Movie lens correction software for windows XP (or any other OS)?

As I’ve said before, I run XP for specific apps (PCB design etc).

I could build yet another PC but can’t be bothered to waste my life on yet more IT stuff. Another day

All the products I have thus far found need either a later OS or winXP 64-bit.

Boris FX and Prodad Mercalli are two such examples.

The thing is that this stuff does exist – because people have been doing this job for ages. It could be some old version of the above programs. But the companies refuse to discuss (or sell me) old versions. I need to do more googling and maybe look around the torrent sites

One solution, which is crude but works, is to export the movie to jpegs, and run a batch process in photoshop to do the correction, then re-create a movie from the jpegs. The ETE for that would however be measured in days

This might do it, with a substantial learning curve.

But the G/A environment is famous for sticking to old traditions

Let me explain…

I have at least four old apps which I can’t replace. Well, I can replace the PCB one for about 5000-10000 quid (Altium, I believe; we had the salesman onto us recently, gradually coming down from the initial 20000 price ) but that will PROB99 not import the current designs (Protel PCB 2.8) correctly. Then you get onto Orcad SDT/386 whose original win3.1 successor would already not import the SDT designs! The salesman’s answer? “You have to break some eggs to make an omelette”. IOW, f++k the customer. SDT/386 runs perfectly under XP, with a GUI driver, 1024×768 or more.

I don’t do Xilinx design work anymore, thank god, but that would have been another case, though from what Alioth says a VM works for that.

The result of “moving forward” is that one needs to maintain an old PC sitting in the corner, which gets powered up a few times a year, and you know what happens then… one day you find it is dead.

myself had a virtualised Win-XP until it refused to boot for some uncouth reason

Exactly…

Anyway, and I know you wanted to know this I have just bought (Ebay) a GA-EX58-UD5 motherboard, with an i7 970 3.2 GHz Socket 1366 CPU – the most powerful setup for winXP (yes there are XP drivers for the whole chipset) and pretty well everything after that, and I will go from there. Do a XP/7 dual boot and see what works.

Altium might (it is an incarnation of Protel) but I doubt it will actually work on designs done in Protel PCB 2.8 (1995). The others are unlikely to have a fully (or even partly) functioning Protel PCB 2.x import.

Win10 is itself a problem with old win16 software, and AFAIK any 64-bit OS won’t run any of it, except in a VM.

Regarding the original topic, Avisynth might do the job and might be a good solution regardless of the OS used – because the camera and lens (the under-wing Sony camera) are always the same in this case, so a text script driven processor is a good way to do it. It’s just a pity it isn’t a plug-in for Vegas because then one would avoid the intermediate step.

This kind of stuff is probably what drives 4k recording (rather than 1080P) because you can throw away a load of the image and still end up with a decent 1080 image, but then you get

• no motion stabilisation in any current “action camera”, or any current smartphone for that matter
• massive files (100mbits/sec base data rate)
• need absolutely top-end SD cards and even then most of them don’t work (the action cam forums are full of complaints) because the action cams have crappy buffering
• rendering takes 4x longer e.g. 20hrs for a 15 minute finished movie, quad core 3GHz i7 CPU
• only a silly-money video card will play the stuff on a (top-end) PC
• when you upload to Vimeo, instead of throwing away 80% of the quality, it throws away 95%
• self hosting the huge files is even less practical than with 1080P
• forget the typical 50GB/month UK ADSL allowance