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Controlling the focal plane in CS5.5 and later

Controlling the focal plane in CS5.5 and later - After Effects Tutorial

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Controlling the focal plane in CS5.5 and later

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In the previous movie I showed you how to enable Depth of Field Blur for a camera, and also how to edit the Focus Distance, and interactively watch the focal plane line in, say, the Top view of the camera. However, there's couple of ways of automating this process. One we showed you earlier. I'm going to double-click the camera to open up its settings. You can lock the Focus Distance to zoom. That means the focal plane will always equal the length of your camera lens. It is set by millimeters or whatever parameter you want to use here in the Camera Settings dialog, or Zoom can be set by the number of pixels here in the Timeline panel. But as of After Effects CS5.5, there's couple of more options. And I turn off Lock to Zoom. As long as you have a two-node camera, where you have the back of the camera and a point of interest, and you are in After Effects CS 5.5 or later, You can selectively focus on specific layers. Let's say, for example, that I want this layer to be in focus for the…

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