Faking camera lens blur in Adobe After Effects

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9 жыл бұрын

After Effects contains a photorealistic effect called "Camera Lens Blur" that emulates the effect of a shallow depth of field. The effect comes with the ability to blow out highlights and add keyframes.
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@mb-ql1gb 6 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial, nicely explained, good speech, very understandable, no boring talk ... thanks for the tip !

@VideoRevealed 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I try very hard to deliver quality work.

@jamessummers5936 Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I masked out the actual subject/person and inverted the mask instead, but everything else I followed your exact instructions and it worked great!

@KodiakCaptures 7 жыл бұрын

This is great. I got After Effects recently through my college and I'm trying to learn the ropes. Thank you for making this. :)

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

You're welcome and have fun, After Effects is pretty damn awesome.

@lokgeetsangeet21 Жыл бұрын

Exactly the perfect demo I was looking for ! Thanx a ton :)

@eymblogs5238 7 жыл бұрын

That's a very helpful tutorial! So simple and brief.

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@MrFrenchPedicure 14 күн бұрын

Fantastic. Just what I was looking for. You are the man.

@FISHSOCKS 6 жыл бұрын

This really helped me to improve my recent animation's quality which I'm currently working on! Thank you so much!

@VideoRevealed 6 жыл бұрын

That's wonderful to hear. Thanks for watching.

@diegomarcano7642 6 жыл бұрын

Hey Colin. Great video. Thank you so much. Keep on the good work.

@VideoRevealed 6 жыл бұрын

You're welcome Diego and thanks for your support.

@alloneword154 5 жыл бұрын

Congrats on 60k!! I've been here since 8k!

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@dylanrogersfilm 7 жыл бұрын

Nice! Thank you Colin. I can't wait to try this out.

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. It's pretty cool.

@CRIMELAB357 Жыл бұрын

Informative, super cool and subscribed

@elmoooo 8 жыл бұрын

Grats on being featured! :)

@VideoRevealed 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@daltomono 6 жыл бұрын

The quality of this video tutorial es unbelievable!

@VideoRevealed 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much.

@kokomimifamily912 5 жыл бұрын

I just wanted to say u r the best teacher ever, thank you so much sir for addressing the AE CS6 issue with compositing option missing. I was very glad that you answered that below. My video looks so beautiful and artistic and you are the best! Thank you very kindly.

@VideoRevealed 5 жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas and thanks for your support.

@VideoLife_FPV_Wild 3 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial. Thx man!

@VideoRevealed 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@alfasalim2220 4 жыл бұрын

I like this. and the teacher is good. audible and clear speach. loving it. thank you

@VideoRevealed 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😃

@AvatarofHate 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, so this is it, I was missing the defocus effect from Sony Vegas since Gaussian Blur does not make the job done. So Camera Lens Blur is what I needed. Thank you for the video! :D

@VideoRevealed 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, exactly

@queenoftheuniverse4645 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Exactly what I needed!

@VideoRevealed 5 жыл бұрын

Great!

@Cobramp4 7 жыл бұрын

Awesome video man.

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@edwardsilversmith 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks man, loved it!

@VideoRevealed 6 жыл бұрын

Great!

@ThatsSoFRandom 8 жыл бұрын

Great! Exactly what I needed

@VideoRevealed 8 жыл бұрын

Great!

@thaddeus2447 8 жыл бұрын

you have so good tutorials, it's so awesome! but it's shame that this kind of videos isn't so popular!, keep it up

@VideoRevealed 8 жыл бұрын

+Tadziun Gamer You have no idea how much I want this channel to get some love. Thanks for watching.

@thaddeus2447 8 жыл бұрын

+VideoRevealed you are doing really great job. its very rare to find so qualified person like you who can spend time on doing such helpful videos. Do more video tutorials with after atfer effecs its powerful software to do a lot of great stuff

@sympolzion 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful video. Thank you Sir!

@VideoRevealed 4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

@Champak291 6 жыл бұрын

You really are a great teacher

@VideoRevealed 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much.

@Azuniite 6 жыл бұрын

Great explanation!

