Another grading-oriented update is support for Look-Up-Tables (LUTs) in standard 3dl, mga or m3d formats. I found it effective at making clips shot on different cameras look more uniform. You can select two clips and colour correct one so that it matches the other more closely by choosing that clip as the reference. This is something found in dedicated grading tools such as Adobe SpeedGrade, and is extremely useful if you’re shooting the same subject with different cameras or settings. You don’t get any control over how clips are cropped in the final effect, however.Īnother rather high-end addition is colour matching. You simply decide which clip goes where via drag and drop, and whether all will start at once or in sequence. This includes a selection of presets that can be animated. A collage designer has been added for creating rapid multi-clip opening sequences. There are also plenty of features that aren’t just for 360 footage.

They can even have motion tracking applied so they follow something in the frame as it changes relative location within the 360 sphere. But PowerDirector 16 comes with a collection of titles that are designed to work in 360, moving around as the viewer pans. If you use a regular titling tool, these will be 2D graphics placed over the top of the spherical footage, and won’t move when you pan around. You can also output footage with a “Little Planet Effect” where the 360-degree sphere is squished into a 2D frame so it looks like you’re viewing everything from a godlike position above.Ī significant problem when you’re editing 360 video arises when you want to add titles. The video stabilisation can be found in the Action Camera Center, and was effective with footage I took walking through a wood. One of the key new 360 facilities is image stabilisation, because regular 2D tools won’t work with this kind of video format.

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