What content can I use for PMV videos?

danilodlr

doublevr Its pending aproval rn, I just want to make a good PMV and see if people like it, if so I take it more seriously and add a payment method, for now just want to "play arround"
Its this the creator tab? https://partners.sexlikereal.com/profile/manage

doublevr

danilodlr right

xeddin1

@danilodlr
We should keep in touch. I have just recently started creating PMVs. Just waiting on my business number to be completely set up.

There aren't many of us, we should keep in touch to share ideas / information.

You can check out some of the content I have made below.

[First VR PMV] - Made for fun
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/sy0pwo2gis112jqxnm87d/Champion.mp4?rlkey=tumzim9grvdwc1zy4e6mir3vo&st=i39440kv&dl=0

[First Passthrough VR PMV]
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ymtqoo1jv9m6v0btpw453/FullPassthroughVRPMV.mp4?rlkey=id4hnni90b9exxyf3w0ivkluo&st=vmfhfo52&dl=0

[Trailer for new VR PMV]
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/49awteeu9e4ec7vr6ezzr/beattest.mp4?rlkey=ighliqnghlkcuqmm4680ieb3y&st=18p5m67l&dl=0

xeddin1

@doublevr
Can you clarify timestamping more? Do we need to timestamp the specific time IN the original SLR clip that we are using? What if I have a PMV that only actually uses two SLR videos?
Could I just say, the first half from 0:00:00 -> 0:02:30 is from SLR video ABC
second half from 0:02:31 -> 0:05:00 is from SLR video XYZ ?

Or is it that every snip and every cut needs the exact time that it occurred in the SLR video?
Specifics on this is very very important because sometimes there could be 100-500 cuts and snips. If we need to also know the exact time this occurred in the original video this could become a very daunting task.

doublevr

xeddin1 i think we should be good. Will follow up with the team

doublevr

So excited to see PMVs and compilations back.
We are changing the logic to deprecate timecodes 🔥

xeddin1

doublevr
WHAT!? That is the best news I've heard in the past 5 years. Absolute game changer for PMV creations

danilodlr

xeddin1 Sure! I'm new to VR PMVs and also high resolutions (8k). These last few days, I've been doing some research to make some edits without having to render for 10 hours straight lol. I just discovered that FFmpeg does miracles and is very fast! I have a lot of ideas and really want to make some PMVs, the best on SLR 😉.

doublevr I have a cool PMV almost ready, but it's around 02:05-03:00 minutes long. Is that enough? I can hardly find videos on SLR that are that short. Is there a minimum length?

xeddin1

danilodlr are you saying you have a way to create a proxy in a very short amount of time?

danilodlr

xeddin1 Maybe it's silly (as I said, I'm new to editing at such high resolutions), but it was taking me quite a long time to extract video clips in 8k to later combine them with effects or edits. Basically, I found a way to extract the clips I need very quickly. To be precise, it takes 2-3 seconds to extract 1 minute of 8k video (loseless). With proxy I guess you mean creating lower resolution versions of existing videos, I didnt need to do that for now...

xeddin1

danilodlr
That’s really incredible, that would mean about 1-3 minutes for an hour video.

Right now the fastest time I have for proxies is about 20 minutes. But that also requires me to download the lowest res version of the video and then attaching the proxy of that video to the main video.

Your final output is still 8k? I’d love to know what you do

danilodlr

xeddin1 No problem, Its not a secret haha.
I made a little program in Python that uses ffmpeg to cut videos. You can download the 8K h.265 version of an SLR video and use it without issues. As I mentioned before, you can cut segments of several minutes in just seconds (the last test I did, cutting a 10-minute segment, also took 2 seconds lol).

I can upload the code to GitHub or Google Drive and share it with you, but I would need to explain how it works. The only inconvenience is that you need to manually modify the start and end times of the clip in minutes, seconds, and milliseconds each time you want to trim a video, with no frontend, editing the code manually.
Luckily, I managed to make the program recognize other details like resolution, encoding, FPS, etc auttomatically.

Now I'm trying to create another program that is capable of putting the videos together with some simple transition to get started without having to go through the editor. Let's see how it turns out.

BTW what program do you use for editing video, im using OpenShot, and I hate it 😆

xeddin1

danilodlr
So you are just cutting the clips? Can you scroll through the footage quickly while editing? As that is essentially what a proxy is - you edit on low res and then flip the switch to turn it back to max res because it’s nearly impossible to edit 8k footage as is.

I use adobe premiere pro

danilodlr

xeddin1 I don't quite understand what you mean by proxy. I use the 8k video material directly, and the clips I extract to later use in editing are also 8k directly. The output, everything its in 8k. I suppose it's unnecessary if you can upload the video in 4k and let SLR handle the upscaling later. I don't use a timeline as such, it's a bit long to explain, I have a somewhat strange method of working on PMVs.

xeddin1

danilodlr
A proxy is a lower resolution video created from the source material. Attaching a proxy to the source material allows you to edit an 8k vid as if you were editing a 400x200 vid (or however low you want). When you are done editing, you export the video which will export to the 8k quality.

Pros:
Editing the highest quality of content at extremely fast speed

Cons:
Creating a proxy can take about an hour per video. (I usually set a bunch of files to be turned into proxies while I sleep).

Also...you edit the videos directly in 8k? I don't think any computer is that fast to be able to seamlessly edit 8k videos with no issues.

Also also, I do not upload the videos in 4k and leave it to SLR to handle upscaling. I upload 8k videos, but create a super low resolution proxy for the purposes of EDITing only. The proxy allows EDITING and effects as if it was a 360p video, and then converts the project back to its original form at 8k.

TLDR; Create a proxy so that you can edit 8k videos as if they were 360p while retaining the 8k quality

danilodlr

xeddin1 Interesting, I didnt know you can do that at all, thanks for the info m8!

danilodlr

Looking more closely at the proxy method you mentioned, you've opened up a whole new world for me. Thanks again for the info. It turns out that the way I was working with videos was far from the best. You've just saved me a lot of time and headaches!

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