Depth of Field in AE7?


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Depth of Field in AE7?
by Péter Galló on Mar 17, 2008 at 10:13:54 am

anyone has an idea why i cant set a camera to have depth of field? i do everything the same here at my workplace as at home, at home i can get it, here i cant.
i ve set the most simple composition: a solid with a grid, put back in Z space, and a text layer in the front. i enable DOF at the camera options, increase aperture, and nothing happens... :(

could it be a openGL stuff or any settings, or what? getting sooo confused here :(
thanks in advance!

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Re: Depth of Field in AE7?
by Ian Corey on Mar 17, 2008 at 1:56:40 pm

You probably have the "Easy 3D" switch turned on. This switch hides the processor-hogging shadows, DOF and lighting. It's there with the motion blur on/off.

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Re: Depth of Field in AE7?
by Péter Galló on Mar 17, 2008 at 3:17:13 pm

thanks a lot dude, but unfortunately it's not :(
(if you meant the Draft 3D button beside the current time and live update buttons. its turned off :(

i was even thinking about uninstalling AE, but afraid loosing all my plugins and settings :(

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Re: Depth of Field in AE7?
by Darby Edelen on Mar 17, 2008 at 3:28:44 pm

[Péter Galló] "could it be a openGL stuff or any settings, or what?"

If you have OpenGL previews on I would recommend turning them off and seeing what happens. Couldn't hurt.

Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA

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Re: Depth of Field in AE7?
by Péter Galló on Mar 17, 2008 at 3:31:01 pm

thanks, also tried that :(

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Re: Depth of Field in AE7?
by Darby Edelen on Mar 17, 2008 at 4:54:27 pm

Additional things to check:

1) Make sure the camera with DOF is the currently active camera, and that you are viewing your composition preview from the Active Camera.

2) Check in the composition settings (cmd+k/ctrl+k) under advanced and make sure you are using the Advanced 3D renderer (this is the only option in CS3, but i think there was a Basic 3D renderer in previous versions?)

If I can think of any other potential problems I'll let you know.

Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA

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Re: Depth of Field in AE7?
by Péter Galló on Mar 17, 2008 at 10:46:22 pm

thank you all, but still no success...
of course i checked if i monitor the active camera (even there is no other camera)

about the standard/advanced 3D:
i just checked here at home, and with the standard 3D, i get blur on the defocused areas, only they are lower in quality.

its just driving me crazy...

i ll save this file and will try in work tomorrow; lets hope it will help somehow :)

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Re: Depth of Field in AE7?
by Darby Edelen on Mar 17, 2008 at 10:55:41 pm

Well, the last hope for a solution from the forum might be posting a screenshot of the timeline with your camera options revealed... Even then I'm not sure what we might get from it, it seems that we've covered all of the bases (except for the one that's causing the problem!)

Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA

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