Leveling a video

Loren C

Member Location: New Hampshire Joined: Jul 08, 2013 19:53 Messages: 86 Offline

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Jan 05, 2014 21:16

I'm using Pwr. Dir. 11 updated to V-3230

A lot of my GoPro Hero 2 videos have a tilted horizon. I know there are ways to level that using Pwr. Dir. "Power Tools"
[Video Crop] or [Video Rotation] but both methods make my videos fuzzy (blury)

I know I can sharpen with "Fix / Enhance" [Color Adjustment] - [Sharpness] but the video still appears fuzzy, blury if I correct for tilting. Sharpen works ok if I don't try to level the video.

Is there a method that allows leveling a tilted video without showing black corners and not bluring the video?

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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Online

Jan 06, 2014 00:21

Hi Loren -

It is sometimes a problem, just as with cropping, because the video needs to be re-sized after rotation to get rid of those black corners. The more it's stretched (or cropped) the more the PQ is diminished.

These posts may help...
https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/30731.page#168687
https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/30720.page#168632

If you can't overcome the blurring issue, you may need to use an overlay/frame (example attached) to mask the black corners rather than resizing.

Cheers - Tony


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Loren C

Member Location: New Hampshire Joined: Jul 08, 2013 19:53 Messages: 86 Offline

Jan 06, 2014 10:10

Quote: Hi Loren -

It is sometimes a problem, just as with cropping, because the video needs to be re-sized after rotation to get rid of those black corners. The more it's stretched (or cropped) the more the PQ is diminished.

These posts may help...
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/30731.page#168687
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/30720.page#168632

If you can't overcome the blurring issue, you may need to use an overlay/frame (example attached) to mask the black corners rather than resizing.

Cheers - Tony

Thanks for the answer. I'll give that a try.

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at Jan 06. 2014 10:11

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