How to edit 360 Footage
How to EDIT 360 VIDEO in Premiere Pro
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so last week I put out my first 360
video a lot of you guys were actually
surprised that I'm good at snowboarding
I mean I look at the Snowman come on my
house is literally buried in snow right
now but a lot of you guys had questions
about my workflow in Premiere Pro and
how I'm editing 360 videos so that's
what we're gonna talk about today let's
roll the intro
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welcome back to the channel filmmaking
homies it's your boy Cody blue and
before we get into today's tutorial I
just wanted to ask you guys what do you
think about 360 footage because for me
personally I had no intentions of ever
getting a 360 camera but now that I've
used one I actually think it's pretty
rad you get some super cool angles some
angles that you could never get on any
other type of camera and it's a super
creative and cool way to film yourself
even in selfie mode it just looks way
better than like a standard typical
selfie so I'm just curious to hear what
you guys have to think about it it's 360
footage super cool or is it super lame
but with that out of the way today we're
talking about how to edit 360 footage in
Premiere Pro now I'll be totally honest
with you guys when I first started
working with my 360 footage I was just
like ready to pull my hair out it was a
total pain in the ass I couldn't figure
out how to get it to play in Premiere
Pro and I couldn't figure out how to
turn the camera around and just nothing
was working and I was about to scrap the
entire video but the more I worked with
it I finally got it figured out and I
learned a couple of things along the way
that I wanted to pass along to you guys
now I'm definitely not a 360 video
expert but I did learn a couple of
things that I think will be helpful and
will help you guys when you ultimately
decide to try out 360 for yourself so
with that being said we're gonna go
ahead and jump to Premiere Pro and get
started welcome back to my computer
everybody now today we're talking about
how to edit 360 footage in Premiere Pro
now unfortunately as far as I know there
really isn't like a native way to just
shoot your 360 footage imported into
Premiere Pro and start editing right
away in most cases you're gonna have to
stitch the footage and export it into a
format that works with Premiere Pro so
in my case I'm using the insta 360
studio for the 1x camera which is the
camera that I have but pretty much every
360 camera as far as I know it's going
to have its own software I know like the
GoPro Fusion has its own software
obviously insta 360 does so depending on
your camera you're going to need to use
their software in order to stitch and
convert your footage for Premiere Pro so
in my case what I'm gonna do is I'm
going to find my eye nsv files which are
the files are recorded on my camera
I'm just gonna grab a couple of them and
I'm going to drag them into my insta 360
studio once those are in my studio I'm
just going to select all of them I'm
going to right click I'm going to click
batch export and I'm going to set my
settings that I want from my footage so
obviously I want the original resolution
I don't want to downscale it at all I
want the original bitrate I want to make
sure I'm using the gyroscope
stabilization and it's up to you whether
or not you want to lock the direction
now personally I didn't lock the
direction for my video but I kind of
wish I would have because then I
wouldn't have had to use so many
keyframes so go ahead and choose what
settings you want and then choose the
folder that you want that to go in and
you're going to click OK now for this
tutorial I'm not gonna do that because I
have already done it for my footage but
keep in mind if you have a lot of Clips
like hundreds of clips this could take a
really long time unfortunately as of
right now working with 360 footage is a
lengthy process when you want to edit it
in Premiere Pro so go do something go
outside go out to dinner have fun and
come back and your footage should be
ready for you alright perfect so we've
converted our footage and now we have a
bunch of mp4 files of our 360 footage
that we can actually use in Premiere Pro
so I'm gonna go ahead and grab that
footage and import it into Premiere
perfect so we've imported our footage
into Premiere Pro and now we're ready to
start editing that's where you're wrong
bucko unless you have a really awesome
computer that's capable of handling like
6k and 8k footage chances are you're
gonna have to create proxies in order to
actually work with this footage the way
we do that is we're gonna select all of
our Clips here we're going to right
click we're going to click proxy and
we're going to click create proxies then
we just choose a preset for me
personally I'm just gonna choose like
the lowest resolution possible which is
this 1024 by 540 GoPro cine forum and
I'm gonna have it export to next to the
original media in the proxy folder if
you want it into a specific folder you
