[Kenn Baynard]

Are you talking “Focal Distance?” If you adjust or animate that parameter you can basically “roll the focus” during the course of the animation. You’ll find it in the “Object” tab. If you want to increase the amount of blur then you’ll have to lower the f-stop. Sometimes to really low numbers to make a difference (like 0.25, etc..)

In real world optics when you lower the f-stop you’re opening the camera’s iris allowing more light in, allowing you to achieve depth of field by focusing on an object by using a combination of focal length and iris settings (generally meaning you need to be zoomed in on an object to achieve DoF). In C4D’s physical renderer you’re simulating real optics by allowing similar controls. But unlike the real world you can take the f-stop down below f/1.0 to allow you to achieve DoF in smaller environments where objects may be close together, and you don’t have to adjust the focal length of the camera.

You could also play with the DOF Map Front Blur and Rear Blur settings under “Details”. Those are present in both renderers.

[Kenn Baynard]

Hi Richard,

We’re actually throwing out one of the channels when we air it. We just open one channel on our mixer instead of both so they don’t fight each other. Works great until someone gives us a story shot with one of our older cameras and had something recorded on the channel we usually don’t open. 😛

[Kenn Baynard]

Panasonic’s XLR boxes worked great, but weren’t designed to take the abuse a news department throws at them. If they had made the mounting screws just a hair longer they might have held up better. At least now the reporters know where their audio is coming from, as once you plug something into the mini-jack mic input, it shuts the on-cam mic off.

[Kenn Baynard]

Any update to this? I just received a graphics package that requires Unmult and I can’t get it to show up.

[Kenn Baynard]

Even though this thread is a bit old, I would also like to express my disappointment that this feature was removed from the drivers. We have a Decklink SP card and I recently did a massive set of upgrades, including Snow Leopard and Final Cut Studio 3, and after installing the latest drivers from Blackmagic Design for the Decklink cards (7.9.3) I find out that I no longer have an extended desktop, which is a feature that was being used daily at our station.

An optional install would make things a lot easier for those of us who aren’t using Color and would very much like the extended desktop.

Thanks,

Kenn Baynard
Operations Manager
WBUP/WBKP ABC10/CW5
Ishpeming, MI