Kobe is a beautiful port town surrounded by the sea and mountains. “Kobe Kitano Terrace” is a restaurant with a spectacular view, located on the hill of Mt. Suway, overlooking Kobe. In this video, we will introduce the highlights of the port city of Kobe, including the view from Kobe Kitano Terrace.
In the 19th century, Kobe flourished as a foreign settlement. Today, many tourists and business people visit from all over the world. The BE KOBE monument in Meriken Park is crowded with tourists from morning until night. At the time of filming in January 2024, Japan’s leading sailing ships, Kaiwomaru and Nipponmaru, were just anchored in Kobe Port, and we were able to capture their appearance in VR footage. The graceful sight of cruise ships passing through Kobe Port also stirs up a sense of travel.
Kobe Kitano Hotel, with its nostalgic exterior, is Japan’s first urban auberge. An auberge is a restaurant where you can stay overnight. Chef Hiroshi Yamaguchi, famous for his “world’s best breakfast,” serves as the executive chef. A new project by Chef Yamaguchi is the aforementioned superb view restaurant, Kobe Kitano Terrace.
Suwayama Observation Deck, where Kobe Kitano Terrace is located, is also a representative tourist destination in Kobe. Not only is it a great place for dinner on special occasions, but the daytime cafe is also wonderful. On a sunny day, the terrace seats are a special seat with a panoramic view of Kobe. This bridge called “Venus Bridge” on Mt. Suway is a place of admiration for many lovers in Kobe, and a place with sweet memories. It is especially romantic to see the changing appearance of the sky and the city from dusk to night. In the afterglow of the evening, the lights of the city come on one by one. Kobe has many faces: Kobe by day, Kobe by night, Kobe by the sea, and Kobe by the mountains. If you have a chance, please come and visit Kobe. We recommend staying not just for one day, but for several days.
[Production process]
■Time-lapse section of “BE KOBE” monument
① Using the interval shooting function of the Insta360 ONE RS 1 inch 360 degree version, the exposure was set to auto (minus 0.5 stops) and shots were taken at 3 second intervals for about 1 hour.
② Export as a DNG sequence with Insta360 Studio
③Auto transition and deflicker processing with LRTimeLapse
④Develop with Adobe Lightroom and export as JPEG
⑤Edit to time-lapse video with DavinciResolve
■Video part
①Taken with Insta360 ONE RS 1 inch 360 degree version. A DJI Mavic3 Classic was used for aerial photography with a drone.
② Export ProRes with Insta360 Studio
③Edit with DavinciResolve and export in 6K with DNxHR HQX 10bit
④ Upscale from 6K to 8K using the Rezup plugin and export as DNxHR HQX 10bit. The length of the video is about 4 minutes, but this upscaling took about 13 hours. This process was the most difficult because DavinciResolve sometimes crashed during the process. In the end, I was able to resolve the issue by adjusting memory usage.
⑤ Embed metadata as a 360 degree video using Spatial Media Metadata Injector and upload it to Youtube. Uploading 90GB took about 30 minutes.
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When viewed with VR goggles such as Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest3, you can experience the beautiful Kobe Port, Mt. Suway’s Venus Bridge, and the spectacular views from Kobe Kitano Terrace in a highly immersive way. If you have it, please try it.
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