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Tiltshift Plugin for AE, Final cut & Motion

gnomalab's picture

I'm trying to create a plugin effect Tiltshift "with FxFactory to use in Aftter Effects and Final cut. The filter is quite close to the result I want. but I do not tweak the lens blur Fx characteristic of Tiltshift. There are many tutorials for this FX in PS or AE, but are based on a combination of filters and layers to get the result. Examples: http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/07/how-to-use-photoshops-lens-blur-tool-for-... or http://luipermom.wordpress.com/2008/12/29/tutorial-tilt-shift-con-photos... (in Spanish

My intention is to create a plugin all in one. Launch the plug and go. My first test was using Gaussian Blur, worse today and made a change by Box Blur and gives much better results. But I think it would be much more successful getting a lens blur fx. Here is a demo of my plugin running in AE: I searched but did not and managed to find an appropriate combination using NI blurs, or VADE blur plugins.

my question is, how I can create a filter with the properties of lens blur?

Camera transform matrix

SteveElbows's picture

Im mucking around with Apple Motion 4. Motion is a 2.5D app. I notice that its API for writing plugins enables plugins to receive information about where the camera & object are in 3D space. I also notice that FxFactory Pro seems to have the ability to pass camera transform matrix and layer transform matrix to quartz compositions when fxfactory is used within motion.

Here is the fxfactory page that mentions this:

http://www.noiseindustries.com/downloads/misc/FxFactoryHelp/plugindevelo...

Unfortunately I know very little about matrix stuff and Im not quite sure how to handle it in Quartz Composer if I was trying to make a plugin for motion using quartz composer and have the view of a 3d object in the .qtz change as I move the camera or object within motions 3D space.

Any ideas where to start? Or if anybody knows of any existing quartz file or any of the fxfactory plugins that use this technique, because I dont even know how well motion handles this stuff.

Cheers