I found a patched version of ffmpeg.exe that will get me by for now.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=152419

Roozhou patched a version of ffmpeg so that it will demux the video stream, modify some of the video stream attributes, then repack it without actually re-encoding the video. It modified one of my files in less than a second, so I'm pretty sure it didn't re-encode the whole thing and loose any clarity, and when it was done, the file worked everywhere that I want it to.

It's still an extra step that I wish I didn't have to do, but it finally lets me put out a video in exactly the format that I want, and not be forced into 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio.

I never could find any real documentation on the profile.ini settings, so it's still possible that there's a way to tell PD to put out a file with square pixels regardless of resolution.

I know this is an older thread. I'm using PD14 and I am trying to find out if PD supports changing the "offset" in a 360 video?

In Adobe Premier you can change the offset which is just a simple method of moving the center point of the video. If you were to record "tour" video on a Theta S, and then add in an audio file narrating the tour. I am wanting to change the center or heading of the video. That way when the narrator says and looking to your left you can see "......".

If a viewer does not move a supported device to the left or rotate the video, it would automatically rotate the video to the left during playback.

360 video is about to explode and I hope that Cyberlink is on top of this and coming out with some really cool features for editing 360 video. If not then I need to get on the fast track to learning Premier CC which I don't want to do since I have been using PD for years.

Quote: I only included the raw video for curious individuals, I have no need to modify it in any way. It does play ok in Videolan (vlc).

I think I figured out how to do what I need to do. Here's a quick video I made to test it. https://youtu.be/k8VNsUwjq14

1. Create a new mp4 publish profile from 1920 x 1080. Then edit profile.ini to change it to 1920 x 960 and frame rate to 15


2. Restart powerdirector and add my video clips.


3. Add my video clips to the timeline, then change the attributes of each video clip to 16:9 aspect ratio


4. Add titles, transitions, etc.


5. Publish the video using my modified profile


6. Use the youtube metadata app to add metadata to the new video


7. Upload the video to youtube.

I might not have needed to put the video into 1920 x 960 format because youtube doesn't actually seem to require it. My big issue was black bars top and bottom. So setting the clip attributes to 16:9 is the real magic to uploading the videos to youtube without black dots (bars) top and bottom.

I'm trying to do this now. Using PD14. I just spent 20 min trying to find this profile.ini file you all speak of so casually. I've done searches and there are no .ini files anywhere in the Cyberlink folders.

Err....help?

I think this might be what we are looking for on the custom profile. I will play with this later and see if it works. This video has nothing to do with the ThetaS but is showing how to create a custom profile in PD14.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w8db14iw1o

And here is the path to my profile.ini so yours is most likely very similar.

C:\Users\Tim\AppData\Roaming\CyberLink\PowerDirector\14.0\profile.ini

Quote: And here is the path to my profile.ini so yours is most likely very similar.

C:\Users\Tim\AppData\Roaming\CyberLink\PowerDirector\14.0\profile.ini

Thank you. I found the profile.ini file. Was looking in the installation folders....not user folders.



I use the Kodak SP360. I'll post my results.

Ok I followed the steps. And even though my edited video is now the same dimensions as raw 360 videos. YouTube still won't recognize it as a 360 video. What am I doing wrong/ forgetting?



EDIT: Ok I found this help page on YouTube https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6178631?hl=en



It says I need to "In order to upload a 360° video file, you'll need to modify the file with an app or script before uploading." . But my kodak software also doesn't recognize the file on the right as being 360. So how can I manually adust the "script"?





EDIT 2: Found the metadata app: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6316263?hl=en

Ok, using your information and the stuff I found in my above post I got it to work. But I also have too much black.



Edited video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I30KdNQpdlQ



Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDK0myqcUQg