How to create a 360° VR Metaverse Animation in AE | Tutorial

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The Metaverse! Everyone talks about it, but no one can really imagine it yet. Therefore, I want to bring you closer to the Metaverse through an example in this tutorial. I will show you, how to create a 360° VR video animation with your consumer 360-camera.
Let me explain my idea behind it:
360 degree VR videos & photos are nothing new. No matter if they are viewed on a screen or through VR goggles, the situation is as follows. The viewer has the possibility to move freely around the room. There are no restrictions and instructions for the viewer. To guide the viewer through the 360 room in a controlled way, the use of animation is a possibility.
I see great potential in using this technology, to present stores, facilities, art, learning materials and much more.
Therefore, in this tutorial I want to show you how to create 360 VR animations with Adobe After Effects. To keep everything as simple as possible, I will use a static 360° video, that I created with my Insta360 ONE X2.
In my opinion, Adobe After effects is currently the best program for creating VR animations. If anyone knows other programs, please let me know in the comments.
In the first step I open After Effects and create a new project. Then import your 360-photo or Video, where you want to add a VR animation. In my example I use a 360-video, which I created with my Insta360 ONE X2. To create the 360 degree animation environment, click on "window" and "VR Comp Editor" to open the After Effects plugin. The "VR Comp Editor" window will open where you can create a 2D edit.
After Effects automatically creates your 360-Editing and Final-Output Environment. You can switch between the Editing and Output-Rendering Environment with the buttons “Edit” and “Output/ Render” in the VR Editor.
In the Editing Enviroment you can move around in the 360-room with the “Orbit Around Cursor Tool”. The first Editing Step, I show you, is how to remove the Tripod in the 360-video. Point down to the Tripod with the “Orbit Cursor” and the select the “Clone Stamp tool”.
When you now click on the “Output” button in the VR Editor, you will see that the tripod has disappeared.
Now you will understand how the VR comp editor works. It is a kind of a converter. You can edit your 360 video in the editor and it will be automatically converted to a 360 degree video for export.
Create a new "3D Edit". Now we can start to add the first 360 Animation. My idea is to create an avatar that guides the viewer through the 360 room. But first we start with a simple text example. For this I use the text tool and write an example test text on the image. When you now move around with the Orbit cursor the text always stays on the same place. To lock it, the text must be marked as a 3D layer. The text disappears, because it is now exactly in the zero axis. To make the text visible again, change the z-coordinate. Now the text becomes visible again in the 360 room. With the coordinate-system the text can be placed anywhere you like.
Of course, it is possible to animate the objects with movements. Keyframes are used for this purpose. For this, the keyframe function must be activated with the stopwatch symbol. Set a keyframe at a defined time. Then move the timecoursor to set another keyframe at another time stamp. In this example, the text moves from the first defined position to the second.
To create depth it is necessary that the avatar disappears behind objects. For this, masking is required. I recommend you to mask directly in the output composition. My tip is to create a new "mask" composition. Add the 360 Raw material as top layer and then create your masks. Now the 360 VR video animation is finished. After exporting, the video can be viewed in a 360 video viewer such as Insta360 Studio. You can also upload it to KZbin or Facebook and watch it, using your smartphone.
If you want to create your own 360 VR content, you will find all the important links above. As 360 camera, I recommend the Insta360 ONE X2. The Insta360 ONE X2 is optimal for creating 360° material. Currently the Insta360 ONE X2 is the best consumer 360-camera on the market. A link to the editing program Adobe After Effects can also be found above. You can test Adobe After Effects for free. After the trial period there are different subscription models available.
I hope you enjoyed the tutorial. If you want to see more content about 360 VR video editing, subscribe to my channel and never miss a video again!
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[@vincentdecicco7393]

Dude this is an awesome video, thanks for sharing!

[@lottehuizenga7778]

Thank you! How did you make the 360 guide avatar?

[@C0llinsW0rth.]

awesome, thank you!

[@glintknot5474]

"Learning material" Yessss!!! 😂😂

[@xplore3608]

this is what i want to create. A cue guided animation 360-degree video for my viewer

[@ayushsrivastava8793]

can you explain how you are exporting this video?

