How to use the theta V with Google Maps to create pictures by shooting video.
I'm trying to show a tutorial here so you can get started with the
theta V and shoot video then post it through the Google Street Maps it will
then convert it it'll map it create Street Street View views just like the
Google car does what it's portable and personal. Google now has got a number of
innovations coming out that are VR related and it looks like they're
they're going to be offering a whole different thing to Google Maps and it
looks like they're trying to make it a much more interactive process. I'm going
to share here what I've what I've learned and by go through the
process step by step make it a little bit easier for the user whoever's looking at this. If you
want to get shooting quickly avoid some of the pitfalls for you. Some of the
applications that I think this will work well for, is for companies that don't
have a good road sight curb appearance, now you can go back within the building
you can map it for them you can video it it'll be online visitors could now see
the location. I know one case of a lumberyard that's very narrow in the
front people don't realize how deep it is out in the back you can also map
cemeteries, walks, bike trails, ski trails maybe even kayaking along the shoreline.
Give viewers a different experience of what that location is like that's where
I think Google is headed and this is a personalized way that you can contribute
to Maps we'll show you some of the pitfalls and by the end of this
hopefully you'd be able to pick up the camera and go pretty well with the camera. Basically
what we're talking about is the theta V the new one it's different it shoots 4k
currently it's the only one available for the Google Maps application. The
current qualification that you have to have to be able to post
on Street map on Google Maps is you have to be level six contributor or a Street
View Trusted photographer you need the theta V and then you also need an Android device
with the Street View app on it you need to download the theta app. One of the
first places of confusion I found is
they call it a theta s app it's a theta app it covers all of them they've
renamed another app that I'm not familiar with but the theta s app is the
one you want to use for it. Before we get into the details of the exact settings I
want to give you a warning that the file size can be an issue when you have to
transfer the file theta V to the phone it's a wireless connection it is the only way
it could be done. Sometimes you lose the connection so the smaller the file the
better. Time wise what I recommend is set your timing for about three minutes stop
then go then go again recording the mapping will follow it through and you are not losing
anything but the file handling iwill be easier dealing with the phone is a little bit
easier as far as space if you miss something you can delete it or change it
as it comes off the theta V to the phone so in the settings you want to check the
notifications for recent information to up date the software that's your first
step. Then in the connections you want to connect both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. This
gives you a little more capacity and control over the different functions
Bluetooth control some you get others with the other one. Right now I've been
shooting 2.5 megahertz frequency for the wireless connection. Switching to the
camera settings okay on sleep bump I have sleep mode off camera volume high
so you can hear it when it starts to record or when it stops and under transfer
method I have copy. That is when it's bringing stuff to the phone I still have it then
once I'm done or happy with what I've gotten I take
the information off delete the stuff from the theta V. Obviously record
position of the phone to the photo has to be turned on that's getting the GPS coordinates from
the phone to the theta V embeded into the video. I have video mode on. the Codec can't be changed
again I mentioned that I keep it under five minutes to three. I have done a 25
minute video and I have been able to move it to the phone it just takes so
long and if you get errors you have to start over again from the beginning it's
a real pain in the neck. They do say that you can switch the settings during
shooting but I haven't. I start out from each three-minute interval I pick the
settings that I think are best and then I go from there. In the final setting
that's most important is obviously I select 4k settings on the camera because
that's what you want to shoot for because that's what is required for
Street. The View Street View cameras themselves they keep improving them
going to higher and higher resolution so they're getting clearer and obviously
they're going to push independent users to do the same. So now getting into how
most of my shooting is going to be walking or moving and what
my hands-free to be able to deal with not falling or tripping so the idea I came up with I basically
grabbed a ski helmet I had a GoPro - GoPro mounts on it I took the back one
so that it would be as close to vertical as possible used the basic GoPro
connectors and then I set the camera up on top so it's the the two connectors
combined together and then this piece is a standard thread for tripod for a
camera now I can mount the camera up on top. As I walk along or ride or any
activity my hands are free on a trail in case I stumble I can protect it, protect
myself so I'll give you a look of how it looks with the camera mounted. Just
because I don't want to scratch it anytime I'm moving around with the theta
and carry in a cover I use the one that came with it. Then the shoot
basically I've got it connected to the top of the camera
I'll put it mount it on. The other thing that I found is just as a tip the name
goes in the back and the buttons here go in the back so for orientation when I'm
shooting going forward is opposite of what I thought but that's no big deal.
