HOW TO MAKE 360 VIDEOS - DEMYSTIFIED! | Terms, Concepts & Pipeline for CG & Live Action 360/VR

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What's the best 360 camera? How do you add VFX to 360? This is making 360 videos demystified! Get the low down on all things 360. Know a little video, 3D or VFX stuff already? Great! In this episode, we give you a detailed overview of the pipeline to make live-action and CG 360 panoramas from capture to delivery. List of topics covered w/ timestamps listed below the drop. If you found this helpful, drop us a like! Subscribe to stay updated on episode 2 covering stereo 360 degree videos.
- Quick history of panoramas - 01:21
- What is a 360x180 degree panorama? - 02:13
- How is spherical photography done? - 02:28
- Can you make 360 videos with one camera? - 03:31
- How do multi camera arrays work for 360 video? - 04:28
- What's an equirectangular (or lat-long) projection? - 05:14
- How does a 360 video player work? - 06:14
- Design considerations for mono 360 video rigs? - 06:58
- What is genlock / genlocking? - 07:24
- How to sync rolling shutter cameras? - 08:01
- How to render 3D scenes at 360 video? - 08:43
- What is slit-scan rendering? - 08:43
- How can we edit 360 videos? - 09:29
- What is a box or cube map projection? Why is it useful in 360? - 09:53
- How to inject metadata and why do we do it? - 11:06
- Why does the production industry "prefer" mono 360 video? - 11:36
- What'll be in the next episode? - 12:09
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** Got a burning VR or 360 video question? Suggestions or tips? Drop em in the comments below! **
Hopefully this video gave you a bird's eye view of the 360 video production pipeline and demystified some of the general confusion that surrounds 360 video production. Want to learn about something else in 360 or VR production? Tell us! We want to tailor this to the needs of enthusiasts and professionals alike.
Music tracks: Prismatic/Ergo by Birocratic, Gardenas by Vubey, and Youniverse by Fin

[@lavishmittal]

haha that Myst reference! Memories! 👍🏻

[@bilawal]

Thanks for the support guys! Be sure to drop any questions you'd like covered down below. Episode 2 comes out next week!

[@skeptiklive]

Accurate, informative, and well done. I was very surprised to see only 134 subs! Great work!

[@unwin42]

Nicely done! Keep the videos coming, please!

[@prashanths2109]

By far the most easily understandable and detailed explanation about 360° Videos / VR. Kudos.
And that too by an Indian makes it more satisfying and proud.
Keep those pixels rolling. :)

[@CRUNCHfilm]

love this. thank you! Keep making these

[@adolforoman3525]

great overview 101 of VR video possibilities :D thnx!!

[@bilawal]

Thanks! Glad you found it useful. Stay tuned for more VR-centric content :)

[@DanHildebrand91]

Aziz Ansari? I didn't know you did VR!

[@bilawal]

Oh you know, just taking some down time between my successful Netflix series ;)

[@AAa-tn5rz]

For your next tutorial on stereoscopic 360 and spatial audio could you explain what kind of rigs are needed and tutorial on how its done from pre-production to post with short clip. Maybe adding a CG element as a bonus tutorial would be awesome. As a different question, if I only want to shoot the whole sky only in stereo, how do I go about doing it? Rig, lens, etc? Or better to just stick with mono? Thanks

[@bilawal]

Most definitely. We'll cover some stereo 360 rig options along with the workflow in the next episode of Making 360. Will add a stereo workflow and 360-CG integration tutorial videos to the future topics list as well.
To answer your question: Shooting the Sky in stereo is tricky for 2 main reasons 1) since the sky is at such a far distance, there's hardly any perceivable depth 2) if you put a simple 2 cam stereo pair facing upwards, you'll undoubtedly break the stereo as you rotate your head while looking up at the sky. That's why many rigs will just shoot the zenith (sky) in mono using a single cam or ignore it completely (ala. Google Jump). If you do want stereo for the sky, the best I've seen done is a 3 cam fisheye solution arranged in a triangle. That way at least one of the stereo pairs you're looking at is correct as you turn around looking upwards. Explained better in the next episode but hopefully this gives you a starting point! :)