By Al Caudullo
Over the past year, the tools of the 360 trade have been emerging, developing and creating new terms in video production. Terminology like LatLong, Rotate sphere, HMD, FOV, stitching have been coupled with more familiar video terms like parallax, Cinematic, Haptics and latency to define new meanings in the VR Metaverse. We now even have VR Face to describe how people look while wearing an HMD, or Head Mounted Display.
The leaders of this brave new editing platform have likewise revealed themselves. I am going to list some programs that I believe have become the essential tools of the 360 VR video trade.
First. The most called upon tool in the arsenal, Mettle SkyBox. Chris Bobotis, Nancy Esperjesy, and their team have been true pioneers in the field of 360 VR Video. Even Forbes christened him so in a recent story. The plugins and transitions, for Adobe Premiere and After Effects, have become the go to the toolset for 360 VR video creators.
Second. What do you do when you already have Academy Award winning planar tracking technology which is also the most popular tracking software in the business? The answer was clear to Ross Shain, CFhief Marketing Officer at Boris FX, create a planar tracking tool that could world in the spherical world of 360 VR video. Hence, Mocha VR was born. I was lucky enough to be included in the beta team that tested this remarkable product. Tracking, roto, removing and/or replacing objects and even horizon stabilization give the 360 VR video → continue…
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