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Fisheye Video Effect

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Warp a clip as if it were shot through a fisheye lens. The center of the frame swells toward the viewer and straight lines bow outward, the look of 1990s skate videos shot on a VX1000 with a fisheye adapter.

Curvature and zoom

Curvature sets the strength of the bulge. Zoom scales the warped picture inside the frame: above 100% it crops in and hides the most stretched edge pixels, below 100% it pulls back and shows more of the curve.

Circular or full frame

With Circular Lens on, everything outside a centered circle is black, like a circular fisheye on a full-frame sensor. With it off, the warp fills the rectangle and reads more like an action camera.

Motion through the lens

A fisheye exaggerates movement near the center, where the image is magnified, and compresses it toward the edges. Footage that moves toward or past the camera gets the strongest effect. A locked-off shot mostly shows bent lines.

Each output pixel is sampled from a computed position in the source frame, so the effect costs about the same on every frame, whatever the content.

Frequently Asked Questions

How far the frame bulges. Low values give a mild wide-angle bend; high values balloon the center and squeeze the edges toward the rim, so straight lines near the border curve strongly.

Circular Lens is on. It crops the result to a round image the way a circular fisheye projects onto a sensor. Turn it off to let the warped picture fill the whole rectangle.

No. It adds barrel distortion; it does not undo it. Correcting an action camera needs the inverse mapping calibrated to that lens.

It is copied into the export unchanged when the container can hold its codec, and re-encoded when it cannot. A note under the export button says which happened.

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