Faking camera lens blur in Adobe After Effects

[@jamessummers5936]

Thank you! I masked out the actual subject/person and inverted the mask instead, but everything else I followed your exact instructions and it worked great!

[@mb-ql1gb]

Great tutorial, nicely explained, good speech, very understandable, no boring talk ... thanks for the tip !

[@VideoRevealed]

Thanks. I try very hard to deliver quality work.

[@MrFrenchPedicure]

Fantastic. Just what I was looking for. You are the man.

[@lokgeetsangeet21]

Exactly the perfect demo I was looking for ! Thanx a ton :)

[@KodiakCaptures]

This is great. I got After Effects recently through my college and I'm trying to learn the ropes. Thank you for making this. :)

[@VideoRevealed]

You're welcome and have fun, After Effects is pretty damn awesome.

[@kokomimifamily912]

I just wanted to say u r the best teacher ever, thank you so much sir for addressing the AE CS6 issue with compositing option missing. I was very glad that you answered that below. My video looks so beautiful and artistic and you are the best! Thank you very kindly.

[@VideoRevealed]

Merry Christmas and thanks for your support.

[@daltomono]

The quality of this video tutorial es unbelievable!

[@VideoRevealed]

Thanks so much.

[@L0TISH]

What if the person is going to make a movement like he or she would move a hand and it will go out of the mask range? is it possible to Track bluriness as we can do it on Optical Flares?

[@VideoRevealed]

You can track movement with the Mask Tracker in After Effects so yes it could follow a hand. The accuracy of the tracking is based on how much contrast is in the video, if the video is highly compressed (DSLR) and many other factors.

[@L0TISH]

+VideoRevealed Understood. Thats really useful. Thank you Colin!

[@elmoooo]

Grats on being featured! :)

[@VideoRevealed]

Thanks.

[@alfasalim2220]

I like this. and the teacher is good. audible and clear speach. loving it. thank you

[@VideoRevealed]

Thank you! 😃

[@VideoLife_FPV_Wild]

Great tutorial. Thx man!

[@VideoRevealed]

Glad you liked it!

[@brandnaqua]

good tips!

[@VideoRevealed]

Glad you like them!

[@CRIMELAB357]

Informative, super cool and subscribed

[@eymblogs5238]

That's a very helpful tutorial! So simple and brief.

[@VideoRevealed]

Thank you.

[@sympolzion]

Wonderful video. Thank you Sir!

[@VideoRevealed]

You're welcome.

[@Champak291]

You really are a great teacher

[@VideoRevealed]

Thanks so much.

[@diegomarcano7642]

Hey Colin. Great video. Thank you so much. Keep on the good work.

[@VideoRevealed]

You're welcome Diego and thanks for your support.

[@Cobramp4]

Awesome video man.

[@VideoRevealed]

Thanks.

[@ChristopherHowellMagic]

Thanks! At timecode 5:00 you point us to 'compositing options' however on my version 11.0 that option doesn't exist. Is there a workaround?

[@VideoRevealed]

You need to update to the latest version of After Effects or duplicate the layer and apply the effect to that copy.

[@ChristopherHowellMagic]

Thank you! Great vids.

[@AvatarofHate]

Wow, so this is it, I was missing the defocus effect from Sony Vegas since Gaussian Blur does not make the job done. So Camera Lens Blur is what I needed. Thank you for the video! :D

[@VideoRevealed]

Yes, exactly

[@alloneword154]

Congrats on 60k!! I've been here since 8k!

[@VideoRevealed]

Wow, you're a long time supporter. THANKS! I missed the 60k change as I've been working on many projects and only just saw it recently. 😍

[@queenoftheuniverse4645]

Awesome! Exactly what I needed!

[@VideoRevealed]

Great!

[@kostasfassoulas6915]

Great tut!! Is there a way to have a custom iris shape?!

[@VideoRevealed]

No, but that would be cool. My daughter told me that Saturday Night Live used a custom lens with their logo in it. They're not using it for this season but they did for past seasons and it was awesome.

[@FergbyFive]

How do you track the mask please Colin?

