During our shooting, while tracking the lifestream of the VR video, I started messing with the perspective a bit and got some interesting zooms that made me immediately wonder whether we are able to achieve same effects in AAE.
Luckily, our the task for our next class happened to be the review of three products, and the very first of it, Mantra, appears to feature the exact effects for converting your footage to such spheric perspective. The latest version of Mantra added the ‘Spherify’ feature.
Cara is more of a technical tool, including stitching, correction and color matching, and the most important feature for our projects’ post-production – tracking & painting directly on the stereoscopic footage.
From the materials represented on their website, Mocha seems to be an easy-to-use tool for various functions: Mocha Planar Tracking Tool makes it possible to remove objects, Area Brush Quick Masking Tool, Color Management, Mega Plates, etc.