I've found the best settings to use when outputting a Z depth AOV from Redshift are: Filter - Min Depth, Depth Mode - Z Normalized Inverted. You can, of course, have the focal point of the camera nearer or further than the z-buffer covers, which is why the Focal distance slider allows values above 255 and below 0. That means the depth buffer is mapped to 0-255 internally: 0 = far point, 255 = nearest point. The clue is in the docs the FL DoF plugin uses 8 bits for depth (regardless of the depth of the z-buffer image connected). Frischluft Lenscare AE puts depth of field and out of focus. The Focal distance slider goes from -100 to +355, and it's not immediately clear how this relates to near and far points in your scene. Frischluft Lenscare is a plugin for After Effects to make realistic camera blurs possible. Focal distance slider values are a little unclear If you need to read the depth of a particular thing in your image you can always hover over the z-buffer image and read the value directly from Fusion's status bar.ģ. Avoid using it if it causes problems on your scene/system. It can get you rid of long extra 3d rendering times. If you need high quality camera blurs with the flexibility of 2d post processing, Lenscare is a great choice. Seems to be a bug on the Fusion side of things. - Lenscare Description Introduction Lenscare moves depth of field and out of focus generation to post production. Using the focal distance picker is very crashy Frischluft Lenscare AE physically-based algorithms blur pixels based on their depth value, so you can add high-quality camera blurs to your 3D footage in 2D post processing without the extensive render times you’d experience in your 3D app. You can judge and adjust the blur pretty well with the standard circular iris, then reconnect the custom one to preview, or before rendering.Ģ. Workaround: Disconnect the custom iris image while adjusting parameters. The key aspect during the development of these filters was to match the real thing as well as possible. If you need high-quality camera blurs with the flexibility of 2d post processing, Lenscare is a great choice. It seems to happen more with large frame sizes, and it seems to only happen if you have a custom iris image connected. Frischluft Lenscare OFX moves depth of field and out of focus generation to post-production. Frischluft is looking into it, but it seems to be a call to a Fusion function that fails, making it hard to debug.
In some situations, adjusting FL Depth of Field parameters can cause immediate seg faults, making Fusion terminate. FL Depth of Field crashing / seg faults / SIGSEGV / crash to desktop If you need high quality camera blurs with the flexibility of 2d post. I'm not connected with FL in any way, I'm just in love with being able to use custom iris/bokeh imagesġ. Lenscare moves depth of field and out of focus generation to post production. Frischluft's developer has been very helpful, so I wanted to put some notes here in case they help anyone else. The pictures I’ve taken are very very tight (the actual render is much wider than appears), but it shows well the amount of softening that happens.I've been using Frischluft's OFX Lenscare plugins within Fusion, and hit some issues. It shows how much detail get chewed up, also show how soft the ‘in focus’ result is. Image2 is via the pyhsical defocus with near and far focus set to 0, and the matte piped in. Image 1 is a simple A over B for reference. No items have been added yet Related Collections.
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Here is the example, a cgi robot (scenelinear) with z-depth etc etc… UPDATED Frischluft Lenscare 1.47 For After Effects CS6 Windows With Licencel. If you need high quality camera blurs with the flexibility of 2d post processing. I guess this is all bugs right? Anyone else get this? Lenscare moves depth of field and out of focus generation to post production. I can handle that… fine, no drama BUT… it softens the image in the “focused” area! It also seems to offset it slightly as well. The work around is to double up the node and use it on the matte and fill independently, works… but doubles the render time (it’s a heavy slow node for rendering). The updates of the architectural changes for Lenscare 2.0, Fresh Curves, Flair, ZBorn toy have. The node is almost excellent! Works well with cgi passes in creating DOF with nice custom bokeh, all jolly good!! EXCEPT… it destroys detail when you pass the matte into the mix. Frischluft has bought you the best plugins for video effects. Just tagging an issue with PD (physical defocus).