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In hindsight, I have learned that you might be able to convert the raw Gear 360 footage from dual-fish to equirectangular using a computer instead of transferring it to a phone. Post-transferred Gear 360 footage, as seen in Quicktime Player This is why it took so long and drained her battery so quickly - it was partaking in a very CPU/GPU intensive process! After a few days of hard labor on Torii’s end, I received the video files back, now as six equirectangular MP4s that would open in both the Ricoh Theta V Basic App and Quicktime Player. (In Samsung’s defense, if we were not working with a total of 22.32 gigabytes of data, I doubt the process would have been so painful.)Īlthough I didn’t realize it at the time, this “transfer” process was using Torii’s phone to “stitch” the raw dual-fisheye video into equirectangular video. It turns out, transferring over an hour’s worth of footage from a Samsung Gear 360 to a Samsung Galaxy is an excruciatingly painful process! Torii said it took two hours for each file, the phone and camera needed to stay plugged into a charger because it quickly drained both’s batteries, and if she tried to use her phone for anything else during the process, the transfer would fail. We soon found out… Lesson #3: Transferring Gear 360 Footage is a PAIN! Roughly two minutes in, she said that in order to edit the Samsung Gear 360 files on your computer, “the next step is transferring to a Samsung phone.” Since I didn’t have a Samsung phone, I drove back to Torii and asked if she would follow Sara’s instructions. Not knowing exactly what to do next, I watched this YouTube video by Sara Dietschy.

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Torii asked if I could overlay some text onto her 360 footage, so I added text to one of my equirectangular JPGs using the free image manipulation program GIMP. He demonstrated this by bringing one of his equirectangular JPGs into Photoshop, messing with its exposure and such, saving it as a new JPG, and then successfully opening the new image in the Ricoh Theta app. Later in his course, Ben Long showed that you can edit equirectangular images as you would any other image. Lesson #2: Edit Equirectangular Images with GIMP

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Your 360 video will still be a standard video file - such as an MP4 - but when you open it, the video itself will be presented in either dual-fisheye or equirectangular format. Instead, they are more like video presentation styles. What I mean by that is, there are no special file extensions for MyMovie.fish or MyMovie.equi or anything like that. Note that neither of these are file types. Below is an example of an “unstitched” dual-fisheye video I recorded during this experimentation phase.Įquirectangular version of the dual-fisheye video from above. It displays the captured footage as two separate circles. Dual-fisheye is the raw, “unstitched” video taken by a 360 camera that has two fisheye lenses. I’ve learned that there are two common 360 video files: dual-fisheye, and equirectangular.

(My local public library gives members free access to, so I even got to take this course for free!) Here are two fundamental lessons I took away. Early Experimentation with a Ricoh Theta SĪfter agreeing to the project, I borrowed a Ricoh Theta S from Illinois State University’s Arts Technology Program (where I teach) and completed a course called Ricoh Theta Tips, Tricks, & Techniques lead by instructor Ben Long. With these goals in mind, I began some preliminary experimentation. She was also hoping to overlay some informative text at certain points during the video. However, instead of recording one long video file, apparently the Gear 360 automatically starts a new video file after 11 minutes and 27 seconds, so she ended up with six separate video files that needed to be combined into one. She wanted to release the 360 video for Lincoln’s birthday. Last summer, she recorded an hour-long walking tour in Bloomington, Illinois about how the city’s progressive culture influenced Abraham Lincoln’s political views. My friend Torii Moré is Curator of Digita l Humanities at the McLean County Museum of History.

Ricoh Theta V Basic App – a 360-viewer for video and image files.

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Here is part one of six of the 360 video series I edited using only free software.