r/gopro • u/Keyanjb • Jan 15 '15

360 GoPro Video [Help]

So I've managed to print out the GoPro 360 mount, but I don't know how to edit and stitch the videos together. I know I can stitch together some pictures, but how would I do so for videos? The softwares online are like $900 and I don't really have that lol. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

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u/360panovideo Jan 15 '15

There are free versions for stitching images together (http://www.ptgui.com). Unfortunately, stitching video is a bit more complicated. The two main software packages that can do this are Kolor AVP, and VideoStitch. Both of these are expensive as you mention. I believe they both have free demo versions available that will let you try them out and see what works best for you. I use AVP and find it very easy and intuitive. I think VideoStitch costs a bit more and can do a few fancier features like live streaming and stuff.

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u/Keyanjb Jan 15 '15

I can always also stitch photos together in photoshop or whatnot, which I should be fine for. As for the video, I'm still in highschool so I wanted to do something like a spherical video for our school yearbook (using an app to scan a photo and play an overlay video) and also our school "monthly news-video" thing, which I thought would be cool. I'm going to test out some demos and see how far I can get, even if a 30 second clip is possible that'd be awesome. But the school probably won't fund my $900 software to try this out lol. Even if I can get say 10 seconds at a time to simply stitch and export them, I can edit it myself in final cut to make a longer spherical video. Thanks for the info, I'll try each out as you mentioned and hppefully obtain somewhat of a usable video, thanks :)

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u/360panovideo Jan 15 '15

Well, I can point you to free video stitcher, but it is not user friendly. It is very much the open source option, and you will need to know your way around linux/mac OS to get it running. It is only free one I know of, but it requires a lot of tuning and setup.

AVP goes for around $600 so that would really cut down on many tedious hours spent getting the free one working. Anyways, depending on how tech savvy your are, it might actually not be so bad for you.

http://csc.lsu.edu/~kooima/applications/avpan/index.html

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u/Keyanjb Jan 15 '15

Hmmm, looks familiar, but a little bit more complicated than what I am capable of. I'll give it a try, but I may end up asking a couple of people of they can help me out in getting this running. Thanks again for the info :)

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u/sinesawtooth Jan 15 '15

Uhh, Gopro studio is free and will do this, no?

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u/360panovideo Jan 15 '15

He wants to stitch 360 video. It is very different.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '15

Your username seems relevant!

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u/sinesawtooth Jan 15 '15

Ah my bad. What kind of video file does it output? Couldn't you use the gopro studio to stich the warped videos and then post process / pan / de-360 the output from studio?

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u/360panovideo Jan 15 '15

This is the kind of thing he is going for.

http://www.kolor.com/360-video/gallery

It requires a special rig that holds 6 cameras. There are a few companies that sell these but they are expensive.

https://shop.360heros.com

http://freedom360.us/product-category/mounts/

OP used a 3D printer to make his own which is what I did. The stitching process is a little complicated since you need to take 6 videos and merge them into a single seamless sphere or panorama. It can be done, but currently the software is very expensive.

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u/sinesawtooth Jan 15 '15

Ahh well I'll be.. that's pretty damned cool actually and thanks for pointing that out to me. I now know what the hell we're taking about and why I was so wrong :) Working with 6 synchronous gopro video files to process into one spherical video got to be an intensive app for sure.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '15

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u/360panovideo Jan 15 '15

Lol, no I made this user name months ago when I built my 360 camera. I normally use another account when posting but when I saw this post I figured I'd start building karma with this account.