This is Ben from Life in 360, I am freezing my face off here in Winnipeg in
Canada right now and in this video I'm going to walk you through ten new
features of the Xiaomi Mi Sphere a lot of you guys might have seen my review
and a lot has changed since then they've updated the firmware several times so I'm
going to tell you ten amazing features that weren't there when I made the
original Xiaomi review!
The first super amazing feature is it now shoots raw oh
my god the Xiaomi, one of the best consumer 360 cameras now shoots
raw I haven't played with it myself yet however my good friend Hugh from CreatorUp
made a tutorial about how you can do it at the moment it seems like it's more PC
oriented than Mac but I know that's going to change really soon so i'll put a
link down in the description to where you can see Hugh's video and you might
want to check it out because you can now shoot DNG RAW using the Mi Sphere. The next
exciting feature is this it's soon going to be a 4k camera, currently it's 3.5K
but through a firmware update coming really really soon it's going to be now
a 4k camera and you know what? The 3.5K already looks kind of like 4k so I can
only imagine how good the 4k is going to look when the firmware update drops by
the way my eyeballs have just turned into ice cubes so if I look off in
different directions it's not my fault! The next feature is Xiaomi have released an
amazing selfie stick that pairs with the Mi Sphere this is a perfectly designed
selfie stick because the Xiaomi is such a thin camera even my favorite
Manfrotto selfie stick the two in one selfie pole is still too thick for it so
this one was perfectly designed for the Mi Sphere and it has a button at the
bottom which means you can take photos and videos without having to connect to
your phone or have your finger really close to the camera it's about 20 bucks
I'll put a link to that down in the description next feature is you don't
have to stitch your 360 videos on your phone you can stitch them within Adobe
Premiere on Mac I made a tutorial about that you might want to check it out go
through my channel and find it but there is a Dashwood plugin that will allow you
to stitch your Mi Sphere videos within Premiere
you don't need to use an app and you get really nice resolution so if you
want to keep everything within premiere you can now do it on mac. For PC users
I'll do you one better you now have your own desktop software
for stitching Mi Sphere photos and videos and it's completely free I'll put a link
to that down in the description but again this is going to give you more
options for stitching your footage and post-processing it you don't have to
stick to your mobile if you have a slow mobile or if you feel like the
resolution is being reduced you can now do that on Mac and PC in a recent
firmware update they've added slow motion and it seems to be about 120
frames a second however this isn't legit I don't think I think it's just slowing
down the 30 frames per second video down to 120 you can see when you record it
will show you the duration of the time you've been recording and it'll show you
the slowed down time so for every one second there'll be four seconds
underneath so it is slow motion but it's not really slow motion you can shoot in
60 frames per second and that's going to give you better slow motion however
there is a significant resolution loss so although this is a good feature I'm
probably not going to rely on the slow motion because it's not going to be
really that smooth. You can also do fast motion as well the Xiaomi can now do
time lapses and you can choose your intervals of two seconds all the way up
to five minutes per photo and have it run as long as you like look if you put
it at five minutes it's going to drain the battery pretty quick so you'll want
to make sure you plug it into power for that however you can get a decent maybe
60 second time lapse if you set your interval to maybe every five or ten
seconds so that's a really cool feature for you time lapse shooters out there you
get the resolution of photos and you can turn them then into a video. You guys
know I love my tiny planets right? well you can do a tiny planet preview before
you actually take your photos and videos you can change the viewing mode into
four different viewing viewing modes but for me tiny planet preview is gonna be awesome
because it means I can get the best tiny planet possible before I even touch the
shutter button and aaaargh snow! I can't feel my face and i can't talk properly muscles are
seizing up must survive I will eat this for sustenance
..don't do that! Speaking of tiny planets there's now a tiny planet editor within
the Mi Sphere app it's kind of like free capture from the Insta360 One and it
allows you to move your 360 around into a tiny planet, into a regular 360
viewpoint and it's as simple as pressing the record button and bam there you have a
tiny planet video then you can trim it and export it and it's all pretty darn
easy. A lot of you guys are curious about the Madventure 360 camera
you've seen my unboxing video and yes this is an orange version of the Mi
Sphere is it an upgrade? no. it's simply the same camera body and it's going to
have a few more features and maybe a few more accessories but it's more or less
the same thing however this will be another option so if you are looking to
get your first or second 360 camera the madventure 360 is going to be an
awesome option but it is going to be pretty similar to the Mi Sphere at the
moment it's scheduled to release in December sometime so I would still
consider the Mi Sphere if you're looking at getting a camera because it's more or
less going to be the same finally we have the price when the Mi Sphere first came
out it was around $300 now on average it's about $220 so I'll put a link down in the
description to where can find it on Gearbest but now this is a this is a
much more affordable camera you don't need to break the bank to get awesome
photo and video you guys have seen our video and photo side-by-side comparisons
of the Mi Sphere and other cameras and it beats almost everything so this is a
really awesome investment if you're looking for your first or second 360
camera it's now 200 to 250 sometimes it's 200 or less so check the link in
the description of this video because you never know it could be under 200
dollars at the time and watching this. I can't promise but I will keep updating
coupon codes so you guys can get the best deal possible
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got to go freezing my ass off.. bye!