Decent Optical Defocus In Shake?

[user_deleted]

Dear all,

I've been using shake for a few years now and never been happy with shakes defocus, and now I need a really highend defocus over a few lightsources, that take up a great deal of the screen. It just doesn't look like an optical defocus, the highlights are not blowing out as on a real lens. I experimented with the boostpoint and super white but it still doesn't quite do it for me. I have a good zdepth from maya, aswell.

Anyone got any defocus tricks or know of a good plugin that will do it?

Depth of field generator PRO wont do it for me as i'm on osx.

Cheers

MT

[user_deleted]

for AE you can try:

Frischluft's Lenscare

[user_deleted]

i dont know a lot about defocus, but did you try converting to a linear file?

filein > bytes float > gamma 1/2.2 > defocus > gamma 2.2

usually looks a lot better on the highlights..
obviously you can increase the effect even more if you use higher gamma values
++ chris

[user_deleted]

I agree with zem, you can blow out the highlights by applying a 1 over 2.2 gamma then the blur then a 2.2 gamma. You can even boost these values higher as long as they are the inverse of each other.
Good luck
Pete O'Connell

www.barxseven.com