tilt shift effect?

[Ray Apokal]

Hey Kevin,
I don’t know a lot about that technique with real cameras but I’m sure what you are trying to do can be done, AE cameras are very complex.

Ultimately, are you trying to manipulate the depth of field?

[Steve Roberts]

Hmm. If I understand you (I used to shoot architecture with 4×5 cameras ), you can make the layer 3D, then add a camera. Rotate the layer on its X axis to remove the keystoning.

Now the edges of the shot will keystone the other way, so here’s hoping you have enough room around the shot to crop it into a rectangle.

Now… if you’re talking about shifting the plane of focus in the shot, you might be able to use a ramp (gradient) applied to the compound blur effect. You might need to cut out objects in the shot to make them stand out … it’s hard to say.

Andrew did a tutorial that might help you:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/dof.php

Does that help?

[Serge Hamad]

Hi,

The scheimpflug principle can’t be reproduced with an AE camera.

Check this out:
https://www.frischluft.com/lenscare/lenscare.php

Way better then what you could produce with Ae’s DOF.

If you are after correcting the geometry of a building for instance just like when using a shift optic, then a distortion effect like Meshwarp could help here.

Salut.
Serge

[Gökhan Gezici]

how about we doing like that

i am thinking we are mading a stop motion film

if we write an action for t-s effect on photoshop then we could use the effect for all frames then made an stop motion

do it work ?

it is just an ideaQ

[Kyle Reynolds]

it would totally work! i’ve done many stop motion videos and one thing I use often is photoshop’s batch process function.

Take all of your photos and put them in one folder, take one of the photos and record your actions, doing whatever you want to do to the photos. Click the stop button once done and close the image you were working on.

Go to File > Automate > Batch file automate, then select your action, select your folder and select your output folder. You can also choose how you want to rename the files, if you want to import to flash you must use the extension 001, so it will save your sequence as 001, 002, 003 ect. You will have to press enter for every file it saves, this can be tedius but it goes quick, I have done up to 800 photos.

I wouldnt recomend using flash, as After Effects has an option to select Import as footage when you import your images. To change the speed of playback in AE, right click on your footage layer in your time line, and select Time > time stretch, and add the percentage if you want it slower, or decrease the percentage if you want it faster.

https://www.outoftheboxdesign.info/showreel/index.html
https://kylesmotion.blogspot.com/