Today, I am going to teach you a new software
to reframe 360 videos for Social Media like Instagram or TikTok. And a new way on how a VR
professional, like me, edit and color 360 videos for immersive distribution on YouTube VR or Oculus
TV. The best part is, not like Adobe Premiere or Davinci Resolve, this software is FREE for
anyone who is learning VR video editing, or who only publishes on social media, or for personal
use. Lots of my viewers are asking for a free but good solution for 360 or VR180 editing, and I
can finally be the Santa, to deliver this workflow to you. Happy Holiday, smash that like button
and let's learn a new skill for the new year. Happy Holiday everybody, it is your boi Hugh
here back from another 360 editing tutorial. My Davinci Resolve series is great, but it is not
FREE if you are editing 4K and above 360 videos. Or you want the highest resolution output. Resolve
FREE version limit your input video resolution to 4K. It means your 5.7K Insta360 ONE X2 or GoPro
MAX footage is going to be scaled down to 4K. That is why your output is not as good as direct output
from Premiere. You can spend $200 dollars to get the studio version, or you can learn a new
software I am going to teach you today - SGO Mistika Boutique - the educational edition.
Mistika Boutique is the same software big studios like Warner Bros. and Disney use for
Hollywood budget movies. Movies like The Marvel Avenger End Game, Black Widows, Captain Marvel
are all finished in Mistika Software. Mistika knows, not everyone works for a big studio with
a Hollywood budget, especially for immersive content creators. So they decided to make an
Educational Edition that is completely free for anyone who wants to learn the Hollywood level,
professional coloring, and finishing workflow. If you are making money, you should def pay
Mistika as it is an amazing software for immersive and 3D post-production.
You will save time by using it. And in the movie industry, time is money.
But if you are just a film student, or social media creator who don't need to master
your delivery in Netflix standard - meaning ProRes or EXR sequence - then, you can use
the educational edition completely free with no restriction in even 8K 3D.
Don't thank me. Go thanks the team behind Mistika. Okay, enough background information. Go
ahead and download the free Educational Edition of the Mistika Boutique, and
follow along. Mistika Boutique is optimized for both PC and MacOS - so
it does not matter what system you use. Edit Insta360 ONE X2 Footage We will use Insta360 ONE X2 footage
as an example. If you don't have it, feel free to download the footage to follow
along. You may ask, why even bother to use any editing software to reframe and edit 360
video, if Insta360 Studio can do everything. Well, the short answer is, NO, it can not do
EVERYTHING. And no successful creator only uses Insta360 Studio for their viral reframe videos.
You will quickly see why. Just follow along. For Insta360 ONE X2 footage,
we will recommand stitching it inside Insta360 Studio into ProRes
MOV. But if you are short on storage, you can render it in H265 but at least
max out the bitrate to 200Mbps - so you have the best quality. Now, you can close
Insta360 Studio and open Mistika Boutique. Mistika Boutique - the Standard Immersive Workflow Before opening Mistika Boutique, open
the Mistika Config Tool. Under General, choose a VR immersive preset. I will
choose the FactoryPrset_ VR_3840x1920. It does not matter what you choose in editing as
Mistika is a resolution-independent software. So if you are editing on a laptop like what I do
here, I will choose a lower resolution preset. If you don't know what I am talking about, please
refer to this Mistika Boutique tutorial here. Load the preset and click
okay. Now open Boutique. Click Project - New Project to create a new project.
Give it a name, and now it asks you to import some video. We will close it for now. Go ahead
and drop in the Insta360 Studio render into the timeline. I create a new folder called footage
and link it inside as a Progressive Sequence. I already made a tutorial on how to edit
inside Mistika Boutique - check it out here. Or you can watch Mistika Official
tutorials on their YouTube channel. The professional version and the
education edition are completely the same. Here, I click this icon to expand the preview
windows to see where I want the edit. Holding the right mouse button, you can srub tho the
timeline and find your cut point exactly. Right here before the straight fly is where I
want to start. I hold down the middle mouse button and make a gesture to go down, it will cut
at the play head. I just select the first part and hit delete - as we don't need it.
BTW, if you really want to see what is going on and play the clip, you can double click and
go inside. Mistika Boutique usually works in dual monitors. But for screen recording
purposes, I set it to only one. As you see, the footage is beautiful.
