magnify(Zoom) and refocus

[AlienBeans]

Anbody know of a sottware app. that can magnify an image or zoom in on a point in the image andrefocus it where its viewable?? I've been looking for a while with no luck. I would imagine something like photoshop would do it, perhaps using an addin filter, but i wouldn't know how to begin doing something like that I have a still image as well as video that i want to zoom in on and refocus. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[Guiboche]

You mean like this:



That can be done in After Effects. Use the effect called "Magnify."

[Midzuki]

Or perhaps this?

http://avisynth.org/vcmohan/EffectsMany/EffectLens.html

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[AlienBeans]

You mean like this:



That can be done in After Effects. Use the effect called "Magnify."

yes, except the image i apply this too is pixelated too much and therefore not in focus. I need it to be able to refocus the picture as much as possible. What i've got is a screen capture from TV that i want to enlarge/magnify a certain part of it to see some detail that isn't very clear on the video footage.

[Guiboche]

People watch too much CSI (hehe, sorry, that wasn't a shot at you

But you can't refocus, or enhance an image anymore then what is available in it's original resolution. Sure, you can scale that image up, but you're just scaling up the bad pixels.

This magical program that turns big huge blocks into perfect resolution only exists in spy-fi TV shows and movies

[Noahtuck]

I was gonna post earlier that he better get ahold of the CSI guys but i thought i'd leave it alone 8)
But seeing as you broke the ground first :P

[AlienBeans]

People watch too much CSI (hehe, sorry, that wasn't a shot at you

But you can't refocus, or enhance an image anymore then what is available in it's original resolution. Sure, you can scale that image up, but you're just scaling up the bad pixels.

This magical program that turns big huge blocks into perfect resolution only exists in spy-fi TV shows and movies

yeah, i figured that would come up eventually. lol. tv screws up everything doesn't it??? LOL

[lordsmurf]

Well, some things are possible, some are not. You won't be doing it with at-home software, that's for sure. A lot of this requires specialized custom-written code for each case. CSI tv shows use Photoshop and similar software with the menus jumbled and software interface obscured. It's largely fiction.

However, look at what Interpol recently spent months doing:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21190969/

If I ever decided to change careers, this would probably be my line of work.

[jagabo]

Start with a hi-res image. Make a low res copy. Zoom in on the low res copy, then crossfade to the same crop from the hi-res image.

Or if you can shoot again, shoot a wide angle shot. Shoot again with zoom. Start with the wide angle shot in your editor. Zoom into it. Crossfade to the zoomed in clip. Of course, if you can shoot again you can just zoom and manual focus.

[KBeee]

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[KBeee]

Well, some things are possible, some are not. You won't be doing it with at-home software, that's for sure. A lot of this requires specialized custom-written code for each case. CSI tv shows use Photoshop and similar software with the menus jumbled and software interface obscured. It's largely fiction.

However, look at what Interpol recently spent months doing:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21190969/

If I ever decided to change careers, this would probably be my line of work.

And that pervert has now been caught!

[jagabo]

look at what Interpol recently spent months doing:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21190969/

What's amazing about that is that it took them months. A whirlpool distortion is a simple transformation -- and hence can be easily undone. All they had to do was get the center, the diameter, and the degrees of ratation.

Original, rotated counterclockwise 550 degrees, then rotated clockwise 550 degrees: