hey guys this is Ben from Life in 360 and today I want to talk to you about
tiny planet video and how to shoot it with your 360 camera like the Ricoh
theta s like I've got here and what specifically to do when you're at your
shoot location so you want to survey your surroundings before you shoot just
make sure you have enough interesting detail around you to make it worthwhile
if nothing's happening it's been probably going to be pretty boring so if
you have lots of tall buildings like I've got here and lots of people lots of
moving details your video tiny planner is going to look extra cool and really
kind of burst with life so I'll start off by saying that in terms of
composition everything that applies to tiny planet photo also applies to tiny
planet video so the way you shoot tiny planets the way you shoot wirelessly
shooting inverted planets it's all the same only videos moving still photos
aren't thanks for that Captain Obvious really appreciate it great great work
there genius genius yeah well shut up I'm just trying to make a point okay oh
you have been feeling like that Oh the next thing to keep in mind is that
with every camera ever made supported by photo and video the video quality was
less than the photos quality photos will always be significantly larger in
resolution so expect a slightly lower video resolution when it comes to tiny
planets however this doesn't make a huge difference because often you're
displaying on a small Instagram square viewed on a mobile device to shoot the
most basic tiny planet video you don't need any accessories for your camera you
just need it in your pocket and be able to get it out at a moment's notice
because sometimes really amazing things come by you and you've got maybe 10
seconds to get out your camera and take a photo or a video otherwise the moments
gone forever we change
you can even put your camera on a selfie stick if really want that extra elevation
let's give it a go
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one downside the selfie stick approach is that people look at you like you've
got a horn going out of the middle of your forehead move along people nothing
to see here tiny planet videos are edited the exact same
way that you edit tiny planet photos so you want to use the the theta plus video
up or roll world is my editing app of choice for video Android users I'm sorry
to say but your app developers are busy creating Kim Kardashian emojis and have
made your video editing app yet sorry how much I can do I want to try an After
Effects plug-in there are lots out there but at the moment you can't add it on
your smartphone okay so let's open up RollWorld and this time instead of
clicking photo going to hit that crosshair and click the video button
alright so now go to our camera roll and there's one I shot go choose up the top
day you can edit either side of the video if you don't want the first couple
of seconds but we can always remove that later as well so now it's almost
identical to editing a photo so we'll go DIY go
that third slider we'll take that down fifth slider take it down all we want to
do is make sure I'm centered at the very top of the planet which is very easy
just rotate me around and there we have it click B to see our final position and
there I am inside the train station press the top right and then we've got a
beam or video and now RollWorld will render a preview for us to look at just
to make sure we're happy with the composition throughout the whole video
instead of those two thumbnails that we had access to now we're able to see
everything before we export it so we can always go back and make changes if we
need but when you're happy you want to export the exact same way you export a
photo so you'd hit the button in the top right let's go 1080 quality perfect and
camera roll so now it'll render out the video for us and which we can then
upload to Instagram or any other editing apps we choose I'd say on my Instagram
roughly one in three posts is a video so whenever I'm adding new
location shooting photos and video I'll normally take one or two photos once I'm
happy and if I've got the time I'll then go ahead and take a couple of videos so
photos are normally my priority but if I haven't taken a video in a while I might
get out my selfie stick or start shooting
different kind of video just to spice things up and add variety to my
Instagram feed photos will always be faster and easier to shoot and the
resolution will always be higher than video however there's a time in a place
where a video which is below photo out of the water so you want to keep an eye out
for those opportunities and look there are heaps of other really cool tiny
planet video effects and I'm going to show you guys how to achieve all of them
so definitely stay tuned subscribe if you haven't already we've got some
really awesome videos coming away very very soon also feel free to check out my
book it's got a huge video section in it that will really explain in depth the
various video effects you can achieve with a camera like the theta until next
time guys I hope you're living your life in 360 I know I am I'll see you soon