Quote Is it possible to slowly rotate a 360 photo or a 360 video with powerdirector 16?

Yes. In PowerDirector 16, there is a view designer (or view direction designer). There you can achieve rotating with keyframes.

Wait! It depends on what you want to do.

You have a 360° video or photo. Load it and PD16 will ask, what you want do do. 360° project or 2D project.

360° project: You cannot rotate the video automatically. you can choose the starting 360° view, but not with keyframes or so. Its just the starting point. You can choose the view by dragging the video with the mouse. Thats the way, 360° videos work.

2D project: Here you can rotate the viodeo/photo with the view direction designer, as told above. Thats because in 2D video, you can only look in one direction. So view angle horizontally, vertically and the zoom factor of that view can be choosen.


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Quote Is it possible to slowly rotate a 360 photo or a 360 video with powerdirector 16?

Yes. In PowerDirector 16, there is a view designer (or view direction designer). There you can achieve rotating with keyframes.

Wait! It depends on what you want to do.

You have a 360° video or photo. Load it and PD16 will ask, what you want do do. 360° project or 2D project.

360° project: You cannot rotate the video automatically. you can choose the starting 360° view, but not with keyframes or so. Its just the starting point. You can choose the view by dragging the video with the mouse. Thats the way, 360° videos work.

2D project: Here you can rotate the viodeo/photo with the view direction designer, as told above. Thats because in 2D video, you can only look in one direction. So view angle horizontally, vertically and the zoom factor of that view can be choosen.


Hatti

Hatti, Thanks for your quick response. I was just wondering how this guy did the panning (see link below)?. It is much more dynamic this way. It is a video from the original Cyberlink channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKCJPjERm3M

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Hatti, Thanks for your quick response. I was just wondering how this guy did the panning (see link below)?. It is much more dynamic this way. It is a video from the original Cyberlink channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKCJPjERm3M

I really do not know. The speed is either from a time laps footage or from speeding up the video (PD16 can do that). But the panning itself? I don't know. I could not find a way to achieve that effect in PD16. The only way I can imagine is the rotating of the camera itself on a rotating tripod.

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Hi dijkx -

I wasn't there (obviously), but the original 360° videos/timelapse sequences could have been shot from a tripod with a rotation pan head like this or these

If that's the case, the pan motion is recorded in the video/timelapse rather than being edited in.

Cheers - Tony
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Quote Hi dijkx -

I wasn't there (obviously), but the original 360° videos/timelapse sequences could have been shot from a tripod with a rotation pan head like this or these

If that's the case, the pan motion is recorded in the video/timelapse rather than being edited in.

Cheers - Tony

I'd put my money on this is how it was done.

Interresting. I never thought of doing this. .
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Quote Hi dijkx -

I wasn't there (obviously), but the original 360° videos/timelapse sequences could have been shot from a tripod with a rotation pan head like this or these

If that's the case, the pan motion is recorded in the video/timelapse rather than being edited in.

Cheers - Tony

Hi Tony,

Thanks for your reply. That must be the way it's done. Would be nice though if Cyberlink implemented this feature in the next update.

Did you guys watch the last webinar? It has some good information on 360 videos and images. .
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Quote Did you guys watch the last webinar? It has some good information on 360 videos and images.

Yes I did, its a good one, but not explaining the panning thing

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Yes I did, its a good one, but not explaining the panning thing

Similar to what the GoPro Fusion calls "overcapture"? With it- you can pan/zoom/tilt within your 360 video any way you like- then save that. Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9lUDz2eeCw

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Hi JoeZ99 -

Did you notice the opening statement in the VO? "Overcapture is when you reframe 360 content & save it as a traditional fixed perspective video or photo."

Even though PDR's View Designer doesn't function the same way as the GoPro app on a mobile device BUT then end result is the same.

i.e. the editor sets the view angles, zooms & pans throughout the video and saves it as a standard video where the viewer annot manipulate the view like a 360° video.

The GoPro app is recording a screen capture and creating a completely new video. PDR is using the original footage to change the view, then that's produced as a standard 16:9 video.

Cheers - Tony
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