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Hey, what's up everybody, it's your boy Hugh here from CreatorUp - the #1 YouTube channel
dedicated to 360 virtual reality filmmaking, for everyone.
As you all know, I bought the brand new GoPro MAX, and while I am still working on the official
review video.
Going to be so in depth and so amazing BTW.
So don't forget to subscribe.
I want to focus on a quick tutorial series around the brand new GoPro FX Reframe plugin
for Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects.
Just to be clear, this is not a tutorial about the old GoPro VR Reframe plugin that released
4 years ago along with the GoPro Omni.
99.9% of the reframe and over capture tutorials on YouTube are based on the old plugin.
I am very confident this tutorial will be the first one, and hopefully, the last one
you need to learn how to create mind-blowing reframe 2D video from 360 camera like the
one you saw in this intro.
Also, you don't need GoPro MAX or Fusion to use the GoPro FX Reframe plugin in Premiere
or After Effects.
Any 360 footage from any camera will work - including the Insta360 ONE X, Vuze XR, and
the upcoming Kandao camera.
Thank you again GoPro for being so generous on helping the community by releasing the
plugin absolutely free.
You have no excuse not to download it and try it yourself with whatever 360 camera you
use.
I will put the official link down below.
If you own the GoPro MAX and using the mobile app or even the MacOS desktop app to do reframe
and overcapture, I will also strongly suggest you to try GoPro FX Reframe plugin.
The reason is simple: the plugin is a lot more powerful, and it has built-in realistic
motion blur that will take your reframe animation to the next level - like what you saw in GoPro
official commercial.
And frankly, it is a lot faster compared to working with your fingers and your tiny phone
screen - assuming you have a decent computer.
Check out this tutorial on building your next level macbook pro for high productive 360
productions.
After you download and install the GoPro FX Reframe plugin, it will show under Video Effects,
GoPro FX.
If you are not using GoPro MAX camera, you can skip to this timecode.
If you are using GoPro MAX as your 360 Camera, here is my workflow to generate the best lossless
intermedia editing video files.
The goal here is to get the best image quality possible without any extra compression directly
from the camera.
And that is why you should never use your mobile phone for editing and rendering - because
GoPro iOs or Android app will compress your source video files to make it possible to
edit directly on a phone - which is exactly NOT what we want.
So you get your SD card out of the camera, move all the files into your Mac or PC manually.
Then open the new GoPro Player.
If you have an eGPU - which is the best way to boost the performance of your old Macbook
Pro - you can use it to speed up transcoding time by right click on the GoPro Player app
and select Get Info and then check Prefer External GPU.
Go ahead and open GoPro Player.
A window pops up and asks you to select files.
Go to your MAX footage folder and select the .360 file you want to render.
In the current version of GoPro Player, it does not have batch processing.
So you need to render each video one by one manually.
Well, here is a tip for you to save you some sleep time, you can actually kinda queue up
all the files in 1 go by clicking shift and select all the .360 files and open them.
It will open all the files and you can set them in queue one by one.
So you can go to bed and wake up with all the beautiful footage.
Well hit the like button if I just save you some quality sleeping time.
After opening your footage, you can go directly to File - Export As - 5.6K - toggle down arrow
here to open up advanced options because CreatorUp followers are advacned power users and we
are awesome.
Create better content than those mobile phone users.
Vibe Check ... ...
Back to Advanced Options, make sure you choose ProRes or Cineform if you are in on a PC.
Go ahead and hit next to render.
Now it is the fun part.
We are going to do some reframing.
Open up Premiere b/c I am afarid of After Effects.
Create a 1080P or 4K sequence.
1080P is good for social media like Facebook.
YouTube, in 2020, you should really do 4K.
Good news is, GoPro FX Reframe can handle all that and more.
Drop in the newly render 360 video file.
If you are rendering ProRes as I suggested in the earlier step, you should not need Proxy.
But if you are import footage from Insta360 ONE X camera - I will suggest creating a ProRes
Proxy following this tutorial.
Click keep sequence setting to keep 1080P or 4K timeline.
Here we have a drone footage captured with the GoPro MAX.
Go ahead drop in the new GoPro FX Reframe.
For good practices, I save the GoPro FX Reframe in my favorite effects folder.
So I don't need to search it every time.
Here I will drop the resolution into 1/4 as I am not using Proxy and I am doing a screen
capture at the same time.
Go ahead and open effect control.
Make the area a little bigger so you can see.
Before we start, toggle open Advanced Controls to uncheck Motion Blur.
