Does anyone know if its possible and if so how to recreate the Smilebox effect to a letterbox image in something like Premiere.

Would like to add this effect to the whole film of It’s a Mad Mad Mad World, like the trailer for it on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu98eVgF77c

Thanks in advance.

You could comp it out of now the west was won for the bars, but the warping it would be a nightmare

(2025-02-16, 12:36 AM)dvdmike Wrote: You could comp it out of now the west was won for the bars, but the warping it would be a nightmare

Yea, all options I’ve tried so far give fisheye effect, not like that trailer. Read somewhere else debarrel in avisynth can be used but not clued up on that program. Surprised no one has created a software to replicate this.

I thought How the West Was Won and The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm were the only two films in this format that needed it.
Was ...Mad World actually that format or just very wide?

I'm wondering if a 3D conversion (but in 2D) might work.

Filmed in Ultra Panavision 70 and presented in Cinerama, roadshow versions, (becoming one of the early single-camera Cinerama features produced) so just very wide (2.76:1). No three strip process.

https://incinerama.com/iammmmw.htm

The Smilebox effect actually enhances it based on that trailer and so would love to have it recreated for the whole film if anyone knows how to do it.

Maybe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWph4_1XgkU

(2025-02-21, 10:29 PM)Doctor M Wrote: Maybe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWph4_1XgkU

Think that makes everything look fisheye though. Not straight lines like the trailer, am I correct.

Watching the trailer in the OP near the end where the names scroll up you can see the they start out curved, straighten out at the centre then curve again, this is known as pincushion distortion, it's the opposite of fisheye distortion. In this case the pincushion is only occuring horizontally.

If your editing software is capable of fisheye distortion it should be able to apply pincushion, probably as a negative value. But only apply it to the one axis

Tried that with lens distortion and negative value horizontally but it removes to much of the sides to achieve the effect. Theres got to be another way which only stretches the sides of the picture without removing picture info.

Any more ideas.

Can't you zoom out the frame to recover the sides?

If you get a hold of the same trailer but without the distortion, you should be able to interpolate how it is being distorted.