@VideoRevealed 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@IGamerEditorAMV 8 жыл бұрын

Really interesting quicktip, I'll take a look inside AfterFX

@VideoRevealed 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching.

@kristen8394 8 жыл бұрын

awesome video, thx!

@VideoRevealed 8 жыл бұрын

+Kristen Newsom - Glad you liked it!

@moisesgonzalez651 7 жыл бұрын

Great video, thanx a lot!!!

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

@gameworld88 7 жыл бұрын

it helped me a lot thanks!!!

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

@AlexEliotOfficial 6 жыл бұрын

Man I thought you had like 500k subs, very professional video subbed

@VideoRevealed 6 жыл бұрын

I wish I had that many. Thanks for subscribing.

@innerchildstyle 5 жыл бұрын

Very cool!

@VideoRevealed 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@dreamernawid 6 жыл бұрын

i love your enthusiasm hahah

@VideoRevealed 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your support.

@ShayningTV 8 жыл бұрын

awesome tutorial! helped me a lot to produce a video...

@VideoRevealed 8 жыл бұрын

+Shayning Thanks so much.

@TBLibraryConsortium 8 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial! Does this also work with CS6? I can't seem to find the "composting options" tab under the Camera Lens Blur effect.

@VideoRevealed 8 жыл бұрын

+Tampa Bay Library Consortium - Thanks! The new compositing options were just added to CC but you can just apply the effect to an Adjustment layer in CS6, then apply a mask to that. The new options were added to all effects in CC just to make things easier.

@TBLibraryConsortium 8 жыл бұрын

Gotcha, I was able to try it out, looks good! Thanks for the quick reply and awesome vids!

@brandnaqua 3 жыл бұрын

good tips!

@VideoRevealed 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

@ebraheemjabaar8436 7 жыл бұрын

Hey great video. Is it possible to separate the body from the background, like when working with keylight to separate the green screen from the subject and use that as a map?

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

The Blur Map needs to be created somewhere else like Keylight. So yes, if you've already go a layer that can function as a matte, you can use that.

@VE3DAL 7 жыл бұрын

Great Canadian! thanks for the tutorial. I'm canadian too.

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Happy Canada Day!

@gurisler3622 7 жыл бұрын

Great video!! Thank you! Very nice tip especialy when the subject and the camera doesn't move and so much better than gaussian blur for sure! However the issue starts when camera moves as well as the subject! Yea some tracking and neat rotoscoping might help a lot but than is like creating lightsaber effect with AE, frame by frame! Still good for action camera or smart phone footages I believe! I wish there was a magical plugin like RE:Vision's twixtor which analyses the scene or you setup the focus object than it does things by analysing pixels! Maybe that kind of plugin or similar already exists? Any recommenmdations?

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

The best tool for rotoscoping is Mocha Pro, but that will only isolate areas, you still have to add effects. I am not aware of any tool that does it all.

@DevAnimate 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

@willakana8696 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@VideoRevealed 3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@kostasfassoulas6915 5 жыл бұрын

Great tut!! Is there a way to have a custom iris shape?!

@VideoRevealed 5 жыл бұрын

No, but that would be cool. My daughter told me that Saturday Night Live used a custom lens with their logo in it. They're not using it for this season but they did for past seasons and it was awesome.

@louisgensollen7070 6 жыл бұрын

thanks. I don't have the Camera Lens Blur effect on my After Effect, I don't understand why, do you know how to do it with another effects maybe ?

@VideoRevealed 6 жыл бұрын

Make sure you're running the latest version of After Effects CC.

@ArtistCreationsPicturesInc 6 жыл бұрын

How can I do with the lens flare in 3D environment with 3D camera? I want to look realistic.

@VideoRevealed 6 жыл бұрын

Knoll Light Factory does a pretty good job. www.redgiant.com/products/knoll-light-factory/

@Camachosound 5 жыл бұрын

Hey, when I render and export my video in mp4 and 1080p the lens blur effect looks pixelated as if the video lost a great amount of quality in resolution. How can I fix that? Thanks a lot for your videos!

@VideoRevealed 5 жыл бұрын

I have no idea why that's happening. After Effects renders all effects at a sub-pixel level so it should never loose quality. Does this happen with all videos?

