P: Anamorphic Lens Support (De-squeeze)

10 years and only 26 votes, that's a problem and probably why Adobe isn't considering it. Gotta get more votes. 

Wow. Here we are, 10 years later, and the slider STILL only goes to +/-100. COME ON, ADOBE. You get our money perpetually now. Anamorphic lenses are more available than ever. Don't you think it's time?

Bumping this thread. Anamorphic support needs to happen, it would be such a nice feature, space and time saver! Please implement. The year is 2023!

I'm going to say that this anamorphic function would be extremely useful. The workaround via Photoshop  is not ideal and then I have two files that show up in my library. Even a box where we can type in different squeeze ratios would be sweet. Being able to do any ratio would be ideal. Hope this makes it through! I'd really like to be able to browse these photos desqueezed and without doubles!

This was immensly helpful. 

However, on OS X the new file isn't readable by Lightroom. It seems to think the file is broken, and thus can't be edited. 

As a workaround, I import it into bridge or photoshop which CAN read it, and then save the DNG again in Camera Raw. This DNG is them readbale by lightroom without issues. 

Obviously this is far from ideal. 

I'm quite new with this "exiftool", especially on Mac OS. Would you please advise about how to desqueeze anamorphic photos with this tool on Mac.

Thank you in advance for your help.

i was wondering if there is any way to have that little feature in Lightoom classic, taking anamorphic photos in photoshop limit me to procede with all the changes i want to do directly in lightroom and it's very uncomfortable, any plugins either? 

thanks

I much appreciate the workaround tip. I think you hit the nail on the head by calling it the Pixel Aspect Ratio, because that's really what it is. Used to deal with that all the time when working with standard-definition video's .9 pixel aspect ratios in Premiere and After Effects. Hopefully Adobe adds similar functionality so we I can keep my .r3d files in their native format without converting to DNG or making new files in a roundabout trip to Photoshop.

After some searching I found a good workaround for this:

I only tried it on Windows, but you should be able to do it in a similiar fashion on Mac:

1. Download exiftool (https://exiftool.org/)

2. On Windows you have to extract it, rename the .exe to "exiftool.exe" and place it in  "C:/Windows"

3. Import your anamorphic images to lightroom as "DNG" (!important!).

4. Open the folder with your images and create a new textfile.

5. Paste this in the new textfile:

for %%f in (*.*) do exiftool -DefaultScale="1.33 1.0" -overwrite_original %%f

This command will change the pixel aspect ratio of all images in the folder it is executed in. In this example 1.33x was used, if you have another aspect ratio you can change it.
For example for 2x change it to -DefaultScale="1.33 1.0" ot -DefaultScale="2.0 1.0"

6. Change the file ending of the textfile to ".bat", for example "desqueeze.bat".

7. Execute the batfile in the folder with your images.

8. Restart Lightroom and your images should appear in the correct aspect ratio. At least in the Develop-Tab, for some reasen they are shown in the original aspect ratio in the library.

You can use the .bat file in any folder you want so you can save it for later

Would love to see this feature aswell