Wonda – Oh so that doesn’t work

I am writing this post whilst waiting for Media Encoder to process render a set off After Effects projects to solve a problem that I should have tested before. 🤦‍♂️

The Problem

One of the sections of the Wonda Site is the collection of Poetic films created by my peers. Three of us created 360 films as a response to this project, the rest of the group created films using with none 360 footage. I hadn’t thought to test how Wonda works with none 360 video, I have used several none 360 still assets in the project so I had assumed (why, why) that the video would work the same way. It turns out that Wonda will import but not work with none 360 video.

Solutions

I created a 360 composition in After Effects with a black background with settings that matched the other 360 videos in the project. I then placed one of the none 360 films into the centre of the composition > Render > Import into Wonda > Preview in Wonda. Way too big!

50%?
360 After Effects Composition to place the film in 360 space
Still not ideal but I think this is the best compromise as the artists initial composition is respected

So now I have something that works it is just a case of waiting for Media Encoder to go through all 14 of them.

One comment

  1. Ken Fero's avatar
    Ken Fero · July 17, 2019

    Matt

    Your blog displays an excellent reflection that includes process and analysis. Your contribution to the curate project has been very strong. You played a crucial role in this project by constructing the entire Wonda site. Despite some challenges along the way, you have demonstrated technical skills and have put in a lot of effort to get this project completed. The outcome of the project is very good. Well done.

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