by Pidgeon Tools·Color Grading
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Sac stands out in the superhive library for consolidating color grading, camera controls, lens and render settings, and photographic bokeh into one Blender addon. Worth knowing before you commit: the developer has stated it will not be updated and points to a successor product.
Super Advanced Camera (Sac) is a Blender addon from Pidgeon Tools that groups color, camera and compositor effects together. You bring it into a scene with the "Initialize Super Advanced Camera" action, then pick the camera you want to edit from a list of cameras in your scene. It offers extensive color-grading settings, layered effects and real-time changes in the viewport, and it is compatible with all Pidgeon Tools addons as well as render farms.
On the camera side, a render settings panel collects commonly used options such as resolution (width, height and scale), frame range (start, end and step), FPS and a Time Stretching feature with presets for remapping frames. Lens settings cover tilt shift for a miniature look, focal length, field of view and minimum and maximum visible distance. The bokeh feature, built with 84 bokeh images captured on real cameras through a collaboration with Prof. Dr. Matt Gunn, offers Camera, Procedural and Custom options, plus focus object, focus distance and F-Stop controls.
Note that the developer has stated this addon will not be updated and points users to a successor product on their Blendermarket page.
Super Advanced Camera (Sac) is best for blender artists handling color grading, camera and lens setup, render settings and compositor effects in one addon.
Super Advanced Camera (Sac) is completely free to download and use.
Super Advanced Camera is brought into a scene using the "Initialize Super Advanced Camera" action, which adds it to your current Blender scene. Once it is running, the addon reports its status in the "Info" panel, so you can confirm it is active before you start working. From there you select the camera you want to edit by picking it from a list of cameras in your scene, then move on to the render, lens, bokeh and color-grading controls the addon provides.
Super Advanced Camera is compatible with render farms, so it fits into setups that render across distributed machines rather than only on a single workstation. It is also compatible with all Pidgeon Tools addons, letting it sit alongside the developer's other tools in the same Blender project. Beyond that, the changes you make appear in real time in the viewport, and effects are layered, so you can build up your color, camera and compositor adjustments as you work.
Super Advanced Camera provides three bokeh options. The Camera option is the most realistic, drawing on 84 bokeh images captured with real cameras through a collaboration with Prof. Dr. Matt Gunn, with information about the lens each was captured with included. The Procedural option offers something simpler when realism is not the goal, and the Custom option lets you supply your own bokeh. You set what the camera focuses on with a focus object or a manual focus distance, and adjust the aperture using F-Stops to control the blur.
Super Advanced Camera is no longer being updated, according to its developer Pidgeon Tools, who point users to a successor available on their Blendermarket page. If you rely on the tool for ongoing projects, that is worth knowing before you commit to it. The existing feature set still covers color grading, camera controls, lens settings, render settings and bokeh, but new work is directed toward the successor rather than this addon.
Super Advanced Camera is listed as free in this catalog. For current licensing terms, and because the developer has noted this addon will not be updated, it is best to check Pidgeon Tools' own page and the successor product they link to there. The addon covers color grading, camera and compositor effects, render and lens settings, Time Stretching and bokeh, so it is worth confirming what is included before you download it.
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