can go ahead and choose that here and
then you'll click OK then Adobe Media
encoder is going to open it's going to
automatically start encoding your
proxies and once they're finished they
will all automatically be attached to
your footage in Premiere Pro so the good
thing is if you want you can kind of
start editing with the full resolution
footage while your proxies are being
created but personally I would rather
just let the proxies be created so I'm
gonna go do something else and then we
will come back once
the proxies are created alright so we're
back we stitched our footage in the
camera software and then we finally
created proxies and now it's probably
like a day or two later and you're
deciding you don't ever want to use 360
footage again which is kind of how I
felt but once you get those steps out of
the way now you can actually edit
seamlessly and the whole process should
go a whole lot smoother so those two
steps at the beginning are totally worth
it but now we can actually edit our
footage so first off I want to point out
you'll notice that your proxy files are
gonna have some black bars on them and
that's just because the aspect ratio is
slightly different from the native files
but you'll see if we turn off the
proxies then we get our regular image
back and there's no problem so just keep
in mind you are gonna have those black
bars but not really that big of a deal
just try to ignore them don't even worry
about it your edit is going to turn out
fine so now there's one last thing we
need to do before we can actually start
editing this footage and you're going to
need to download these GoPro VR presets
fortunately they are free and I'll go
ahead and link those down in the
description below for you guys but this
is gonna help us reframe our footage and
get a more normal looking shot so once
you have those presets downloaded we're
going to be working with the GoPro VR
reframe and you'll see as soon as we
drag it onto our clip we get a more
normal looking shot it looks kind of
like your typical action camera footage
and now finally we can start working
with our 360 footage so if we go into
our effects controls make sure our clip
is selected we're basically just gonna
be working with this GoPro VR reframe
and basically this just allows us to
reframe our footage kind of makes sense
why it's called GoPro VR reframe but
you'll see we have our yaw where we can
turn the camera I can point it towards
me on the chairlift or I can turn it 180
degrees and show you guys the beautiful
view of the lake or I can turn it 360
degrees and show you back to where I
started we also have our pitch which is
gonna help us look down and look up and
we have our roll which is gonna kind of
roll the camera again 360 degrees now
another thing I want to point out about
the proxies is you are gonna have these
black dots on the top and bottom again
don't worry about it as soon as you turn
the proxies off that black dot is going
to disappear so just try to ignore it
and edit your video how you normally
would but now let's talk about how we
actually edit our 360 footage so we have
our field of view our ya
our pitch and our role and like I said
you're gonna use these parameters to
basically point the camera in any
direction that you want so to start off
this particular shot I want it to point
at me and my girlfriend on the chairlift
and I kind of want to get a more
immersive view to kind of see like our
legs and the whole background and all
that stuff so I'm going to adjust the
field of view kind of zoom it out a
little bit and maybe point it down just
the tiny bit and fix the role so that
everything is straight so that's one
thing you want to keep in mind is you
want to try to have things to be
straight you want your trees to be
straight or any poles or anything like
that
and there aren't really any quote
unquote rules when it comes to using
these different parameters you kind of
just mess with them you know back and
forth and look at the screen to make
sure your shot looks good so for my
particular case I'm gonna go ahead and
say that this is a pretty good shot and
now you'll see if we play it back the
camera is going to stay in that
direction and I have a cool shot of me
and my girlfriend riding the chairlift
super immersive super wide angle and it
looks pretty awesome so that's pretty
much the basics of editing and framing
your shots we literally do everything
with this GoPro VR reframe but now let's
talk about probably the coolest aspect
of 360 video and that's being able to
turn the camera in all sorts of
different directions to show your
audience tons of different views so
let's say I want the camera to start
here on me and my girlfriend on the
chairlift but then I want it to actually
turn around in real time and show the
video of the lake now the way that we're
gonna do that is by utilizing keyframes
for this GoPro VR reframe now if you
don't know what keyframes are basically
they allow you to make a change over
time you set a keyframe then you go over
an extended period of time and you set
another keyframe so that'll make a
