, there a sevaral choices.

Eureka! Filters has “Silk Stocking” which is very nice.
https://www.kafwang.com/eureka/EurekaMain.html

CHV has “Silk and Fog” which I like, too.
https://www.chv-plugins.com/

And Joes’ Filters has “Joe’s Diffuser” and others.
https://www.joesfilters.com/

[Arnie Schlissel]

[Matte] “If you want a “dreamy” look (like a “ProMist” Tiffen Lens filter, there a sevaral choices.”

I’ve also gotten good results with the Chroma Blur from Rock River Studios, or the white/black diffusion that the Nattress Film effects offers.

Arnie
https://www.arniepix.com

[Annaël Beauchemin]

and then there is Sapphire’s Softfocus, which blurs chroma and reduce detials in highlights. I think this is the second most hyped plugin after trapcode shine 😉