Sunset at the water Dam. We fly this with DJI Inspire 2. If you need professional
360 VR aerial footage, consider hiring us. We go back and trim the end like so as well. Now let me show you how easy to reframe 360 videos
for your social media inside Mistika Boutique. Click FX here, click VR View. You see the VR
View effect filter is on top of the footage. You can click right here to minimize the view
now as we are done with editing. Double click inside the VR View effect. You already see
a FLAT view like a 2D camera. Just like the GoPro FX Reframe plugin inside Adobe Premiere. But
faster, fully GPU accelerated, and more powerful. Very important, first thing to do is to
pick the footage within the VR View effect and make sure the RESULT SIZE is INPUT instead of
Project. Project takes the project size - which is 3840 by 1920. This is actually what the FREE
version of the Divinci Resolve does. Your RAW footage is 5760 by 2880, 5.7K, and you want every
single pixel in your final reframe video for max resolution. So you pick INPUT size instead.
Now go back to the VR VIEW. You can look around without fisheye distortion in the Planar
mode by changing and animating the Yaw, Pitch and Row. But for reframing, we are interested in
the same result as Insta360 Studio, so we pick Tiny Planet projection instead. Reducing the focal
length, you get yourself a beautiful tiny planet. It is that easy! But then we notice a problem
immediately - we see part of the DRONE! Also, the color looks awful. Insta360
always looks too cold on auto WB in a sunset shot. We need to fix all that to get
a professional reframe result. As you know, there is no way to remove the drone and fix the
color in the FREE Insta360 Studio. BUT In the FREE Mistika Boutique - this is part of the standard
360 workflows you need to do. Let me show you. Remove unwanted objects in 360! Go back and delete the VR View effect. Instead,
we are adding VR stitch effects - the same effect as in Mistika VR. Mistika Boutique
includes the full version of Mistika VR. So if you are in a pinch and need to
stitch something without paying Mistika VR, you can totally do that in Mistika Boutique.
Another tip to save you some money. Double click and go inside VR stitch. We are
practically importing a stitched equip-rec footage from the Insta360 Studio. So in input
camera 1, Mapping, we should choose LatLong. Now, if you hit the VR icon button, you can
look around just like inside Adobe Premiere. You can even turn on 3D if your footage
is 3D 360 shot on the Insta360 Titan. One more button that is better than Premiere
or Davinci Resolve is the View in VR headset button right here. You can view your edit in VR
with Oculus Quest 2 without a cable connected to your PC. Mistika is the only solution that
provides untethered VR preview during editing. As long as your Quest 2 is connected to the same
local network as your editing machine, you can turn on this button - write down the URL. Go into
the FREE DeoVR app inside your Quest 2, input that URL, and make sure you pick HTTP instead of HTTPS.
Boom, you get a live view of your edit. This is great for color grading and editing in VR.
And the best of all, these are all FREE! One thing inside the VR headset, we notice
the Insta360 ONE X2 horizon stabilization is not doing a perfect job. The
horizon line is not straight. Let's turn off Draw Feather and Draw Overlay.
Instead, we are turning on Draw Grid. With the horizon grid help, we can hold down
Ctrl or Alt to level the horizon line like so. When the horizon line is straight, we can
add a Mistika VR stabilization by clicking the "stabilize" button right here. No matter how
much GoPro or Insta360 advertise their amazing stabilization feature - you always need to do
extra work to stabilize it to get perfect result. Now we are going to paint out the drone. A
very important concept. In Mistika Boutique, you always want to paint out objects in
their original resolution. So step 1 is to save and close the Boutique.
Open Mistika Config Tool again, create a preset with 5760 x 2880 resolution -
as that is the RAW ONE X2 footage dimensions. Open Mistika Boutique back
up and open the project. Now turn on node graph view by clicking
this button. This part is really similar to my Davinci Resolve Fusion object removal
tutorial. Go to effect and add a VR View on top. Double click inside the VR view, pitch up to see
the drone. Zoom out with focal length. Go back to node graph. Now go to FX and add a vector paint.