[@VideoRevealed]

For this example, because it's a soft edge, you might just get away with manually setting a keyframe for the mask, then moving it when the camera moves. For automated tracking, select the mask and open the Tracker panel (look in the Windows menu). That should bring up some controls for automatically tracking the mask.

[@cj1148]

My after effects don't have a blur compositing option

[@VideoRevealed]

Update to the latest version of After Effects.

[@IGamerEditorAMV]

Really interesting quicktip, I'll take a look inside AfterFX

[@VideoRevealed]

Thanks for watching.

[@thaddeus2447]

you have so good tutorials, it's so awesome! but it's shame that this kind of videos isn't so popular!, keep it up

[@VideoRevealed]

+Tadziun Gamer You have no idea how much I want this channel to get some love. Thanks for watching.

[@thaddeus2447]

+VideoRevealed you are doing really great job. its very rare to find so qualified person like you who can spend time on doing such helpful videos. Do more video tutorials with after atfer effecs its powerful software to do a lot of great stuff

[@moisesgonzalez651]

Great video, thanx a lot!!!

[@VideoRevealed]

You're welcome.

[@kristennewsom]

awesome video, thx!

[@VideoRevealed]

+Kristen Newsom - Glad you liked it!

[@louisgensollen7070]

thanks. I don't have the Camera Lens Blur effect on my After Effect, I don't understand why, do you know how to do it with another effects maybe ?

[@VideoRevealed]

Make sure you're running the latest version of After Effects CC.

[@dylanrogersfilm]

Nice! Thank you Colin. I can't wait to try this out.

[@VideoRevealed]

You're welcome. It's pretty cool.

[@Camachosound]

Hey, when I render and export my video in mp4 and 1080p the lens blur effect looks pixelated as if the video lost a great amount of quality in resolution. How can I fix that? Thanks a lot for your videos!

[@VideoRevealed]

I have no idea why that's happening. After Effects renders all effects at a sub-pixel level so it should never loose quality. Does this happen with all videos?

[@haroonaaron5177]

Sir how to track the blur area, in this way it is not working for moving objects.

[@VideoRevealed]

Successful tracking is directly connected to how complex the scene is and how good the tracker can follow the isolated area. If you have a typical busy background, there is no automatic tracker that can do that and that's why visual effects companies employ hundreds of people to sit there every day and manually track stuff, frame by frame.

[@CreativeHubFx]

Can u pls say how to track that blur...

[@VideoRevealed]

Tracking isn't needed in this example, the effect is applied to the whole clip.

[@PresentTrendProduction]

does is come under VFX or DI

[@VideoRevealed]

My guess is VFX.

[@TBLibraryConsortium]

Great tutorial! Does this also work with CS6? I can't seem to find the "composting options" tab under the Camera Lens Blur effect.

[@VideoRevealed]

+Tampa Bay Library Consortium - Thanks! The new compositing options were just added to CC but you can just apply the effect to an Adjustment layer in CS6, then apply a mask to that. The new options were added to all effects in CC just to make things easier.

[@TBLibraryConsortium]

Gotcha, I was able to try it out, looks good! Thanks for the quick reply and awesome vids!

[@ArtistCreationsPicturesInc]

How can I do with the lens flare in 3D environment with 3D camera? I want to look realistic.

[@VideoRevealed]

Knoll Light Factory does a pretty good job. www.redgiant.com/products/knoll-light-factory/

[@gurennnnn]

when you say shift and slash what did you press?

[@VideoRevealed]

The Shift key and the Slash key on a North American keyboard.

[@ebraheemjabaar8436]

Hey great video. Is it possible to separate the body from the background, like when working with keylight to separate the green screen from the subject and use that as a map?

[@VideoRevealed]

The Blur Map needs to be created somewhere else like Keylight. So yes, if you've already go a layer that can function as a matte, you can use that.

[@edwardsilversmith]

Thanks man, loved it!

[@VideoRevealed]

Great!

[@hadishwelde3557]

hello my teacher pure description i have a qaution when i search in camera lens blur i dont have compositing option?

[@VideoRevealed]

You need to update to a newer version of After Effects.

