Unfortunately, it still took an extremely long time to process and stitch the near 4K 360 videos on the Microsoft Surface Book. Instead we had to first copy the video files into the hard drive of the Microsoft Surface Book and then import the files from the hard drive. However, we were unable to complete the import of the video files directly from the SD card. The fastest way to transfer the videos from the Samsung Gear 360 camera (2016) was to just remove the micro-SD card from the camera, and insert it into the Microsoft Surface Book using a standard SD card adapter.Īt first we tried to import the video files directly from the SD card. It's not clear why Samsung requires this key since most people would probably lose the paper that it's printed on.Īfter we went through the installation process we could finally start using the Gear 360 Action Director. To activate the Gear 360 Action Director, you need to have the product key that came with the Samsung Gear 360 camera (2016).

We first downloaded the Samsung Gear 360 Action Director here from the Samsung website and installed it on the Microsoft Surface Book. However, you still need a way to process the video files taken by the Samsung Gear 360 camera (2016) and stitch them together so you can enjoy them through an immersive experience with the Samsung Gear VR (2016) Virtual Reality Headset.įortunately, you can also transfer Samsung 360 video to a Windows PC like the Microsoft Surface Book through the SD card, and then use the Samsung Gear 360 Action Director (developed by CyberLink) to stitch the videos. When we first tried to transfer many 3840 x 1920 videos taken from the Samsung Gear 360 camera (2016) directly to the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge so that we could enjoy with the Samsung Gear VR (2016) Virtual Reality Headset, the transfer times over Wi-Fi took forever and wasn't really a practical method.

The Samsung Gear 360 camera (2016) supports high resolution 3840 x 30fps video but one of the challenges of recording near 4K 360 video is how to handle the very large 4K video file sizes.

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