The Focal Script:
Easy camera lens blur setup for After Effects

Easier Camera Lens Blur in After Effects

If you’ve ever used the standard camera lens blur after effects tool, you’ll know you can’t just drag and drop the effect into your composition, you need a blur map to go along with it. Usually this involves creating a specific gradient ramp, precomposing it, and linking the blur map to the camera lens blur effect. Which is all a bit tedious.

What’s worse, if you want to change the focus of the blur, you have to go into the gradient composition to tweak the gradient, and because you can’t see how this affects the blur the whole process involves some trial and error.

That’s why Focal was created.

A streamlined process

The focal After Effects script creates a much more streamlined process for adding after effects camera lens blurs, it automates the entire setup process, creates a gradient ramp for you, and creates two null object controllers that allow you to tweak the blur within the same composition.

No more manually creating gradient ramps and switching in and out of precomps to adjust the blur map, with Focal just hit the button and use the on-screen guides & controllers to customise your effect.