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StephaneLevy
StephaneLevy
Participant
March 30, 2022
Question

Focus stacking in After Effects

  • March 30, 2022
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Hello,

Would it be possible to apply focus stacking to a pile of fixed images in After Effects?

If not, would it be possible to write a script in AE that commands Photoshop to do this, and automatically import results? Knowing that a script should also be written in PS in order to trigger the series of actions, including automatic export.

Thanks.

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Mylenium
Mylenium
Legend
March 30, 2022

Honestly, that's one of those "Why make your life so hard?" things. There are just too many limitations, beginning with the fact that exporting a layered PSD from AE has limitations and in reverse loading images intro a stack in PS also has its quirks plus you may still need to interven manually to create proper focus selections/ stacked ranges. That pretty much is a case of planning your projects right to begin with and doing all the prep work beforehand. That doesn't mean you couldn't wear yourself out with extensive scripting, but as already said, you'd spend a lot of time thinking of workarounds to the limitations of the file I/O and other things rather than cobbling together the actual functionality with a few lines of code...

 

Mylenium

StephaneLevy
StephaneLevyAuthor
Participant
March 30, 2022

I was thinking of using PS in order to load a pile of .cr3 images, doing focus stacking, and then exporting to .TIF, and load the .TIF in AE.

If that would simplify the process and avoid the limitations you have in mind, please let me know.

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