[@ThatsSoFRandom]

Great! Exactly what I needed

[@VideoRevealed]

Great!

[@alloneword154]

Can the shapes be keyframed?

[@VideoRevealed]

Yes. You can see there is a stopwatch button beside it. Just click it and move forward and change the setting.

[@czar_ben]

Can I set a timer for the blur?

[@VideoRevealed]

Yes you can set keyframes for the Blur amount.

[@czar_ben]

thanks

[@FISHSOCKS]

This really helped me to improve my recent animation's quality which I'm currently working on! Thank you so much!

[@VideoRevealed]

That's wonderful to hear. Thanks for watching.

[@bharathsimha2198]

I'm unable to get composite options why?

[@VideoRevealed]

Are you using the most current version of After Effects? You may have to update using Creative Cloud Desktop application.

[@bharathsimha2198]

VideoRevealed sir everything is up to date but still I can't find it Sir is there any other technique for blurring ?

[@VideoRevealed]

If you are using version CC 2017, then you are not looking in the correct place AND you must have an effect applied before you look for Compositing Options. Are you telling me that when you twirl down Effects, you don't see this? imgur.com/a/ry0OZ Do you have the effect applied? Do you see the Property "Effects"? There are many ways to blur, but they all composite the exact same way to just trying a different blur won't give you compositing options.

[@dreamernawid]

i love your enthusiasm hahah

[@VideoRevealed]

Thanks for your support.

[@innerchildstyle]

Very cool!

[@VideoRevealed]

Thanks.

[@akhileshrege7636]

Sir how to insert mobile captured videos into the premiere pro s/w

[@VideoRevealed]

If you're asking about video that was recorded using a smartphone, Premiere Pro already imports H.264 video. Do you know what format the video is that you're trying to import?

[@ugur.d]

Nice green screen keying effect on this video. please tuto.

[@VideoRevealed]

The background is a projected image on the wall It's not a green screen. Here's a behind the scenes: kzbin.info/www/bejne/npOUoYuwnt-papIm26s

[@ShayningTV]

awesome tutorial! helped me a lot to produce a video...

[@VideoRevealed]

+Shayning Thanks so much.

[@Azuniite]

Great explanation!

[@VideoRevealed]

Thanks.

[@gameworld88]

it helped me a lot thanks!!!

[@VideoRevealed]

You're welcome.

[@willakana8696]

Thank you!!

[@VideoRevealed]

You're welcome!

[@MrRobDead]

Estava atras desse video e nao achava! Don't exist video like that in Brazil, Bokeh of the lights like in video! Here, i see ever sing time Gaussian Blur! Very nice video! Sorry my English

[@VideoRevealed]

Correct, you're not going to see beautiful bokeh with this effect.

[@AlexEliotOfficial]

Man I thought you had like 500k subs, very professional video subbed

[@VideoRevealed]

I wish I had that many. Thanks for subscribing.

[@XDario91]

Hi, is there any way to get this effect on adobe premiere?

[@VideoRevealed]

Unfortunately no, it's only in After Effects.

[@levikats31]

i subscribed! nice video!

[@VideoRevealed]

Thanks.

[@krishnamohan9427]

gr8 one sir thank you

[@VideoRevealed]

You're welcome.

[@gurisler3622]

Great video!! Thank you! Very nice tip especialy when the subject and the camera doesn't move and so much better than gaussian blur for sure! However the issue starts when camera moves as well as the subject! Yea some tracking and neat rotoscoping might help a lot but than is like creating lightsaber effect with AE, frame by frame! Still good for action camera or smart phone footages I believe! I wish there was a magical plugin like RE:Vision's twixtor which analyses the scene or you setup the focus object than it does things by analysing pixels! Maybe that kind of plugin or similar already exists? Any recommenmdations?

[@VideoRevealed]

The best tool for rotoscoping is Mocha Pro, but that will only isolate areas, you still have to add effects. I am not aware of any tool that does it all.

[@DevAnimate]

Thank you so much!

[@VideoRevealed]

You're welcome.

[@chan-fm1qo]

really good tu

[@VideoRevealed]

Thanks a lot

[@VE3DAL]

Great Canadian! thanks for the tutorial. I'm canadian too.

