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Setting up depth of field in CINEMA 4D Lite

Setting up depth of field in CINEMA 4D Lite

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Setting up depth of field in CINEMA 4D Lite

A couple of neat little tricks you can use to set up depth of field correctly in Cinema 4D, and I'm going to show you that here. I'm in Chapter13_CU_07.aep and we're going to go into Chapter13_CU_Start.c4d. In the Project panel, hit Cmd+D or Ctrl+E on Windows to edit original, and open it up in Cinema 4D Lite. Now, I'm going to hit Shift+R, because what I want to do is render my image, but I only want to see the depth mat. So I'm going to go into the Layer tab, click on Depth and also choose Single Pass. And, you'll see that my depth mat isn't really giving me much information, apart from the robot is going to be really blurred, and the background is not going to be blurred at all, or vice versa. Everything is black, meaning something will either be blurred or not blurred. There's not going to be any kind of finesse or detail in terms of, I'd rather have the claw maybe in focus and the rest of the robot gradually going out of focus to give us a more dramatic look. So, how do I adjust…

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