Oh why hello there!
Funny seeing you here of all places.. well in
today's video I'm going to teach you how
to shoot a video virtual tour when you
move from point to point it's video
instead of photos and the best part is
it's completely free and you can use any 360 camera!
So why might you want to do this?
well the beauty of video is you can
capture atmosphere you can hear all the sounds
you can see the movement in your
entire environment especially in a place
like this where you have tourists everywhere
you have details like people
washing windows as opposed to a photo
that just captures a snapshot a video
captures an entire atmosphere of a
location that moves. I've got my kit bag here
so let's begin our video virtual tour of
the Sydney Opera House I'm going to
shoot at five different points around
the building and we're going to turn
that into a video virtual tour later on
using this amazing free software
okay so now I have my five videos
stitched color corrected and ready to go
so no matter which camera you have
you'll want to make sure you stitch and
have your equirectangular videos ready
to go and the awesome free software I
talked about before is called veer
experience from our friends at veer so
you'll want head over to www.veer.tv and create a
free account it won't take long once
you've done that hit the upload button
and what we're going to do is press
create interactive experience this is
essentially the virtual tour software
of VeeR. Firstly I'm going to enter some
details of my tour you can add a
description tags and you can upload a
custom thumbnail both a regular
thumbnail and a 360 thumbnail I'm going
to use a tiny planet for this one now
it's time to upload our footage and Veer
currently accepts 4k footage so if you
shoot any higher like I did I shot at
5.2 K on the fusion it will down
res it to 4k for now I know they are
going to up the resolution in the future
but for now it's 4k which is what most
360 cameras shoot and our upload begins
time for a quick Instagram break and
we're back our five videos have uploaded
to veer and we're ready to start editing
one thing to note is that first the
quality won't quite be as good as it
should be this is because 360 files are
big and they just take time so the
quality will improve if you give it an
hour or so but it doesn't matter for now
because in the meantime we can start
editing up the top is our timeline and
you simply just click and drag to
reorder so I've got them in order here
that I shot them first things first we
want to set our initial viewpoint and
with all five videos I want to start on
the Sydney Opera House because that's
the theme of this video so I'm going to
hit the set button there and one more
time and we are done that will be our
very first frame
each of these clips is 60 seconds and next we need to tell veer
exactly what to do when the viewer
reaches the end of your clip do you want
it to jump to another clip or do you
want it to restart this is where we hit
the pen icon there and under 'when ends'
I'm going to go replay this scene
because I want all of these to loop
continuously in this menu you can also
give each clip a name so I'm going to go
ahead and do that 'bottom of
steps' next let's deal with sound and
with Veer experience you can use spatial
audio or just normal audio in this scene
because it was a really windy day when I
shot the sound was meh so I've decided
to add some ambient background music
instead and there's two ways to add
music depending on exactly where you
want it to show up the first way to do it
is if you want specific sound within
specific shots you hit the sound button
there and we now have a sound icon that
we can drag around our entire 360 video
and we can attach a soundtrack to it
here's a royalty-free track I found
online and you have the option to
spatialize, autoplay and loop that track
with this video however I'd rather my
music track stay playing consistently
throughout the entire video and not be
interrupted when viewers move from shot
to shot therefore instead up the top
right I'm going to add background music
the next and probably most important
feature are hotspots which is going to
allow viewers to navigate from point to
point and you add a hotspot by hitting
hotspot right there on the left hand
side and firstly you want to place it in
the correct spot in your environment so
my second point is up here that's the
top of the steps and I'm going to link
to 'top of the steps' there you can choose
your icon you can also add your own
customized icons so if you wanted to put a
logo or some other kind of picture on
your hotspots you can do that that looks
cool but for this example I'm going to
go with this icon here you can also give
it a label if you like 'top of the steps'
by the way at any point you can hit the
preview button up the top to see exactly
what your tour looks like if you want
to see how a feature looks just after
you add it you can do that
and there we go both the music and the
hotspot worked so now you want to go
through all of your videos one by one
and add in the hotspots then link
them all up you don't want to overcrowd
your videos I would say two to three
max just to keep things simple so I'm
gonna go ahead and add them right now
okay hotspots are done the next thing
you may want to add are something we call
cards and with cards you can add photos
or links that link to other websites so
say I want to add the Sydney Opera House
website I could do that on every one of
these shots so people can navigate to
the Sydney Opera House's website say if
they were my client. Cards also allow you
to add text within the image so if you
want to add labels to your virtual tour
this is a good way of doing it with
hotspots, sound and cards you can
customize the time that these appear so
if you only want this information to
show up say 45 seconds in you can do
that the final things to point out in
the editor or up the top right we have
display scene list and enable timeline
in preview this means you can choose
whether you have a list of your scenes
right here in the viewer as well as your
timeline so people can skip through for
me immersive experiences have to be
immersive which means as little graphics
as you can get away with so I'm going to
remove them and I think we're done so
let's click done now we're gonna hit
publish up the top right and our virtual
tour is now online from here when we
navigate to our tour we now have the
option to share and embed so if we
wanted to share this with someone we
just copy this link here and send it to
them and they can open it up like so and
begin their 360 video virtual tour if
you want to embed this window on a
website just copy that embed code and
put it into your website's code and it
gets even cooler not only can you view
your virtual tours on mobile on desktop
but veer have their own oculus Go app
straight away under my uploads here I
can see it and here I am in front of the
Opera House how cool is this! Wow! I'm
gonna navigate over there and just use
my pointer and here we are
there's the harbour there's the Sydney
Harbour Bridge and there I am hiding
behind that sign and I've got to say
this is a really cool immersive
experience I can't believe I did that in
just minutes it instantly uploaded to my
oculus go through my veer account on
oculus so once you get the hang of it
this workflow is super fast and if you
think about it this isn't just limited
to virtual tours there's so many things
you could do with this you could make a
story in VR you could make a 360 film
where you're navigating from scene to
scene
and every time you move a new scene
unfolds kind of like a
choose-your-own-adventure there's so
many cool things you could do with this
medium so it's gonna be super
interesting to see how this innovation
changes the immersive medium as a whole
and immersive storytelling if you want
to see my virtual tour of the Sydney
Opera House I'll put a link down in the
description so feel free to check it out
also hit that subscribe button while
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you liked this video so now that you
know how to make an immersive video
virtual tour what kind of content should
you post? Well I've got a little surprise
for you as you guys know I have a video
course that's called a beginner's guide
to 360 video and I'm offering episode
one completely for free on my website
that will teach you this it's all about
subject matter of 360 videos and how you
can create the most engaging and
interesting 360 videos that actually
hold people's attention this is so
crucial because you can have all the
technical skills about how to create
professional 360 video but the content
is boring then people will click away so
head on over to my website and watch
that episode for free and if you like it
feel free to pick up the rest of the
course until next time be sure to
capture your world in 360 get out there
shoot some video virtual tools get a
feel for the software it's free you've
got no excuses now now if you'll excuse
me I have some other realities to visit
I'll see you next time