Camera Raw - How to Export 360º photo

[patrickh27764550]

I have an Insta 360 One RS 360º camera.  It shoots in DNG format as a dual image image (one image for each camera).  I can use Insta's software to convert the original into a true 360º image as a DNG, however Insta's software doesn't support any of the Camera Raw Settings.

So, I thern import the 360º DNG into Camera Raw, and edit it, however I can't figure out how to export it from there.  Using ACR's settiings, it exports the image as a flattened image.

So, I tried taking the edited DNG back into Insta's software for export, however none of the changes made in Camera Raw hold.

Any ideas as to how to handle this?  Does Camera Raw have a 360º export mode that I'm missing?

[Sean McCormack]

When you save the Camera Raw settings back to the DNG, this information is still only useable in Adobe products because it needs the Camera Raw engine to apply them. The only way to have the setting apply is to create a rendered file. I've tried viewing the JPG created in Insta360 from an X3, and it just shows as a dual image. This leads me to believe that there's no current workflow for this. Would using the Premiere Plugin allow the rendering appear there? You may be able to pull frames from that. 

[patrickh27764550 · Accepted solution]

I got it to work.  The steps are:

1. Open the original dual image DNG file in Insta360 and export it as a 360º DNG. Note:  Don't change the file name of the original file before doing this, since there is a sidecar file that the Insta 360app reads as well.  Of course the exported file can have a unique name.

2. Open in Camera Raw, make yopur edits, and export as a JPG.  I used the default export settings.

3. Open the JPG in a 360º viewing app.

My mistake was trying to open the 360º DNG in the 360º viewing app.

[Sean McCormack]

That's cool. I was just getting the standard dual image when saving to JPEG. Your desire to have it as the edited version in any 360º from wasn't clear to me. My bad. This is great though and I'll use it myself. 

[ksfotos]

Same problem here, i will try it later, was already freaking out 😉