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hixster · Joined: 09 Jul 2010 Posts: 3

Hello, first post here so here goes:

I've shot a lens grid and successfully centred and calculated the distortion for the lens used for our show.

From the tutorial its unclear how I then save this information as a preset for use in subsequent tracks. Could someone point me to some additional tutorials or documentation to achieve this.

I did try using the preset manager, but once I start a new track my preset with the lens information I saved is no longer available.

Kind regards and many thanks

hixster · Joined: 09 Jul 2010 Posts: 3

** bump ** anyone?

GraphicsKid · Joined: 25 May 2009 Posts: 481

Isn't it just one number? Confused

hixster · Joined: 09 Jul 2010 Posts: 3

HI graphics kid,

er, no , There's horizontal and vertical centering, distortion and cubic distortion.

It just seems that if you invest time shooting a lens grid and spending the time laying out lines to calculate the lens distortion, you'd then want to be able to apply those settings to your footage.

LFGabel · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 3:43 pm Post subject:

You are not alone. This has never worked for me either.

It's a shame really, as it would be a real time saver.

LFGabel · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 5:02 pm Post subject: Presets are not permanent.

Just got an answer from Russ via email:

"Keep in mind that it stores presets in the current scene file, they are not permanent --- they are intended to switch back and forth between raw and lens-corrected versions of the same scene, or draft vs final. If you want to have more permanent libraries for some reason, you need to either reuse a base scene file, or use a small script to read-write the settings you are interested in --- there are some scripts like that for stereo."

It appears we were using them in a way they were not designed for.