Lens Workflow #1 Tutorial: Undistorted Images Out

There are two main workflows for dealing with lens distortion:

  • Working with, then outputing, undistorted footage
  • Working with padded undistorted footage, then redistorting and compositing back to the original distorted footage

This tutorial shows the first workflow. For the second, see the second tutorial

Notes:

  1. Everything is done and shown real-time on an 8-core (16-thread) 2009 Mac Pro running 64-bit Windows Vista. The process is the same in OSX.
  2. Note that in 2008.1.1024 or earlier, the image preprocessor's Delta zoom value (on the Adjust tab) must be manually reset to 1.0 after changing the images to the undistorted version.
  3. Tutorial is 5:16 and 11 MB. You can download the mp4 by right-clicking this link: Lens1Flow.mp4
  4. Source footage is 50 MB: 1920x1080 HD at 23.976 fps.
  5. All tutorials and images (c)2009 Andersson Technologies LLC, not for re-distribution or usage other than with SynthEyes.