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Mark, Thank you mark. But on the planet EARTH…the best? ds

Hi Mark, do you know if LenzFX ever fixed the bug, or actually re-wrote to incorporate field render. I remember quite a bit of difficulty in that arena. Further to Donald asking about rack focus: I still use the YOST disk #1 for blur, flare etc. They may not be the most current, but they do a really nice job. Additionally, there is a really powerful but humble piece of software out there called WinFX by Blackbelt. Very inexpensive, and they recently released an upgrade for NT. Packed with an amazing array of effects, very easy to use, and unbelievable flexible area selection tools with finite time line control. It is very easy to simply run a TGA stream through there and get the equiv. of thousands of $$$$$ worth of routines. BTW, just because that particular software from Blackbelt is amazing, don't assume that their WinMorph is equally terrific –ICKKKKKKKKK (followed by Tazmanian Devil Tongue Spitting). One more thing – I use a silly trick in my animations when I want to have an animated focus weirdness: Loft a flat shape as needed – give it a very trans. quality with some subtle texture mapping/bump and put it in front of something in your scene. Then render and see what the camera does with that "little filter". Originally, I would render portions of a scene with animated Focus using BLUR from disk one and then composite in VP. But then I started getting odd ideas about the "filter" and it worked. Then I started making all kinds of "filters" to accomplish small animated area effects. Anim-Pro is really a champ at that sort of thing – the possibilities are endless. Jeffrey