Can you please give some more context behind your question?

Thanks. Glad you found this helpful. If you need to pull stills from the 360, then shooting stills (instead of video) is the way to go. Stills pulled from video can be tough to work with, but like you said, it really depends on the project's requirements. The 360 Viewer at Imajize is able to process both stills and video files. Feel free to check it out: www.imajize.com

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Yes. Here's an example of one on our website: www.imajize.com/ The smoothness depends on the number of photos you take. A typical 360 view will have anywhere between 20 and 72 photos, however some 360 views can have as many as 180 photos. They rarely go beyond 180, as 360 views with excessive frames tend to take quite long to load on a website.

Good question. When you cancel or delete your account, all of your 360 views will stop working. If you are on a 14-day free trial, then your 360 views will continue working until the free trial period is over unless you delete and/or cancel your account before the free trial ends.

Good question EliDoubleAlpha. The short answer is, it depends on the product... For example, a bicycle without a kickstand is typically hung upside-down with fishing string (the string is usually not visible enough to worry about, and the images are then flipped 180 degrees in Photoshop/Lightroom/etc. In another example, shooting a chef knife can be tough because it usually wants to tip over. A generally good solution for this is to place the knife upside-down on a very strong neodymium magnet. From there, we would build an ActionScript in Photoshop to automate the process of removing the magnet from each frame. Granted, shooting knives is relatively technical endeavor-but very fun and rewarding once you have a good system set up. Imajize is in the process of a company name change and full rebrand (same owners and team, though). The new company is www.SpinShot.io and we will have lots of new tutorials all about this stuff. For now, though, you're more than welcome to check out www.imajize.com to learn more.

Awesome. Hope it works out!

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Once all of the images cleaned up and edited, they are uploaded to Imajize (it's like Vimeo, but for 360 views instead of videos).

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You're quite welcome, Harley! Glad you like it. Lately we've been experimenting with using video replies for our customers at Imajize, but we haven't tried it on KZbin. Well, until now. Here's a personal video reply I whipped up for you. Hope you like it! kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJDMoGlrnqata6crel=0&showinfo=0

They are actually AlienBees strobe lights. It also has a LED modeling lamp, but it's the strobe flash that exposes the shot. We wrote a review on this light on our blog, feel free to check it out: www.imajize.com/360-tutorials/360-photography-equipment/alienbees-b800-perfect-strobe-unit-360-product-photography/

Thank you for your response, I have the iconasys automatic turntable, and I have difficult to make dissappear the acrylic "legs" on the acrylic riser (similar to your acrylic riser, not very difficult to diy) on the final photo automatically ( I need to increase a lot the levels and then the picture is not good) . I have a big led panel background 60cmx60cm all inside a lightbox, but the reflect of the object in the acrylic base makes be darker when the "legs" appears while rotating. But if I increase the bright levels, the object also changes a lot colors, specially hard with white objects. In your video is easy because the object is not white, and the reflect on the acrylic base dissappears completely too, because of the b800 (I suppose the led background only is not enough to get pure white) . I'm not sure that I can configure the iconasys software to work with studio flash like b800. Is your software compatible with iconasys? Probably you don't sell the software anyway and is only compatible with your turntable.

Glad you found my reply helpful! I guess you can say we "invented" the design for the acrylic legs (we called this system the "centerless turntable adapter"), so we were a bit surprised to see the identical design being sold elsewhere on the web just a few months after the date of posting this video. The design works really well! However, we do have a few years of experience refining this design to work with a wide range of product colors (both dark and white colored products). This style works best with standard photography strobe lights, as we found it optimal to have a relatively high degree of overall brightness control (this also helps keep your depth of field incredibly wide, your camera noise low, and it eliminates motion blur). It's designed for pro and semi-pro setups. We spent quite a bit of R&D on the thickness of the plexiglass because there was a fine balance between rigidity and the ability to easily blow out the plexiglass edges in the background of the image. What we like about our centerless turntable adapter is that it is a relatively simple design with lots of subtle engineering details. Unfortunately it's a bit difficult to mix and match 360 photography hardware/software systems. These solutions tend to be pretty integrated from end-to-end. If you would like to learn more about 360 photography lighting and tricks of the trade, feel free to check out our learning center if you haven't already: www.imajize.com/360-tutorials/ We plan on coming out with some more tutorials on lighting, and I can even see if it would be possible for us to cover one specifically on using the Imajize centerless turntable adapter with LED video lights (no promises for the short term, but I think it would be a great topic!).

Which is the exact thickness of the plexyglass base, and the thickness of the legs? A better design is possible, ussing 3 legs instead of 4, it requires a base, not very hard to make and better to center it. Very easy to do specially with CNC machine. No screws needed.

Our support team would be happy to talk to you about the product details. I'll include a link below where you can get in touch with them about your question: www.imajize.com/about/contact/ Thanks for the suggestion on how we could improve the design, by the way. The 3-leg system is an interesting approach.

You bet! As for your question about making more of the product in focus, we do a few things. I'll list them below: 1. We increase the aperture value to around F/14 (using bright strobe lights will help with this). 2. Use a DSLR camera with a cropped sensor (smaller sensors increase depth of field, whereas larger sensors make the depth of field very shallow). 3. Keep the zoom level at 50mm or less (less zoom will also optically widen the depth of field-this is why fisheye GoPro lenses have everything magically in focus). These three tricks will help quite a bit. I hope you find them useful! We're in the processes of adding some really great video tutorials to our website next month (January 2018). Feel free to check back around that time for more videos like this one. www.imajize.com

where can you buy a turntable like that one you used?

@@Imajize amazing tips thank you

Sara Jane Hi Sara, thanks for the heads up! I fixed the links you mentioned. The best way to contact me is via the contact form on our website: www.imajize.com/support/

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Thanks! Meant to send you a reply 2 years ago, but better late than never!

Hey there, Sorry to hear about that! I might suggest purchasing a polarizer for your lens. What you are trying to do requires a fair bit of skill, and shooting glass is no walk in the park. But purchasing a polarizer is the first suggestion I would make - it will let you have more control over the reflections and in some cases, will cause certain highlights to not blow out. Beyond that, it's pretty hard for me to help without seeing the actual images. Good luck! Feel free to check our our blog, which has more tips and tricks with shooting 360 views of products. Here's a link: www.imajize.com/blog

Yes, I did! I'm working on making a video on it. By the way, sorry for the late reply. Next time I'll get back to you much sooner than 2 years, I promise.

Thanks!! Glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks! Gimp is a pretty cool program too. Photoshop is what we know best, and Actions are so powerful. Do you use it for editing 360 view images?