Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Insta360 ONE X2 Sees EVERYTHING…”.
Recording so today we got another cool product here from insta360. This is the latest greatest 360 degree camera, and i got ta admit before i even get into this box. I watched some of the clips on their youtube channel and my goodness has 360 come a long way. They’Ve had to build out all this software that’s necessary to take advantage of it, and now it’s so much smoother than some of the last times that i had experimented with it like some of the stuff they’re doing with the car shots is just like. I got ta watch it a few times and be like wait.
Where did the camera? Where is the camera? Because they also got this delete feature which removes the selfie stick, so you can hold it? I mean it’s just some really wild shots that you can get with these devices and you can also use them as typical action cameras if you choose to as well they’re calling it a pocket. 360 steadicam. This is the one x2 and actually currently at the time of filming this they’re having some deals on their website. So you can get these with some savings in there for the summertime. So in front of me i have the camera and i have the selfie stick, and i’ve also got another one that i’m gon na be giving away so make sure to stick around to the end of the video for that all right.
So, let’s take a look around the device itself. You can see some of the scenarios you could use it. You could just use it for vlogging extreme sports. This person is skiing group events, one of the reasons that 360 is now kind of the go-to for action. Related footage is because you don’t have to frame anything you’re, capturing everything and then just figure out after what you want.
Your video to look like and where you want the point of view to be, as opposed to not getting the shot to begin with, because you were busy, you know capturing only a portion of the activity instead of all 360 degrees here for uh, like a motorcycle Of course i mentioned previously in the car as well, you can do a view where the inside portion of the 360 degree cameras recording the people that are in the car and then you’re also getting a view of the exterior of the car. It’S a lot of versatility. So what do they say here? 5.7 k. Resolution 360 capture, steadicam mode flow, state, stabilization, invisible, selfie, stick, that’s the removal of the selfie stick from the frame, so you don’t see it it just vanishes inside of their software.
They have software for your smartphone, but also for your desktop, depending on how you choose to edit. It is waterproof up to 10 meters, ai based editing, so some of the editing functionality is taken care of by the app now. This also has a horizon lock feature similar to the 360 go 2, which i recently featured on the channel. So this lets you not worry about whether or not you’re getting tilted off axis. This can be. It can be really disorienting actually in point of view, content if that happens so horizon lock takes that concern out of it sensors and the software is capable of just keeping that portion locked even when the camera turns or spins or pivots.
It’S also got a touch screen for mic array, while you’re doing 360 video. You got to be doing 360 audio as well. It’S got a hyper lapse, feature and voice control is in there too. I don’t have a knife. I haven’t seen this one in a while either now this is pretty unique. You don’t often see a circular display for monitoring the image, but it kind of fits here visually and also from a functionality perspective you’re, capturing 360..
You know it kind of suits the design as well. There’S a button over here you have a little led indicator. I’M going to pull this i’m just going to peel this plastic off one of the lenses boom and then, of course, we have the same thing on the other side and you can see the microphone down below there microphone here.
Microphone on this side, this side, the whole thing feels like pretty robust, uh fairly ruggedized. Now, as mentioned, they say it’s waterproof to what was it. They said it’s waterproof to 10 meters 32 feet, but then also i mean i’m just guessing looking at it here. It could probably deal with some bumps and bruises, because it has this rubberized finish on the outside, like it could look at that, like that’s pretty decent on the bottom. Here you have a quarter inch connector, so that’ll connect it to a selfie stick or to a permanent location like a or semi-permanent location like a tripod or something a couple.
More plastic pulls so power button is over here. In the right hand, side. I have no idea what this oh, this is probably a speaker didn’t know if there was going to be one or not and then on this side, what we do we pinch and we pull and there’s your battery cool and it locks in just like that clips There and then over here under this door, is where you’re going to find your usb type-c connector. So inside the battery compartment is where your micro sd card is gon na go.
We have an insta 360 branded 32 gigabyte right here, but it takes a micro, sd cool all right so also inside the package. Gon na be a couple of accessories. I believe first up is a usb type c to usb a cable, a little bit of paperwork. Some stickers, um microfiber cloth to clean the lenses. That’S another important thing to remember: you know, since these lenses protrude out from the camera body you’re going to want to always give them a quick wipe, because you want the best image quality possible. So you give them a quick wipe with the little microfiber, keep it clean and i think they actually included a case here too, is that what this is? Oh yeah, this is a little case, neoprene style, so extra padding on there, and i guess you just yeah there you go simple stuff, so even more protection there. When you travel, i mean the whole thing is quite small: 5.7 k capable 360 camera easily into the pocket and you’re just really not going to worry about it. That much i saw some of their clips.