[@jaihind7837]

Excellent

[@WiljanWiljan]

Thanks for your video. However there are 2 other excellent video editors for 360. 1 is Powerdirector and the 2nd is Magix video. Both software also include all other elements including titles, transitions, keyframing etc. They are both cheaper and easier to use as well.

[@peerretera6683]

Fantastic! Use AE all the time for 2D animations. This is new for me. Can I ask you one technical question? When I import a video from my Insta360 X3 to AE and keep the settings 1920 en 16:9 my video is all flat, stretched out. I'm sure is a kind of setting but can't find out which one... Thank you for answering :-)))

[@roxanebrouillet4972]

Thank you so much it helped me a lot for my work, you are a genius !!

[@alarinaproject6030]

Is there a good website to get 360 free avatars (animations) that we can use? Or could you share this AE example so I can also experiment? Thank you so much!

[@edgararcega3046]

I got one of these cameras a while back but haven't had enough time to use it. Think I've made like 3 videos with it. Sure is a amazing camera. I've actually had a few people i showed the videos i made tell me I'm in the wrong business. They think the videos are amazing and that i should make a career out of it lol. I don't think i will be able to make 100k a year by making videos though.

[@dimakhar]

Добрый день, скажите пожалуйста, возмож ли ли как то конвертировать обычное плоское видео, к примеру обычная игра, в какой то формат VR? Спасибо

[@BrandyCattle30]

I love your voice. It sounds Relaxing And btw I don’t have a laptop. Is there a way to make a 360 VR Video On an iPhone?

[@malikaagouram5087]

I want more videos pleaaaase 🙏🙏🙏

[@raulcendonsoler6438]

Hello good! Let's see if you can answer a question for me... how can I incorporate stereoscopic photography into the video? What format do I use in premiere so that it is recognized as a stereo photo?

[@ChristianValentine]

Is there a way to just zoom out and render a 360 video? On premiere, my 360 videos are zoom in too much once exported.

[@AntonBarcelona]

I need a similar but for vr180 is it possible?

[@liwaliwtv6267]

How about mobile editing. Is this any application recommended.?

[@Arazpall]

Cool video, but can I add an interaction with something that I put in my video and connect this interactive video with a VR goggle?

[@danielfomenko5465]

How to turn on 3d mode if I already made a scene in 2, In vr comp editor?

[@ArchitectVirendraChhatria]

How to make 360 VR video with MOTION... where we can see the movement of water ,humans etc. Coz this one is 360 image in which every thing is stable

[@rufaiibrahim7283]

Please I need this too, have you been able to find any tutorial?

[@ArchitectVirendraChhatria]

@@rufaiibrahim7283 no bro ☹️☹️ but I can make 360 of still images.

[@vladvandal8845]

can i do this with a video i made using google street view ?

[@kamanisamarasinghe]

Hi i want to create VR Metaverse for teaching instruments

[@ehabshawki9286]

is there mobile app can make 360 video?

[@CyberAngel_v01]

Excellent tutorial. But I wonder how a 3D camera could be generated. I mean a camera with two lenses to generate the stereoscopic effect. And how to export it. I don't see a way to generate a real VR scene with this workflow. It would only be 360, but not VR.

[@nathan5112]

How do you export it...

[@maclarenedwards6511]

How do you upload high quality 360 video to KZbin? When I try to upload the quality drops :(

[@bradyballard130]

Are you sure ? If you record in a hi resolution (1080 or 4k) and export in those resolutions youtube will upload in those resolutions. At first it only come in low res. Then after about 24 hours will be full res. Check your videos again.

[@DeepakSharma-ng9yh]

Can this be done using Mobile phone ??

[@Sucher]

Expecting AE results using Mobile Phone? ROTFLOL!

[@aliosmanyangoz9]

Can we put 3D model and on a 360 video?

[@gimbalguru360]

Sure 👍

[@DeepakSharma-ng9yh]

@@gimbalguru360 how to do that ??

[@bonjovijose2622]

please help me with this, i been trying for past one week but could not export

[@goodquestion8064]

I had to stop watching beacon the awful music