You've got the helmet and basically put it on people think that
you look really silly but that's me going down the down a trail to record
something. Ok so basically to get ready for shooting you've got the Street View
app on the phone you got the theta V on, you have turned the wireless on right now I've
ran out of battery so the lights aren't going to be on but you connect this to
the Street View app then within Street View with the Street View app you go to
the privacy you go to the private and there's a feature there where you can
connect the phone connect the app to the phone then you start shooting with the
theta V and it puts a marker image on the phone it's not downloading
everything to the phone. That's a key point to remember it's where I got stuck.
So here's the key way that I differ in my shooting from what's described in the
link on the google contribute site i'll post out of the bottom of the video so
you can take a look at it. What I'm doing is I take and I connect the phone I'm in
the app and then I'm ready to shoot. I initiate and control the shooting from
the theta V app not from Street View the recommended way
does it as they say click on the camera and start recording when you go to
record click on the camera it opens that up and then you can see picture or video
you click on the video and when you hit start it will record a blue line and
your recording you can see where you are. The disadvantage to that is you don't
have any control over the settings on the theta V and I think you can make a
little bit better image and video if you take and tweak the settings some. What I
do is I go to the theta V app open that after I've got it connected to Street
View and from there you get a preview of what the scene will look like I'll
change the white balance. I will change the settings for sunshade it's a scroll bar and you
can pick what you want. You can also move up the ISO a little bit I think it's
called EV it's not ISO but it'll bring it up or dull down the image if it gets
later in the day and the sun's going down you may want a little more
brightness or like on a beach and a sunny day the theta can get blown out so
you can taper that off quite a bit so there's more control over the shooting
and a better shot. Then once I go to hit record I travel I keep the phone as
level as horizontal as possible and as level as possible not jiggling around
with a fast stride. I'm finding that walking I can do like 1.6 to 2 miles
depending on how hard I push for walking but that's the distance in a typical
walk That the battery lasts. I'm expecting to get about four times that on a bike and that's my next
experiment that I'm going to try, So basically if I'm walking along with the phone with me
it shows me how much time is recorded in the camera I'll target about three
minutes. If I don't have the phone free what I'll do is I'll set a three-minute
alarm stop the video then restart just so my
file is easier if I lose something I don't
have to go back and do such so much more to correct it. The other thing that's an
issue with the file size that keep comeing back around to this but is if one file down load fails you
have to start over it can take a long time.
