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GoPro VR Plugin installation with Adobe Premiere CC 2019 Quick Fix

Adobe released their new products 😄 with great improvements and as usual new app installations.

This means also updating or re-installing your plugins … and normally developers are quite good at updating the plugins to find new Premiere and After Effects installations - except if your developer stops supporting their products.

Kolor is now a GoPro company and they announced that they will shut down operation and do not support the software anymore. They posted that the VR plugins will be updated within the Fusion package - but as of today these do not install the the plugins correctly.

I fixed the installer by adding the new installation folders and repackaged it - it worked for me - and you can download it here. No guarantee and support give. The software is copyright of GoPro and I will take down this post as soon as the official installer is updated.

How to fix Insta360 Metadata for 360 VR Photos

Insta360 is a great little company that makes some nice 360 cameras for consumers and professionals. They are very fast to update their software and the software itself is quite nice, but one thing that bothered me from the beginning was that they strip out Metadata of their INSP Files when they stitch them into equirectangular JPGs.

I have a insta360 Air and since it is connected to my phone I have GPS information. I don't see why Insta360 has to strip this information, but they do and they won't add it back in forseable future. 

Beyond striping Metadata information there are also some basic tags that are missing and will cause some problems if you want to edit the images - in Lightroom for example.

Exiftool to the rescue. This powerful free tool allows you to add end edit Metadata information - and it is possible to copy Metadata Tags from one File to another. So here are my steps to add back the GPS information and fix the Date Metadata tags.

Note: You need to have Exiftool already installed - find the right version and how to install it on the original website.

<DIR> is the folder where files are located

  1. Import the .INSP files to a folder

  2. Batch convert them with Insta360 Studio to JPG in the same folder

  3. exiftool -tagsfromfile %d%f.insp -gps:all -ext jpg <DIR>

  4. exiftool "-alldates<filename" <DIR>

Now if we could automate the sticthing as well we could automate the whole workflow, but I guess this will already help.

I hope this will inspire you to find some way to improve your workflow and embrace exiftool like I did 😄 

Addendum 30.5.2019

I have written more scripts since I wrote this post and started to collect them on Github to make them accessible to more people. If you liked this script it may be worth looking at the others as well.

Budget Travel Backup Solution for Photographers

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I love photography and I'm paranoid about losing my photos. At home I have several backups (offline and online), but when I traveled I had to hope that the SD Cards wouldn't lose any data. That's why I use some inexpensive components and combine them with some software.

The hardware

This is my budget travel backup solution for photographers.

You can get all these for around $200 for 1TB of redundant security, or less if you get a good deal. Which is what other solutions on the market start without any storage.

The FileHub is neat device as it is also a small powerbank - you can strt a short backup session without the need of a plug.

The software

The script is based on another solution, but I had to clean it up a bit and change it for my use. I also added a setup guide and some additional notes on how to use it. It's fairly easy to install and use, so don't be afraid 😉

You can download the photo backup script over at GitHub

When cool technology becomes a really useful product - Google Photoscan

I'm interested in photography, cool technology and great products my whole life. This are great things separately - but are really awesome if you combine them.

For example I have collected a lot of pictures which are not digital and I still haven't gotten around to digitise - because it's expensive and or cumbersome - and I worry about them.

I also follow the latest technology trends in imaging and already a couple of years ago I saw a presentation by Google and a University which has shown that they can eliminate glare and other disturbing artefacts in a photo.

Very nice, but how to use this technology to create a really great product? Well combine them with a need like digitising old photos and you get something awesome.

The video explains all the details much better - so check it out and download the app - it's available for iOS and Android and it's called PHOTOSCAN by Google

UI, UX: Who Does What? A Designer's Guide To The Tech Industry | Co.Design | business + design

Great article on showing the differences of the new role names in the industry, and in the comments the confusion even in design professionals they cause.