[Spencer Tweed]

Thanks, I can’t now remember what I did to fix it but I know that resizing pictures seems to be a great fix.

I have still yet to see a fix for AE’s 2.5D problems though. It seems that as soon as you hit the 3D switch a new rendered kicks in; it takes much longer and has a lot more jitter issues. I guess this is where things like Nuke start to come in handy…

If anyone has more info please let me know, this is an ongoing concern for me and though I have found workarounds I would still like to better understand the problem.

– Spencer

[Spencer Tweed]

I realize this is a bit late, but for anyone else that is curious:

Duplicate the layer and set the blending mode to “Add”. In the glow settings change “Composite Original” to ‘None’ and “Glow Operation” to ‘None’ (this just gives you the glow).

Then just animate the opacity or intensity.

[Spencer Tweed]

[edit]

Sorry, I actually meant ‘Position Subframe’ wherever I said ‘subframe sample’.

Thanks,

Spencer

[Spencer Tweed]

That digital effect that you are looking for is called chromatic distortion. It has nothing to do with DOF, it has to do with the image sensor of the camera (called a CCD). The Photoshop manual talks a little about it in relation to camera RAW and how to remove it. You can, however, use those settings to add it, not remove it (just by ‘overcompensating’). The only problem is that you would have to open the image in Camera RAW, which means that you would have to batch edit an amination (which is possible).

I am sure there is an easier way to handle this, but that is what I would suggest.

– Spencer

PS
I just remembered that I saw a tutorial a little bit ago that shows you how to take a depth pass into photoshop and you can use it to do a rack defocus (animation and all). I am currently trying to find how to do this in AE for more animation ability and control

[Spencer Tweed]

Yes, it is a free(ish) plug-in

[Spencer Tweed]

Update: Fast blur is a little faster and works a little better.

[Spencer Tweed]

Precompose the text (you don’t have to, it is just easier to edit later), duplicate it, add a Gaussian Blur to the bottom layer, add your glow with ‘Composite Original’ to NONE and ‘Glow Operation’ to NONE under the blur. Mess with the amount of blur until it looks right.

I currently have the same problem and am playing with separate horizontal and vertical blurs so as to alter the finished look as little as possible by blurring less, so far doing a horizontal blur of about 1 is mostly working.

Best = Spencer

[Spencer Tweed]

The best thing I have found to do is to set your project to 16bpc and apply the ‘Dither’ transition to the layer that has banding (or to an adjustment layer) and set the ‘Transition Completion’ to about 93%-95% (delete the key frames).

You can also play with layering dither and Gaussian Blurs (not Fast Blur).

Best = Spencer

PS
If anyone has a better way that doesn’t involve several hundred dollar plug-ins please let me know, banding is by far my worst enemy.