Working with 360 VR Video - Looking to Export a Flat Perspective

[JCrossonNYC]

Hi - I am asking this within the Premier Elements community because this is the software I  currently have. However, if the below is not possible with Premier Elements I am wondering if any other tool will do - Whether it be Premier Rush, Premier Pro, or even an Adobe alternative like Cyberlink Power Director.

What I would like to do is effectively crop a 360 / VR video to capture just one perspective from the camera, and export that as a distinct video.

During a party I had the 360 device (Nikon KeyMission 360) on a bookshelf. I do not need the picture of the books behind the camera. I was using the device more just to capture the party and less for action/movement. So what I'd like to do is effectively edit the video to just be a  plain old 2D video.

When I open the video in Premier Elements, it does not render it in 3D (obviously), but the issue is that the parts of the image I want are split on either side of the frame. Further, Premier Elements doesn't change the perspective at all so there would be some distortion.

I could open this video and play it in Windows 10 without any additional software. I'm wondering if I could effectively take the perspective that I would be watching through Windows and output it to a distinct video file.

I hope this makes sense. Please let me know if this is possible with any software. Premier Pro is quite expensive so I would be a little discouraged if it's only possible with that software.

[Bill Sprague]

With luck, I will be wrong.  But, I've never seen Premiere Elements promoted for 360 VR, seen examples of people using it for editing 360 VR nor could I find a Premiere Elements hit with a google search for "how to edit vr 360 video",

[JCrossonNYC]

Any update on this? I've scoured the internet and can find plenty of people with a similar need but no responses on how to achieve this. I've looked at Premier Pro, Premier Rush, Photoshop, and Premier Elements and while I can render the video with 3D perspective and find the view that I want to export, I am not able to find a way to achieve a regular flat video from this.

This is akin to cropping the 360 video correct? Certainly there must be some way to do this?

[JCrossonNYC]

Here is the video as it renders with a "flat" perspective

I want to get rid of the curtain in the background and instead render the video only from this perspective:

Any assistance on how to achieve this would be greatly appreciated.

[Steve Grisetti]

This is not a feature of Premiere Elements.

If you want to work with 360 video and/or output it as standard video, you should look into the comparably priced CyberLink PowerDirector Ultimate.

[JCrossonNYC]

Thanks Steve. Do you happen to know if this can be done with Premier Pro?

[Steve Grisetti]

I think so.