How to remove View Designer of a completed 2D project back to 360 build?

James Bu

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Apr 09, 2019 12:03

Often my audiums like to request a 360 version of my 2D 16:9 version movie (completed by View Designer). However, I found there is no way to build a 360 video based on a completed 2D project using View Designer. It too painful to re-construct the project all over again if it's not possible.

I have tried the following:

Select [360] on top... no effect, still output 2D with the camera angles I set from View Designer.

Import a project and right-click on the source media > Set 360 Projection Format > Equirectangular (360). This only set the source back to 360 but not the clips already in a track. There is no such context menu to clear the 2D format on the clips in a track.

Open .PDS file and try to change the XML attributes, however, that's too complex for my project. Unless someone can point out where to replace/remove, then I can use text search to remove/replace to do that.

@Cylerlink, can you help? All I need is to output 360 version from a completed 16:9 2D project (source are all 360 videos).

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optodata

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Apr 09, 2019 14:24

Quote Often my audiums like to request a 360 version of my 2D 16:9 version movie (completed by View Designer). However, I found there is no way to build a 360 video based on a completed 2D project using View Designer. It too painful to re-construct the project all over again if it's not possible.

@Cylerlink, can you help? All I need is to output 360 version from a completed 16:9 2D project (source are all 360 videos).

First, posting here is not a direct way to reach Cyberlink. This is only a user forum, and the best way to tell Cyberlink that you'd like a specific feature is to use Rate Us & Provide Suggestions under PD's File menu.

I think you are correct that you can't convert from one 360 project type to the other, which is probably why you have to choose which one you want as soon as you place a 360 degree clip on the timeline.

I don't know what kinds of edits you typically do, but you could try copying all of the non-360 content from your existing project's timeline, then pasting it in a new project. Now place any 360 clip and choose the 360 option and save the project.

Go back to the original project and copy all of the 360 content, then paste it in the new project (deleting or overwriting that first, unneeded 360 clip). Does that work?

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James Bu

Newbie Joined: Dec 23, 2008 19:52 Messages: 4 Offline

Apr 09, 2019 18:52

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but you could try copying all of the non-360 content from your existing project's timeline, then pasting it in a new project. Now place any 360 clip and choose the 360 option and save the project.

Go back to the original project and copy all of the 360 content, then paste it in the new project (deleting or overwriting that first, unneeded 360 clip). Does that work?

No. The pasted 360 clips are still inhirit the View Designer attributes, therefore, they all displayed as 2D clips. No way to remove those View Designer keyframes and attributes in order to restore to the original 360 clips in the track.

Thanks for the advise.

optodata

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Apr 09, 2019 19:16

OK. I have another idea will take some work, but not as much as re-creating the entire project.

Do step 1 above (copy all of the non-360 content to a new project), then go back to the original project and click on the Trim tool to see where each clip starts and ends. You'd want to take a screenshot or write all the numbers down, but then you could go to the new project and place the matching 360 clips on the timeline and match the trim points.

If you've done some specific edits, like adding keyframes or changing the color settings, you can right-click on the source clips and use Copy Keyframe Attributes, then go to the new project and select the apparopriate clip(s), then right-click and choose Paste Keyframe Attributes.

That won't work with every type of edit, or with clips where you've used things like the Video Speed or Crop/Zoom/Pan tools, but it should transfer many other attributes and hopefully save you a bunch of time and effort.

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