

the way a world map represents the spherical Earth). RE:Lens costs $189.95 and can handle rectilinear, equirectangular Stretching a spherical image into a flat, rectangular format. The tool also gives videographers greater flexibility when recording interviews with a 360 camera. It can also animate camera rotations and zooms, create two separate virtual views from a single camera, and convert super fisheye An extreme wide-angle lens, with image distortion occurring at the edges of the frame.

The tool allows you to create arbitrary field-of-views, using pan Set the position in space for where audio appears to originate., scan and rotate, from footage shot with ultra-wide lenses. footage to stabilize and unwrap curved footage. On February 3, RE:Vision Effects announced its new RE:Lens tool for After Effects to stabilize 360 and fisheye An extreme wide-angle lens, with image distortion occurring at the edges of the frame. Mettle is also offering a free upgrade for existing Suite customers to access Transitions 2. Skybox 360/VR Transitions 2 alone costs $149, and the Skybox 360 Suite costs $499. The SkyBox 360 Suite also includes Skybox Post Effects, Skybox Studio V2, Skybox VR Player, and Skybox VR/360 Tools. Skybox 360/VR Transitions 2 is available on its own or as part of the Skybox 360 Suite of cinematic 360/VR production tools. The transitions are easily adjustable and customizable, and include light rays, chroma leaks, light leaks and spherical blurs. More footage on the timeline and are properly distorted to fit the 360 format automatically. The transitions are simply dropped on adjoining clips of equirectangular Stretching a spherical image into a flat, rectangular format. More, mono 2:1 and stereo 1:1 over-under formats. The tool can support equirectangular Stretching a spherical image into a flat, rectangular format. Skybox 360/VR Transitions 2Įarlier this month, Mettle launched Skybox 360/VR Transitions 2, a set of drag-and-drop customizable transitions, for Premiere Pro. Mocha VR is a product of Boris FX, makers of Boris Continuum, Mocha Pro and Sapphire and costs $995 (or $300 for Mocha Pro 5 users). graphics without distortion or seam issues. Its workspace and toolset work for both rectilinear and lat/long views so users can easily track, create effects and insert Close-up shot of an object or detail previously seen in a wider angle.

The plug-in also includes an object removal tool that comes in handy for those shots where you just can’t hide all your camera gear or your entire crew. tools, horizontal stabilization and reorientation, and compositing capabilities for graphics, patches, titles and filters. More, masking Blocking a portion of the image. The plug-in is based on Imagineer’s Academy Award winning planar tracking algorithms and features 360 planar motion tracking A technique for recording the movement of an object within a scene, to hide or paint that object or to affix a composite. More format brings technical challenges to the artists tasked with delivering high quality deliverables.” “However, the equirectangular Stretching a spherical image into a flat, rectangular format.

“Emerging 360°/VR content creators want to produce Hollywood style visuals and use high-end finishing techniques to make their 360° videos more impactful,” says Boris FX Chief Marketing Officer Ross Shain. Thankfully, a variety of software is emerging to give existing videographers a bit of familiarity in a totally unfamiliar (and spherical) work flow, including a new addition to Skybox’s suite of tools, an update for Autopano Video, a new tool from RE:Vision Effects, and the launch of Mocha VR, a 360 visual effects and post-production plug-in made by Boris FX, and the first third-party 360 video tool for Avid–and that’s just in the last two weeks! Editing 360 video is no different the workflow is time consuming, limited, and complicated. There’s no framing and no hiding, and there’s very little you can do to light the scene. Shooting 360 video is an entirely different beast than fixed frame video.
