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kevinz49575778
kevinz49575778
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June 12, 2017
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180 VR

  • June 12, 2017
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I was thinking this would not be so difficult doing 180 VR with the Samsumg 360 camera. Imported into Premiere Pro and just doing a small text export. Then copied to my phone to test in a player. But the video does not load in the player on iphone. Other VR videos load on my phone.

Do I need a seperate program to inject the metadata after I edit in Premiere or does Adobe premiere inject the metadata?

Also Is there a program to easily test my VR videos once exported by premiere?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Kevin

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      FocusPulling.com
      FocusPulling.com
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      May 18, 2018

      An unfortunate result of this thread is that it can fail to leave the impression that Adobe is 100% silent (not just here at these forums, but everywhere) on this major development in VR.  Supporting VR180 would require very little coding.  Adobe is cynical to not spend the resources on that, if they're waiting for some massive market penetration of the tech before moving an inch into this inevitable feature.

      Warren Heaton
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      Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
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      June 13, 2017

      It should be pretty easy.

      Is the video that you're editing dual 180 (two spheres side by side) or equirectangular (the two spheres flattened out into a rectangle)?

      A tricky thing about VR 360 cameras is that they each have different method of how you get from dual 180 to equirectangular.  Some do it in camera, some do it when you view the movie, some do it through a utility application.  I think the Samsung Gear 360 has a desktop application that you need to download.

      If the video is dual 180, you can still edit it; however, that's not ideal.

      It should be equirectangular so that you can just verify that the VR Video check box is enabled in the Sequence settings and in the Export Settings and get on with your 360 video editing.  My screen shot is of the Export Settings.  With that setting enabled when you export, there's no need to "inject" the video later (it will already be flagged as VR video).

      Here's a great video (if you haven't seen it already) by Jason Lavine that will probably answer a lot of questions that you might be having:

      How to Edit 360/VR Video in Premiere Pro CC 2017 (Monoscopic & Stereoscopic) - YouTube

      You mentioned adding text to the 360 video.  I highly recommend New! SkyBox 360/VR Tools for Premiere Pro | Mettle.  You'll really want to the Project 2D for adding text, logos and other graphics to 360 video.

      -Warren

      kevinz49575778
      kevinz49575778Author
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      June 13, 2017

      Hey there, I am using gear 360 camera. But, I am only using one side to record 180 degrees only. So just the one side. I don’t want to record and have videos showing 360. Just 180.

      In Adobe premiere I don’t see any setting for just 180 degree videos.

      Also do I need to inject any metadata into my videos after I export or does Premiere Pro handle this.

      Thanks

      Kevin

      Warren Heaton
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      Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
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      June 16, 2017

      ok so here is a test video i shot today. this is shot with the samsung gear 360 with just the front lense only.

      SAM 0143 - YouTube

      I does not look like a fisheye video. Looks already flattened. But its straight out of the camera with NO conversion at all.

      Do i still need to convert to equirectangular, if so how can i do this?

      Thank you, Kevin


      Hi Sam:

      What you posted is fish eye.  It's great that you posted it because we can clarify that one, that is fish eye and two, it's not what you're going to need to edit custom 180 VR videos in Premiere Pro.

      I'm guessing you shot this by setting the Gear 360 to only record one side.  That's not what I was suggesting.  You'd want to record the full 360, but cover one of the two lenses so that you're just recording whatever you used to cover that lens.  (It's important to note, I'd opt for covering one of the two 180 spheres after you've shot the footage.)

      I've attached three frame grabs that are stacked in one JPEG file to this post:

      1. Top image: What dual 180 spheres look like.  If your footage looked like this, you could just matte the left or right side.
      2. Middle image: What equirectangular looks like.  This is what's needed for Premiere Pro.
      3. Bottom image:  A frame of your Sam 0143 footage superimposed over my footage.  While just an approximation, it represents what's not there pretty well.

      Hope this helps.

      -Warren

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