This will increase the preview speed.
Step 1 is to pick Projection.
I choose GoPro HD b/c this is a 1080P sequence.
If you are doing Instagram post, you can choose the Social 1:1 or social 4:5 - for the best
Instagram post format is actually social 4:5.
For an Instagram story or IGTV, you can choose the 9:16 vertical format.
BTW, if you need tiny planet photo or video inspiration, please follow me on the Gram
right here @ hugh.hou - where you will learn the latest technique, behind the scene on
360 filmmaking.
Next, we are going to reframe our first frame.
Before touching the Pan, tilt or rotate, click the Pan and make sure the Pan is highlighted
in the Effects Control panel.
You see an overlay on the Premiere Program window.
If you can not see it on, let me pan it up to the blue sky, and now you should be able
to see it.
This is an incredibly nice feature that helps us to find the center of the frame and alight
horizon level.
Next, click and drag to your first location.
You see you are moving the Pan and Tilt while you do that.
The rotation is usually easier to just dial in the number here.
Thanks to GoPro MAX new stabilization feature, my drone shot horizon line is already level
without me rotating anything.
So we are just gonna keep the Rotation in 0 position.
Insert a Keyframe on all the values.
The Lens Curve is a new value compared to the Old GoPro VR reframe plugin.
It allows you to fix fisheye distortion easily and you can animate it to create very interesting
effects which we will cover in the next tutorial.
Leave the Zoom in 100 as we will zoom out in the next keyframe.
So now, I want to create a Tiny Planet transition, which is a very popular edit in most of my
Instagram videos or the intro you saw in this video.
To create a Tiny planet reframe, go ahead and find the location you want in the timeline,
insert all the keyframes.
Change the value of tile to -90 degrees, and the center of the frame is pointing at the
center of the 360 videos or the tripod leg.
If you want to create an invert tiny planet, you can change the value of tile to positive
90 degrees - as you see now, you are pointing to the sky, and the sky will be in the middle
of your frame.
For other creative reframe techniques, I will highly recommend you to check out this video
where I show you 50 reframe techniques commonly use in 360 videos.
I assume you already watched this, so I am moving on.
Then you reset your Lens Curve adjustment down to Zero.
And reduce the Zoom level to 30.
You get yourself a tiny planet in video!
Self five, and Virtual highfive.
Well, now is the cool part that ONLY the GoPro FX Reframe plugin can do - Motion Blur.
Toggle open Advanced Controls, check the Motion Blur and preview your animation.
Click Sequence and render in and out point to see the result.
It is a little bit too slow so I make the Key Frames shorter.
I also add 180-degree rotation so the planet spin when it morph.
Now you can see the Motion Blur - look really cinematic.
So if you want more motion blur, go ahead to increase the Shuttle Angle to higher value
and you will see more motion blur.
Bouns tip, you can add a second camera by checking Enable second camera.
Now instead of 1, you can create 2 tiny planet or front and back views for vlogging.
This is extremely powerful.
As you see here, I create a front view of where I am running to and a circle view of
my face from the back lens - so I can Vlog and users can see both of my face and where
I am looking at.
Very Cool, huh?
Plugin Error in Windows & how to solve it At the time of recording, some of the Windows
users, including myself running into plugin error in Adobe Premiere when applying GoPro
FX Reframe - as you see here.
This is actually a plugin conflict.
According to David Newman from GoPro, the error is causing by a graphics library (GLFW).
If you have Insta360 camera, including the ONE X, EVO or the Pro 2 - highly likely you
have the issue.
The solution is simple.
Go to this path in windows, I provide the path in the description below.
Then remove all the Insta360importer plugin in Mediacore folder.
Restart Premiere and try it again, it should work in PC now.
As you see right here, it is working for me and I can create a tiny planet using the exact
workflow in my Mac.
I hope this helps others having the same issue.
In the next video, the part 2 of this tutorial, I will go a little more practical, to show
you how I create this very cool upside down teleportation transition using the GoPro FX
Reframe plugin right here in Adobe Premiere.
I will also show you color grading technique on GoPro MAX and sound design techniques to
make your footage look cinematic - so your video will stand out from the crowd, look
professional and wow your audiences.
I can't wait to see you next time b/c the next tutorial is really cool.
You will apply everything you learn today in practics and create something might just
break the internet.
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It will really help me to create more amazing content for you instead of working my @$$
off as a professional 360 videographer - which is also fun and how I have real skills to
teach you.
Until next time, stay creative.