Boo!
It's good to see you today.
Sorry for the messy desk,
I haven't had time to clean up.
Maybe I should..
nah, too lazy.
In today's video I'm going to show you
how to get instantly higher quality 360 videos.
And I'm talking
(clicks fingers)
instantly.
This is Ernie by the way.
Ernie is a gold goldfish.
Say hello Ernie.
Blup, blup, blup.
So in today's video, Ernie and I
are going to teach you how to get instantly
higher quality 360 videos
as well as VR180 videos.
I released a video recently called
'How to Shoot and Edit 3D'
and a bunch of you guys were asking
"Ben, how did you get such high quality
video from the Vuze XR,
I have the same camera
and mine looks nowhere near as good as that."
Yeah this one here.
And then I realized,
there's a secret setting I use inside of Adobe Premiere
that you can use regardless of whether
you have Premiere, Final Cut, another editor.
And it doesn't matter which 360
or 180 camera you own.
Now, let's get into it.
So you're inside your editor
and when exporting your finished product
your instinct might be to choose H.264
and Match Source - High bitrate.
Because we're dealing with
equirectangular files here,
they're different to conventional 16:9 video
and Premiere is usually pretty smart
and can figure out the dimensions
and the export settings on its own.
And I can admit, I've done it this way
for a long time but this is a mistake.
Since our footage is 5760 x 2880
H.264 is not the best codec to use.
H.264 is better optimized for 4k videos
whereas ours are 5.7k.
So what I'm going to do instead
is go HEVC.
Which is H.265.
I'm going to choose that.
And now when I scroll down I want to customize
my Target and Maximum Bitrate.
I would suggest using variable Bitrate
and moving this slider all the way up to 60.
Because H.265 has way better file compression
than H.264 and you're now exporting
at a much higher bitrate you're going to notice
a significant increase in the sharpness, the colors,
the overall image is going to look a lot better.
Here I punch in to 800% to show you the difference.
And on the right it's so much sharper.
Can you believe this is the exact same video file?
You can actually see detail there in the water,
whereas on the left it's blotchy and blurry
and doesn't look good at all.
This is particularly effective
in the shadow areas of your videos.
How much better does that look?
On the left it's covered with artifacts
and it seems like a lot of the colors
are just joining together.
It's a much more restricted color palette
compared to H.265 on the right.
The only downside really that I can think of
is that the file size is now quite a bit bigger.
So if that's too big for you,
if you have slow internet,
or you don't have much storage,
you can always change your Bitrate down.
As you can see I just halved the size of my overall file.
But if you can,
keep the slider all the way to the right.
Now that's it lets export.
So if you're shooting with a camera like this
or this
where the resolution is over 5k
then H.265 is going to be your best friend.
Just like Ernie's my new best friend.
Aren't you Ernie?
Blup blup blup.
Hey!
And even if your camera is 4k or less
taking control of your bitrate
is going to give you the best result possible
from what your camera is capable of.
Don't expect miracles because if you have a bad camera
to begin with it's not going to miraculously
make your footage amazing.
But it will encode your video file
with the most amount of information possible.
(clicks fingers)
Alright, that's it.
Hope that was useful and by they way,
if you want to become a 360 ninja
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then you will definitely want to check out
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It'll teach you everything you need to know
to get up and running with your 360 camera
in no time.
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Weather outside's looking amazing,
we're so lucky here in Sydney
we get summery weather all year round.
The sun's always out,
it' always warm,
we can go for a swim whenever we want.
Come on Ernie, let's go.
Come on man.
You coming bro?