In today quick VR 180 post-production tutorial I'm going to show you how I
created the YouTube vr180 video and the Facebook 3d 180 video with the brand new
Kandao QooCam. As the time of this video YouTube and Facebook are still the
best platforms in the US and probably in the rest of the world to distribute your
VR 180 content cool cam is not officially integrated with the Google VR
180 creator tool just yet and lots of my viewers worry if they can publish
content from the QooCam to YouTube well the short answer is yes you can as you
already watch my test video and better it worked great with Facebook as well
which make it a step further than Lenovo Mirage let me show you how
hey what's up everybody it's your boy Hugh here from CreatorUp as most of my
viewers already own a 360 camera using Qoocam as the VR180 camera to capture
3d stereoscopic photos and videos will probability will be the first thing you try
besides at depth map this tutorial is to make this easier so you know exactly
what to do from the camera all the way to upload it on youtube and facebook so
step one is transferring from the cool game to your PC so you can just use this
as camera holder right here. There is a USB
you can definitely like just like get the SD card out from here and transfer
it directly to your PC but it's actually easier just connect the USB cord
directly into your qoocam USB connection right there to transfer
footage so right here after connect push the power button right here turn it on
so you see the charm you turn on and you push one more time I'll turn first
push one more time so as you see my PC and it pops a photo and the video window
and from here you can just drag all the files from internal the camera from here
all the way to a desktop somewhere you wander and I save your photos actually
very convenient and QooCam think about this
and now go ahead and open the Qoocam studio which you can download from
the website and the time of recording they only have the pc version
but the mac version is coming very soon so open that and then I hear the editor
just hit that and then go ahead and drop in the footage form we just transferred
from the camera so right here is the folder before I actually show you the VR
180 video I actually want to show you that depth map and the VR 180 photo first
go ahead right here there is the photos I'm actually gonna choose one of the
nighttime one
and here is the photo took by Qoocam at night as you see the beautiful light
trail here from the car from a long exposure photos so even for a nighttime
photo as you see when your job in the JPEG file it has lie RGB and the depth
versions. The depth version will be calculating the Depth map for you and we
generated the depth map for you as you see the of the Santa Monica
Pier and here distant object is to Pier and here there's my Jeep right here so
you can easy turn on refocus and then instead of both eyes I only gonna use the
left eye and then in a refocusing I can just pick like focus on this point as
you see the background is getting blur and you can increase the effect now you
see the car is really sharp in focus and the background blurry that creates that
really nice tilt shift effect that you see from the old lytro camera and
that's how you create the refocusing and then you animate this number
in the future and update the apps created really nice like animation for
rack focusing in post really cool and if you turn off refocusing go ahead and
keep both and then go ahead and hit render right here at the cue and you're
going to render mode stereo and here you can choose stereo
side by side right here which is stereo top and bottom just exactly like what
you see in Google VR180 Tool and then for the format you can pick JPEG PNG and EXR
file what is the exact EXR file? It is actually a file you can
read into the 3Dmax or Maya or any 3D software with a depth map embedded so
you can open it in Adobe Premiere or After Effects with the depth information
and create like 6DoF Experience if that is what you're into
you just output PNG file you can actually have the option to output a
clear depth map right here yes you output the PNG file and the depth map at the
same time actually let me show you right here resolution so the max my solution
for QooCam is 4k by 4k
that's a max resolution let's go ahead and just render selective
after that go open the KD output folder which is in the folder you are in see we
had the EXR file you can open that in any 3d software like Maya or 3Dmax
and then we also have the depth map right here you see this. This is the car depth
map right here that is a top / bottom depth map right here you can use it to do six
DoF stuff and beside that you also output the top and bottom PNG right here
so you can overlay with the depth map so you can do it with replace background and
all the fancy special effect in After Effects. If you want to learn the depth map and do
some fancy animation Effects. I have an entire tutorial here as well go check
that one out instead but now let's come back to the video and we go find and VR
180 video here and drop it into the timeline maximize it again that's the
low-light capture and you can play the video here see I'm sure waving my hand
if you see right here and here as you see the qoocam studio already generate
and side by side standard VR180 format for you. There is nothing much
you need to do is exactly the same night Google VR Creator to but with more
option and here is actually a better, one by one is actually a
standard format to generate it from Z Cam or Lenovo so all this format
Adobe Premiere can read correctly and one other cool thing is QooCam actually
have 6-axes stabilization built inside the camera so you can actually turn on
stabilization will generate a very stabilized footage
let me actually show you let me show this video is that is the video you saw
me riding my OneWheel with my QooCam as you've seen I'm actually turning
my OneWheel on. right here or just riding it so you can turn it off stabilization