They got it hanging out the window. You know with the with the selfie stick: it’s just the whole thing is quite compact and has a sturdy feeling to it all right. So, let’s jump into the selfie stick here. I believe there’s two versions of this, not sure which one we have here.
I think this is the standard one quarter inch screw right there boom all the way out like this, and so essentially what you do here. This is quick to the point and then all of a sudden you get you can get these ridiculous shots once the post is deleted inside the software. It just looks like a bird’s eye view, probably the coolest stuff i’ve seen so far that they’ve done with it is with the car footage like you, can get down by the tire down by the rim and then still move the shot to the other side. You can have these, these crazy moves, go with it and then just as quickly swing up to a high point of view and really just capture perspectives. That previously would have required a separate crew to achieve, like you’d have to have some sort of car following or a drone. It’S actually interesting how many of these shots end up, looking like drone shots without the need for a drone, all right, so big key here with this device is ruggedness, as i mentioned before, they expect you to get out there and get into extreme sports situations.
So that’s actually kind of what we ended up doing, take it over to the skate park and not worry too much about it with the rubberized finish on the outside and also kind of uh, giving you the opportunity to shoot like by yourself of yourself without the Need to reframe shots, it’s actually wild, which you can do with 360 coverage and then go in and edit the video inside the app. You can see this insane number of different modes and editing processes you can do like clone trail, split jump. Flash dash. I mean this expansive list over here that really lets you express whatever you want through this 360 capture.
So, even though it’s 360 at first and you can look at it in like a tiny planet mode and see everything that you captured, the real opportunity here is to be able to reframe shots, as if you had multiple cameras inside of a single camera type of Shoe there is a desktop application, but you can do absolutely everything inside the app which is nice for social media. You can quickly get an edited clip and then push it out and post it since you’re most likely posting from your smartphone anyways. It’S really up to you, you just capture the shot and then figure out what you want to do with it after the fact now. This particular example obviously focuses on skateboarding and shooting yourself doing it, but there’s so many examples on the insta 360 youtube page of like shooting cars where you can get these impossible shots, or at least previously impossible shots from all these wild angle.
There’S hyper lapse, edits that feel, like hollywood level, camera moves and pace to it. There’S just like. I said it’s endless if you’re a creative type, you can dive in there and well truly configure whatever type of shot that you’re looking for, and the angle here, 360 camera, as opposed to the typical action camera, is that you have way more flexibility after the back, Because you’re capturing everything, instead of one strict field of view, which would require more input from you around a particular event and i’m sure anyone who’s used an action camera has missed the action at one point or another when you’re shooting 360. Now you know you got it and if you’re gon na need to zoom or reframe after the fact, no problem you can do so now.
I should also remind you about the giveaway that insta360 is doing i’ll, have a link down in the description of this video. As well as some details on how you can win your very own insta360 one x2 and an iphone to go with it, so make sure to check the description for those details now. Another big feature with this device is the ability to track moving subjects, and it’s not just people, as you can see the evidence here, the ability to track a dog running actually quite quickly, uh or human or some other human yourself. It’S actually pretty smart. It’S ability to figure out which object. It is that you want to track and then lock onto it now the editing process is this process of setting up different frames, as you can see mo did in this particular clip, and it’s important to note in this clip that you can’t see the selfie stick. So that thing completely vanishes, it is subtracted and the whole thing ends up looking pretty natural and it actually, it looks not only like you have a separate camera man and but also that that separate camera man is fairly talented, to be able to move himself around The skateboard now as mentioned you can do everything on the phone. You can use the phone as a viewfinder for setting up your shot and setting up the settings on the camera, or you can use this interesting circular display right on the insta 360 one x2, and in here you can see their settings for brightness.
But you can also set up things specific to your shot, like your white balance and so forth. Another thing you’re able to do within the app as you’re editing your clips is change the aspect ratio to a format that might be more suitable, uh to whatever platform you’re intending to upload to so yeah. For this example, we switch over from nine by 16, which is portrait mode. You may want to share something like that on instagram stories or tick tock or something you can switch that over to 16×9. If you want to upload it to another platform like youtube, there’s also one one which might be good for like an instagram feed, and then you have a very wide 2.35 by one. If you want a really cinematic look, this is shot by moe himself, but, as you can see through the editing process, you can swing around to the backside. Back to the i mean it’s pretty, it’s wild. It’S like it’s really a whole new way of capturing an event or activity. So anyway, there you have it. That is the insta360 one.
X2 pocket 360 steadicam. I’M gon na remind you one more time you can win one of these insta360s doing a giveaway of a 1×2 and an iphone i’ll. Have the details to that giveaway down in the description of this video so make sure to check that out. .