Hold down Alt and copy the VR View FX like so. Copy the connection by holding down ALT like
so. Lastly, connect the Vector Paint node to the VR View node. You don't need to understand
what I am doing here, just copy it exactly. Double click inside the second VR View node. Under
Direction, choose Reverse Previous VR View Camera. Okay, nothing is changed but this
is great. Now we can use the vector paint to paint out the drone dynamically. Go
back and double click on the vector paint. Click show Paint interface. Brush, you choose
CLONE FORCE. And then increase the Brush size. Alt click a clear part of the sky as CLONE
SOURCE. Then just paint out the drone. You can CLONE, or you paint in a solid color as
that is a blue sky. And mix them all together using different opacity. You can spend as much
time as you want to make it look realstic. Then when you are done, make sure
to click All Frames and All Shapes. Go back and take a look. Let me go back to the
Vector Paint again and try to soften up the patch by painting in more color and very low alpha.
Now, if you go back, you see it looks pretty good. Vector Paint is a very powerful tool, and you
will see how I use it to remove a tripod with a lighting changing environment as you see
the campfire shot here. And this shot is actually stereoscopic. Here is the node graph
of this removal. As you see, it is a lot more complicated than what the official Mistika
tutorial shows you. If you want to learn the professional stereoscopic removal workflow - check
out our 360VR Filmmaking masterclass right here. Besides Vector Paint, we have a lot simpler way
to remove the drone, just like how we do it in Adobe Premiere. We just cover it with a sky plate
created in Photoshop or Affinity photos. You just import the sky plate, put a Comp3D node on top,
and make sure the source 360 footage is node #1, and the sky plate is #2. Then reconnect all the
other nodes. Now, you see the drone is gone! For most of the drone 360 video,
a still plate is good enough. Vector paint is a little overkilled, but I
want to show you all methods so you can learn. If you playback now, depending on your machine,
it is really slow. I will recommand rendering out a pass at this point to speed up
the reframe and 360 editing workflow. Before that, let's color it - something you
can not do in Premiere or Insta360 Studio. Mistika Boutique has as powerful coloring
feature as Davinci Resolve. Let's leverage it. Go to FX and add a color grade node. Double
click into color. Now just lift the grammar to bring back the midtone. We reduce the shadow
and increase the highlight slightly to increase contrast, but we selectively protect
the highlight by using a soft clip, so no information is blowing out or lost. We can
go into Bands and further adjust it by increasing the midtone and reducing the highlight.
Now add one more vector layer, and we lock the offset and push the color to a more warm
look to match the sunset. I think it looks pretty good now. Add one more vector, and we are going
to bring back the blue sky. We increase the blue and reduce the purple. We also reduce the yellow
a bit to increase the red. Then we bring up the saturation of Blue and cyan. And then we bring
down the brightness of blue and cyan. Look at the before and after - this is a huge difference.
The color toolset is really powerful in Mistika Boutique - it is something that takes time to
master if you come from Davinci Resolve tho. Okay, this is not a coloring tutorial
but if you are interested to learn how I color 360 VR footage - def check out
my 360 VR Filmmaking Masterclass here. I also noticed a huge purple fringe lens
flare caused by One X2 Chromatic Abberation. This is a known issue on the ONE X2 against
sunlight. We just bring down purple saturation and brightness to remove all the purple flare. Okay, now we are at a good point to render this
out. You don't have to. But in order to increase editing speed, especially you are on a laptop, I will highly recommend it. Click
this bottom to highlight this clip. Go to Output, select Quicktime and use
ProRes LT. So in the educational edition, the only downside is you don't have ProRes 422
or HQ. But I think ProRes LT is good enough. If you want the absolute best quality without any
quality lost, then you will need to pay Mistika. Hit Foreground and render
it out. Mistika is fully GPU render, so its render speed is a lot faster than
Premiere. Also, ProRes LT is a lot easier format to work with than H265 - which is what you get
from Insta360 Studio if you don't do ProRes 422. If your plan is to render out as 360 video
for YouTube VR, pick MP4 Nvidia Movie, and use H264 420 bitrate. Click the gear
icon here to choose your bitrate. In general, for a 5.7K monoscopic video, 85000 to
100,000 kbps should be good enough. Make sure to turn on audio as well if you
have put in music and want the camera audio. For Oculus TV, you can deliver in H265,
and it is recommended for Oculus Quest 2. That is HEVC 420 8bit bitrate right here.
