Shake depth of field and maya iff

[sivrat]

Hi!

I'm a student, so don't be too hard on me. I am using shake for the first time and the thing I want to do is as following.
I have my rendered pics from Maya (MayaIff's with Alpha and Z-channel), then I load it in shake. There I extract the z-information with the MayaZ-macro. So far correct, isn't it? Then I adjust the loVal and hiVal values according to the clipping values of my camera in Maya. So far it all works out perfectly, but then I apply the ZDefocus-node and from here on it gets worse. Either the whole image is blurred or it is as claer and sharp as it was before. No Focused area and the rest blurred as it normal with depth of field.
Please help!

Alex

[user_deleted]

Well !

Sorry, i happend to see your querry just now !

if you use mayaZ-macro - u get the z information in ur alpha channel, Right ?

then use IDefocus / IBlur and get the defocus u want.

if you really want to use ZDefocus and ZBlur

u need to follow the following steps.

after ur mayaZ - plugin

Invert ( if required )

Reorder ( rgbar )

Copy ( z )

then use ZBlur and give Near Value in negative like ( -0.5 ) far value 0.5 it may work then u go ahead with ur r&d.

Good Luck...