So I had some time to do some After Effects render tests... I did a test comp of a 20 second shot that is like an average shot in terms of how much processing needs to be done too it... It has Frischlust lenscare "depth of field" applied to two layers... as I've found depth maps which have a really out of focus element overlapping a sharp in focus element don't look correct so you have to render the foreground separately and apply blur to them both.... let me mention again that Philipp from Frischluft is awesome ^ ^ The shot also had one iteration of RevisionFX motion blur applied.... Now here's some cheats... I like AE's "Add grain" effect BUT ITS TOO SLOW! So what I did was render out my own stock film grain ^ ^ By rendering AE's add grain effect tweaked to my liking applied to a black solid... its rendered to a png sequence so then all I do is bring that in to my comps and apply it over my comps using the Add transfer mode and it looks great and takes no time at all to render... you can buy 2k real film grain stock for like thousands of dollars too 0_o but my cheapo one looks fine....
Comp Calculations looking uP
Comp Calculations looking uP
Comp Calculations looking uP
So I had some time to do some After Effects render tests... I did a test comp of a 20 second shot that is like an average shot in terms of how much processing needs to be done too it... It has Frischlust lenscare "depth of field" applied to two layers... as I've found depth maps which have a really out of focus element overlapping a sharp in focus element don't look correct so you have to render the foreground separately and apply blur to them both.... let me mention again that Philipp from Frischluft is awesome ^ ^ The shot also had one iteration of RevisionFX motion blur applied.... Now here's some cheats... I like AE's "Add grain" effect BUT ITS TOO SLOW! So what I did was render out my own stock film grain ^ ^ By rendering AE's add grain effect tweaked to my liking applied to a black solid... its rendered to a png sequence so then all I do is bring that in to my comps and apply it over my comps using the Add transfer mode and it looks great and takes no time at all to render... you can buy 2k real film grain stock for like thousands of dollars too 0_o but my cheapo one looks fine....