Distort In the S_Distort Plugin. Warps the source input clip using the gradient of the Lens input clip. This can generate optical glass-like effects as if the source clip were being viewed through an arbitrarily shaped lens. It is best demonstrated when the lens image contains just a few bold shapes or a simple texture. Inputs: Source:  The clip to be processed. Lens:  Distorts the source using the brightness values of this input clip.

Parameters:

Amount:   Default: 1,  Range: any,  Shared.
The severity of the lens distortions. Make negative to invert the direction of the distortions.

Blur Lens:   Default: 0.5,  Range: 0 or greater,  Shared.
Smooths out the edges in the lens image by this amount before using it.

Rotate Warp Dir:   Default: 0,  Range: any,  Shared.
Rotates the warping direction by this many degrees. If non-zero, this can add some unusual twisting effects to the lens distortion.

Wrap:   X & Y,  Popup menu,  Default: [REFLECT REFLECT].
Determines the method for accessing outside the borders of the source image.

NO:  gives black beyond the borders.

TILE:  repeats a copy of the image.

REFLECT:  repeats a mirrored copy. Edges are often less visible with this method.

Amount Rel:   X & Y,   Default: [1 1],  Range: any,  Shared.
The relative amounts of horizontal and vertical distortion. This has no effect unless Amount is positive.

Filter:   Check-box,  Default: on,  Shared.
If enabled, the image is adaptively filtered when it is resampled. This gives a better quality result when parts of the image are warped smaller.

See Also:

DistortBlur DistortChroma DistortRGB DistortFine

DistortMask

EmbossDistort WarpFishEye

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