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Matching the focus with Camera Lens Blur

Matching the focus with Camera Lens Blur - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Guru: Integrating Type into Video Volume 2

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Matching the focus with Camera Lens Blur

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Now we can use the animated shape that we've created in the previous movie to control where the blur should appear on screen. As well as how much volume it has. So before we use this blur map comp that we've prepared in the previous chapter I just want to do some sorting or cleaning in my project panel. So I'm going to select the Blur Map and the two composition which represent our titles. And I'm just going to drop them into this folder, and I'm going to rename it Pre Comps. And now we can return to these composition. Select the second title Mister Bass Man, and we need to apply the Blur Map to it. So I'm gonna turn off the visibility for this layer. This is just a source map that will help us to achieve this effect. But the effect that we are looking for is under the Blur and Sharpen category, and it's called Camera Lens Blur. So double-click in order to apply it to the selected layer and make sure that the Camera Lens Blur effect is applied after the Cornertine effect. This is very…

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