From the course: Ricoh Theta Tips, Tricks, & Techniques
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Understanding the Theta file formats - Theta Tutorial
From the course: Ricoh Theta Tips, Tricks, & Techniques
Understanding the Theta file formats
- It's important to understand the different kinds of files that the THETA produces because, depending on whether you're shooting stills or video, you get different things out of the THETA. And, detpending on the types of edits that you wanna do, you might need to work with one type of file or the other. So, let's talk about stills first. The THETA always produces JPEGs. There is, unfortunately, no way of getting raw data or and uncompressed file out, but they're really clean JPEGs. I haven't actually seen JPEG artifacting in them in any way, which is nice. If I open one up, it looks like this. You've seen this already, it's what you saw in your viewfinder on the THETA if you were in panorama mode. This is an equirectangular image. So on the THETA, of course, I have two lenses, one on either side. I'm shooting 360 degrees, 180 degrees with each lens, with a little bit of space in the middle. Fortunately, that doesn't seem to matter. The THETA is then taking care of managing that weird…
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Creating a 360° VR in your smartphone4m 39s
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Transferring images from your Theta2m 56s
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Understanding the Theta file formats5m 52s
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Editing a 360° still9m 44s
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Shooting 360° unwrapped stills4m 55s
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Stitching time-lapses from the Theta7m 14s
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Using THETA to create tiny planets4m 59s
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Correcting the video horizon with the Theta metadata tool5m 56s
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Playback modes in the Theta app2m 58s
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