Simulating manual focus

#1

I people!
I have a mini DV with AF… but i want to make some change of focus…
Do you know a method in shake that do this with a result that is more near as possible to reality?
thanks in advanced…

#2

the problem is
how to generate a zdepth picture from your miniDV footage?
I don’t see a magic way to do it if there are camera motions, but if it’s a still BG you could paint it in photoshop, animate it’s intensity and connect it to IDefocus node

#3

What do you mean about animate intensity? like to pictures, one in a specif depth and the other out of focus, and then play around them?

but the problem is that are movie not pictures! :frowning:

thanks guy!

#4

You can use plugins or softwares that they can extract the “depth” of videos as Furnace 3 and PFtrack

Article on Furnace
http://www.fxguide.com/article292.html

Site of PFTrack
http://www.thepixelfarm.co.uk/products/products.aspx?PID=3

I believe that it spoke on the animation of the effect and to use a “false” map of depth. Perhaps you also it could isolate the elements of the image (FG, BG for example)

#5

You could also be a glutton for punishment and roto the foreground out and do it manually.

That would be HAWT (like paris hilton style)

I can only imagine the hallucinations at the end of that piece of work…

#6

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