All 360 video render, you need to inject meta for the respective platforms. For YouTube
VR, you need to use the free tool from Google call spatial meta injector. For Oculus TV,
you need to use FB360 encoder - which you can download it from here - the Facebook
Spatial Workstation. Please refer to this in-depth tutorial on how to release your 360
video using META Media Studio on Oculus TV. So, congrats! You just did the 360
Video editing. That is the hard part. What you are rendering out is a fully
finished 360 video clip with nicer color, no drone, and great stabilization, and better
horizon leveling than what you get from Insta360 Studio. You can bring it all back clip
by clip and edit it into a 360 film using the same technique I just
showed you, edit using Oculus Quest 2. Now, I will show you the easy part - reframe it
for social media. Go ahead and close Mistika. Open Mistika Config tool again and
create a new preset called TikTok. Make the master format to 1080 by 1920 vertical
format. Okay and open Mistika Boutique. Select all the source edit and hit keyboard
shortcut H to hide them. As we don't need them anymore unless we want to restitch or
recoloring. Here is the render ProRes LT. We drop in the VR View effect. Think VR View
as your reframe plugin. Double click inside. Again, go to the source clip and make sure the
Result Size is Input. Go to the VR View effect, change the mapping to Tiny Planet.
Now, let's animate this. Turn on auto key right here, and we go to the beginning of the
timeline. Set your Yaw, Pitch, Roll and Focal Length. Turn on Proxy mode here if Full resolution
is too slow for your machine. Then hit play, continue to change all 4 of these values to create
your animation. All the keyframes are already with smooth transition. But if you find any point
the animation is strange, like right here, you can open the keyframe graph by clicking this
button. Click Zoom Rst to see all the animations. The problem is right here. So click this
keyframe and use smooth tangen points. Draw the tangen points like so to create
a different style of the velocity curve. Play it again, now it slows down, overshoot, and
speeds up again - more like real-life motion. When you are happy with your reframe animation,
go back. Hit save right here to make sure you save everything you do. Select the session you want to
render. Now go to output render. We are posting this on Instagram Reel or TikTok. You don't
need high-quality render. Pick MP4 Nvidia Movie. Pick H264 420 bitrate. Not that 420 my stoner
friends. Click the gear icon, and you can change the bitrate right here. I generally keep around
30000 kbps - still very high quality render for social media posting. But this gives me a better
image quality. Click the gear icon next to video, change the path to User Defined, and pick the
location you want to save the file. Pick okay. If you have audio, turn on audio as well. Change
the render name and hit foreground to render. After rendering the clip
reimport back on the timeline. Check it out, it is really
good and really high quality. Here is the final rendered clip.
Right-click and see in media info, the clip is H264 in around 30Mbps -
which is a really high-quality clip. This is rendered out with the complete FREE
Mistika Boutique Educational Edition, which is mind-blowing considering how much you need to
pay Premiere per year to do the same thing. Okay, I just show you the tip of the iceberg of
Mistika Boutique. If you are doing professional immersive video editing - in 8K 3D with footage
from Insta360 Pro 2, Insta360 Titan or Kandao Obsidian Pro, then you should really consider
checking out my 360VR Filmmaking Masterclass. I will show you a more complicated workflow
here to remove objects using the advanced node graph system - the same idea as Nuke
without paying thousands of dollars. We will deep dive into 360 3D video color grading.
I will show you a pipeline to separate skin tone and talent inside a 360 video, track it and
fix their skin color, and make your talent pop. As a 10-year Adobe Premiere user, I won't
switch my story editing to Mistika Boutique. So in my masterclass, I will also show
you a workflow to edit in Adobe Premiere and finish inside Mistika Boutique. The
two software are tightly integrated. This portion of the masterclass will be released
soon, so stay tuned, check the link right here. I have coupled more Mistika Boutique tutorials
coming on YouTube. The next one I will teach you how to edit VR180 video. Mistika is famous for its
3D editing ability - that is why all Dinsey Marvel 3D movies are finished inside Mistika System. We
will leverage the same engine to deal with some 3D challenges in VR180. All these are coming up. So
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