This document discusses 360 degree video workflows. It describes the Samsung Gear 360 and Humaneyes Vuze cameras used at the Vizlab for capturing 360 video and photos. The typical workflow involves capturing footage with these cameras, stitching the multiple camera views together using proprietary software, editing the stitched footage using specialized or new 360-enabled tools, and sharing the final videos through social media sites, custom viewers, or narrative editors like Forge.js.

1. 360 VIDEOS
Mark Gill

2. WHAT WE USE IN THE VIZLAB
Samsung Gear 360 2016
~120$
BT Control through Phone App
2D Only Videos and Stills
Humaneyes Vuze
~800$
WiFi Control through Phone App
2D/3D Videos and Stills

3. TYPICAL WORKFLOW
Capture Stich* Edit* Share

4. CAPTURE
 Capture videos/photos with a phone app
 Imagery is stored on the device
 Transferred to desktop by BT/Wifi/USB

5. STITCHING
 Images from each of the camera
lenses are stored as part of the
frame.
 Proprietary software is used to
stitch the frames together

6. EDITING
 Until Recently editing 360 photos and videos was a bit of a challenge
 Specialized Software
 Several 3rd Party tools to get everything right
 MetaData
 CC 2018 of Adobe Photoshop and Premiere now support ‘Spherical
Panorama’ modes

7. SHARING
 Existing Social Media
 Facebook, Youtube, Vimeo
 https://www.facebook.com/Karnivore/videos/10
207622280153867/
 ‘Home Brew’
 Forge.JS
 http://web.stcloudstate.edu/mcgill/ForgeJS/De
mo2.html

8. FORGE.JS NARRATIVE EDITOR
 Student Capstone Project in SE
 Uses Forge JS to link together
sequences of movies and stills to
form a narrative.
 Uses interactive ‘Hot Spots’ to
move through the narrative.
 External media can be imbedded
 High Level UI for crafting and
publishing