What's up 360 nation? This is your boy
Ben Claremont from Life in 360. Today
I'm going to show you how to create a
custom nadir.. na-deer.. however it's
pronounced for your 360 video which is
essentially the little circular logo
which you see at the bottom whenever
you're panning around and you want to
add something to the bottom that's
called the nadir. In my previous
tutorial I showed you how to create one
for your 360 photos it's actually very
simple to do. You might want to check that out
because it'll give you some hints and
shortcuts which we'll now adapt to video
so once you've seen that let's go ahead
and add our video nadir.
Just a quick reminder that we went to
nadirpatch.com and we click tripod >
patched, where we added our logo, we added
a photo and then it produced our stretched
equirectangular 360 logo on our previous
photo there it is in all its glory
it looks super stretched but that's
actually normal, it's going to end up tiny
in our final video everything at the
bottom the very bottom of the very top
ends up really small it's really the middle
that ends up the biggest later on so
we're going to go ahead and open that
one up in photoshop so essentially what
we need to do is just remove the
background it's as simple as that
just removing the background however you
see fit
I just double-click there.. go 'ok' and
then i'll just hit my eraser and hold
down shift and move that across so it
erases the photo just next the logo that
was a perfect line i'm really happy with
that doesn't normally work out first time
and i'll just go ahead and erase the
rest there
alright so now we've essentially
isolated the equirectangular logo, it's as
simple as going File > Save As. We
want to take that as a PNG.
and
save. Ok so now we open up Premiere or
whichever editing program you prefer to
use and we simply just drag that file in
there we go and bring that to the timeline
Alright so i've brought in some footage from a
recent music video project I just had
this is just theta s footage- I'll just
bring a few seconds worth to show you
how it's done
so it's as simple as just dragging our
logo layer on top of the video later
so there you can see that's now placed over
our footage there, which is shot on a boat for a
cool little music video really proud of
that one. And there we have it so now
it's really as simple as exporting.
File > Export as you normally would you
will want to export at the exact
resolution of your footage- this was
shot with the theta s and it's not 1920
x 1080 be careful here this is 1920 x
960 it's got to be the same otherwise
there's going to be issues top and bottom
if we tell it 1080 it's
going to create black bars there and
there. Alright so just go 'match source'
high bitrate and there you go, Bob's your
uncle as they say in Australia which
means all is good; all is fine and dandy
ok now export. So let's take a
look at our exported video so there we
have it there's our boat and our footage
and then down here we have the logo. I know
what you're thinking AAAARGH that's huge it's way
too big
trust me you're going to be surprised
because that's going to turn out super
small when we take it into our spherical
viewer so now let's take a look at
really how small it is
so I'm going to use Ricoh theta as my
spherical viewer you can also use
Insta360 Studio that's a good
spherical viewer just to preview your
footage before you upload it to youtube
so let's just bring it in and have a
look around
yeah it's not that big is it? and there
we have it that turned out perfectly
yeah really happy with that logo looks
good
it's not too skewed, not warped, not too
big
personally I probably wouldn't use it
obviously for something like this
but you might for something more
high-end so there you go there you have
it, it's actually quite easy. The
workflow isn't really that strenuous
I probably could've done a better
job there at cutting out the logo- my bad
better luck next time
so there you go it's as simple as that it
really doesn't take a whole lot of work
and it was a pretty cool result in the
end i personally don't use these a lot i
like having a very minimal presence of
any editing or branding or whatever in my
videos and photos but for professional
stuff it's probably a really handy tool
if you're shooting high-end video and
you need to insert a logo there or cover
up a tripod or cover up a person holding
the camera so there are a multitude of
contexts that you would use a custom
nadir in. Alright guys i hope you enjoyed
this tutorial feel free to shoot me any
messages if anything was unclear. I also
have a book out, it's called 'Life in 360
a beginner's guide to tiny planet
photography' and you might want to check
it out if you're into photography and
video in the tiny planet format so this is
an interactive 360- i like
editing mine personally into tiny planets
which is removing the interactive
element and presenting the full sphere
in one little context of the square tiny
planet
this book will show you how to do
everything all the amazing effects on my
profile my Instagram profile and I'll
walk you through step-by-step so be sure
to check it out if you want to learn
more
until next time keep living your life in
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..i mean later. No I meant nadir. Hahahaha