It also takes about two hours for the theta to charge in that charging time
obviously you're not doing another recording so this is not a high
production thing you would have to have multiple cameras if you are going to try and go
out and do a lot and your data handling would be a you know a different issue. As
far as camera charging is concerned one of the things that I learned was that
you have to have a point 5 milli amp charging. A lot of the storage devices
like this from Amazon this one's going to put out too much and can mess up the
battery for the theta. They also are very particular to recommend the charging
cable for the theta that has the round piece on it that is a filter and
controls the the voltage it gets. So always use that cable or the other thing
that I've heard recommended they do recommend a iPhone charger has the right
milliamps to it. The other thing that surprised me in using the camera I
thought I could shoot manipulate videos then post it to street view this is not
correct or I haven't found a way around it yet I do suspect there may
be one place to change it but you have the workflow is really fairly locked
down. It goes like this you shoot the video it makes an image on the street
view app and it's a placeholder. Then when you're done shooting and you've got
a better Wi-Fi connection and internet connection I sit down I take
the there's a the image comes up with a download button when you hit that
download button it's actually transferring the 4k image from the theta
V to the phone in the Street View app. It's no longer a placeholder so now in
the Street View app the image the video the image for the video is bright and
clear it shows as you can publish it. It's on your phone in the panorama
folder on the Samsung it's not edge on the auxilary card that you may have with
your phone it's on the main memory of the phone it's no longer greyed out you
can publish it and once it's published you'll see some dots start to appear the
area you're doing you can watch it as more and more information appears then
at about 24 to 48 hours there'll be a blue line it'll look like a regular
Street View app. The thing that I'm noticing different is offset from where
you drew the line there's dots that show you the images you can click on each
image and see what's there. It does not map those round dots
directly over the path that's on the map it may be the path of the GPS
coordinates I'm not sure why that offset occurs but it's there. Okay now I'm going
to get into some of the tips and issues that I ran into. I used to use the theta
s and I would sometimes go into the phone itself take information off edit
it put it back the change with the theta V is the media is not right enabled. It's
only it's read-only so to do any editing there or take out that red dot that
appears that's not available to do anything with. If you put the image
somewhere else on the phone and then try to connect to Street View it won't
connect it just stays grayed out it won't acknowledge that video file. Even
if it's the identical one that was on the phone. The place you have to clean up
the storage is on the phone itself not the auxilary storage. If you have a
lot of music a lot of apps and its almost full they have a problem using any
number of files and shooting continuously and using a lot of files because it will
give you a warning when you try and download more than the camera can handle
it may force you to use just one small file at a time and do a lot of
sequential ones. The other thing is is get you I think anybody using this needs
to be pretty familiar with file explorer just so that you can get around
delete files move stuff and do what you want it's not just an automatic process
that's going to take care of all the file handling in my opinion. On my phone
the Samsung Galaxy seven the file location is Samsung slash phone slash
pictures slash panoramas that's where the files are stored after they're taken
off the theta camera wirelessly and onto the phone there also seems to be another file used
on the phone that is not readily readily visible that it mirrors that one and I
think it's a control to prevent editing but that's just my assumption. Again I
think that the biggest advantage with the theta V is you can control with the
app the camera get better settings therefore a better product. It doesn't look
like you can edit them. Biggest pitfall I found talking about pitfalls is I tried
to move the pictures from using the transfer mode on the camera to the phone
and that blows the whole system up. I just followed what looked like a logical
process and what I thought I had done in the past. So hope this helps happy
shooting and mapping and please ask any questions you might have. The whole
concept I find is pretty exciting because of what you can map and the
speed you can map it at. Prior to this when you had to do individual shots move every
ten feet another shot move it to the phone it took a long time. Now at a rapid
speed you can do an area. They come out good it's not DSLR quality that you
would get from you rotator but they're good-looking decent
pictures and I'd love to hear your comments in the flow. Please post them if
you have any questions I'll try them out and hopefully this will get some people
started using the concept and avoid some of the pitfalls
For more infomation >> Google's Pizza - Short Film - Duration: 3:29. 
For more infomation >> 5 Powerful SEO Keyword Research Tips to Rank on Google in 2018 - Duration: 6:32. 
For more infomation >> Sarah McBride: "Tomorrow Will Be Different" | Talks at Google - Duration: 50:01. 
For more infomation >> Remote backup with Google Drive - Duration: 2:44. 
For more infomation >> Elon Musk - Megijedt a Google-től? - Duration: 5:24. 
For more infomation >> 03 Venenos Empresas Fora do Google Bebem | Estratégia | Caio Azevedo - Duration: 6:28. 
For more infomation >> The Personal Data Google Has on You Is Shocking & Dwarfs that of Facebook - Duration: 7:58. 
For more infomation >> Jó pofisság a Google Chrome-tól.:) - Duration: 1:29. 
Không có nhận xét nào:
Đăng nhận xét