@MrRobDead 3 жыл бұрын

Estava atras desse video e nao achava! Don't exist video like that in Brazil, Bokeh of the lights like in video! Here, i see ever sing time Gaussian Blur! Very nice video! Sorry my English

@VideoRevealed 3 жыл бұрын

Correct, you're not going to see beautiful bokeh with this effect.

@krishnamohan9427 8 жыл бұрын

gr8 one sir thank you

@VideoRevealed 8 жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

@Evanesco 8 жыл бұрын

cool! thx

@VideoRevealed 8 жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

@SiddheshNan 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@VideoRevealed 6 жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

@luiskyer 6 жыл бұрын

THANKS!!

@VideoRevealed 6 жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

@L0TISH 8 жыл бұрын

What if the person is going to make a movement like he or she would move a hand and it will go out of the mask range? is it possible to Track bluriness as we can do it on Optical Flares?

@VideoRevealed 8 жыл бұрын

You can track movement with the Mask Tracker in After Effects so yes it could follow a hand. The accuracy of the tracking is based on how much contrast is in the video, if the video is highly compressed (DSLR) and many other factors.

@L0TISH 8 жыл бұрын

+VideoRevealed Understood. Thats really useful. Thank you Colin!

@ChristopherHowellMagic 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! At timecode 5:00 you point us to 'compositing options' however on my version 11.0 that option doesn't exist. Is there a workaround?

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

You need to update to the latest version of After Effects or duplicate the layer and apply the effect to that copy.

@ChristopherHowellMagic 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Great vids.

@levikats31 7 жыл бұрын

i subscribed! nice video!

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@user-vy4gf1iu9w 4 жыл бұрын

Thx!

@VideoRevealed 4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

@1959digital 8 жыл бұрын

great tool thanks, I upgrate CS 6 to CC its wonderful

@VideoRevealed 8 жыл бұрын

Yep, there are so many great things in the new version.

@XDario91 7 жыл бұрын

Hi, is there any way to get this effect on adobe premiere?

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately no, it's only in After Effects.

@giacomocastellano-official 8 жыл бұрын

Thank you :-)

@VideoRevealed 8 жыл бұрын

I'm happy you liked it and thanks for the support.

@haroonaaron5177 7 жыл бұрын

Sir how to track the blur area, in this way it is not working for moving objects.

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

Successful tracking is directly connected to how complex the scene is and how good the tracker can follow the isolated area. If you have a typical busy background, there is no automatic tracker that can do that and that's why visual effects companies employ hundreds of people to sit there every day and manually track stuff, frame by frame.

@cj1148 5 жыл бұрын

My after effects don't have a blur compositing option

@VideoRevealed 5 жыл бұрын

Update to the latest version of After Effects.

@FergbyFive 7 жыл бұрын

How do you track the mask please Colin?

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

For this example, because it's a soft edge, you might just get away with manually setting a keyframe for the mask, then moving it when the camera moves. For automated tracking, select the mask and open the Tracker panel (look in the Windows menu). That should bring up some controls for automatically tracking the mask.

@noufalbinzainudheen5633 2 жыл бұрын

thankyou sir

@VideoRevealed 2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

@gurennnnn 8 жыл бұрын

when you say shift and slash what did you press?

@VideoRevealed 8 жыл бұрын

The Shift key and the Slash key on a North American keyboard.

@chan-fm1qo 3 жыл бұрын

really good tu

@VideoRevealed 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot

@Vova3iLvova 7 жыл бұрын

wow nice

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

I know, I love this effect.

@ugur.d 5 жыл бұрын

Nice green screen keying effect on this video. please tuto.

@VideoRevealed 5 жыл бұрын

The background is a projected image on the wall It's not a green screen. Here's a behind the scenes: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nshho7urzuDaZGQ.htmlm26s

@CreativeHubFx 6 жыл бұрын

Can u pls say how to track that blur...

@VideoRevealed 6 жыл бұрын

Tracking isn't needed in this example, the effect is applied to the whole clip.

@Hayq25000 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks cool video

@VideoRevealed 6 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it.

