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Avatour's Quick Capture feature eliminates the guesswork and complexity associated with capturing and sharing 360 videos. By integrating camera capture with the Avatour cloud service, Quick Capture simplifies the process and makes it easy. Read on for how to use it.
Open the Avatour app on your Labpano camera and Quick Capture is at the top of the menu.
You can use Quick Capture any time, i.e. you do not need to have an internet connection or to be logged in.
Select the "video" option, and tap the red record button to begin recording. As default, the camera will use its built in microphone to capture audio. However, we highly recommend to connect headphones or our bluetooth speaker provided in your kit. For a list of our recommended audio devices for video recording, please visit What should Avatour hosts use for audio communication?
When you've finished recording, the video file will be saved in the app's Gallery. Find your file, and tap to select it. This will open a screen that allows you to rename, play/preview, change the layout between 2D and 360, delete, and upload to Avatour. By choosing upload, you can then select which Workspaces to add this asset to. If no Workspace is selected, your file will only be uploaded to your My Asset library. You will also have more options you can choose before upload: 1. to have faces blurred and 2. to have background audio noise reduced in the uploaded video and 3. AI generated elements.
Upload times are dependent upon the size of your video file and the bandwidth of your connection.
Upon upload completion, your status will update to DONE and enter processing status.
Once uploaded, your file will be automatically processed. 360 images are processed almost instantly, but 360 videos take time for transcoding into multiple versions for effective streaming.
Processing times for an asset depend on the duration of the video. When there are a large number of assets uploaded (>5) at once, the requests are queued up and the processing times may be further delayed due to platform resources being busy.
To check processing status, you can use a web browser to visit the "Assets" section of your Avatour account. Processing percentage and the estimated time to completion can be found there in your asset library.
To decrease video file sizes and processing time, you can choose to reduce your frame rate and capture bitrate in Quick Capture settings.
Have also a look at our 360° Video File Size Calculator.
Use any other 360° cam
For recorded 360° video you can use any 360° cam / upload any 360° videos / photos. You can upload the 360° videos directly to the Asset section in the Avatour Web Console.
