Dirty Lens Effect - After Effects Tutorial

Create a dirty lens effect and add something extra to your videos. This tutorial shows you how easy it is to create such effect in After Effects.
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Want to learn how to make your own lens dirt textures?
Watch this tutorial by @DOD Media: • Make Your Own LENS DIRT!
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[@CapVFX]

Buy the Dirty Lens Bundle: bit.ly/3yQHq3F Premiere Pro and Photoshop tutorial: bit.ly/3b1bgLa

[@maxhastie]

Hi, Great tutorial... But, I'm having issues when trying to follow the "Luma Matte" step, (using After Effects 2024) tried googling and just asked CHAT GPT, but no help... simply, there are no options bellow "No Track Matte" no (Alpha Matte, Alpha Inverted Matte, Lume Matte or Luma Inverted Matte) What am i missing.... Thanks ☺(will add what i missed if i find out, for those with same issue.) Figured it out, in after effects 2024 they changed the UI, it's now two icons next to the dropdown menu, to the right, Don't know why they did this! hope this helps someone. ☺

[@HeroDestrin]

I've been working on a 3D animation and I've been scouring KZbin for a way to make the scene feel more realistic. This tutorial popped up and it's going to help sell that there's really a camera in the scene! I know there's a way to do lens dirt with Blender, but it creates massive render times and it's unfortunately difficult to set up. After Effects is my home turf so this will be great! Thanks!

[@CapVFX]

Yeah it's a subtle but effective FX that adds realism to 3D renders especially. I tried do this in Blender, but it was a hustle. I think that After Effects is the way to go when it comes to this kind of post production work.

[@HeroDestrin]

@@CapVFX it certainly is this effect looks fantastic

[@gabrielmoro3d]

Beautiful tutorial, thank you!

[@ChrisTopher09]

LOVE IT! "DUTTY LENS"

[@blendwithsaif]

thanks a lot! loved the tutorial

[@CamwoodWesterwald]

Very nice and Useful!!! Thanks @CapVFX! For those who are searching the same way for doing it Nuke its quite easy. You just merge your overlay over your footage based on a alpha mask. The mask is a copy of your footage after adjusting the levels and bluring it.... Just copy this code in your Nuke Node Graph. Cheers! set cut_paste_input [stack 0] version 13.2 v5 StickyNote { inputs 0 name StickyNote1 label "Your Footage" note_font_size 20 selected true xpos -37 ypos -283 } StickyNote { inputs 0 name StickyNote2 label "Your Footage" note_font_size 20 selected true xpos -317 ypos -181 } StickyNote { inputs 0 name StickyNote3 label "Your Overlay" note_font_size 20 selected true xpos 146 ypos -172 } Read { inputs 0 file_type exr file "" format "1920 817 0 0 1920 817 1 " first 0 last 52 origfirst 0 origlast 52 origset true name Read3 selected true xpos -293 ypos -113 } Grade { blackpoint 0.3 name Grade1 selected true xpos -293 ypos 41 } Keyer { operation "luminance key" name Keyer1 selected true xpos -293 ypos 106 } Blur { channels alpha size 100 name Blur1 selected true xpos -293 ypos 171 } ColorCorrect { channels alpha gain 2.44 name ColorCorrect2 selected true xpos -181 ypos 171 } Read { inputs 0 file_type jpeg file E:/Downloads/dust_particles_on_lens_by_kerast_d7mj0cr-fullview.jpg format "1024 725 0 0 1024 725 1 " origset true name Read2 selected true xpos 175 ypos -117 } ColorCorrect { gain 4 name ColorCorrect1 selected true xpos 175 ypos 141 } Reformat { name Reformat1 selected true xpos 175 ypos 179 } Read { inputs 0 file_type exr file "" format "1920 817 0 0 1920 817 1 " first 0 last 52 origfirst 0 origlast 52 origset true name Read1 selected true xpos -12 ypos -238 } Merge2 { inputs 2+1 name Merge2 selected true xpos -12 ypos 176 } Viewer { frame_range 12-23 monitorOutOutputTransform rec709 name Viewer1 selected true xpos -12 ypos 341 } StickyNote { inputs 0 name StickyNote4 label "Say Thank you, leaving a comment below my Showreel :) vimeo.com/831767656 " note_font_size 20 selected true xpos -227 ypos 380 }

[@TheLegoMaxter]

Nice one. Got it working in Nuke :)

[@simonDmotiondesign]

Great Video!!

[@Miatpi]

Thanks!

[@RafaelPapadopoulos]

now how can I remove lens dirt

[@mrveguita]

Or you can use a adjustment layer and that’s all

[@CapVFX]

How? Which effect would you add to the adjustment layer?

[@HeroDestrin]

how

[@mrveguita]

@@CapVFX instead of a layer duplicate , use an adjustment layer as the mask and works better since you can change everything behind it

[@CapVFX]

​@@mrveguita interesting. What effects and in what order should be placed on that adjustment layer?

[@mrveguita]

@@CapVFXexact same as you did here but as an adjustment layer as a mask for the lens dirt texture

[@hrihori_art]

Thank you!