[@VideoRevealed]

Awesome! Happy Canada Day!

[@Evanesco]

cool! thx

[@VideoRevealed]

You're welcome.

[@ДмитрийМартов-н1ъ]

Thx!

[@VideoRevealed]

You're welcome.

[@SiddheshNan]

Thanks

[@VideoRevealed]

You're welcome.

[@Belle-he7tr]

hiii can you please tell me how this person changed the background color to purple? image.prntscr.com/image/b8665c7468b24639a43ab1e477826ecf.png it also has an effect on it that i can't quite make out. i tried out hue/saturation and curves but it does not look that. Please help me ive been searching for so long

[@VideoRevealed]

It looks a lot like CC Glass effect in After Effects plus a purple Tint.

[@makkusu8750]

the effects looks like s_warppuff

[@Belle-he7tr]

hii, ok so i think i figured it out but, when i try to add the effect only on the tint it shows up on the person but i want it on the background only... prnt.sc/f22kty heres a link to what it looks like

[@VideoRevealed]

It's impossible for the program to know what to apply the effect to so it's up to you to isolated the area using a mask. I've got several tutorials on masking. If this is your first time masking a video, get ready for many hours of work because it can be very difficult.

[@luiskyer]

THANKS!!

[@VideoRevealed]

You're welcome.

[@Hayq25000]

Thanks cool video

[@VideoRevealed]

Glad you liked it.

[@1959digital]

great tool thanks, I upgrate CS 6 to CC its wonderful

[@VideoRevealed]

Yep, there are so many great things in the new version.

[@noufalbinzainudheen5633]

thankyou sir

[@VideoRevealed]

You're welcome.

[@giacomocastellano-official]

Thank you :-)

[@VideoRevealed]

I'm happy you liked it and thanks for the support.

[@Vova3iLvova]

wow nice

[@VideoRevealed]

I know, I love this effect.

[@mdabullais2114]

can you share your background video with us

[@VideoRevealed]

Do you mean clip? drive.google.com/open?id=1YnQvmPuwuEaZkWUKdb2JFxgqx4xcy2js

[@mdabullais2114]

Thanks for reply Is the background from where you are talking is real or you did it with green screen? If it is not original I want that background.

[@VideoRevealed]

The background is projected on a wall behind me while I'm talking. That particular image was rendered in MAXON Cinema 4D. Here is a behind the scenes showing how I shoot my show. kzbin.info/www/bejne/npOUoYuwnt-papIm25s All my backgrounds are part of my branding so I can't share them. Sorry.

[@mdabullais2114]

thanks

[@simplysurfing]

Voice volume is a little low....hard to hear and understand.

[@angelastein1986]

you're awsome.

[@VideoRevealed]

Thanks.

[@pavanpraneeth4659]

can we club two projects..

[@VideoRevealed]

I'm not sure I understand your question. This effect is something you apply to a specific layer, which can also be another Comp. Not sure if that helps?

[@pavanpraneeth4659]

I mean like two sequences instead of rendering two and wasting time

[@VideoRevealed]

You still have to Render each Comp on its own.

[@kacperwoek6026]

You know the guy's a cool KZbinr when he replies to every comment :D

[@VideoRevealed]

Ah thanks. I really appreciate it.

[@hadishwelde3557]

ok thanks too

[@VideoRevealed]

You're welcome.

[@Zz-vu2pf]

nice

[@VideoRevealed]

Thanks.

[@imfeelingluckypunk492]

"BOKEH" you pronounced it wrong like you're adding a "y" in it "Bokeyh".. Just say it as is or without the "y".

[@VideoRevealed]

Okay, thanks.

[@ashokbuttowski]

Wont be real, waste of time

[@VideoRevealed]

I'm sorry you didn't like this tutorial.

[@vlogswithankitnayakvlogs]

Thanks

[@VideoRevealed]

You're welcome.

[@vlogswithankitnayakvlogs]

@@VideoRevealed can you please make video to how we make like 300 movie comics books looks in after effects or premiere Pro.... please