360 video stitching method

I know a company in the netherlands that specializes in 360video and created their own camera (which is 5 camera's in 1) and alsoo created their own player.
http://www.rtvnoord.nl/nieuws/nieuws.asp?pid=95917

the 2nd video is the actual player.

they finally got the player in youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/doritosuk

But to create 360 videos, I think you can't get around by using 1 shot solutions.

Basicly what stiching software does, is finding reference points from 1 image in another, and overlap that. In an animation this means you have to shoot all 360 degrees all at the same time. You dont wan't 1 shot to be 0.5sec later, because you have traveled or things have moved, If you do this with multiple camera's you have more resolution, but you have to stich every frame (up to 20 frame per second). So stiching a 1 min movie, would result in 1200 photo's times 3/4 (depending on lens). If you use the same setup, you probally could batch this. Then you need to convert those images in somesort of format that krpano could read (QT or FLV).

Or if you have 4 camera's with 4 the same lenses on the same spot (or 1 camera with 4 lenses like yellowbird) you could create 4 streams of video. But I don't know any software that can stitch video. You could always convert a stream of video back to a TIFF/TGA sequence, stitch that with a batch macro, convert that back to a video and put the audio back under it from the orginal stream.

Alot of work ;p I have btw no idea, and never explored this field, so Im just guessing around ;p

well , when i'm right this player is just a lady bug.. but painted..

Tuur

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