So, I've been wanting to make this video for a while now, but
so much has been happening
there's been so many things to make videos about.
but I thought, "You know what? Today is
the day." I'm really excited about today's video
because today's video is going to be about the top five apps you should download
and these are must-have apps for any 360 photographer or videographer
so if you're someone whose
preferred editing platform is this little device, then you want to pay close attention. I'm not
going to include any of the camera companies' apps on this list, these apps are going to be camera
agnostic, meaning, you can use any 360 camera.
The first app you're going to need is a good all around
360 video editor for mobile and the one I found to be the most consistently excellent on both
platforms has been VEER EDITOR.
This app is free and it was made by our good friends
at VEER, and they make it so easy to edit a full 360 video without having to go to your
computer, this is a workflow that normally takes hours and hours, if not a day or two,
and to be able to edit a full 360 video from beginning to end on your phone using only your
thumbs is pretty damn incredible, not only can you edit videos, but you can add photos into your
video sequences, you can do all the basic stuff that a video edit might require
you can add text, stickers,
transitions, it's really good for basic mobile 360 video editing.
You won't want to go above 4K, because phones can't really handle editing above 4K yet
but regardless for 4K footage,
this will give you an excellent result and save you a ton of time. You will want to
edit on computer in Premiere or Final Cut if you need anything more advanced
but for basic 360 video editing on mobile,
VEER EDITOR has your back. The next super helpful app
you may not have heard of,
is called META360. and this is a metadata injector, sometimes when we edit our 360
photos on mobile, the metadata is stripped from the image
meaning when you upload to Facebook or anywhere else,
it doesn't recognize it as a 360 photo and displays as a flat equirectangular.
This can be super annoying because a lot of apps don't know what a 360 photo is, therefore,
it's not saving the data within the image to tell the platform you're uploading to
that this is a 360 photo. With META360 it's really simple as
importing, injecting and exporting
It takes about 10 seconds and it will be the best $2 or $3 you'll ever spend.
Maybe other than porn.
No I'm just kidding.
Kind of.
The next must-have app you will need
on mobile is a good color correction app and my personal favorite and the most popular
color correction app is called SNAPSEED.
I will call SNAPSEED the Photoshop of mobile
it's even more Photoshop-like than the Photoshop app on mobile. It takes some
getting used to at first, but once you learn the swiping up,down, left, and right controls,
you will be editing masterpieces in minutes.
Not only can you get excellent control over
your overall colors, but you can isolate areas of your image and change parameters within specific
things, so if you have a certain color you want to desaturate,
you can isolate that one color and edit that one color.
I even struggled to do that with Photoshop on computer, so sometimes
I will go to SNAPSEED before I even go to Photoshop, because I know I can do it in 60 seconds as
opposed to what might take me 10 or 15 minutes on computer. Every single photo you've
seen on my Instagram feed was edited in SNAPSEED, that's how I get those really amazing
vivid colors, and this is something that's helped me grow my Instagram feed over all
its having those colors that just pop and it contrast the next photo really nicely on the
Instagram grid. SNAPSEED is free, it's amazing, so you're welcome.
The next app is another one you may not have heard of, and it's called EDIT360.
I discovered this one when I was trying to find
an easy way to remove the tripod from my 360 photos on mobile, I couldn't figure it out
with the life of me, while there was a healing feature in SNAPSEED that will remove the
tripod, it creates what we call CAT BUTT NADIR
and then, as I was browsing the app store
mindlessly one day, I found an app that could re-orient 360 photos so you could change
the horizon essentially, and it made me think, you know, what if I could change the horizon 90°,
that's enough to bring the tripod up into the middle, so I can then bring that into SNAPSEED,
heal the tripod out with the healing function, then bring it back into EDIT360
and move it 90° back and voilà! no tripod, no CAT BUTT.
This one is also super handy for leveling
your horizon, if your camera doesn't do it automatically in the app, then you can do it
in EDIT360 so, this is a really good all-around app.
I would say it's best feature is the ability
to heal out the tripod, you can do it in about 2 minutes, it does require a few steps, but you're
not going to use this for every single 360 photo and, the result is just worth it.
The fifth and final must-have app on my list is,
if you've seen any of my previous videos, you know what it is.
THETA+
Personally, I am someone that reframes 99% of my 360
photos and videos as tiny planets or other reframe viewpoints and THETA+
allow you to manipulate your photos and videos in seconds, it's really easy and intuitive to use
all you need is one thumb to drag around your perspective and instantly, you have a reframed
photo or video, not only can you work both with photo and video, but you can also
animate your 360 photos using keyframes and creating a whole bunch of stylish transitions
that you then export as an animated video.
THETA+ is an almost perfect app, if only
it will allow you to animate your 360 videos as well, I would call it perfect
but until they have that picture, I'm going to call it close to perfect.
Did I mentioned the fact that it's free?
It's compatible with both iPhone and Android, and you can use photos and videos
from any 360 camera, it's not just the RICOH THETA cameras
all of these cameras here will work for the THETA+ app as long as it's equirectangular
photos and videos that you are importing, it will recognize, and you can edit straight away.
I'll put links to all 5 apps down in the description, and I'll be curious to know
what's your personal favorite app for editing 360 photos and videos on mobile.
What's your favorite? Let me know down there.
So, that's it for me.
You know where to find me.
I'll see you in the next video.
Bye.