[Steve Diener]

Hi Filip

I saw that, but the saber plugin wants masks and not paths on a shapelayer. Anyway to transform an animated patch to an animated mask?

Cheers

Steve

[Steve Diener]

Hi Walter

Tried out your idea. Applied the findedges effect and the sampleimage effect to the bg layer resulting in the output colour differing from dark grey to black. Added a Adjustmentlayer with blur applied to it on top of it all (in a nested comp so as not to blur the original footage). I wasn’t quite sure how to link up the output of the sampleimage effect to the blur effect, so I made a white solid above the adjustmentlayer as a lumamatte and hooked up the layer colour to the sampleimage output.

The result is a step in the right direction: the bluring of the streaks changes as the original focus goes back and forth. But I’m finding it pretty difficult to get the correct amount of blur on the adjustmentlayer. I tried using colourcorrection effects on the white layer to make the colour differ more between white and black, but haven’t succeeded yet.

How would you link up the sampleimage output to a blur effect?

Cheers

Steve

[Steve Diener]

Hi Walter

Here’s some footage:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/f5oc7x9mn8hateg/frame-_1.mov?dl=0

I eyeballed the original camera ball here and set some keyframes to blur the particles and the small squares. Works ok here, but as I’m going to do a few shots like these I thought there might be some plugin that does just that.

Cheers

Steve

[Steve Diener]

Hi Heimen

Couldn’t solve the issue yet. kind of working with it more or less. what is coremelt?

cheers

steve

[Steve Diener]

Update: For the Issue 1) I’ve noticed that when all the angles go black and I move the cut with the trim tool back and forth all the angles are visible again.

Cheers

Steve

[Steve Diener]

Just found out that it’s a DOF issue. DOF switched off, no problems. Also found quite a few post on this issue now. Will try the suggested tweaks to get good footage out of AE WITH DOF. If it doesn’t work, I’ll just stick with DOF switched off and add some Blur where needed afterwords on the rendered footage.

Cheers,

Steve