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You might be thinking to yourself, вЂњWhy is Chris still bothering with that space-age GoPro rig thingy?.вЂќ

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And get this: The stitching is all automated with their included easy-to-use software or mobile app. ThatвЂ™s five less lenses than our previous setup. This new camera shoots spherical video with two 180 lenses. Now that weвЂ™ve gone through all of thatвЂ¦ IвЂ™d like to introduce you to my little friend: the Ricoh Theta S. Bonus: You can right click the player and select 4K, if you want to watch in the highest quality possible.Д«enefits and limitations of the Ricoh Theta S

Sit back and enjoy your 360 spherical video.

Note: You must enable 360 video in the Beta Features section of your Wistia account for this option to appear.

Once itвЂ™s processed, head into Customize, and click the box labeled вЂњ360 degree videoвЂќ in the Controls tab.

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Voila! Upload your equirectangular mp4 file to Wistia.

Bring all of your stitched shots into Premiere to edit them as you would with any other videoвЂЉ-вЂЉtrim, reorder, add music, and export using the same settings as you did in Autopano.

Follow steps 1вЂ“8 for all of your shots and any time you moved the rig position.

Save your project in Giga, then export your stitched video from Autopano Video at the maximum resolution that h.264 can handleвЂЉ-вЂЉ4096 x 2048.

Double click the stitch to open up Autopano Giga for some fine-tuning.Allow this magical software to automatically analyze each camera angle and stitch together an equirectangular projection (try dropping that term at your next dinner party).Drag all of the perfectly synced files into Autopano Video.Export each cameraвЂ™s angle individually.Play all the sequences together to make sure everything sounds in sync.

I listen for my clap, use that as the in point, and drag it right into a new sequence. I rely on the audio from the cameras to make sure everything is perfectly lined up.

Import the folders of footage into Adobe Premiere, and get the clips perfectly in sync.

Take each SD card out of its camera and transfer the footage into folders labeled according to camera numbers.Here comes the beastвЂЉ-вЂЉturning all of your footage into a 360 spherical stitch. Make sure your main points of action are directly in front of a lens (not between two cameras).Position the GoPro rig so that the majority of the cameras are flush with the horizon.The angle of the hole makes mounting the camera a bit tricky, so we prefer to use a ball-mounted tripod head to compensate for any strange angles. In order to use our regular tripod for shoots, I bought this add-on aluminum extension that screws into the rig. So we shoot at 960p to utilize the entire GoPro sensor.

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When you shoot 16:9 at 720p or 1080p resolutions, youвЂ™re not utilizing the full size of the sensor, which results in cropping off some of the shot. The sensor on a GoPro has a 4:3 aspect ratio. Want to talk resolution? I thought you might. One bad camera will ruin your entire stitch. This tiny trick is a game changer.Д®xpert tip: Before shooting, eyeball the front LCD panel on the cameras to make sure the settings all match. Before you get too excited about this efficient solution, I should mention that this remote triggering resulted in slightly out of sync cameras (5вЂ“10 frames on average).ДЄs soon as the cameras start to record, we always give a solid clap as a sync point. Instead of clicking record on each camera, we use a GoPro WiFi remote. This provides us with more flexibility in post-production to get to a true sync point between the cameras. ThatвЂ™s why we record at the highest frame rate we can on the GoPro 3+ SilversвЂЉ-вЂЉ60 frames per second. When those puppies are even a few frames off, all hell breaks loose. Successful spherical stitching begins with synced up cameras.

We used text files on our SD cards to indicate which card corresponded with which camera.

We labeled our cameras to keep everything organized.

We bought this 8-port USB hub so we could charge the GoPros without taking them out of the rig.

We also set ourselves up for success with some simple hacks: We picked up this 7-camera 360 rig from 360 Heroes. The 360 player is a beta feature, and is best viewed in Chrome. HereвЂ™s the video we made to launch it internally! вЂњAfter a few goes at stitching footage from 14 cameras, we shifted to a simpler, non-3D setup that required half of the cameras.вЂќДuring a recent Hackathon, we created a beta version of a 360 Wistia video player.

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