Restart After Effects; the tools will appear under the menu. 🚀 How to Use Lenscare 1. Out of Focus (2D)

For years, motion designers and VFX artists have used Lenscare to avoid the massive rendering times associated with generating depth of field inside 3D software. By rendering a separate Z-depth pass

Frischluft Lenscare is a plugin suite for After Effects (and other compositing software) designed to create high-quality and Out of Focus effects.

After a bit of hunting to get working on an Intel Mac (not Apple Silicon), here’s what worked for me in After Effects :

Lenscare 1.43 is a 32-bit and 64-bit transitional plugin . On macOS Catalina (10.15) and later, Apple dropped support for 32-bit code. However, Lenscare 1.43 was largely 64-bit compatible. You need a 64-bit host (After Effects CC 2014 – CC 2023). For AE 2024/2025, you may need to ask Frischluft for the latest 1.5+ builds.

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