when you give a motorcycle ride or an action camera you generally get
some pretty nice footage scenic views and probably a motovlog here and there
but what do you get when you give them 360 degree footage
well you get 360 degree footage now i have eyes everywhere and i don't have to worry
about missing any angles because everything is in frame all the time this is insta 360's camera 1r
like the base building blocks of dna you assemble this modular camera pretty much any way you want
to suit your filming needs battery base 360 lens and touch screen but you get the idea the one r
is different because it captures 360 degree video with lenses on both sides of the camera and then
stitches the videos together in post production so let's see what this thing can do on a motorcycle
insta360 specifically sent me the 1r camera with the motorcycle bundle of accessories to
try out for you guys i tested out a few of the pieces and mounts on my motorcycle i tried the
handlebar mount i tried the top of my helmet mount which is aptly named the unicorn mount
for those of you that are new to the motorcycling space unicorns are what we call female riders so
i'm definitely qualified to wear this mount and i also tried a mount on the passenger seat so let's
see what we think about this 360 degree camera is it actually useful to a biker like any other biker
that's obsessed with taking photos and videos of their bike of course i had to see how this
camera compares to the gopro which is not 360 degrees but is the camera that i usually film on
the obvious difference is no 360 degree video from my hero 7. if you want 360 degree video from the
gopro you'll have to buy the bulky looking hero max but if you look at the footage quality overall
i agree with the majority of the videos that are already out there there really isn't a very
noticeable difference and if you have the memory card for it you can get 360 degree footage at 5.7
k now i was using this tiny 64 gig memory card to film on the 1r but if you wanted to film for
a longer period of time you would definitely need a bigger memory card because i'm pretty sure you
would run out of space on the memory card before you actually ran out of battery now watching the
reviews on this thing is fine and all but most of the people reviewing the 1r are photographers and
videographers but i'm a motorcycle rider so i care more about how i'm going to be using this
camera on my motorcycle rather than like walking around a city and holding a selfie stick to get
360 degree shots of buildings so what's it like to actually use this thing if you're a biker well
the start and record buttons are fairly easy to access with my gloves on but the touchscreen is a
bit too small to be handling with the biker gloves on so if you're going to be making any adjustments
do it before you put your gloves on because after your gloves are on the touch screen is
pretty much unusable or you can also connect the camera to the insta360 phone app which is easier
to use if you have touch screen enabled gloves since you have a 360 field of view you don't
really have to worry about which way you point the camera to guarantee you'll be in the shot
but if you wanted to see a quick preview while you ride can you well it turns out that you can see a
preview because you can connect it to your phone and have your phone on the motorcycle while you
ride okay because this is a modular system you can turn the camera around to see the preview screen
if you're using the 360 degree lens or if you're using the one-inch lens to vlog you can just turn
the touch screen unit around okay but what if you get stuck in the rain with this thing yep
that's also okay it's waterproof up to five meters when it's fully assembled so as long as you're not
taking the different pieces apart and then getting them wet you should be good to go alright but can
it be used for motovlogging the one thing i hate so much about the newer gopros is that if you want
nice clean audio from them you need to have the bulky media mod for your microphone connection
and that also has to be attached to your helmet so i'm definitely not the first or
last motor vlogger to complain about the media mod but can the 1r be a replacement well this
is the sound that i'm getting on the 1r with their microphone adapter when i use
the same microphone that i usually mod a vlog with well i'm really hoping this audio works
hey it's editing lolly here with some feedback on the mode of vlogging audio so it seems like
it's really low coming out of the camera however i watched a video by modernosity who seems to have
gotten this setup down for photovlogging so i'm going to refer you guys over to
his video so i think it's setup dependent and how you have your microphone positioned inside your
helmet and all that so right now i wouldn't use the 1r with the one-inch lens for remote vlogging
until i figure out a setup that works a little bit better my plan was actually to go
and test a new setup today but as you can tell um that might not happen
so we'll have to wait a little bit on the photo vlogging update okay but what about those epic
360 shots how do you get those well there's a few ways but the easiest way is to download their app
and let the auto stitch and auto effects do all the work for you and in the end you only need
to download the finished clips that you want to use which is great because the file sizes can get
pretty big there's also a software package you can download on your computer and a plug-in for
premiere pro if you want to do things manually and you do use premiere pro my preferred way was to
use their android app and export only the finished clips i needed since the file sizes were big
and the easy app is what makes the insta360 stand out in my opinion this works kind of well but if
you want to use any of their automated shot lab features and you have an android you can forget
about that while the ios app seems to be okay the android app is full of bugs like half translated
instructions missing buttons and they make big portions of the app unusable in my opinion and so
i had a frustrating time using it but your luck if you have an iphone as the ios app doesn't seem to
have any of those problems so ultimately what do i think of this 360 degree camera i can get cool
360 degree footage of myself riding which i've never been able to do before i can also attach
it to any of my gopro mounts including the one on my helmet but i can't operate it very easily
with gloves on so that will require some thought before i'm all geared up i also need to consider
a bigger size memory card if i plan on filming for longer periods of time on this thing but i do like
the variety of mounts that you can do with the motorcycle bundle and the unicorn mount which goes
on top of the helmet overall this is a fun little camera and if you're considering getting one for
360 degree footage i would definitely say that it competes with the gopro right now i saw on their
website insta360 has some holiday sales going on so if you want to know more about those i'll leave
a link to them in the description ultimately i appreciate this camera for what it is and for
letting me experience my riding from a different perspective if you want to know more about how
i improve my riding experience you can check out these videos and we'll talk more in the next one