topWORKFLOW: creating a 360 spherical promo video the info is free and no fee is charge not revenue made
2018.09.25 this page drafted (rough outline) of workflow
will update again in a day or so when more free time
Purpose:
1. share workflow how the promo videos were created ... fail fail fail its how we succeed 3. Promote: app IOS IfunFace novelty app create talking heads from photo
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About meThe Nutty professor
tests are done as an end user
about app Video to Photo
a must do for anyone that creates videos (not just 360)
Bonus for 360 (spherical) community
app author has included auto injection of Spherical metadata into output files (images), therefore you save a lot of time and no duplication
it's an enormous time saver and life saver
when you browse your video you will always find some incredible angles / aspects that you can now extract
The review of the app Video 2 Photo is linked at top of page or click here at video 2 photo
Workflow of the promoThe info below is the flow of work to create the promo video
I used several apps to test various tools and options
you do not have to use all
Please experiment and let me know of your trials so we can share and publish to the 360 community groups
we learn more from failures than from success
Banner / background
created with app YOU DOODLE
app can be found in page 360 apps - photo editor
 why i use it
quick canvas size options, many defaults PLUS custom to create aspect for spherical - I select 2000 x 1000
more
awesome fill options . many designs to fill the white canvas
if you intent to add photos then maybe leave it white
see this example: faq make a banner
the background is white with various photos of lovely model and set to rotate in host site
I have learnt that it's important to set anchor points to know where the centre point is as well as the horizon
in you doodle I add a frame or symbol and stretch it across the width
create video of talking heads
app: IOS ifunFace
 there are several similar apps in IOS such as Animate Me, My Talking Pet,
I like ifunFac - many options and lots of fun
paid for the pro version to get HD video
it's easy to create a head, from current pic or library, make them any size .. lol add accessories, record messages in diff voices or balloon chats .. it's all good fun to create the picture of person on white canvas many apps
quick app to use is IOS Sticky, snap a photo or take from camera roll, it auto removes background and saves in png so you can layer it onto a photo or another canvas in this instance I used the existing screen capture of the app and layered my sticky pic onto the existing pic
the video can be run by itself or pip (photo in photo / Video in photo / video) many apps can handle pip ... I use Vimo coz it does so many other things (Vimo info down the page in workflow) PIP in Spherical is tricky
when you PIP in standard photo .. what you see is what you get
when you pip in 360 / spherical - it can be a nightmare ! you need to understand the size / outcome of warp and wrap effects so be patient; drink lots of wine and enjoy the journey
pip-ing a 360 in a standard a photo editor the pip will wrap differently to when you use a 360 editor such as Veer; it will wrap and warp the opposite way
that's good and bad I decided to pip the video into a 360 video so that means a lot of work (more wine) but i then have more complex samples to share and someone will expand and create bigger and better ideas which they can share back go alone - go fast V's go together and we go far create a canvas of 2 x 1
photo sample: from app you doodle: 2x1 (2000x1000)
used in app fill to add grass 1 click
used in app frame to add horizontal line and centre marker  app VeeR
add a sample photo to set a best view size of image
that is test the idea size and use that as a template to load video later
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either load in Werble to add motion effects or load into Vimo to pip video
app Werble
add motion stickers to a photo - output is video
 Werble is quite astonishing: IOS and Android to handle any size photo, has a substantial library of effects (many are free)
app Vimo (video editor)
outstanding video app
recognises 2x1 and output 4k
good for any video editing with many many features
bonus: for 360 community
recognises 2x1 format and 4k resolution
choices
load a 360 image and pip video on it
stretch the duration of the photo to suit the video
I decided to 1st create animation of the canvas (see above) by loading the image canvas into werble and add weird / wonderful effects
the output was measured to be longer (30 secs) than the infunfac video 29 secs
in Vimo
load video from Werble
pip in the video from infunface
the video from app werble has a centre point photo tested as ideal size for pip video
added some motion effects
in app Vimo - motion stickers tool: like most things, is very easy once you know how to drive it... some help on that is covered in lab test Vimo many samples
output: hd or 4k res
lab test page Vimo many samples
Vimo pip tests all good except 360 vid in 360 vid
tested 2018.09.22
pip video to 360 video = yes (1k in 4k)
pip video to 360 photo = yes
pip 360 photo to 360 video = yes
pip 360 video to 360 video - No (4k pip in 4k)
all output was tested at 4k
load video into app VeeR (360 editor app)
add stickers at various points around the 360
output to inject spherical data
optional: something you should do on all videos as a matter of opportunity
Load video into app Video 2 Photo
browse the video roll to select unusual / unique views, extract the image as a photo
output is same format as the video in this case 360 is 2x1 and
bonus: 360 community: images are auto injected with spherical metadata
note: samples of images extracted from this video are incidental, better examples are in lab test review video to Photo
ResultsVideosVideo in 2 host sites: best tip; if the video does not display as 360 spherical .. copy and paste the link to your mobile browser 1. VeeR 360 site link https://veer.tv/videos/223492 2. Youtube link https://youtu.be/usYmWWVXBH8 Facebook postin page Round to it in 360 (click on fbk icon to open post) Spherical imageSite: Theta: Powerful zoom in / out  why Theta site: many display controls, Zoom out to make a crystal ball, all display styles can be downloaded. click a thumbnail to watch in 360 - have fun morphing the imagesTheta site lets you change the display styles - see options below images in Theta site or
 Mirror Ball2018.09.22 free app Theta added a custom features change background colour, set movement direction, size of image such as Square Little Planetcreated using the 360 spherical photo from this task 2018.09.22 free app Theta several features including Mirror ball and little Planet and note you can set the canvas size and resolution  There are many other apps that can support Little Planet concept and soon we will create a dedicated page, for now see the summary in page 360 apps - little planet   Lab tests nb: these are actual tests -> b4 creating this page many are shown in basic in page 360 apps
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