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205Motion User Guide
Turn depth of field on or off in Motion
When depth of field is employed, playback performance may be significantly impacted. To
alleviate this issue, you can disable the effects of depth of field settings while working on
other aspects of your project.
Enable or disable depth of field effects
• In Motion, click the Render pop-up menu in the upper-right corner of the canvas, then
choose Depth of Field (or press Control-Option-D).
When a check mark is visible next to the menu item, the effects are rendered. When no
check mark is visible, all objects remain in focus.
Turn off depth of field in the Inspector
• In Motion, select a camera in the Layers list or Timeline, then, in the Camera Inspector,
set the DOF Blur Amount value (in the Depth of Field section) to 0.
Depth of Field controls in Motion
You can modify a camera’s depth of field parameters in the Camera Inspector:
• DOF Blur Amount: A slider to control the maximum amount of blur applied to out-of-
focus objects.
• Focus Offset: A slider to set the distance from the camera where objects are in perfect
focus.
• Near Focus: A slider to set the nearest point of focus, measured in pixels as an offset
from the focal distance.