I wish ........

[gkumar]

there would be a software to actually just make my DOF instead of all these ****in 35 adapters---i ****in hate em :beer:

DOF generator

 

[DBoz699]

Sweeet!

But thats all CGI though....not for real footage...CGI would be totally different when doing focusing compared to already shot and focus stuff.

 

[HansK]

Behold the power of.... um.... waiting..... um.... nothing? :undecided

 

[Kirk Gillock]

There's nothing worse than a "thread tease."

 

[gkumar]

sorry my browser was acting up--i edited the thread

 

[Norm Sanders]

You CAN create/fake DOF to a point ... Just a matter of using multiple layers of the same track, bezier masks, possibly a screen track, etc.

I did it in my short zombie film ... during the 2nd zombie's interview, I had a quick shot of the zombie's outfit & cigarette with smoke in the shot. The focus changed in & out from the smoke being clear focus & the zombie/cigarette out of focus to the opposite. A couple people even asked me how I achieved the DOF, so it must have looked pretty real/good.

I had the zombie on one track, then on the track above created a screen composite ... dropped in an Artbeats Alien Athmosphere clip, then key framed gaussian blur on each to what I wanted ....

Here's the example of it: www.eefilm.com/shorts/deathmarch/smokedof.wmv