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Keystoning (Leaning Buildings) Help Needed.
OffTheMark [Avatar]
Member Joined: Jun 12, 2016 10:39 Messages: 114 Offline
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Is there any automatic (or manual but easy) way to correct keystoning? (Where buildings look to be leaning backwards?)

I shoot architecture so having vertical lines be straigh up and down is really hard to do with a gimbal and a wide angle lens.

I have tried the designer and I see that in each corner of the frame is a blue square. I first turn OFF the maintain aspect ratio button. Then I try to SLIGHTLY adjust the position of the blue square so the verticals become straight up and down.

But...

PowerDirector won't let me move the blue squares A LITTLE BIT. It is like it has a "snap to" or a "magnetic" feature where it either doesn't move OR it moves further than I want it to.

Am I missing something? I just want to make the scale of the top of the shot a bit wider than toward the bottom of the shot. But I can't seem to make subtle changes.

Thanks in advance.
ynotfish
Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline
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Hi Mark -

The simplest thing you can do is apply a lens correction profile.

Select the clip > Fix/Enhance > Lens Correction - then choose a profile for your camera/lens. The example in the attached screenshot doesn't have the correct profile applied (there wasn't one available).

You can download extra profiles from <a>http://directorzone.cyberlink.com/pdr/lens</a>

On the "blue squares", at the bottom right of the preview pane in PiP Designer, uncheck "Snap to Reference Lines" (if it's checked).

Cheers - Tony
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BarryTheCrab
Senior Contributor Location: USA Joined: Nov 06, 2008 22:18 Messages: 6240 Offline
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I spent so much time on this darn screencap I just HAD to upload it.
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Richmond Dan
Senior Contributor Location: Richmond, VA Joined: Aug 07, 2014 17:17 Messages: 673 Offline
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Quote I spent so much time on this darn screencap I just HAD to upload it.




That's worth at least a thousand words...thanks! Regards,
Dan
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I already tried what Barry showed in his screenshot. Move the lower blue square inward and then expand the clip in PiP designer worked just fine.
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