Ut's a great technic, but it's stabilizing and not tracking necessarily. Tracking is also tracking the camera movement and creating a 3D camera from it for compositing. Just a different term. But great technic for sure
Hi Gaba, very useful video for me because I use 360 video for my real estate tours. I have just 2 other issues I would like to solve but I can't figure them out: 1- The tracking is great until a client decides to look around and loses the direction of the tour - is there any way to make the video snap back to the keyed direction? 2: I am always in the video if the client turns around 180 degrees - is there any way to restrict the viewers field of view?
Well, it's a little bit complicated, because despite we can keyframe the camera movements to set up the middle points, from the moment when someone starts to look around, we have no control over where the virtual camera is pointing at. So we can set up directions only during cutting, taking care of the action in the middle. Usually I always place the point of interests at the same direction, so it can help the viewers to keep up with the storyline. Or, when I'm virtually going through a certain path, I always take care of directions: for instance, when I see an object in distance, and in the next scene we are getting closer to it, I keep it on the same direction. Or, if you add some voiceover to your videos, it makes things easier, because your audience can hear your instructions, whether they should turn on a certain direction in a certain scene. Or if you want to restrict the field of view, it can also be a possible solution. As long as I know, besides 360 or VR360 videos, RUclips supports VR180 video format. (I guess, there's no simple 180, but maybe I'm wrong.) But creating a fake VR180 video is also a solution. It means, it will be a flat 180 video without any depth. The only thing you need to do is cutting out the half of the 360 space you want to use (you can do it with a mask, but I prefer using a simple cut tool with no feathers, typing in the percentage of cutting, so I I can be sure, that it's exactly 50%), and then duplicate and move the copies to the different sides of the frame. So I will have the same clip twice side-by-side. And then I can export it as a VR180 video, looking like something like this: ruclips.net/video/ishKZqQigoo/видео.html The only difference is that my video is a stereoscopic video, so you can see the depth of it with a headset. But opening it with a simple Google Chrome browser, or with RUclips app on phone, it looks like a simple, flat 180 video, just like yours would look like.🙂
Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation Gaba. I think I'm going to try and incorporate 360 tripod photos into the video to show each room and edit out the tripod while keeping the rest of the tour as video. We'll see how that goes. I saw that you can create a 360 video from a dslr with a fisheye lens using RE:Lens, maybe this is also a solution for me, I have a 5D that would be good for it I think. Have you used RE:Lens for that?
Stephen Elsdon Sounds like a solution, but you can fix nadir and hide objects even in 360 videos, too, using mask layers or dynamic masking methods. Check out these videos, if you haven’t seen them yet: ruclips.net/video/cDSCUfm31tk/видео.html ruclips.net/video/pss5iRQ4Iug/видео.html Using these techniques you can create any masks you need in the 360 space, despite in this case I was focusing on nadirs. For 360 photography I do use DSLRs, but I only shoot with a traditional fisheye lens, mostly with a Samyang 8mm on an APSC sensor body. On full frame you need a 12-14mm lens.
If you like this technique, check out my further 360 photo and video tutorials, too:
ruclips.net/p/PLpuPSHiOTjwMxtUqVa7mUfi3wQKBr8fcH
Ut's a great technic, but it's stabilizing and not tracking necessarily. Tracking is also tracking the camera movement and creating a 3D camera from it for compositing. Just a different term. But great technic for sure
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Hi Gaba, very useful video for me because I use 360 video for my real estate tours. I have just 2 other issues I would like to solve but I can't figure them out: 1- The tracking is great until a client decides to look around and loses the direction of the tour - is there any way to make the video snap back to the keyed direction? 2: I am always in the video if the client turns around 180 degrees - is there any way to restrict the viewers field of view?
Well, it's a little bit complicated, because despite we can keyframe the camera movements to set up the middle points, from the moment when someone starts to look around, we have no control over where the virtual camera is pointing at. So we can set up directions only during cutting, taking care of the action in the middle.
Usually I always place the point of interests at the same direction, so it can help the viewers to keep up with the storyline. Or, when I'm virtually going through a certain path, I always take care of directions: for instance, when I see an object in distance, and in the next scene we are getting closer to it, I keep it on the same direction.
Or, if you add some voiceover to your videos, it makes things easier, because your audience can hear your instructions, whether they should turn on a certain direction in a certain scene.
Or if you want to restrict the field of view, it can also be a possible solution. As long as I know, besides 360 or VR360 videos, RUclips supports VR180 video format. (I guess, there's no simple 180, but maybe I'm wrong.)
But creating a fake VR180 video is also a solution. It means, it will be a flat 180 video without any depth. The only thing you need to do is cutting out the half of the 360 space you want to use (you can do it with a mask, but I prefer using a simple cut tool with no feathers, typing in the percentage of cutting, so I I can be sure, that it's exactly 50%), and then duplicate and move the copies to the different sides of the frame. So I will have the same clip twice side-by-side. And then I can export it as a VR180 video, looking like something like this: ruclips.net/video/ishKZqQigoo/видео.html
The only difference is that my video is a stereoscopic video, so you can see the depth of it with a headset. But opening it with a simple Google Chrome browser, or with RUclips app on phone, it looks like a simple, flat 180 video, just like yours would look like.🙂
Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation Gaba. I think I'm going to try and incorporate 360 tripod photos into the video to show each room and edit out the tripod while keeping the rest of the tour as video. We'll see how that goes. I saw that you can create a 360 video from a dslr with a fisheye lens using RE:Lens, maybe this is also a solution for me, I have a 5D that would be good for it I think. Have you used RE:Lens for that?
Stephen Elsdon Sounds like a solution, but you can fix nadir and hide objects even in 360 videos, too, using mask layers or dynamic masking methods.
Check out these videos, if you haven’t seen them yet:
ruclips.net/video/cDSCUfm31tk/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/pss5iRQ4Iug/видео.html
Using these techniques you can create any masks you need in the 360 space, despite in this case I was focusing on nadirs.
For 360 photography I do use DSLRs, but I only shoot with a traditional fisheye lens, mostly with a Samyang 8mm on an APSC sensor body. On full frame you need a 12-14mm lens.