A Beginner's Guide to Shooting and Editing 360º Video Content
Recently, I've had the unique opportunity to work on 360º Video Content for Universal. At the time, there weren't any other production companies shoot and editing this kind of work, so we had a chance to learn every aspect of the process from scratch. Here are a few of the key things to think about when planning, shooting and editing 360 Video content.
Pre-Pro
1. The Camera
Go Pros
2. The Software
Production
3. Find your mount
Tripod works
Rigging expert for coasters
Helmet Camera (Normal eight-inch thread)
4. Use the remote
Helps immensely with Go-Pro Sync
Post
5. Prepare your files
Make sure GoPros are individual files
Concatenate if cut into multi clips using MPEG Streamclip
6. Synchronize
APV has tool, but it sometimes fails
Manually sync using Premiere pro
7. Stitch
Motion Analysis
RMS Analysis
Optimize
Blend types
8. Export
9. Composite
Skybox
10. Metadata Tag
360 Meta
