Reframe360 Ultra is a DCTL fuse for Fusion and Resolve that allows you to reframe your equirectangular/spherical/LatLong panoramic videos to create unique camera angles. This reframing effect is also called "Overcapture".
The code was ported by @Shem Namo, and Andrew Hazelden from the original open-source Reframe360 Resolve OpenFX plugin by Stefan Sietzen.
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DCTL Fuse Support Requirements
- An OpenCL, CUDA, or Metal based GPU
- Fusion Studio 16-17.1+ or Resolve 16-17.1+
Download and Install
Download Reframe360 Ultra today using Reactor's "KartaVR/Tools" category.
Example Comps
There are three example comps included with the toolset to get you started.
You can access these examples by selecting the "Reactor > Tools > Show Comps Folder" menu item. This will open a desktop file browsing window using Explorer (Windows)/Finder (macOS)/Nautilus (Linux). You can then hop into the "KartaVR/Reframe360" folder.
Reframe360 Projection Comparison
The "Reframe360 Projection Comparison.comp" example uses a grid pattern to visualize the distortion applied via the rectilinear and tiny planet projection controls in the Reframe360 Ultra fuse.
Reframe360 Tiny Planet Barrens
The "Reframe360 Tiny Planet Barrens.comp" example project shows a DCTL Fuse-based approach for creating "Tiny Planet" stereographic imagery. It starts with an equirectangular image that is reframed into stereographic output projection. The camera is animated from a wide-angle distant view of the scene down to ground level.
Reframe360 Tiny Planet Barrens
The "Reframe360 Tiny Planet Forest.comp" example project shows a DCTL Fuse-based approach for creating "Tiny Planet" stereographic imagery. It starts with an equirectangular image that is reframed into stereographic output projection. This Fusion example comp also applies a vignetting effect to the tiny planet image and crops the output to the final frame size.
Open Source Software License Term
The Reframe 360 Ultra fuse is Apache 2.0 licensed.Resolve Effects Template
There is a bonus Resolve Edit page "Effects Template" that can be dragged from the "Effect Library > Toolbox > Effects > Viewer > kvrReframe360Ultra" section right onto a timeline-based video clip. You then have the ability to refine your animation keyframes using the Fusion page Spline view.Edit Page Usage
Step 1. Install Reactor and add the Reframe360 Ultra fuse package to your Resolve-based system.
Step 2. Open a Resolve video editing timeline in the Edit page.
Step 3. Display the Effects Library tab, and switch to the "Toolbox > Effects > KartaVR > Viewer > kvrReframe360Ultra" section. Drag the "kvrReframe360Ultra" entry onto a video clip in the timeline.
Step 4. Click on the video clip in the timeline and switch to the Inspector's Effects tab. Edit the settings to give the output you desire.
Typically you will adjust the "Field of View" control to zoom out in the scene, and then select if you want a rectilinear or tiny planet output style by sliding one of those two projection sliders all the way to the right. You can rotate the view with the Pitch/Yaw/Roll controls.
Step 5. The viewer window in the Edit page should update in real-time to show your live warped result.
Step 6. If you want to refine the spline animation curves for your keyframe animation, click at the top of the Edit Page Inspector window's Effects section on the small "magic wand" icon. This will bring the currently selected video clip with the Effects Templates applied into a Fusion page compositing session.
STMap / UVPass Generation
@Shem Namo came up with a really neat idea to add a 1-click "Output ST Map" checkbox to the fuse that saves out an instant ST map warping template image.This approach can help you bake to disk the Tiny Planet warping effect, which can allow you to then apply it to a composite using the Reactor provided STMapper fuse, RE:Vision Effect's RE:Map plugin, or any other external VFX tool's UV pass/ST Map warping toolset; like TouchDesigner if you are doing live stitching and streaming of 360° VR Video.
This output format on the DCTL fuse also allows you to jump back to Fusion 9 (if you just can't live inside of Fusion 17 for too long at one time...) and take the exported ST Map warping template image/image sequence created from Reframe360 with you on the way out the door.
