I’ve opted to use consumer 360° cameras on quite a few shoots, and in this tutorial, I want to share some tips that can help visually improve the quality of your 360° footage.
AUTOPANO VIDEO PRO AND GEAR 360 PROFESSIONAL
The quality of consumer models can be hit or miss, but most will at least output 4K 360° video. Visually, a professional 360° camera will almost always give you better results. However, professional-grade cameras can be a hassle on shoots, requiring lots of finesse. (Some popular models include the GoPro Fusion, Samsung Gear 360, Ricoh Theta V, Kodak Orbit 360.) Most consumer-grade 360° cameras cost a few hundred dollars, whereas professional models can start at a few thousand and increase drastically from there. Now that 360° cameras have been out for a few years, there are many more consumer-grade options available. You can also create original panoramas with projections like Little-Planet or Mirror Ball.In this video tutorial, we explore how you can improve a 360° footage shot with a consumer-grade camera.
If you have a panorama that includes architectural monuments, you might prefer to retain the rectilinear projection, which will preserve their straight lines. A classic 360° photosphere is created by choosing the cylindrical or spherical projection. Choose the projection with a click and adjust your image with the Panorama Move option which will remap your projection on the fly, you will see a real-time preview final render. Play around with both the DPI and the scale factor as different values are best used for different use cases.Īutopano can project your panorama in many different ways: Little-Planet, Panini, Hammer, Mirror Ball, Orthographic and others. Using a dense dots per inch of 300 will enable you to print your work out. Here, you can choose to save your work in Photoshop’s native file format for ease of use their which shall keep all layers intact for fine tuning of your image. Once completed, click the cog button and an options dialog shall appear. Playing with the Gamma point level makes the image brighter or darker, whereas the black and white points of the histogram help make sure one achieves the tonal range required. Adjusting Levels in autopano is similar to that of when adjusting levels in an image editing program such as Photoshop, Affinity Photo or GIMP.
Tone Mapping RH2 is actually more useful for high dynamic range (HDR). You may play with that until you are satisfied or use the Levels as described below. This dialog enables the user to adjust luminosity through the Key value. The panorama produced by autopano from your image set may have tonal aberrations and as such you may use the built in tone mapping features to correct this to start, use ‘Tone Mapping RH2’. If the image that Autopano has automatically created is not level then you may use this function to fix it.
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