but you can turn it on it was stabilized your footage right here
without actually moving your frame so one great advantage between qoocam and
camera like the Yi horizon of the Lenovo is the stabilization done in the Lenovo
is actually a post software
stabilisation by the google VR 180 Tool but the Kandao is actually do it
internally using a hardware stabilization within the camera itself as you see the
output footage between the Kandao QooCam and the Lenovo Mirage the
Mirage you see the black frame moving up and down everywhere and then in the
Kandao the black frame is stay static so the footage looks more smooth and
natural. After you pick that just go ahead and pick the in point and out point
your footage so I probably want to put the in point right here and the out point
right here and that is the session of footage I want to render go ahead and hit
to add to queue and now right here you can fine-tune your output setting again
that is a stereo VR 180 so I'm not gonna pick mono and here again you can pick
the are side by side right here or you can pick top and bottom just like what
you do in the VR 180 creator tool in Google but in here I'm not gonna output this
format as you see I have 2 tutorials regarding the VR180 creator Tool. One
of them is target to only distribute on YouTube but in this tutorial I want to
create just one workflow but I can distribute BOTH on Facebook and YouTube so I'm
actually gonna stay with the standard format which is be are side by side and
pick the stereo so I actually have a unified workflow the same video I edited
can distribute on Facebook and on YouTube
so in here format and pick h.264 and then in the quality here make sure you
pick high in a resolution right here the max restriction of this video is 4k so
go ahead and pick 4k because I shot in 4k and here you can just render
selective and starting the rendering process the rendering process for VR
180 by Qoocam is actually very very fast if you have a really good
graphic card like what I have here the gtx 1080ti
this software leverage the GPU render instead of CPU renders so the render speed is
10 times faster than what you see on the gopro fusion studio now the recording is
done go and open premiere as you see i already importing the footage and
already cut up a little sequence right here to render for output. Again if you
want to learn how to add Effects exactly what you see right here how to add stereo effect
and to show you this is a stereo Effects as you see the stereo so if you wanna
learn how at stereo effects in stereo side by side footage check out this
tutorial so after you finish editing your VR 180 for the most important step is
export so go ahead and right here
file export media in here go ahead and pick H.265 HEVC again I am in the
latest Adobe Premiere 12.1.2 and I make an entire review on here and
I highly recommend to update the latest version of premiere because add a lot of
rendering option to help you to maximize your speed and the quality of your video
and go ahead and hit match source because it is a 4k video only and then here in
the output bitrate setting make sure you max out to 25 and whatever number you
get just get the best video quality and then the most important steps right here
the VR video this video is VR and does frame layout format is stereo side by side
not stereo over-and-under or mono that is the only way to tell
Facebook this is a side by side stereo 3d video and then you can depend on how
powerful is your PC go check this or uncheck this to save time on render and
then you can go ahead and hit export and render the video so here is my final
render of the VR180 video from QooCam the next step is just upload
directly on Facebook let me show you exactly how go ahead and open your
Facebook and go to your Facebook page or Facebook profile depend on what kind of
profile you have and right here hit photo and video and then upload photo
and videos and then go ahead and pick the render from Premiere. For me is right
here the step test stabilization test right hit open and then right here we
start uploading the whole video on Facebook in Facebook make sure that you
click the 360 director to right here let's just turn the audio off so you can
hear what I'm talking and the most important steps
right here in the gear icon make sure you pick half Equirectangular which
is VR 180 and its side by side not mono or not top / bottom it side by side and
then from here forward is to add the video title the description you have a
thumbnail for the thumbnail thumbnail right here and then you can just hit
premiere or hip saver hit publish and publish directly on your Facebook page
if you are uploaded on YouTube there's one extra step that you were required to
inject manner using the google VR 180 creator Tool and that actually has to be
done on a Mac because that app is only available on Linux and Mac so let me
switch to my mac and show is my final step on how to upload on youtube to
create VR 180 video. So now we are in our Mac we open the VR 180 Creator Tool
by Google prepare for publishing right here. Drop in
the footage we rendering from my PC hit open and then VR 180 created Tool will know
this is a left and right footage and it's a VR 180 video and see everything
look correctly you see right here and let's go ahead and hit export and export
the processing is really fast it's just a meta injection so we are done so last
thing you just go ahead and upload on youtube that is also very simple just go
to your YouTube channel and just go ahead and upload the new injected mp4
onto YouTube after the upload is done as you see to click the video
This is actually a VR 180 video and how do I know that well
we need to actually watch this video on a Lenovo mirage or any VR headset to
actually see the VR 180 but for the Facebook one let me show you the
Facebook one right here and the Facebook one just finished render as you see this
is the new post same video.