Hi folks,
a long while back I played successfully with including video scenes inside a panorama. By then I used a fisheye lens for the pano images and a rectilinear longer lens for the video (out of resolution considerations). This gave issues with the exact alignment, but I managed in the end, using After Effects and alpha masked *.flv files.
Now I learned, that most people simply do shoot the video with the same setup as for the panorama. So I tried with a 10mm for both panorama and video.
Now I have to rethink the whole process. I found some help in this thread:
But I got stuck at some point because I don't really understand, what I need to achieve in the first line
What I did so far:
I created my panorama as usual, taking care that I replaced the bracketed shot in the future video area with a pseudo-bracketed one I exported the video frames as single JPG files using Premiere Elements, did a wb matching and pseudo bracketing with these in LR and found the result already quite similar - apart from the resolution, naturally.
But now I don't know what to do with these files.
I tried this afterwards:
- created a PTGUI project with the panoramic as one source file (equirectangular)
- added one video frame and did an alignment
- exported the video area in roughly the same manner as mentionend in the thread above, writing down the values
- used the project as a template for a batch job for all the remaining frames.
I ended up with some hundred JPG-files ready to compile to a video again (with an unusual width/height ratio, that is...)
But how do I include this video file into the panoramic again? I expect this to be somehow similar to the distorted hotspot described by Klaus in the above mentioned thread. But I don't know how exactly. Any hint on that part? Any comments on what I have done so far?
Yours,
Michael