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For Motion Designers and VFX artists using Mac hardware (from the aging Mac Pro towers to the latest M1/M2/M3 Silicon Macs), achieving cinematic focus effects natively within After Effects is often preferable to round-tripping to software like Nuke or DaVinci Resolve. Lenscare bridges this gap, offering high-end optical simulation directly in the timeline. If you are doing simple text blur, skip Lenscare