so we made a video on introducing small creators to 360 video filming and it
sparked a lot of conversation in that video and so this video is to help
answer some of the questions that people had about getting a 360 camera and the
software that you use today on Colorado martini living
so I have the Samsung 360 gear and I've bought some accessories for it this is a
little case that helps protect the head of it and then I also have a tripod so I
have a tripod for it so you can either have it in the short length or the tall
length so you can be hands-free but I have this nice little cover that
protects the lenses so as you can see it's two-sided and I also have the black
cover around the bottom part of the device to help protect it also from
bangs and bumps you can see that the lens is quite wide and so it really does
need protecting as you can see it's very compact it doesn't have a whole lot of
buttons it does have a menu system but you control it on your phone so it
doesn't need a large screen on the display itself so it's very compact and
very small which is what makes it really nice because when you're walking around
filming nobody really notices you that much
so I absolutely loved the compactness of this and I've got this like bumper guard
that I bought for it it unscrews off of this and so when you buy the camera you
just buying this but I bought a pack that had this rubber guard it also has a
rubber that guard that goes over the top and then it had this that you can attach
onto the camera so it doesn't if it for some reason unscrews it will stay on the
tripod so it just screws onto a tripod and then I have this nice extra cover I
bought to protect those fisheye lenses which is really really nice so as you
can see it's very compact you can just throw it into your backpack
I've even at times just put it into my pocket and you can just take this piece
if you want to you don't even have to take this but this helps stabilize it so
it's a great camera for you to burn as you can see it's very compact I have
mine on a tripod although the legs have fallen off and
they're not connected but this did I have tripod legs on it and it has a
screw on the bottom of it where you can screw it on to pretty much any tripod
that does have a screw on top to it and you can see that it has a lens in the
front and a lens in the back so these domed lenses you can see that they're a
little bit domed
are your two halves of the sphere that you stitched together to get your 360
video so when you purchase this you just purchase this top part here the black
that's on here is a cover that I bought and it has this nice rubber cover that
goes up on top of it to protect the lens I even bought a kind of a soft cover to
go over it because these lenses really bulge out and you want to protect them
as much as you can so I have a hundred and twenty eight gig mini chip in here
that allows me to take quite a bit of your footage now the size of these
videos are large we'll get into that in a moment but it's well worth it
and so you can either take the chip out to download your photos your photos over
your videos you can take both with this or you can connect your USB to it and
download directly to your computer that's what I prefer
you know because dealing with the minis can be a hassle Ilia to put it in
converters and stuff it's just uh to me easier just to connect into the camera
so on the side of the camera is a little compartment that contains your card so
as you can see it's just a mini and said i have a samsung card in there
and so you can get quite a few videos on this card you can see that it's a 128
gig card and so you can pull them out and download your photos from this but I
prefer to using the court it's kind of a hassle to pull the card out and then put
it into a converter but let me show you how you do that so this is a converter
it looks like a little jump drive and it just goes into the side of your computer
and it usually comes with the different size slots on the side then you put your
card in so this little card just fits in that smaller slot and then you just put
this into your computer and it should appear as a drive on your file system
and then you can just copy or cut and paste those photos into wherever you
want to store them and I usually cut and paste so I can get the photos off the
camera itself as you can see this isn't like this little compartment kind of
borders this card and you know it's kind of a hassle to get it out of there and
then get it back in and then get it in your camera so you can see why I prefer
using the USB cord rather than dealing with this this is you know could be
faster but just setting it up is not faster so it's just easier to plug it
into the computer rather than dealing with the card itself so to charge it you
can just use your USB connection and this is also the same cord you used to
to put to connect to your computer so when you buy these little protectors
that go on them they have slits that are specially made for the gear that allows
you to get the card out and to put the USB connection in and it just has a mini
display on it here that shows you your battery life and maybe what mode your
and stuff but I really only used this display to see what my battery life is
and I can also see my battery life on my cell within the 360 app so the 360 gear
comes with the CyberLink action director software and this is the software that
you download onto your PC or Mac that will allow you to edit your 360 videos
or photos so it's specifically designed for your gear 360 camera and it has
editing features such as stitching your images together trimming them adding
titles or creating transitions in your videos and so you basically have to have
your serial number to your gear in order to unlock the software once you download
it if you have a camera that's different than the 360 gear 2017 verify that it
has editing software that comes with it because this editing software normally
will stitch your pictures together and this is important so what I do is that I
use the CyberLink action director to stitch the two domes together
then I bring in that stitched image to my CyberLink director software which is
my normal editing software for all videos that I produce the CyberLink
director software is absolutely wonderful for regular videos and 360
degree videos the one problem with CyberLink director is that it's only
available for Windows operating systems if you're looking for a Mac version to
edit a 360 degree video then premiere is the software that you need and that's by
Adobe so the two leading brands to edit 360 degree video is CyberLink
PowerDirector or Adobe Premiere and again Adobe Premiere will work for on a
Mac or a PC where the CyberLink PowerDirector will only work in a
Windows operating system there are other editing software's out there but they're
not as good an or robust as these two are
you can use the editing software that comes with your camera but they're very
limited in their abilities
so I'm on the software right now in the gear software and I'm looking to make
sure that my video turned out okay so you can see that it's got the two
domes here that will be stitched together in the stitching software on my
computer but if I go ahead I can go ahead and play this this particular
video is still on the camera I could save it to my phone if I wanted to right
now but it takes a while
so when I'm taking a tiny planet I can put it into a mode to where I can see
what my tiny planet is going to look like so I can get really close or I can
be really tiny so it's kind of cool you can see it and I can walk around make
sure that I'm getting a good shot so I'm gonna go closer to this lake to see if
maybe I get a better shot closer to this like so if I put it up high you can see
I get even a better tiny planet you have the ability to change the modes and this
allows you to see in front of you you can see and back of you simultaneously
and as far as I'm concerned it's more of a preference
now if you haven't already tried if you go look at one of our 360 videos move in
and you're on your cell phone move the cell phone around just move it
around up and down left and right and you'll see that it follows the 360
video as if you had a headset on and it's pretty cool