Answers.Body: <p>Solved with this filter:</p>
  <p><a href="https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#v360" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#v360</a></p>
  <p>See section &quot;flat&quot; and the second example to convert any 360 footage to a flat view.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I have a 360×180° equirectangular video.  </p>
  
  <p>I want to cut out a part of it, to make it a “normal” video using FFmpeg.</p>
  
  <p>Is there something like this? For example, I have a direction vector as a parameter for the region to cut out (e.g. Vector(0, 0, 1) would cut out the sky) </p>
  
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Comments.Text: that's good to hear. I had this challenge recently, and ended up using a 3D animation package. I made a sphere, used the video as the surface colour and filmed it with the virtual camera. Was faster and better quality than After Effects.
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Title: FFmpeg crop (cut out) a view direction from 360° video sphere
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ThreadText: # FFmpeg crop (cut out) a view direction from 360° video sphere
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-07-02)
  
  I have a 360×180° equirectangular video.
  
  I want to cut out a part of it, to make it a “normal” video using FFmpeg.
  
  Is there something like this? For example, I have a direction vector as a parameter for the region to cut out (e.g. Vector(0, 0, 1) would cut out the sky)
  
  **Tags:** ffmpeg, 360video
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: that's good to hear. I had this challenge recently, and ended up using a 3D animation package. I made a sphere, used the video as the surface colour and filmed it with the virtual camera. Was faster and better quality than After Effects.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_0 on 2021-02-09. Score: 0 | Accepted answer
  
  Solved with this filter:
  
  <https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#v360>
  
  See section "flat" and the second example to convert any 360 footage to a flat view.
  
  
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