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z depth not working
I have been given a load of RLA’s from Maya – apparently including a z depth channel. I need to use the depth of field effect in Ae but cant get Ae to find the z-depth. I havnt used this 3d channel/z depth system before and thought it was going to be quite straight forward.
I am probably doing something fundamentally wrong but cant find an answer in the previous posts or on AE Help.
any ideas?
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Try using the depth matte effect in AE. The depth slider is really fussy…try using a setting of .5 or so.
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I think you can gain better control over the limited default settings by setting your own parameters for the slider. I believe you control or right click (or something like that) on the depth number then you can set your own range. Set it for something like 0-1 instead of 0-100. You should then be able to slide uber small increments! I know that Lightwave exports Z-buffer data that AE interprets differently than expected.This trick makes setting up motion blur much better in AE(faster render than LW too).
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