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magictool for fusion v1.0 released

Friday, January 18th, 2008

we developed a new tool for fusion


you just have to connect all your footage to it, make a saver and press render.

the “make nice” button for photoshop  and the premiere “make movie” Plugin are still in beta

Frischluft Lenscare for Fusion Tutorial

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

I wasn´t happy about the deep blur in eyeon fusion, it is easy to use, but it creates some artefacts and it has no blooming. So i tested the AE plugin frischluft lenscare and nothing happend.


The Plugin doesn´t understand float values (1) and can´t read the Maya IFF Z-Channel (2)


I used a CustomTool (3a) to copy the Z-Channel to the readable red Channel (3b)


In the next step i used ColorCurves (4a) to get some values between 0 and 1. Just find the lowest color and make it black (4b).


same game for the highest value and the whitepoint (5)
EDIT: After some testing i thinks its better to use 0


after telling DepthOfField to use the red channel (6) i could select (7a) and define the focalpoint with this simple Expression (7b). Now i can use the tool and play around with the radius (8) and all the other stuff.

i will try to make a macro for this and post it here sometime in the future.