Thin vertical dashed line showing in 360 videos in Final Cut Pro

If you're like me, you don't particularly care to use Compound Clips if you can get away with it...

I don't work much with 360º, but I have done some work with it and I have been fighting those seam lines on and off for some time. Last night, based on a new trick I learned a couple months ago, I thought I'd give this solution a try. It seems to be helpful.

I am assuming you are referring to the "artifact lines" that occur at the 180º angle and I am familiar with the problem. Below I have examples of the problem:

Original (not very "sharp" and no sign of the "seam" problem):

Some sharpening/color effects added — seam appears at exactly the 180º mark:

After Fix Seam 360: (Remove Seam setting at 20)

Original:

After sharpening/color effects:

After adding Fix Seam 360 (setting about 50):

Fix Seam 360 is **very lightweight**, and only one parameter (Remove Seam). Apply it *after* you apply effects that cause the lines to appear. I recommend that you try to find a parameter value less than the default (50). Larger values than 50 are available for use, but may create a partially noticeable region of "reflection" at the edge (but far...far less noticeable than the full length seam.) For example:

After sharpening/color effects and Fix Seam 360 at 50:

Going higher than 50 splits this chair into two slices... the seam is gone, but so is part of the chair — just something to be careful about (and may sometimes be unavoidable!)

Free download here:

https://fcpxtemplates.com/?sdm_process_download=1&download_id=32570

Hope you find it useful!

Are you applying effects to your 360º clip?

You may have to remove (or turn off) the effects resulting in the dividing line and put the clip inside a Compound Clip. Then, add your effects to the compound clip.