Virtual Tour Pre-Editing Guidelines

 
 

Ingesting

  1. Download footage from dropbox

  2. Open davinci resolve

  3. Open project “virtual tour 30fps template”

  4. Go to “Media” tab

  5. Make sure old footage is gone and both “gimbal” and “drone” folders are empty

  6. Drop footage from downloaded “drone” folder into davinci resolve “drone” folder

  7. Save project as “YYYY.MM.DD Property Name” which should be the same as the name from the dropbox download

  8. Drag drone footage onto the “All Footage” timeline on “Video 2” track

  9. Go to the color tab

  10. Select all of the clips (these should only be drone clips)

  11. Right click on one of the clips
    > Groups
    > Drone - air
    > assign to group

  12. Go back to “media” tab

  13. Drop footage from downloaded “gimbal” folder into davinci resolve “gimbal” folder

  14. Select all clips

  15. Right click on a clip (with all still selected)
    > Clip attributes
    > “Video frame rate” to 30 and ok

  16. Right click on a clip (with all still selected)

  17. Input color space
    > Sony
    > Sgamut3.Cine/S-Log3

  18. Go to “Edit” tab

  19. Drop all gimbal clips onto “All Footage” timeline on “Video 2” track

  20. Drop all gimbal clips onto timeline

  21. Delete the audio

After ingest. Drone footage is the left group and the gimbal footage is on the right.

 
 

Ordering clips

Separate clips by area and color them using the list below.  If there’s an area not listed, just choose a different color and put it toward the back.

Orange - Exterior entrance and monument sign footage (drone and gimbal)

Yellow - Lobby

Green - Gym/fitness center

Teal - Pool

Purple - Model apartment unit

Pink - Second Model apartment unit if there is one

Teal - Second pool if there is one

Brown/beige - Pet park, playground,  tennis court

When finished with this stage, the timeline should look something like this

After color coding and grouping.

 

Trimming clips

At this stage, I would like the excess trimmed off of the clips.  There’s usually a little bit at the beginning and/or the end that is not usable and needs to be removed. 

Also, I’ll often do a movement forward and then reversed in the same clip.  Please split those so that they are two separate clips and reverse the reversed clip so that it plays forward.

This should be pretty quick process, no need to be too precise. If you’re not sure, you can leave a bit too much of the clip instead of trimming off too much.

 

Finished

That’s it! When you’re done, just export the project (File > Export Project…) and drop it back into the dropbox folder. Send me an email to let me know and I’ll take a look and send payment.