Frischluft

[glorybound]

I'm trying out the DOF plugin from Frischluft, which seem easy to use, but has huge render times. I have two simple images that go in/out of focus, but the render time in After Effect is 5hrs.

[super gnu]

what res. and how many frames? depending on the those factors and the strength of the blur it can be pretty slow, but sooo good! i generally use it with pretty low blur amounts, and it takes a few seconds a frame on a 720p frame.

[glorybound]

I just animated from no to blur to a 2.8 blur across 30 seconds

[super gnu]

but at what resolution..? this is another key consideration.. however 900 frames in 5 hrs is approx 20 secs a frame... which is not really outrageous for a full hd jobby.. imagine how long it would take you to render 900 frames with real DOF...

[glorybound]

Okay. I dropped the resolution from 3000 to 1024, which is now giving me 45 minutes. I guess I thought it would be seconds.... now I know

[plastic_]

what's your cpu load? do you have multi threading enabled in after effects?

[JeffG2]

That's just not sounding right. Frischluft would do the same image in photoshop in seconds. Have you tried DofPRO?

[simmsimaging]

My experience with DOFPro and Lenscare in Photoshop is that both are pretty good, and both are pretty slow. All good lens blur effects I have tried take time. I think your expectation of how long it would take is just low.

That said, it makes a huge difference how much blur is applied too. The heavier the effect the longer it takes to process, but on hi-res files, even on a fast system, it can take anywhere from 30secs to minutes.

/b

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Last time I used them I end up with ETA 24h, since them I didnt use them again

[MoonDoggie]

Definitely way too long. Frischluft should be much faster. AE or Photoshop?

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

PS, 10k res 16 bit image.

[super gnu]

glorybound's final result of 45 mins is for 900 frames dont forget.. thats 3 secs a frame processing time. not too shabby.. i think the effect rendertime goes up rapidly as you increase the res.

[MoonDoggie]

ahhh, make sure your files are on your local hd, that might help, they probably already are, but it's worth mentioning.

[glorybound]

I'll have to play with things. I'm not sure why this can't be done in realtime since they are just stills. I do have DofPRO, but I never used it for animation.

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Well is same as applying gausian blurr u still have to wait few seconds for it to process. Dof is even harder since it has to calculate fade in/out etc etc...