Diopter

NOW Apple Silicon + and MFR ready! A native plugin to create cool optical effects in your videos!

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Description

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Diopter is a native Adobe After Effects plugin which plays with blurs, optical effects, light and more


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Lens

Choose your lens

Pick a shape, place it, transform it, feather it. Import or even create one!
Effects

Blur it up

Choose among several types of blur or optical effects. Try a fast blur with a pinch of realistic one. Add a bit of optical distortion. Well, be creative!
Presets

BAM! Presets!

Find the perfect mix among the many in-built presets or even better… Make your own!


Only for After Effects

Diopter is a plugin which adds optical effects (blur, distortion, coloration) on a layer. Choose a lens shape (a mask) among the in-built shapes or use another layer as Luma Matte. This lens may be transformed.

Apply different effects to the lens: fast blur, realistic blur, directional blur, trail, optical distortion, brightness, color, chromatic aberration.

The overall intensity of the effect can be controlled, it’s also possible to apply a blend mode : Screen, Add, Multiply.

M1+ and MFR now fully supported!

Render Only licenses are available for purchase separately here

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Compatibility

  • After Effects CS6 & up
  • Mac 10.7 & up
  • Windows 7 SP1 & up

Content

  • The Plugin (duh!)
  • 30 HD presets
  • Presets Gallery
  • 17 Video footages
  • 19 Still footages
  • User Guide

More on thewaenderer.com/diopter

Discussions

Want to talk about it?

Head over to r/aescripts to chat with fellow users about this product.

Need Support?

Please open a support ticket to be connected directly with the author of this product

Version History

1.0.6 -

Jul 1, 2025

- Latest version of the aescripts licensing framework (4.1.4 from April 2025, was 4.0.5 from July 2022 before)

- Latest version of the AfterEffects SDK (AE 2025, was AE 2021 before)

- Latest compiler versions: Xcode 16.4 on MacOS, Visual Studio 2022 on Windows

1.0.5 -

Sep 5, 2022

- Added MFR for AE 22 and newer

- Added universal binary for native apple silicon (M1+) support

- License framework improved support for online activation

- License framework better error messaging for online activation issues

1.0.4a -

Feb 17, 2021

- Mac Only Update. Mac version notarized to be compatible with macOS Catalina and above

1.0.4 -

Jun 13, 2020

Updated licensing framework

1.0.3 -

Oct 16, 2019

Mac version updated for OS Catalina

1.0.2 -

Aug 10, 2018

Updated licensing to fix all reported issues.

1.02 -

Aug 2, 2018

Updated to the licensing framework 3.4

1.01 -

Oct 25, 2017

Added support for 16 and 32bpc

1.0 -

Jul 20, 2017

Initial release

Compatibility

After Effects

2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015, CC 2014, CC, CS6