In After Effects CS5 and earlier, the camera Depth of Field blur tended to…calculate slowly, and didn't really look all that good.…Well this changed as of After Effects CS5.5, where the camera now gained a large…number of iris-related parameters.…The iris being the opening in a camera, which determines the shape and…quality of the blur.…The default is Fast Rectangle, which is how After Effects CS5 and earlier looked.…However, you now have a long list of different basic iris shapes, from ones that…can be quite graphical, like Triangle, to once that are more similar to a real…camera. Hexagon has six vein iris, Heptagon is a to seven vein iris, et cetera.…
Hexagon is a good typical camera look.…I'll take a snapshot of that for comparison.…And go back to Fast Rectangle for comparison. Very much like a box blur compared…to the more realistic Hexagon form.…These various Blur parameters were both added to the Camera and also to a 2D…effect called Camera Lens Blur.…To explore these parameters, sometimes it can be faster to work with a 2D…
Chris Meyer
Trish Meyer
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11/10/2016Released
10/19/2011The After Effects Apprentice series was created by Trish and Chris Meyer. These tutorials are designed for After Effects CS4 through CC, and can be used on their own or as a companion to the Meyer's book, After Effects Apprentice.
- Keyframing motion paths in 3D
- Managing multiple 3D views
- Auto-orienting cameras along a path
- Creating shadows
- Understanding Vanishing Point Exchange
- Importing a 3D model into Photoshop Extended
- Scaling in 3D
- OpenGL acceleration
Skill Level Intermediate
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Q: This course was updated on 12/06/2012. What changed?
A: This was a more extensive update than the other After Effects Apprentice courses. We added three new movies to Chapter 4 that cover 3D camera features in versions CS5.5 and later, such as depth of field blur. We added a new chapter on the 3D ray-traced renderer in CS6, and another chapter featuring a Quizzler challenge for CS6. Lastly, we added a movie that shows our premium subscribers how to use the exercise files, and added new sets of exercise files designed for After Effects CS5.5 and After Effects CS6.
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Introduction
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Welcome2m 34s
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1. Basic 3D
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Comparing 2D and 3D5m 21s
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Rotation in 3D4m 47s
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Keyframing in 3D4m 55s
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2. Multi-planing
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Using 3D views6m 45s
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3. Animating in 3D
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Keyframing a fly-in5m 24s
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Editing 3D motion paths5m 43s
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4. 3D Cameras
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Comparing camera presets2m 48s
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3D view options1m 58s
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Animating a 3D camera6m 20s
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Creating an orbit camera rig5m 42s
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Extending your camera rig4m 31s
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5. 3D Lights
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Creating a 3D light6m 35s
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Working with Point lights3m 20s
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Working with spot lights3m 38s
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6. Using the Ray-Traced 3D Renderer in CS6
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Extrusions in CS63m 39s
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Bevels in CS65m 39s
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Bending layers in CS65m 35s
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Transparency in CS64m 20s
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Refraction in CS64m 6s
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Targeting Surfaces in CS63m 23s
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Reflections in CS67m 35s
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Environment layers in CS65m 40s
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Quality vs. speed in CS64m 43s
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7. Quizzler Challenge for CS6
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Quizzler challenge for CS61m 42s
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Quizzler solution for CS69m 51s
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8. 3D Workflows Between After Effects and Photoshop Extended
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9. The Dimensional Stills Technique
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Cutting up the source image2m 25s
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10. Sidebars
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Rotation vs. orientation3m 15s
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Scaling issues in 3D4m 57s
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Video: Iris properties in CS5.5 and later