@hadishwelde3557 7 жыл бұрын

hello my teacher pure description i have a qaution when i search in camera lens blur i dont have compositing option?

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

You need to update to a newer version of After Effects.

@akhileshrege7636 7 жыл бұрын

Sir how to insert mobile captured videos into the premiere pro s/w

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

If you're asking about video that was recorded using a smartphone, Premiere Pro already imports H.264 video. Do you know what format the video is that you're trying to import?

@angelastein1986 7 жыл бұрын

you're awsome.

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@Belle-he7tr 7 жыл бұрын

hiii can you please tell me how this person changed the background color to purple? image.prntscr.com/image/b8665c7468b24639a43ab1e477826ecf.png it also has an effect on it that i can't quite make out. i tried out hue/saturation and curves but it does not look that. Please help me ive been searching for so long

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

It looks a lot like CC Glass effect in After Effects plus a purple Tint.

@makkusu8750 7 жыл бұрын

the effects looks like s_warppuff

@Belle-he7tr 7 жыл бұрын

hii, ok so i think i figured it out but, when i try to add the effect only on the tint it shows up on the person but i want it on the background only... prnt.sc/f22kty heres a link to what it looks like

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

It's impossible for the program to know what to apply the effect to so it's up to you to isolated the area using a mask. I've got several tutorials on masking. If this is your first time masking a video, get ready for many hours of work because it can be very difficult.

@PresentTrendProduction 4 жыл бұрын

does is come under VFX or DI

@VideoRevealed 4 жыл бұрын

My guess is VFX.

@alloneword154 6 жыл бұрын

Can the shapes be keyframed?

@VideoRevealed 6 жыл бұрын

Yes. You can see there is a stopwatch button beside it. Just click it and move forward and change the setting.

@hadishwelde3557 7 жыл бұрын

ok thanks too

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

@Zz-vu2pf 7 жыл бұрын

nice

@VideoRevealed 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@czar_ben 7 жыл бұрын

Can I set a timer for the blur?

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

Yes you can set keyframes for the Blur amount.

@czar_ben 7 жыл бұрын

thanks

@simplysurfing Жыл бұрын

Voice volume is a little low....hard to hear and understand.

@bharathsimha2198 7 жыл бұрын

I'm unable to get composite options why?

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

Are you using the most current version of After Effects? You may have to update using Creative Cloud Desktop application.

@bharathsimha2198 7 жыл бұрын

VideoRevealed sir everything is up to date but still I can't find it Sir is there any other technique for blurring ?

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

If you are using version CC 2017, then you are not looking in the correct place AND you must have an effect applied before you look for Compositing Options. Are you telling me that when you twirl down Effects, you don't see this? imgur.com/a/ry0OZ Do you have the effect applied? Do you see the Property "Effects"? There are many ways to blur, but they all composite the exact same way to just trying a different blur won't give you compositing options.

@kacperwoek6026 7 жыл бұрын

You know the guy's a cool KZfaqr when he replies to every comment :D

@VideoRevealed 7 жыл бұрын

Ah thanks. I really appreciate it.

@mdabullais2114 6 жыл бұрын

can you share your background video with us

@VideoRevealed 6 жыл бұрын

Do you mean clip? drive.google.com/open?id=1YnQvmPuwuEaZkWUKdb2JFxgqx4xcy2js

@mdabullais2114 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for reply Is the background from where you are talking is real or you did it with green screen? If it is not original I want that background.

@VideoRevealed 6 жыл бұрын

The background is projected on a wall behind me while I'm talking. That particular image was rendered in MAXON Cinema 4D. Here is a behind the scenes showing how I shoot my show. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nshho7urzuDaZGQ.htmlm25s All my backgrounds are part of my branding so I can't share them. Sorry.

@mdabullais2114 6 жыл бұрын

thanks

@pavanpraneeth4659 8 жыл бұрын

can we club two projects..

@VideoRevealed 8 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure I understand your question. This effect is something you apply to a specific layer, which can also be another Comp. Not sure if that helps?

@pavanpraneeth4659 8 жыл бұрын

I mean like two sequences instead of rendering two and wasting time

@VideoRevealed 8 жыл бұрын

You still have to Render each Comp on its own.