Hi All,
There have been a few threads on this topic but not a lot of detail about best practices for workflow.
Here is a small example I have been working on. I have a few questions for those of you that have been down this path.
Here is my workflow so far.
1. Shoot pano. D800, Samyang 14mm used for both stills and video. ( probably not the best lens choice for the video but I wanted to get the workflow right with the same lens first.
2. Using the "perfect pixel alignment" technique, export image that is slightly larger than video frame in ptgui.
3. In Nuke ( or AE ) use a grid warp to align the video image to the image exported from ptgui.
4. Create soft edge matte in around video image merged over background still from ptgui.
5. Render frames out of nuke.
6. Export mp4
7. Embed in video hotspot in krpano ( krpano-1.17.5 )
Example here.
http://www.phimedia.com/WebSites/Video/tour.html
Question 1 . With the mpg version, in chrome I see dark edges around the video. These are net evident in FF. is there any way to remove these in Chrome?
There is also some colour shift in the video that I assume is due to the mp4 compression as tif files that were exported were seamless. Next I tried with alpha to soften edge.
I would have liked to have used alpha in an flv but Adobe dropped flv export support in CC. I have a laptop with CS6 which still had flv support but I cannot get krpano to load the flv's ( either with or without alphas).
Can anyone who has successfully embedded flv's with alpha shed some light?
As CC no longer exports flv's is there another option for alpha?
Example ( broken ) here
http://www.phimedia.com/WebSites/Video/tour_alpha.html
xml
http://www.phimedia.com/WebSites/Video/tour_alpha.xml
Link to flv
http://www.phimedia.com/WebSites/Video/video_with_alpha.flv
Any comments about my workflow would be welcome.
Thanks
Mike