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jacobm73261612
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July 25, 2021
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VR180 animation/compositing in After Effects

  • July 25, 2021
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I rendereed out a side by side stereoscopic 3D 180 animation in Cinema 4D. I brought the render into After Effects and want to composite some elements onto to the animation. I've tried the VR Comp tool and VR Converter tool, but both seem to be created for 360 footage, not 3D VR180 videos. Has anyone figured out a way to composite graphics onto a VR180 video? Or creating a VR180 animation from scratch in AE?

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    ShiveringCactus
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    ShiveringCactusCommunity Expert
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    July 25, 2021

    Unfortunately, I think you're right.  Adobe's VR solution is based on Mettle's plugins (https://www.mettle.com/) but I've just checked on their website and there's nothing about importing VR180 either.

    ShiveringCactus
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    ShiveringCactusCommunity Expert
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    July 25, 2021

    Can you post a screenshot of the rendered c4d footage, I think it might help here.

     

    You're saying you've got a field of view that's 180o and want to add in elements via AE.  Have you taken a look at this help guide page: https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/vr-effects.html

    I think you probably want the VR Converter effect applied to your rendered footage.

    Alternatively, because AE can render C4D files directly in a comp, have you tried using the 3D file to add the elements to, before rendering?

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    jacobm73261612Author
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    July 25, 2021

     Here is a screenshot of the C4D render. While I made it in C4D, the camera is a Redshift camera where I can use stereoscopic camera with 180 horizontal field of view.

     

    VR180 is a very video format Google created a few years ago and is a popular format to view content in a VR headset because of the 3D effect and twice as much resolution as a 360 video. I've noticed that AE has created several VR plug-ins (vr blur, vr sharpen, etc) that support both 360 and 180 videos, but their VR tools for compositing seem to only support 360. 

    Essentially, I want to view the video in AE in a non-skewed way so I can composite some 2D elements such as a layer of fog and dust elements. And then I would need to render the final file out of AE, but would need my Comp camera to be stereoscopic 3D with a FOV of 180. All of the official Adobe tutorials only show 360 footage.

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