rerun119 thanks for following up on that scene. Would you be surprised if I told you that scene was also shot on a K2 Pro and not a Canon camera
180 equirectangular greenscreen videos?
Vrsumo2017 I'm still waiting for Sandi to review the samples I shared the other day to see what they figure out. I posted previously what I found and how I get accurate scaling out of that camera. Also, yes K2 footage scaling starts looking very small if the subject is not close enough. That is not an issue with the Canon system.
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metichemsi Hey, the team is actually testing it now and they are reporting similar findings as you, I will be able to check on monday since I am intrigued how it does what it does.
Sandi_SLR sounds good, let me know if there is anything else I can assist with.
Have a great weekend!
If a remastering of the previously filmed scenes is all it takes to fix the scaling problems that would be awesome.
metichemsi No I wouldn't be suprised because I don't usually have any idea what camera is used. In that scene her head started to curve and look really big when her head was close to the edge of the picture. It was shot to close up so I had to zoom out a lot so I'm sure that didn't help.
I like the stories of PS-Porn but they aways look so big. Are these all shot on the K2? If so then why do they look big when I guessing other scenes with the same camera don't? And how is it 8K if that camera I thought wasn't 8K?
Sandi_SLR Any update on this from your team? Really curious to see if you were able to find anything.
Thanks
metichemsi Have you tried use heresphere to play fisheye videos? it worked good for me. l read all your comment but have no clue what your problem is cause it's too professional. As for the scale problem of their 8k , they said they already have the 10k rig. As for the fisheye, it is more realistic to many people.
metichemsi Hey, yea I am checking this today, will update later.
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metichemsi OK so I tried comparing 1 sample what canon utility makes and recreating same thing in Mistika for our fisheye 190Β° projection. There are 0 issues getting same scale. We will investigate further on more samples to be sure where it went wrong.
Lenovo you know, i recently found out about that app on one of these forums actually. I ended up purchasing it and I actually already like more than DeoVR. The quality of the video really is much better and the amount of customization is insane and yes, I have been able to fine tune and tweak the r5c footage a little better on that app. I also noticed that playback stability is better on that app. I get consistent and locked 90fps playback on my pimax headset, deovr struggles to maintain 90fps, it's always hovering between 87-90 and sometimes even in the low 80's specially when skipping videos.
Sandi_SLR Nice, please make sure to also recreate exporting the fisheye footage from mistika with the same resolution and aspect ratio as the CRM files, its not natively a 2:1 aspect ratio. I simply drop the CRM footage on premiere and export the fisheye footage in its native resolution and aspect ratio and your r5c camera profile on DeoVR shows great scaling on that footage. If you could replicate that process on mistika you should get similar results. Maybe dont do the usual VR workflow on mistika, simply drop in the footage, color grade, export in its original res and aspect ratio and try that also.
metichemsi If I understand what all is being said and EVERY studio is shooting 8K wrong. And you can teach every studio how to fix and shoot all the 8K correctly. Then you need an AVN award. Because this has been a curse of vr porn for the last year. It has ruined these companies that bought that camera so now they just keep making scenes with big people month after month.
metichemsi It is really hard to follow what you mean, why would you want to leave it original aspect ratio? For correct projection in app, you have to have it 2:1.
As I said, there is no issue preparing same perceived scale in Mistika on our 190fisheaye as Canon utility does it on 180equi on the example I had to check so far, I am waiting for our videoeditor to create several samples from Canon and we will redo it in Mistika and compare scale.
rerun119 I highly doubt they are shooting wrong, these guys are pros, but I have owned a k2 pro and now own the canon system and this is how i noticed and get correct scaling out of the canon camera compared to what everyone else is complaining about, so maybe it might help somebody. I just dont think SLR is personally relying on a fix for the canon system since they seem to already be invested on a new custom 10k camera solution, which quite frankly sounds badass and I cant wait to see samples of.
Sandi_SLR It's as simple as it sounds and you wont see it until you do it. Trust me, it takes absolutely no time at all, you just drop in the raw CRM footage, color grade it, and export it at it's original resolution and aspect ratio, just like I outlined on my previous posts. I also gave you a sample file where I did that for you already, didnt you look at it? You should be able to play that just fine on DeoVR with the canon profile and see the difference in scaling. Has anyone bothered to do this?
rerun119 you know what else strikes me super odd about all of this, is that the whole scaling issue with the canon camera is being blamed on it's IPD which is total BS to a certain point. If the IPD alone was the issue then how come footage from other consumer cameras with a much smaller IPD dont look even worse??? Think of the EVO and the VUZE cameras, those IPD distances are probably almost half of the canon system and do things looks almost twice as big? I dont think so, ive seen plenty of Vuze footage, some old scenes from other studios on this site where even shot on that, I also owned the EVO and scaling was never an issue. There is a balance between IPD, distance to camera, lens FOV and FOV rendered. I'm taking a wild guess here but I think the canon marketing is probably rounding up to 190 FOV for their lens, its probably a little lower than that, so when their software converts to 180 its actually zooming in a little more than it should, which is why the scaling is slightly larger than it should. They should be able to fix this with Mistika and not crop in as tight as the canon tool does, I just dont have the tools to precisely measure and prove this but they should. Again, it's just my guess but I'm pretty sure the canon lens is not actually a full 190 lens.
metichemsi Hey, we actually never used rf52 projection for releases (it turned out unusable), we prepare footage for fisheye190 projection, so you have to prepare it like you would for fisheye180:
- stereo correction
- export fisheye circles next to each other in 2:1 aspect ratio
I will prepare you a sample from your file you sent, fisheye190 with same scale, need to find time, probably on Monday.