Insta360 Studio tutorial: In this overcapture tutorial, I'm gonna show you how to make overcapture videos
with any 360 camera, whether desktop or mobile, whether for Windows, Mac, iOS or
Android. And I'm gonna show you the secret technique for making your 360
videos look their best. Hi my name is Mic and you're watching
360 Rumors, the resource that 360 shooters trust for in-depth 360 camera reviews
and innovative techniques. In part 1 of this video, I talked about the many
advantages of using a 360 camera to make a non-360 video (aka overcapture or reframed video). If you haven't seen that
video yet go ahead and check that out first (link on upper right corner). In this video I'm gonna show you
how to do an overcapture video whether for desktop or mobile. Even if you
don't have a 360 camera or you've never used a 360 camera before, that's okay. Go ahead and
download the sample videos that I shot for you (link in description) that you can use those for
practice. There are several ways to make overcapture videos on the desktop.
A popular option is to use Adobe Premiere. If you have Adobe Premiere CC, all
you have to do is download the free GoPro VR plug-in that's available from
Kolor.com. Check out the link in the description below and my buddy Ben
Claremont made a tutorial for using the GoPro VR Reframe Effect. In essence,
you just drag that effect into your 360 video and you'll be able
to automatically convert it to a non-360 video. If you don't have Adobe Premiere,
don't worry -- there's a great software that's free for the desktop it's called
Insta360 Studio (link in description) and it's available for both Windows and Mac, and you don't
have to have an Insta360 camera in order to use it. It's compatible with 360
videos from any camera up to 4k. Now let's learn inside Insta360 Studio. It's
actually one of my favorite programs. So first we open the file and click on this
plus button here or you can drag from Windows Explorer and by the way, you can
open multiple files by selecting more than one file and dragging them at the
same time. In Insta360 studio you'll notice there two tabs on top. One is
Panoplayer and one is Capture. Panoplayer is just a 360 video player.
you can move around you can also change the perspective from flat like an
equirectangular view, rectilinear, or fisheye, a little planet or a crystal ball. We'll
talk about types of projections later on. The tab we're concerned here is Capture and
that's what you use for creating a freecapture, overcapture or reframed video.
if you're in Capture mode, you simply click on export then it's going to
create a non-360 video that's 1920 by 1080. It's really simple. But of course, to
make it more fun, we want to be able to control the virtual camera. Let's pretend
we want to start out with this opening view and then later on we want the
camera to pan into this direction. So here's how we do it.
We do it with keyframes. Keyframing means that you tell the computer you
want to start off with a certain position and you want to end up with a
certain position and you let the computer figure out everything in
between. The initial scene is like this. To create a keyframe, click on this
dot. Now we're going to play up to the point where we want it to
change view. Let's say here. Now we're gonna change the view to this one, let's say.
And we create another keyframe. So now if we go back to the previous shot
and we press play, you'll see that the camera will pan automatically okay
that's how easy it is to change views with keyframing. In addition to panning
the camera, you can change the field of view from a zoomed in view or a wider
view. For example, here we made it wider so starting out from here
the camera will zoom out. Another important technique for keyframing is
there are different projections: 1. standard default view, 2. there's an rectilinear view
where the lines are straight. Straight lines like here they're all straight.
3. There's also what they call crystal ball view which is kind of similar to a
fisheye view and it's similar to this default view where straight lines are
kind of curved. Like this pillar for example. It should be straight but
instead it's slightly curved. 4. Then there's the tiny planet view. If you're
wondering which view to use, here's a guideline: the rectilinear view is
generally good for architecture. The fisheye view or the default view (both of
them are fisheye) -- they tend to be better for people and natural objects.
Tiny planet, besides being useful for tiny planet view or a rabbit hole view,
is also useful for creating an extra-wide fisheye view. With a regular
fisheye view, if you go too wide the outer frame will be black. With a tiny planet
view, you can get impossibly wide fisheye shots. By the way, really cool and useful
techniques like that are just one reason we got over 1,400 likes in
just one week. So go ahead hit the subscribe button and
the little bell -- this video will keep playing. You can also change or delete
a keyframe. You do that by selecting a keyframe like here or there and then
you can change it or move it along in time. You can move it later or earlier and you
can also delete it by selecting it and then pressing the delete button on your
keyboard. The last important technique is to be able to control the speed of the
transitions. Here you select this line by clicking on it and you'll see that there
are several options. Smooth dissolve is just gradual change. Slip-in slip-out
which means fast to slow to fast. Fade-in fade-out which is slow to fast to slow.
Slip-in fade-out (fast in, slow out). Fade-in slip-out (slow in, fast out).
"None" is if you want a simple cut. When you're
done with your edits, you can click on "Preview" to get a preview of your
overcapture video and when you're satisfied you can click on export to finalize your
render. Now one of the most common questions I get is, "Why does your 360
video look better even if it's from the same camera?" There are many techniques
I use to make my 360 videos look their best. For example one of them is
controlling exposure. And I have a free tutorial on 360rumors.com. Go ahead
and check out the link in the description below. In addition I use
other techniques such as the one that I'm about to show you. And that is
controlling the field of view. When you hear "field of view" in connection with
360 video, you're thinking, "Well wouldn't it be 360 degrees?" There's a
difference between the field of view for capturing and the field of view for
viewing. For capturing video with a 360 camera,
yes obviously the field of view is 360 degrees but when you're viewing the
360 video, you can actually change the field of view. This is very
important because the wider the field of view that you're using for viewing, the
more detailed the 360 video appears. And this important technique applies whether
you're viewing it as a 360 video or as an overcapture video (it also works for photos). Now here's a tip:
On Facebook. if you upload a 360 video you
can change the field of view by clicking on edit video and then click on director
tools then you can adjust the field of view. By choosing the widest field of
view. you can make your video look more detailed. Besides Insta360 Studio
there are other great options for creating overcapture on desktop such as
MAGIX Movie Edit Pro -- there's a tutorial in the description below.
There's also CyberLink PowerDirector Ultra and Garmin VirB Edit --
that's a free software. It doesn't have all the features but you can use it for
overcapture as well. Using keyframing for overcapture
videos works very well and the video looks really smooth but sometimes it can
look a little too smooth. If you're wondering how do you make it look more
natural then this next section is for you. We're gonna talk about making
overcapture videos with your phone and I'm going to show you free software for
both iOS and Android.