little bit more sense here in just a
second but basically what we want to do
is we want to pick our starting position
for our shot so for me this is gonna be
my starting position right here I think
the framing looks great and what I'm
gonna do is I'm going to click this
stopwatch on all of my parameters from
my field of view my yaw my pitch and my
roll and now what I'm gonna do is
actually play through my clip and decide
where I want it to start moving the
camera so let's go ahead and say we want
it to start moving right here I'm going
to pause my clip and then I'm going to
create a couple more keyframes without
changing any of these parameters so I'm
just gonna click the Diamonds here next
to my parameters and now I have another
keyframe so BAE
what this is saying is that from these
keyframes on the left to these keyframes
on the right nothing in my parameters is
going to change and then once it gets to
these keyframes on the right that's what
I want them to start changing so how do
we make them change easy we just play
through our clip a little bit more and
we decide when do we want our transition
to end so let's say I want it to end
here boom I'm going to pause and now I'm
going to change my parameters and
Premiere Pro is going to automatically
add keyframes for me so super easy I'm
just gonna turn this around I'm gonna
point it at the lake here I might look
down just a tiny bit so that the view
looks a little better and I might even
zoom in a little bit just so that you
guys get a better view of what
everything looks like now again make
sure everything looks straight make sure
you have a good angle and we'll go
something like that just for the sake of
the tutorial so now you'll see if I
start over we have my original keyframes
where the camera doesn't change its
gonna play along everything looked super
cool and I've got a nice shot of me and
my girlfriend on the chair and as soon
as we hit our second keyframes the
camera will start to turn around and
it's going to reveal this amazing view
for my audience so pretty cool you can
pretty much point the camera in any
direction you want and what's really
nice as you pretty much are never going
to miss the shot if you're snowboarding
and your buddies to your left and your
other buddies to your right you can
pretty much film both of them at the
same time so that's pretty much the
basics of editing 360 video and kind of
changing the camera angle and using
keyframes and all of that now a couple
more things that I like to do is I like
to highlight all of my keyframes right
click and select this auto bezzie a
that's just gonna make the transition a
little bit smoother but that's pretty
much the basics of editing the last
thing I might do is add a little bit of
a smooth transition here to about 30
which again just kind of smoothes it out
a little bit more so then once you've
got this shot I'll die out of course you
would move on to your next shot add that
GoPro VR reframe and start the whole
process all over now keep in mind you
don't have to use keyframes for every
single shot if you want it to just be a
static shot you basically just set your
parameters and leave it you don't have
to set any transition keyframes or
anything like that now the last thing
that I wanted to talk about really quick
is color now the insta 360 does have a
log profile which is what I'm shooting
in right here and fortunately it seems
to match the GoPro flat color profile
pretty well if I actually use my GoPro
lets you
I apply the lot and it looks pretty
awesome then we can just color correct
like we always do kind of bring our
highlights down maybe add a little more
contrast we're gonna need to add a lot
of saturation because it is a pretty
flat profile and something like that is
looking pretty good I like my Clips nice
and bright I always add some curves will
come down will come up like this and
maybe add a little bit of that action
and for the sake of the tutorial we'll
go ahead and say that looks good so if
we play it through we got some nice
colors we're gonna have a nice
transition and we have a solid 360 clip
and then you just export it like you
always do and your video will be ready
to go but it's a pretty simple process
it does take a little bit of time at
first but once you get everything dialed
super easy and super fun you'll get some
pretty awesome angles so there you go
guys
a little rundown on how I'm editing 360
footage in Premiere Pro now I know it is
a little bit of a process there's a
bunch of different steps and
unfortunately you can't just go shoot
and edit right away with this particular
method but there are hundreds of
different methods you can use phone apps
and different software and plugins and
all kinds of stuff to edit your 360
footage this is just the way that I do
it and the way that I'm gonna continue
to do it unless I find something better
but it works for me I think it'll work
for you guys and I hope you enjoyed
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we'll catch you guys in the next one
peace out
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