You just got your first VR 180 camera: Lenovo Mirage, Kandao Qoocam, Vuze XR
Insta360 EVO or the professional level Z Cam K1 pro or 2 RED cinematic
cameras with very expensive and Entaniya fisheye lenses as you see right here. So
what now? You want to make better VR 180 video content and I'm here to help. In
this short video series I would go over the basics of VR 180 post-production
In this episode I want to go over how to insert 2D graphics, title or 2D
video in picture-in-picture format
hey what's up everybody, It's your boi Hugh here from CreatorUp
So before we start make sure you have 2 things. First it's a 3d glasses like right
here I'm wearing. It usually come with red and Cyan. You don't need a
fancy one like this one. A paper one like that will also work as well. The second
thing is make sure you update your Adobe Premiere to the latest version so if you
have these 2 things lets dive right in in Adobe Premiere. Before we get started
make sure the sequence setting is in 180 180 and stereo side-by-side if not your
view would not be correct. After that you can hit this button to
look around and see 180 but that's just 180 not VR 180 so you want to see
3d you can right click VR video - sitting and the stereoscopic view drop
down make sure to pick anaglyph go ahead and now you see 3d now go ahead
and put on your 3d glasses and you will see this is actually not correct the
left and right eye is flipped on this particular footage I actually tricked
you this footage is actually film with the EVO hang on top of the car upside
down so if we fix that make sure that in your rendering software you flip the
horizontal view to right to left to make sure your footage have the correct left
and right stereo view another way to test your footage to make sure you have
the correct left and right view is to actually go ahead and insert a graphic
with the black text and you see black text on top of the white background the
cyan is on the right and the red is on the left after your insert VR planes to
sphere and on here the review mirror is also against the white background but as
you see the right is actually red and the left is Cyan is flipped from the
correct setting so that's how you know that this is not the correct stereo footage.
After you correctly input your VR 180 footage now let's go ahead and insert
some title text the easiest way to insert any graphics
in Adobe Premiere is to use essential graphic Panel so go ahead and open that
so here I already have some preset again you can go ahead and purchase some
preset or use a stock preset from Adobe so go ahead and grab a grab it and drop
it in right here I actually gotta turn off the VR view when you insert
2D graphic like a title text they are not 3d they're not gonna fit right into
your VR comp if you turn it on you see this is not correct so first thing you
need to do is to make sure the graphic turn into 3d right here VR Plane to Sphere
if the effect it's not in your often use go ahead and type in VR it
will show up right here under immersive video go ahead and drag and drop on top
of the 2d text so now you see that text actually appear on the left and right
eye at the same time if you turn on VR view you see the text actually have
no stereo disparity so it actually it's not in 3d but at least right now it
appear on the correct position also an other tip before you insert any 3d
graphic make sure the scale is 100% and the position is in the dead centers then
the next thing is I would go into VR planes to sphere remove all the feather
and then change the size the scale is actually the size of the insert text in
here I actually wanna make it bigger before we add some stereo disparity and
make it 3d I want to position this correctly I want
to position the text on the roof it's not blocking the window view and open
rotation projection go ahead and on the x-axis right there so now it appear on the roof
is not blocking our view but as you see now it looked kind of weird if you look
at the center the text kinda like lean toward you sometimes that's the effect you
want you want that lean toward you but sometimes you don't sometimes you just
wanted to be a pure flat. So in order to compensate that you open rotate source
and here time the exact opposite value of this one in here which is 18 just to
see why now the text is actually also straight forward in a correct position
whenever you move the text x-axis location
make sure you compensate source tilt position in the exact opposite value to
make sure the text appear straight in your scene. So last thing you're gonna do
is go ahead and add some 3d by increase the stereo disparity as you see right
there and here is a time to put on any 3d glasses to make sure that the stereo
disparity is in the correct 3d space or Z space of your entire scene as you
see right here the text is appear on top of my friend Dirk's hat. So you want to
make sure the text in the 3d space actually have more disparity than his head
so in here I'll say about 13 you look correct. The best way to actually see if
the text is correctly placed in the 3d space in the scene it's go ahead and
actually render this whole session put it in the Oculus Go to really see if
correct or not or you can connect your Oculus Rift to look at in the VR headset
but the easiest way to just put on your 3d glasses and take a quick look right
there there is a more scientific way to place 3d graphic into a vr 180 video
using canvas STK by the torus media lab but that's a little bit advance so we
save for the next tutorial okay now let's take a look at how to
do picture-in-picture in VR 180 and see the next insert will actually have a
video inside VR 180 video and this professionally called picture-in-picture
or PiP. That is a really useful creative way to bring the center of
focus up close to the audience because in general VR 180 or VR 360 the far away
object usually look pretty buried and pretty hard to see because they all film
a fisheye lens so you can always have a 2d camera to film the close up and put
it in picture and picture and put it in 3d space to get a close-up view for the
viewers and insert video it's just like insert
motion graphic is the same basically gonna put in a VR plane to sphere
add some stereo disparity in here ten look good to me and then same idea I
moved this original graphic down thirty five degree so to compensate that you
want to add minor thirty-five to make sure the graphic is straight
especially for picture-in-picture 2d video you want to make sure the graphic
is exactly straight on your frame and you also see this is actually NEST sequence. If
you go in there and turn off VR comp view I actually have a mask right here around
the graphic the graphic is filmed vertically with my cellphone I don't
want to top and bottom part I actually crop it in here so make sure that if you
want to do any cropping any effect on a 2d video always do inside a nested
sequence so VR planes to sphere will not create weird effect on your graphic. Now
let's take a look at another example so you really learn how to insert
graphic in VR 180 in here I actually have two graphic as you see right here
if it turn on 3d views I have a lower third on top of a picture-in-picture
sequence inside a VR 180 video so how can I make sure visually this graphic
is on top of the picture in picture I insert? So first make sure that you can
see anagraph mode so you can preview that on your your 3d glasses and second
thing is if you take a look at the top layer
I have disparity 11 the bottom layer a disparity 10 so with a higher disparity
meaning that the graphic is closer to the viewers eye that's how you make sure
that the graphic is physically on top of whatever under it which is a video
footage right here in the 3d space the last thing I want to emphasize of
inserting graphic in VR 180 video is to make sure you don't touch the
position and scale as you see if I took position right here to the position the
graphic in 2d space recreate this real whopping so this is not a correct way to
move your graphic in a 3d space in VR 180
but what is that just want to slightly move this graphic off the screen like
why now it cover our directors head I just want to do that as you see again
it's not gonna be correct the only way to do that is actually if you create a
graphic in After Effects make sure you place your graphic on the
left side of the 2d space so when an insert is over in the correct position
but again the easiest way is using mograph in essential graphic panel of
this mograph I already built in position so I can just move it like that and the
position will be correct so what mograph does is basically Iike just insert a mini
After Effects inside your sequence but you can change value on the fly. you can
also do that with the nested sequence just like what we did on the
picture-in-picture but just make sure that if you want to move the position
value off your insert graphic don't do it in the top layer with the motion
panel do it in the nested sequence or do it in essential graphic panel with
mograph or with After Effects.