jamesjhill
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Location: Japan
Registered: 1 Jun 2009
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Photoshop CS4 Spherical Panorama To Video
Posted: 1 Jun 2009 at 8:10 GMT
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I've been trying to find a way to render a set of camera movements inside a spherical panorama as a video. I tried Pano2Movie, but it always crashed. I tried a demo Stitcher unlimited, but the video was awful - too blocky. My latest attempt has been using animation in a spherical panorama in Photoshop CS4 Extended. Everything works perfectly except, again, the video quality isn't good. In fact, the whole panorama looks bad - blocky and low res - as soon as I put it into the 3D sphere.
Does anyone have experience doing this in Photoshop CS4 Extended? Any hints? I would like it to be one little preference setting somewhere that I've missed. This same panorama looks great as a Quicktime VR made in PTGui. Why the problems in Photoshop? Thanks for any insights!
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iam360Texas
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Registered: 12 Jul 2006
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Re: Photoshop CS4 Spherical Panorama To Video
Posted: 1 Jun 2009 at 14:08 GMT
updated: 1 Jun 2009 at 14:10 GMT
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I know what you mean. Recently on 2 different occasions we have been asked to convert our really great smooth rotation /zoom in and out Adobe Flash 10 .swf panoramas to Adobe .flv time based movies. OR they wanted the Adobe Flash .fla original for their use to convert to time based movie. Its clear the people asking for the .fla really did not understand the process.
We found a 30 day trial version of Moyea Flash Video Flash .swf to .flv. Essentially, you load the .swf into the viewer, click the red dot to start recording while you manually rotate the flash panorama around /up/down in/out full 360 degrees and when you are finished guiding the flash panorama around to see everything.. you click the red dot button to stop the recording. The software then generates a output file .flv . The longer you take to spin around zoom in /out to show the clients product the more .flv frames are recorded and the LARGER the .flv file.
Our Pano2vr .swf flash panorama is 1.5mb. The output adobe flash .flv was well over 120 mb. The output .flv file allowed no viewer interaction and there were no clickable buttons. The .flv is simple a time based movie file. You start the movie... hands off watch it through to its end frame and your done. Want to see it again? Click the .flv start button and it plays through again.
.flv's have only 1 use. The visitor can only see what you show them during the .flv recording of the flash panorama and thats it.
I think the issue is between Adobe Flash 9/10 player using the .swf and the Adobe flash movie format .flv
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zenalien
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Location: French Polynesia
Registered: 5 Oct 2008
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Re: Photoshop CS4 Spherical Panorama To Video
Posted: 4 Jun 2009 at 1:16 GMT
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Hi,
I suggest you use a 3D program, such as 3DsMax, Blender or LightWave....
- Map your panorama as a 100% self illuminated texture on a sphere
- Flip the faces of the sphere, or make your texture double sided
- Place your camera in the center of the sphere
- Animate
- Render
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