Wednesday, 20 January 2010

IDAT211 - Fisheye lense

To make my video work inside the IVT Dome i have to use something called a fish-eye lense.

The standard way to do this is to apply a special lense onto your camera whilst your filming.
http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2006/07/fisheye.jpg

However if you do not have a special lense or you need to convert something that is not filmed, such as a animation then you have to find a plug-in/converter for a program.


http://static.photo.net/attachments/bboard/00N/00NJjB-39796084.jpg

The main program i am using is Adobe After Effects so i needed to find a plug-in for this program. Luckily i was given a plug-in by one of my course mates called "fulldome". This creates the effect of a fish-eye lense.