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Month: November 2016

SV – Creating Spherical 360 Video

SV – Creating Spherical 360 Video

I had first seen spherical 360 video, which I’ll refer as SV, made by Jim Watters, http://photocreations.ca/3D/mobius_camera_rig.html. It was an accidental on line find. My intent was to research a way to use 2 cameras to create 3D video. He had used a device that he created called a multi camera panoramic video rig. It was a cluster of inexpensive Mobius HD 1080p key chain cameras that were mounted and pointed at various angles. The rig used a total of…

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Uploading 360 degree video to Youtube

Uploading 360 degree video to Youtube

Uploading video to Youtube is pretty straightforward. Uploading 360 degree video will require that your source video file has the needed metadata embedded in it so it can be rendered correctly. Youtube has provided steps on how to do this here, https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6178631?hl=en. The steps are not difficult to follow and it’s worth looking through them before attempting it. I’ve got a unique situation. The Kogeto doesn’t shoot a full spherical 360 degree view. Rather, it shoots a 360 degree turret…

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Create and Process 360 degree video for Youtube

Create and Process 360 degree video for Youtube

In this post I’m going to cover how to create 360 degree video and prepare it for uploading to Youtube. I’d like to cover SimpleCV, specifically the functions of dewarping the video. The video from Tinkernut made reference to this process. You may find this link useful in the setup of SimpleCV, https://github.com/sightmachine/SimpleCV. He based his work off of Kathrine Scott’s work. She did an excellent write up on the process, http://www.kscottz.com/dewarped-panoramic-images-from-a-raspberrypi-camera-module/. The big caveat is that video is captured…

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