The team of Kolor is proud to release today a first beta version of Autopano Video, the new 360° video stitching software!

Autopano Video lets you assemble several videos into a single one covering up to 360 x 180 degrees. The user interface is designed to ease your workflow: drag and drop your source videos, choose a stitching template (including GoPro template) or launch a detection from scratch, use Autopano Pro or Giga to adjust your reference panoramas and click on Render.

Autopano Pro or Autopano Giga are required to use Autopano Video properly.

Watch the video: My first 360° video with Autopano Video

The change log

Main changes

This changelog is the first introduction of Autopano Video, a video stitcher that helps you create amazing 360° videos ( or partial ).

Autopano Video / Autopano Video Pro is the easiest way to stitch and create 360-degree immersive videos

Offer an incredible new experience to your clients or friends. Autopano Video is the new video-stitching software application developed by Kolor. It lets you assemble several videos into a single one covering up to 360 x 180 degrees. The user interface is designed to ease your workflow: drag and drop your source videos, choose a stitching template (including GoPro template) or launch a detection from scratch, use Autopano Pro or Giga to adjust your reference panoramas and click on Render.

We had 3 main goals when making these products

Quality first : The world’s best image-stitching technology is behind Autopano Video. Quality workflow, quality results.

No limitation : We were always determined to bring you cross-platform support as well as cross-hardware support. And that, without any limit in the number of video stream sources nor in the output size.

Affordable, accessible : Both in terms of usage and price, Autopano Video gives nearly everyone the chance to create amazing 360° videos.

Using Autopano Video during the beta stage

We want you to test it, fully, without any limit, even without watermark, for free. So we decided to let you use the full software for free until the end of June 2013. Get a temporary license for free and remove to remove the watermark: http://www.kolor.com/360-video/autopano-video-360-video-stitcher.html.

We believe in our community and in our customers that have been supporting us since a long time now. The quality of a software application doesn’t only come from the quality of the developer ( come on, still a bit ), but from the quality of the communication between you and us.

For this piece of software too, we’ve opened a dedicated forum to let you discuss with us about the product. It is always at the same location: http://www.kolor.com/forum/. Go there to find support, report bugs, post results, etc.

Roadmap to the release

We expect that you’ll find bugs, for sure. And we already have some bugs opened in our database. Here’s a short list of what is still under work here.

• QuickTime codec support with Mac version in 64bits. We support QuickTime Codec in 32bits but not yet in 64bits.
• Mac version can be really slow when having source viewers activated. We advise you to enable them only if needed (untick the boxes "Seek on timeline update").
• Render dialog box UI. We are not totally satisfied with the current layout. If you don’t understand how to use it, we’ll make some changes there.
• Autopano Video Pro only: GPU rendering is working great and super fast on Windows but not on Mac where graphics drivers are complicated to handle well.

Changelog since the latest private beta :

- 0001815: [UI] KAVA icons – resolved

- 0001948: [UI] Main slider drag – resolved

- 0001821: [I/O] 48 fps support – resolved

- 0001906: [UI] add quick pano edition – resolved

- 0001929: [UI] Resizable zone in the UI – resolved

- 0001894: [Benchmark] kic allocation too small for big frame – resolved

- 0001944: [I/O] H264 4k support – resolved

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Beck recently performed David Bowie’s “Sound and Vision” song on a circular stage surrounded by over 170 musicians: this was a perfect occasion to create a 360-degree video experience. Kolor video-stitching solutions (currently in development) have been used to assemble the video streams together resulting in 3 single 360×180° videos.

Enjoy the experience! You can choose between 3 points of view, move in all directions while playing the video and even use your webcam to control it by moving your head left, right, up and down.

On Wired, Beck said: “The perspective you have watching it in 360 and the way you move around is probably similar to how a player in a videogame moves around the space. (…) But in this you’re obviously moving around a real space. It’s sort of imposing the way you navigate in a videogame into a real-life experience.”

Kolor video stitching solutions are coming soon: register to be the first to be informed!

Kolor will be offering soon an easy-to-use solution to record, stitch and publish 360-degree videos. Would you like to receive information about this upcoming solution? Please fill in the form to receive our news updates about Kolor’s 360-degree video solution.

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>> Access the lesson: Fun with Autopano: stitching video frames.

Palmela 2011 panoramic photo festival saw Alexandre Jenny, CEO of Kolor, present the latest developments from the team. Kolor Eyes was among the innovations presented: this video player can play 360° videos, enabling the user to interact with it, change the projection, turn in every direction… Here are 4 new 360° videos. Many thanks to photographers Jeffrey Martin, Rodolphe Furykiewicz, Ryan Whitehead and DJ Vegh to share their videos.

The video loading might be slow depending on your internet connection.

The whole process is automatic; the only manual step is the video synchronization at the beginning of the stitching.

The projection mode is determined once for the whole sequence whereas the color correction adapts in real time.

For this experiment, 3 different SD camcorders were placed on a same rod and auto-stabilization was disabled. To minimize parallax errors, the subject should not be too close to the camcorders.

Smartblend ghost-remover can be improved, using temporal information.

The result obtained with this simple hardware enables to imagine very good results if using professional sequences (greater video resolution, accurate synchronization, global stabilization…).

The 3 individual video sources and the final assembled video: