I thought of that too, but pardon my ignorance: wouldn't that mean...

-- Create .PNG sequence from video.
-- Import all .PNG into PhotoPaint
-- Apply filter one frame/layer at a time (insanely tedious...)
-- Export and import back into Vegas.

Now, one can apply a script to a batch, but the mentioned is plugin (pplenscor.8bf), not a script.
As far as I know, they are not the same thing.

That said, I'm just too inexperienced with this.
Hence why I'd prefer an in-Vegas solution.

Yet open to solution in my PhotoPaint if reasonably feasible.

The "Deform" filter can do lens correction.

wide angle lens, for example, from this:


to this:


may not be perfect (depending on the lens, corners may get "pointy" instead of round) but it does a nice job.

I know nothing about Photo Paint.
If "batch action" or "record macros" are not possible I would not suggest doing it one frame at a time.
The above suggestion of using a deform filter may be better for you.

The script should include applying the FX. Then the batch runs the script for multiple files.

Bob.

edit:
Here you go: http://graphicssoft.about.com/library/extra/blcpp_batch.htm

OK, thanks for further replies.
I'll look at it in both modalities (still and in-Vegas).

And thanks to Bob for the link to that page:

-- That interface looked familiar because it is - it's the window in PhotoPaint for batch processing, albeit an earlier version of PP than mine. So it appears that I can batch script the plugin, so to speak :)

Check out the NewBlueFX Video Essentials II Lens Correction tool which is designed to correct fish eye lenses.

Just for fun, here is an example of posterization done in Photoshop using image sequences out/in of Vegas. I did this a while back.
The process doesn't take a lot of time once the action is set up, and it's kind of fun to watch happening.

There are times when I find a little barrel distortion with very wide angle helps, so don't necessarily remove it all. For instance if you have the camera pointing up to take the facade of a tall building, with barrel distortion mortals standing on the ground are more or less vertical, but with no barrel distortion, they seem to lean in at the edges in an unnatural way. In other words, de-barrel to taste rather than according to simple theory.

Some wide angle lenses also introduce chromatic aberration. If yours has some you might look at utilities to correct that at the same time as you are correcting the barrel distortion.

chromatic aberration also can be fixed in vegas (with no plugins required). a while ago, i posted a way by splitting chanels and resizing.

with grouping, its easy to fix both CA and barrel distortion together.

only need to adjust values for a particular camera/lens

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