Mantra VR
Highlights:
- A comprehensive set of 16 filters to stylize your 360° footage in After Effects and Premiere Pro.
- Drag-and-Drop effects for transforming into surreal and fantastic animations. Compatible with the Immersive tools in After Effects and Premiere Pro.
- Keyframe animations from 0-100% effect applied.
- Node-based Panel lets you tweak, merge, and chain the effects, with automatic scripting.
CARA VR
Highlights:
- Solve and refine camera position, rotation, focal length and lens distortion parameters inside Nuke.
- GPU-accelerated stitching without line artifacts or ghosting, even on moving scenes.
- Automatically correct exposure and white balance differences between cameras during the stitching process.
- Feature-point tracker optimized to handle distortion and continuity at the edges of lat/long images.
- Ray trace rendering engine
- Preview project with HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headset
MOCHA PRO 2020
Highlights:
- Optimized workflow for mono and stereo 360° to achieve fewer pre-composing, nesting or rendering. (After Effects)
- Simplified Undistort/Distort workflow makes mono or stereo clean-ups on equirectangular footage easy.
- User-selected planar tracking analysis on “both eye views” which is better for set extensions, 3D text, and particle tracking, masking, and object removal.
- Assist other 3D tracking applications on difficult shots with low detail or significant foreground occlusions.
Common trends:
- Much emphasis on optimizing workflow for 360 video post-production. Many use node-based interfaces to allow user chain different effects together.
- Stitching and rendering mostly powered by GPU.
- Two types of tracking methods: feature-point tracking and planar tracking.
- Some compatible with many platforms and others designed to fit certain tool.
Specialized features:
- Mantra: Filters for stylized effects, animations.
- Cara: Exposure and color adjustment, continuity of stitching.
- Mocha: Masking, object tracking and removal.