Metahumans in background become blurry blobs. What am I doing wrong?

Hi, I am trying to render a cinematic in 5.6 where there is one metahuman in the foreground and 2 in the background. Instead of rendering the background metahumans in a way consistent with the DOF settings, they render as blurred, non-rendered objects (except for the hair–which renders in focus). I forced the LOD to 0 on the background metahumans, but it’s not fixing anything. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

So, the fix was 1) remove all exposure settings in the camera and the post process 2) Increase the aperture setting 3) Force groom LOD to 0 4) Set all the hair and eyebrows on background metahumans to cards. It was probably obvious to people with more experiences, but there it is.

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