Big Problem with blur

Guto · Post by **Guto** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:26 pm

The layer blur on my animation is completely crazy. I didnt set it on and it appears by his own will in several layers and in different time.
Any one know what is going on?

Rai López · Post by **Rai López** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:50 pm

Have you activate the curious "Depth of Field" effect in Proyect Settings Window? Cause that could explain your problem...

Guto · Post by **Guto** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:10 pm

That is it!! thanks a lot!
But I didnt actvated actualy. Maybe it is a program default.

Rai López · Post by **Rai López** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:27 pm

...Hmmm, as I said, curious... Normally (and fortunatelly

) it's not activated by default... Maybe you have had experimenting with Moho features as a good Moho user and you have activated it unintentionally? Well, anyway... Don't mention it!

touchdown · Post by **touchdown** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:17 pm

Hey Ramon,

Thank for responding to my other post. This one however is more what I was looking for: depth of field.

I've got my layer blurs going from 3 to 1 as the camera moves toward the object. It looks a little rough.

How will the depth of field help this? (variables to be set)

Rai López · Post by **Rai López** » Thu Nov 16, 2006 10:10 pm

Well, you can try to play with Depth of Field parameters in the File --> Project Settings... window, although I advice you that DOF can't be animated and basically the function doesn't works very well in general and working with camera/layers movements in special... Well, I hope it works for you!

Rhoel · Post by **Rhoel** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:00 am

Setting up the blur manually gives the best results, especially if you group the layers into foreground, middle and distant layers.

I have found too that turning off scale compensation on the group folders is necesssary in some situations - you think you have added a 10 blur but it looks more like a 3. Turn off the scale comp. and it renders as a 10.

I have never figured out how the scale compensation works, or how to get the best from it.

Hope it helps someone ... I thought it was a bug at first.

Rhoel.

touchdown · Post by **touchdown** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:47 pm

ok thanks, i'll look into the scale compensation.

there seem to be a few things not in the manual.