BlurEngine

About this plugin

Apply BlurEngine to a layer from Effect > ECScripts and choose a Blur Type: Gaussian, Box, Camera Lens, Radial, Vector or Motion. Gaussian Blur softens the layer by its Blurriness, both ways or only horizontally or vertically, and Repeat Edge Pixels keeps its edges from fading out. Box Blur averages it over a Blur Radius, and more Iterations make it smoother. Camera Lens Blur blurs like a real lens: the iris is a triangle up to a decagon, with Roundness, Aspect Ratio, Rotation and a Diffraction Fringe, and Highlight's Gain, Threshold and Saturation make bright lights bloom into bokeh. A Blur Map from another layer, by its luminance or one channel, sets how far each part of the picture is from the focus, and Blur Focal Distance picks what stays sharp. Radial Blur spins the layer around a Center or zooms it out from one. Vector Blur smears the layer along the shapes of a Vector Map, read from its red, green, blue, alpha, luminance, lightness, hue or saturation, in five ways: Natural, Constant Length, Perpendicular, Direction Center and Direction Fading. Motion Blur blurs in one Direction by a Blur Length, or, as Tracked Motion Blur, follows how the footage itself moves from the previous and next frames and blurs every pixel along its own motion, with a Foreground Matte, and can show the motion vectors it found. With Use "Linear" Working Space, Gaussian and Camera Lens Blur blur in linear light, so bright lights spread the way real light does. BlurEngine renders on the GPU with CUDA or OpenCL on Windows and on all CPU cores on a Mac, with Multi-Frame Rendering. Free, for After Effects 2023 (23.4) or later on Windows 10 or 11 and macOS 11 or later, on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs: unzip it, copy the plug-in into a folder named ECScripts in After Effects' Plug-ins folder and restart After Effects. On a Mac, How to install.txt in the zip shows how to let macOS load it first.

What it does

• Six blurs in one effect: Gaussian, Box, Camera Lens, Radial, Vector and Motion
• Gaussian Blur by Blurriness, both ways or only horizontally or vertically, with Repeat Edge Pixels
• Box Blur over a Blur Radius, smoother with more Iterations
• Camera Lens Blur with an iris from a triangle to a decagon: Roundness, Aspect Ratio, Rotation and Diffraction Fringe
• Highlights that bloom into bokeh, with Gain, Threshold and Saturation
• A Blur Map from any layer for depth of field: its luminance or one channel, with Blur Focal Distance and Invert Blur Map
• Radial Blur that spins around a center or zooms out from it, with Low or High antialiasing
• Vector Blur along a map's red, green, blue, alpha, luminance, lightness, hue or saturation
• Five vector types: Natural, Constant Length, Perpendicular, Direction Center and Direction Fading, with Angle Offset, Ridge Smoothness and Map Softness
• Directional motion blur by a Direction and a Blur Length
• Tracked Motion Blur from the footage's own motion, with Motion Sensitivity, Vector Detail, a Foreground Matte and a view of the motion vectors
• Linear light for Gaussian and Camera Lens Blur, so bright lights spread like real light
• GPU rendering with CUDA or OpenCL on Windows, all CPU cores on a Mac, and Multi-Frame Rendering
• One download for Windows and one for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs