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berriganator
Inspiring
March 7, 2013
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Lens distortion correction in Premiere CS6?

  • March 7, 2013
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I'm trying to correct the distortion caused by a wide-angle lens in Premiere CS6. From what I can tell, there is no filter or transform / distort feature within Premiere itself. I followed the steps in this tutorial to open the MPEG4 in Photoshop, apply the lens correction filter, and then export the video again to be re-imported to Premiere. http://podcasts.creativecow.net/adobe-premiere-tutorials-podcast/correcting-lens-distortion

However this tutorial is for CS5. I am seeing no adjustment or filter layer in my layers panel, as it appears in the tutorial. When I go to export the video, it seems the Adaptive Wide Angle filter or the Lens Correction filter has only applied to a single frame of the whole clip. Bummer.

Any other suggestions for fixing lens distortion in Premiere?

Thanks!

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Correct answer berriganator

I did wonder why the screen grab came from Photoshop yet you asked your question regarding Premiere.

Not very smart way of asking a question!


Both these replies are a bit rude and unhelpful. I am editing in Premiere, and I am not very familiar with it. The question is about how to fix lens distortion in Premiere. Maybe there's a way to do this that I'm not aware of...? That's why I asked the question! There's nothing about it that I could find in the forums. The only fix I found didn't work—which was to use Photoshop *integrated with Premiere*. And two people tell me to use AEFX without pointing me in any directions of how to do that. Useless.

Anyway, I found some information that *was* helpful. This tutorial demonstrates that one critical step was missing from the prior tutorial, which is to convert the video layer to a smart object before applying the effect:

http://www.protechreviewgroup.com/tutorialsinformation/tutorial-fisheye-correction-in-photoshop-for-gopro-hero-hd/

The same person provided a tutorial on how to do this in AEFX:

http://www.protechreviewgroup.com/tutorialsinformation/tutorial-fisheye-lens-correction-in-after-effects-for-gopro-hero-hd/

Now that these steps are taken, I have to take the footage back into Premiere. It's a workflow question. Other video editing software has this kind of stuff built-in to the effects panel.

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vincenzo108
Participant
April 18, 2016

In Premiere 6 go under Effect, Presets, Lens Distortion Removal, then choose the camera type.

shooternz
shooternz
Legend
March 7, 2013

The minimal amount of distortion I see in that grab could be dealt with by "Corner Pin" Effect or 3D Tilt maybe.

AEFX is a better solution though.

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berriganatorAuthor
Inspiring
March 7, 2013

The image shown is with the effect applied, but as you can see it does not appear in the layers panel. According to the tutorial, however, it should. And I was pretty excited that Photoshop filters could be applied to video.

I'm not familiar with AEFX. I tried opening the clip in AEFX and got an error. Another reason why I was hoping the Photoshop would work. That and the Lens Correction can correct for particular models of DSLR cameras with specific lenses, so it's very fast. I guess I'll go searching now for tutorials on AEFX. But I was hoping to find out how to make Photoshop filters apply to video.

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Noggin Juice
Participant
February 13, 2014

I just wouldn't expect any distortion from a 50mm.  I only see any when I get below about 18mm.

But i do agree it would be if nice video had all the XIF data that we see for stills.


Even just access directly to all the profiles that Lightroom already has bult-in, within Premiere and Prelude even (so you can just do meta data pre-ops). So when you pull your footage into anything else it automatically sets-up any conversions. My other beef it it does not read inside the HBR, *.MTS files properly so Premiere see's them as interlaced when the Panasonic Doc's say the firmware update encodes as 25p Progressive. I think it's the Micro 2/3rd's it x2's ir sees it as more like a 90-100mm with a ton of solid glass it amplifies the subtle asperical nature of it to pull the 1.4. If you saw the actual glass you could see what I mean Jim. I will admit I did get it in a rush a while back for a shoot so only had a an EX DG, hence the standard non digital adapter. It's the fact on footage I'm doing a ton of moment, using a tripod like a budget steadycam, so tons of fast parralax and movement.

All the more fustrating when I used to work for Avid many years ago, before having our third child, being a mum at home for a bit and am merely a skint Ginger trying to do creative stuff now Jim, ADOBE maybe give a job aye please, lol

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excited_Genie16B8
Legend
March 7, 2013

This is probably better done in After Effects.

(Of course, the best solution is not to use a lens that distorts the image unless you want that distortion as an effect.)

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