{"id":243,"date":"2018-11-24T15:02:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T15:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tebweb.com\/360\/?p=243"},"modified":"2018-12-04T03:16:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T03:16:46","slug":"its-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tebweb.com\/calendar\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tis the season!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every day after Thanksgiving, for the past 104 years, my little home of Doylestown, PA holds a grand tree lighting and Santa arrival to mark the start of the Holiday Season. Thousands crowd the small borough streets to see the spectacle. Like a Norman Rockwell scene. I have become involved by providing social media video coverage. This year I really wanted to try to capture it in 360 with my six camera GoPro system. I found a street sign to mount it to on a long painter pole right next to the tree…..in the center of the action. The challenge was that I had to set it up, leave it alone for two hours……and hope for the best! At first I thought my external batteries weren’t going to work right. Despite my testing earlier in the week, one of the batts wasn’t staying on to power the cameras. And my remote was acting glitchy. I should mention it was also quite cold that day. So I decided to start them recording early, and hope for the best.<\/p>\n

The six camera GoPro HERO5 Session system mounted at the center of event action.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My mounting spot worked out great–I was worried about people crowding around and touching the street pole, but it turned out to be a mostly off limits area for crowd. Fast forward to the end of event, and all six cameras were still running! As you can see from my desktop screen, a perfect stitch, and a great viewpoint!<\/p>\n

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Before I was able to work on the 360 video, I needed to complete what was my main task of capturing the event with “traditional video.” For this, the 360 footage provided me with great views captured all at once, which I could edit into the main video by cropping whatever viewpoint I wanted to show. I was able to pan the crowd, for example. The clip below shows which scenes were actually from the 360 system. Hard to tell from a traditional “single view” video camera.<\/p>\n