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Building perspective distortion
Is there such thing as a “fix Keystone Distortion” (used in Photoshop) to straighten the conical buildings wide angle shots taken from the floor?
FCPX?, Motion 5?, a Plugin?
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Not sure about keystoning in particular, but look at the Andy Mees, Dashwood Editor Essentials and Ripple Tools plug-ins at Noise Industries (FxFactory). There are 3D DVE, warp and horizon correction tools.
Oliver
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Why not simply try using the Distort Transform built into FCP X?
It’s not as much of a fun toy to use as some dedicated plug-in might be but there’s not reason you can’t use it to apply keystoning pretty successfully.
it won’t correct lens distortion of course but then that’s not what you were asking.
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Duh! Of course.
Oliver
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Also Carlo,
The next time you’re in a similar shooting situation consider that the original purpose of the “tilt-shift” lens was to correct for precisely this problem. So with a modest rental fee, you can often come away with a shot that doesn’t NEED any perspective correction in post.
(this was kinda the purpose of the tilt-shift lens before hipster videographers discovered they could also use them to make real life regular scenes look like stop-motion animation miniature shoots!)
Perfect for locked-down establishing shots – not so much for pans or tilts.
FWIW.
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[Bill Davis] “The next time you’re in a similar shooting situation consider that the original purpose of the “tilt-shift” lens was to correct for precisely this problem. So with a modest rental fee, you can often come away with a shot that doesn’t NEED any perspective correction in post.”
Hindsight is a great thing Bill, always annoying because it’s always right.
I can’t imagine what it must be like to be dealing with footage that does not need correction of some kind.
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[Mark Dobson] “I can’t imagine what it must be like to be dealing with footage that does not need correction of some kind.”
And my hope is that by writing stuff like this – and trying to help address a problem that one person has confronted, perhaps someone who stops by here to read this thread thinks to themselves – “HEY, I have a shoot just like that coming up! Maybe a tilt-shift lens is something I should look into.”
My intent was not to diss what you did – but rather to point out another way to do it in public for everyone to note. Sorry if I worded it poorly. But I didn’t note in your OP anything like. “I should have taken a tilt-shift” or anything else that would clue me that you were aware of the option.
And I couldn’t see any reason to assume that most readers here were aware of the option either.
Simple as that.
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Of course, the tilt and shift lens is the solution, if you have interchangeable lens on your camcorder…..
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If you got4k or 5k clips and you will end up to 2k, it is the obvious solution because the image must be cropped in any way
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So how come no one’s making a video camera with a bellows? :>)
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