Lens Workflow #2 Tutorial: Distorted 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 second workflow. For the first, see the first tutorial

Notes:

  1. Note that if you have multiple layers of CGI to composite, you will re-run the re-distorting pass separately for each element to be composited.
  2. 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.
  3. Tutorial is 5:49 and 9 MB. You can download the mp4 by right-clicking this link: Lens2Flow.mp4
  4. SAME SOURCE as #1 tutorial: 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.