360 Video Dictated View

Elfurezo

Newbie Joined: May 14, 2018 04:34 Messages: 3 Offline

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May 14, 2018 04:45

My terminology will be well off here, but to explain:

I have many Ricoh Theta movies but many are taken by my young children, meaning the filming angles are far from optimal (but the content is absolute gold!). To view these clips is a vomit inducing experience..

My intention is to set a viewing angle by selecting an object or person, allowing the screen (still in 360 format) to follow the object as if it was the natural filming position.

I have toyed with the Object Tracking function believing it would solve my problem but only seems to allow for adding media and tags; but it doesn't seem unreasonable with that function's abilities, that what I want should be possible.

Any ideas?

Hatti

Contributor Location: Bonn, Germany Joined: Feb 21, 2017 15:54 Messages: 576 Offline

May 14, 2018 10:09

Sorry, no ideas.
The viewing angle of a 360° clip is not keyframeable. PowerDirector only allows to set the starting angle. So what you need, is not possible with PowerDirector. I don't know any other program, that can do that. Maybe the next version...
The only thing that you can try is stabilizing. PowerDirector seems to be so far the only program that can stabilize a 360° video. But stabilizing childrens hands...

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Elfurezo

Newbie Joined: May 14, 2018 04:34 Messages: 3 Offline

May 14, 2018 12:25

Quote Sorry, no ideas.
The viewing angle of a 360° clip is not keyframeable. PowerDirector only allows to set the starting angle. So what you need, is not possible with PowerDirector. I don't know any other program, that can do that. Maybe the next version...
The only thing that you can try is stabilizing. PowerDirector seems to be so far the only program that can stabilize a 360° video. But stabilizing childrens hands...

Hatti

Thanks Hatti, that's really surprising to me. Perhaps instead I could convert to standard wide-screen and pan across to various areas instead. Thanks for putting me out of my misery though!

nodeedon

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May 16, 2018 02:22

Came across this page recently which may help with your issue

https://www.cyberlink.com/learning/video/820/360%C2%B0-object-tracking-with-powerdirector-16

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Elfurezo

Newbie Joined: May 14, 2018 04:34 Messages: 3 Offline

May 20, 2018 04:25

Quote Came across this page recently which may help with your issue

https://www.cyberlink.com/learning/video/820/360%C2%B0-object-tracking-with-powerdirector-16

Cheers - Noddy

Originally, it was this what lead me to believe it was possible. The motion tracking tracks objects very well, but doesn't dictate the camera angle. Surprising, as the term suggests otherwise..