By Larissa Urbiks

For my final project, I wanted to hide the 360-camera with a nadir. Since there was no video on Lynda.com that could help me, I looked for it on YouTube and found this one:

To patch a nadir in a 360 video, the first step is to design the nadir. I used Adobe Photoshop to do that and opened up a new file with 1000 x 1000 pixel. I created three different layers, one of them was a transparent background layer. It’s very important that the nadir has a transparent background. I used the two other layers for my design and made in each of them one circle with the ellipse tool. I wrote a short text in the middle of the circle using the text tool. Last but not least, I exported the nadir as PNG. The file format is highly relevant because the transparent background won’t work with JPEG.

As a second step, I imported the nadir in my Adobe Premiere project.

The third step was to drag the nadir in an own video track. The nadir will be in the middle of the video screen then.

To fit the nadir into the 360 space I used SkyBox as a fourth step. It works almost the same way as it does with titles. I dragged Mettle SkyBox Project 2D into the nadir on the video track. Next, I went to the rotate projection in the effects setting. I dragged the x-axis to the right until the nadir dropped down to the bottom of the scene. This was the case when I reached 90°. The nadir didn’t hide the whole camera, so I changed the scale.

As the last step, I dragged the nadir out to all of the clips. I deleted it at those parts where we just have text on a black background since there is no camera to hide. The nadir will look like below in your Premiere project.