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Using depth of field commands

Using depth of field commands - After Effects Tutorial

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Using depth of field commands

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- After Effects has some incredible options for using depth of field for getting a layer easily in focus, to always keeping a layer in focus, no matter where your camera is. In this movie, let's explore how we can use these built in scripts. So, I'm here on my chapter 1_13 composition. And if we take a look at it compared to the last movie we just worked with, which was the same project. There's one difference, and that is, that the poster of Johnny Cash is all blurry here at the beginning. The camera movement starts, and then eventually, everything kind of comes into focus. But what we would like is to really start on this Johnny Cash image to be fully in focus here at the beginning. And then what we want to do is change the focus so that everything or Saul then becomes in focus at the end of this composition. So let's select the camera and press U just to see the key frames on both the point of interest and the position. And with that showing, I want you to move the first key frames…

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