From the course: Learning Cinema 4D Lite for After Effects
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Adding depth of field with camera lens blur
From the course: Learning Cinema 4D Lite for After Effects
Adding depth of field with camera lens blur
We're going to create depth of field now. And in order to do that, I need to bring in another copy of my file. So I'm going to bring it down to the timeline. And when it's down in the timeline, I'm going to go in and put it on Standard (Draft) mode, No Textures/Shader, no precalculation. And then, we're going to go down to Multi-Pass. And I'm going to set the Multi-Pass to Depth. When I do that, I should see the Depth map rendered and it's showing me the depth. If we go back to the beginning, you'll see, remember I set it up in Cinema 4D so the claw would be in focus and everything else would be out of focus. So what I want to do now is use that to blur all the other layers. Now, in order to do that, I'm going to add another adjustment layer. So I go to Layer > New > Adjustment Layer. And, again, I'm going to use a built-in effect. I'm going to use the Lens Blur effect to do this. (SOUND) And Camera Lens Blur is the name of the effect. I'm going to drag that onto the Adjustment layer.…
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Extracting 3D scene data8m 11s
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Adding video elements to a CINEMA 4D scene5m 49s
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Working with proxies10m 2s
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Color correction of shadows4m 10s
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Layer styles3m 50s
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Adjustment layers4m 58s
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Setting up depth of field in CINEMA 4D Lite3m 10s
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Adding depth of field with camera lens blur4m 4s
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Speed ramps with time remapping4m 14s
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Motion blur with the Pixel Motion Blur effect4m 34s
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