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Adobe acquires Mettle Skybox, to be included in Creative Cloud

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This is huge!  Adobe acquired Mettle makers of the popular SkyBox Suite of 360 / VR editing tools, which will now be included with Adobe Creative Cloud! Mettle Skybox is a popular suite of plugins for 360/VR editing for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects.  Today, Adobe and Mettle announced that Adobe would be acquiring Mettle Skybox Suite, and Mettle's founder Chris Bobotis would become a director at Adobe. Skybox will no longer be available for separate purchase, and instead will only be available through Creative Cloud. Existing Skybox users will get ten activations, other than those who purchased Skybox in the last 15 days will get a refund. By the end of the year, Skybox will be rolled out to Creative Cloud.  But for now, Adobe CC paid subscribers will be able to get Skybox by sending an email to dvaplugin@adobe.com. You need to include your Adobe ID and first and last name as it appears on your account, then Adobe will respond within 24 hours. Here is the official ...

How to straighten or level the horizon in your 360 video using Adobe Premiere Pro CC

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Here is a tutorial for leveling or straightening the horizon in your 360 video using Adobe Premiere Pro CC.  This very short (3 minute video) tutorial doesn't require a plug-in but does require Premiere Pro 2017.1. A 360 video needs to have a level horizon or else it will make it move unexpectedly when rotated, which can be confusing and disorienting for viewers.  Because of this, many 360 cameras have vertical orientation sensors to automatically render the video rightside up.  However, the orientation sensors usually don't work perfectly, or sometimes works only for photos but not for videos.  The result is often a tilted horizon in 360 videos. In this tutorial, I show how to correct / level / straighten the horizon using Adobe Premiere Pro CC.  This tutorial requires that you upgrade your Premiere to 2017.1 or later. Here is the tutorial: I hope you found this video helpful!  Please take a moment to hit the like button (so that YouTube can show it to mor...