Sony Vegas tutorial | depth of field

[drill]

Next one good hint how to make DOP in your movie using other program. It is much easier way like by using Photoshop. And yes we are talking about :

Creating Depth Of Field in Vegas

In this case you can render your (original,depth) screenshots to avi or you cant, in Vegas there is already function to import images sequence (picture). So it is up to you.

If you already have your video and depth imported in Vegas, you will need at last 3 video tracks to do DOF. So import 3 tracks - screenshot, and put your video tracks in order like is on this screenshot.

3rd track is our background
2nd is something like our layer from background
1st is depth, our alpha channel/mask

Now go on 1st track and right-click on compositing mode and select from ,,Source Alpha'' to ,,Multiply (Mask)'' - screen. Also on 1st track add ,,Video Event Fx'' then ,,Mask Generator'' and type ,,Luminance Mask'' (screen)
Next step is making compositing child from track 2 to track 1 - just click on icon like is on screenshot link and you should have done it.

Last thing is adding Gaussian blur effect on 2nd track, go on 2nd track and add ,,Video Event Fx'' then Gaussian blur and choose type for eg. ,,Soften''. After this step you should have done your DOF.

final screenshot

Also I'd like to notice you, you can make in focus like on screen above, or just Out Of Focus. Screenshot isn't good to use out of focus, but for example it is good
To do out of focus, simply go in mask generator, invert colors and adjust ,,High In'' to get good effect

Next good tutorial I found on youtube where pretty explaining how to do DOF in Vegas without depth screens. I like using more my method cause i already have source depth from Quake 3.

For those who want to check it here is link : www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dDIdsYvGxY

Enjoy and good masking

[crys1s]

good job man, il have to give this a try.

edit: great tutorial, followed the steps for a quick test had no problems and the results are great.
using mme_depthfocus 100 and mme_depthrange 200

files.filefront.com/DOFtest40fps+480p+AACmp4/;8941011;/fileinfo.html

now everyone can incorperate advanced cinematic effects into their movies. Thanks for this tutorial Drill

[drill]

Im glad I could help you

[xgo]

lol very nice
but tbh still looks unnatural to me; everything is just to much blury

[drill]

all you can adjust you can use other values for depth in mme, you can use timeline in vegas to specifiy blurred place, or just change it to lower or higher, can choose range of blur by incerassing/decerassing values in filter. And don't forget it is faked DOF, not real ;D

[foksie]

dont use those settings.

use at least 400 for focus, and over 1000 for range.

[iamlame]

imho, lens blur effect in AE gives more realistic look

[crys1s]

perhaps, but this a vegas tut thread

[[PT] TANIA]

lovely!