SpeedSix Software Limited

LENZ is a powerful collection of lens tools comprising five separate plug-ins which correct (or add) lens distortion and simulate lens flares, crash zoom and rack defocus effects. Together they provide the core toolset for most lens related tasks. Download Brochure (116k PDF)

LENSCORRECT

LensCorrect is used to correct for or add both symmetric (radial) and asymmetric (x and y curvature) lens distortions.

Features include:

Automatically correct radial distortion, including edge distortion by simply defining features in the input image that should be straight lines
Manual controls for correcting or adding radial distortion, asymmetric distortion and squeeze
Easily re-apply removed distortion - this allows footage to be corrected for compositing with other footage or CG elements, and then be re-distorted back to the original clip

LENSFLARE

Lensflare is a sophisticated light effects generator, which can create custom lens flares and a whole range of other lighting effects.

Features include:

Combine multiple lens primitives such as flares, glows, rings and aperture reflections each with separate parameter controls
Use an obscuration clip to automatically control light brightness
Automatically track a light source in the input clip, or use a separate tracking clip to improve tracking accuracy

FLARE

Flare is a more simple flare generator that can be used to create multiple flares and glints from an input light map. This complements Lensflare, which is used to create far more tailored individual effects.

CRASHZOOM

CrashZoom emulates the effect of holding the shutter open in a camera with a zoom lens while swiftly changing the focal length of the lens. Similar effects would happen if a camera were dollied very quickly towards a target. Might also be called convergence blur.

RACKDEFOCUS

Rackdefocus produces a realistic defocus effect with bright source and aperture shape simulation.