How to make 360 video tour

Beginner

Wednesday, October 17th 2018, 5:55pm

How to make 360 video tour

Hello,

Can anyone help me to get started with virtual tours with 360 video content?

I'm not complete new to the software and know the basics of how to create a virtualtour with 360 panorama's.
I want to experiment with 360 stereoscopic video's.

I dont know how to get the 360 video's into the tour because there is no droplet for video.
Any help will be awesome. *smile*

Cheers, Kelvin

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Tuur

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Thursday, October 18th 2018, 2:24pm

Hi,

it is actually quite simple to do.

Just use a 'scene' for every video.
The video formats you need depend on the resolution(s) you want to offer.

Let's say we do only 2k.
Then i would put for every video the following files:
- mp4
- webm
- poster.jpg

audio
mp3
ogg

To switch scene's i have an little script that works like this

code for your scenes

	Source code
1 2 3 4 5 6	<scene name="scene_1" title="ski" onstart="" > <view hlookat="0" vlookat="0" fov="90" fovmin="60" fovmax="110" limitview="on" /> <image> <sphere url="plugin:video" /> </image> </scene>

code to switch video in the new scene (desktop version)

	Source code
1 2 3 4	<action name="ChangeVideoScene" devices="desktop"> set(plugin[video].posterurl, calc:'video/%1-2k-poster.jpg'); plugin[video].playvideo(video/%1-2k.mp4\|video/%1-2k.webm\|video/%1.mp3); </action>

You can see my video's are in the video folder.

and

	Source code
1	<events name="vidchange" keep="true" onnewscene="ChangeVideoScene(get(scene[get(xml.scene)].title));" />

so my video's are named like:
ski-2k.mp4 etc..
(because the %1 will be filled-inn with the scene title this way.

Now you only need a button or a hotspot, or so, to load the next scene.

Hope this helps,
Tuur *thumbsup*

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ramirox3

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Tuesday, July 19th 2022, 6:20pm

Hello Tuur. I want to test this setup with a 360 video. But I would like to know your software recommendation to downgrade from 4k to 2k, and which software to get the webm file. Thanks for your valuable contributions.

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Tuur

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Location: Netherlands

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Tuesday, July 19th 2022, 9:33pm

Hi,

Thanks!

I'm on mac and use mostly 'handbreak' to convert to different resolutions and miro video converter to make webm's.

I'm not100% sure if webm is still needed today.
I mostly only do mp4 1k-2k-4k- sometimes 5-6k.

But there are loads of software tools to do the converting these days. Ffmpeg is a great one..
I most often do 360 video's only for my own 'silly' tech tests.. not for public/paid projects.
I only have insta 360One X.

Perhaps somebody else that does serious 360 video content creation can shine more light on this.

Hope it helps,
Tuur *thumbsup*

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