Oh my God I just found the best Adobe Premiere plugin ever made for 360 video!
I kind of want to keep this one a secret.. should I keep it a secret? Hmm.. I'm gonna tell
you guys I love you guys too much to keep it a secret but I think it's going
to really amaze you because it allows you to reframe your 360 video footage
regardless of the camera you own into tiny planet, inverted planet or any
given viewpoint you want, best part of all is it's completely FREE and it's
going to take your tiny planet and reframing game to the next level!
Now a warning goes out to you Premiere editors, by the end of this tutorial you
will want to hug and/or kiss me so please refrain you will need to get my
girlfriend's permission and the answer is most likely going to be no.. but it's
worth a shot. This plug-in was made by our friends at GoPro they made an
awesome camera in the Fusion and they've made an awesome set of plugins too you can
find them by doing a quick google search I will also put a link down in the
description to where you can download them for free just go ahead and open the
file follow the prompts by the way these are compatible with both Premiere and
After Effects so now go ahead open Adobe Premiere as you normally would start a
project and import your files again it doesn't matter which camera you're using
and to prove that I'm importing footage from 7 different 360 cameras here I
took exactly the same shot with the Insta 360 One, Theta V, Mi Sphere, Yi,
Garmin VirB, Rylo and GoPro Fusion outside my favorite landmark in the
entire world the one and only Sydney Opera House so I'm going to select the
first clip on my timeline which was shot with the Insta 360 One in the effects panel
you'll want to go to video effects and you'll notice we now have GoPro VR open
that up and the plugin we want is GoPro VR reframe I'm going to drag it over to
our clip and there it is in the effects window and instantly you can see the
point of view has changed already it's already reframed our 360 video so you'll
notice there's a bunch of variables here within the plug-in that change a whole
bunch of different things first we have field of view so zoom in really close or
really far then we have yaw, pitch, roll and smooth transition so depending
on what kind of effect you're going for you will want to play with these I think you
guys can guess what I'm going to go for yep that's right the good old fashioned
tiny planet and there we have it I've done that there with in premiere in
seconds I'm gonna play that this is my Insta 360 One footage it's now a tiny planet
in Premiere I didn't have to go to Insta 360 Studio to reframe that lost tourist
bumping into me I did it right here in Premiere how cool is that
all you need is an equirectangular 2 by 1 360 video and you can apply this
effect it's not GoPro Fusion only
and if you thought that was cool i'm now going
to show you something even cooler before we reframed our effect changing these
variables but that can get a little bit fiddly making all these changes and
ending up with the wrong frame and you do have to tinker with it quite a bit
well the reason I love this plug-in so much is if you select GoPro VR reframe
you can now go over to your program window and click and drag your tiny
planet this makes tiny planet manipulation so easy and intuitive you
can get the exact right angle in seconds you will need to go back over here to
change your field of view if you want it close or far but everything else you can
click and drag remember you must be in the program window and you must have
GoPro VR reframe selected so what if we want to add keyframes within the one 360
video clip so we can move between multiple parts of the 360 all in one
seamless movement here I have the video I included it in my GoPro Fusion sample
pack which is a free download I'll put a link down the description if you want to
play with some GoPro Fusion footage but I took this video in the Queen Victoria
building which is a famous old building in Sydney and I thought this would be
the perfect opportunity to move between several points within this grand old
building so I'm going to go ahead and drag the effect over and there we can
see it's reframed I'm going to start at the very start so you want to make sure
you're on the first frame and we're going to click the stopwatches to create
our first keyframe you want to make sure all 5 of them are selected so say we
want this as our initial viewpoint it starts on me and we wanna do a grand
sweep over say to the other side of the building to create a new keyframe all
you need to do is just drag the video and you'll see over here
it's created three new keyframes for us so we want to get that nice and straight
and automatically it's going to transition between points A and B
straight away all right let's create another movement
I want to pan down and look at the people walking on the floors beneath me
so as you can see we have three keyframes here and if we just move back
a little bit we'll see we now have one grand camera movement it's going from A
to B and now it's going B to C I think I'm gonna add a slight zoom to that so
we go in a little bit closer and we see the details right on the bottom floor
there if you want to make changes to your keyframes you want to zoom in
really close in the effects window and make sure it's lined down with the
existing keyframes and then you just change the variables so say I want to go
in even closer
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how cool was that it felt like you were leaning over the edge and that was
really powerful that really shows up what 360 video can do I'm going to
include my entire reframe sequence at the end of this video so stay tuned if
you want to see this masterpiece
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if you want it to hold on a single viewpoint
for a few seconds all you need to do is let it play until you're ready to move
again now we select the razor tool and we cut the clip in 2 at the beginning
of our new clip you'll want to hit the stopwatches again it'll tell you that
this will delete existing keyframes you hit okay and just do that for all five
of these variables now we're going to add them back 1 2 3 4 5 and now we're
going to move to our second keyframe and I think I want to change the perspective
to be something like this so if we move right back we can see it holds on the
tiny planet view and then suddenly it initiates that movement after the pause
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if you want to keep your editors clean-cut without any animation at all
we'll drag the effect back over to our clip and you want to timeout your cuts
so say you want to cut there you want to cut maybe 2 seconds later hold that one
to say 4 seconds another cut there and so on and so forth so we have 5
different shots there now we go to our first shot we change the field of view
to what we want our opening shot to be and I think we'll start on a wide shot
of me looking over the balcony then we go back to our second shot and I'm going
to click and drag to see what I'm looking at so 1 shot 2 shot in this
3rd shot I turn my head and I look at something else so why don't we cut in
our 4th shot to this thing that I'm looking at
so we'll reframe over here and I'm looking at this storefront
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so I've just cut together an entire
sequence there from the exact same 360 shot can you believe I'm operating the
camera myself it doesn't look likely but I've just
created a cinematic sequence from 360 footage by reframing and using simple
cuts instead of animation how easy was that guys I did that in minutes and best
of all it's free and easy to use I'm not someone that's confident at all at After
Effects and knowing I can do awesome tiny planet animations within Premiere
gets me really excited because it means I can take one step out of the workflow
and not have to rely on Insta 360 Studio as much I love that program but I also
like fewer steps in my workflow and I know this plugin is going to save me a
whole bunch of time going forward when I make tiny planet videos for YouTube
speaking of tiny planets if you want to master the art of tiny plans I wrote an
ebook is called a beginner's guide to tiny planet photography and it'll teach
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next video
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