Have I just discovered the PERFECT 360
video editing solution for Android? I think
i might of. It's called Collect and it's
going to totally change your life if
you're an Android user. So I've always
been a huge proponent of keeping your
workflow as mobile friendly as possible
you don't want to create more steps in
the overall video editing process you
want to keep them as short and simple as
possible and if you can you want to
stick to your mobile phone so for
Android only at the moment (there will be
an iphone version in the future) life is
going to become really easy now because
you can edit 4k video from the comfort
of your smartphone and it's very simple
and you literally don't need to leave
your phone! Ok let's open her up- so the
first thing you'll see is our little
crosshair I like the simplicity of this
there's not too many options to begin
with it's just the one which is our
import button so I've gone ahead and
shot a bunch of stuff on my gear 360
around sydney harbour my idea for this
video is to do a 360 virtual tour of the
harbor so i want to use about seven
shots so in front of me i have my
camera's video gallery and it's as simple
as just choosing the clips you want to
add 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and press the tick up
the top so now instantly the clips are
put onto the timeline and they start
playing automatically one after another
so the timeline is down the bottom there
so you can swipe across to see all your
clips and it's a really nice little
interface I like it it's very simple
it's not over complicated I've seen a
lot of mobile video editors they over
complicate their apps there's too many
buttons and it just way too confusing
this one is very simple so I've got my 7
clips on the timeline here I'm going to
start by rearranging them which is very
easy to do so I want my very first clip
to be a clip I shot at the harbour
bridge so I'm going to simply just hold
that drag it and move it to the front so
that's now my first clip
and then all you need to do to rearrange
your clips is do the exact same thing
with the others. Okay I'm happy with that
order it's roughly in the sequence that
I walked around the harbor in, so once
you've chosen your order it's as simple
as clicking on the first one and now
we're going to edit our first clip
individually so it's very simple there
aren't too many buttons again which is
really good and as you can see the clip
is playing on its own you can have a look
around it like that so this inner circle
here that's moving this is essentially
these are out in and out points and
this is our timeline for this individual
clip so you can trim it by moving these
points to whichever place you like and
at the top it will adjust and tell you
how long your clip is so I'm going to
start with about 13 seconds of me
walking underneath the Harbour Bridge so
I'm happy with the length and now I want
to change the starting position so you
can choose your view points for every
individual clip which is a really cool
feature so I want the very first shot to
be started on the harbour bridge so what
you need to do is press the target
button and then you choose your
preferred viewpoint I'll start there and
press it again so now that's locked on
see I can move this around yet the
target remains the same which means
that's where it's going to start and
then if the viewer wants they can move
the video around from that point.
Alright so I'm happy with that got it down to
13 seconds and it's starting at the
place I want to start now we want to
move on to our second clip and do the
same and it's as simple as pressing that
button up there so our two colored
buttons on either side on the top left
and top right navigate us to the
previous and the next clips so that's
really handy again like the design of it
it's really nice to look at and nice to
touch there aren't too many small
buttons they're all really big buttons
which make your experience much much
easier and less frustrating all right so
on my second clip I'm going to go ahead
and do the same and edit my points to the
places i want to start and stop again
it'll make this second one about 13
seconds so this one I took next to the
Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney
Harbour and I'll start just looking back
I think at the boat so again press the
target and just fine-tune it about there
so now it's saved the new starting
viewpoint right I'm happy with that so
now we'll move on to the next one so you
essentially do this to all of your clips
until you are happy with them
individually. Something else to point out
is down the bottom left we have our
speed so you can change the speed to
fast forward and you can make it slow
slow motion
I think it's not really necessary here so
I'm going to leave it in normal mode in
the bottom right of each individual clip
you'll see the filters button so this is
cool, you can add a color grade to
each individual clip and you can grade
them as you go so these are almost like
your Instagram presets. I think there's
about 5 to 10 different looks if you want
to go black and white or more saturated
you can choose that there as you edit
mix it up a bit if you like look I like
that one that's nice and warm I'm going
to apply that to all of my clips so now
I will go ahead and edit the rest of
them so they look as good as possible
as one cohesive video
and I'm finished so that
took me about three to five minutes to
edit a full 360 video now we have the
option to add music at the top right
there a cool thing about this app is
that the developers have already
organized for you to use royalty free
music so you can upload this straight to
YouTube or Facebook and you won't get in
trouble so let's listen to
some songs I like that one because the
thumbnail has a cat on a piano so I'm
going to choose that one and we'll
import it to listen to the music you
need to go out onto the main screen
where you can see the timeline and then
it'll start playing and now we're
previewing it so with the music sounds
nice nice and nostalgic and it's going
to play us a preview of our finished video
happy with that, happy with the choices I
made and that's all looking really good
it's gonna be a fun little two minute video nice
romantic little stroll around the harbor
a good little YouTube vid I think yeah
alright so now we are ready to export
and to export again it's a very simple
process there aren't too many options if
you hit the button up the top left there
and it starts processing all right so
it's done and it's playing back for us
one last time and from here we can just
simply upload it to Facebook, YouTube and
so on or we can just download it and
upload it manually ourselves this will
save to your Android internal storage
and you can do whatever you want with the
file so how cool is that can you believe
I was editing 4k 360 footage on my phone?
so quickly so easily and it looked
amazing like look it takes me longer on
my computer than on my phone to do it so
why would you take it to a computer when
you don't have to
this is a basic editor I wouldn't aim
for anything longer than a few minutes
if you're editing 360 footage and you did
want to do something longer you would want
to add many more clips and have access
to more features like transitions
and text and whatnot those are coming
soon they're not available at the moment
but from what I've heard there's going
to be some amazing updates to this app
so you should definitely stay tuned
honestly this is incredible I would
confidently say this is the best 360
mobile editing video editing app that
has been invented it's incredible so
hopefully this app leads the way for an
iphone version as well as just general
video editing on mobile honestly I've
been so underwhelmed by some of the
mobile editing options even iMovie
and some of the professional companies
their editors are still very clunky and
confusing and there's just too many
features I love the simplicity of this
app simple is always better gotta make
it easy got to make the buttons big for
mobile and Collect have done that really
well they've got an amazing little
stylish app that's free and allows you
to process your 4k 360 footage really
fast and it's compatible with a lot of
cameras too at the moment any camera that's
compatible with an android phone you can
edit with collect look it's my intention
to get rid of my computer one day
because I want to be able to do
everything on my phone because I'm not
always at home in front of my computer I
want that flexibility to be able to edit
footage fast on the go and not have a
million steps in my workflow you want as
few steps as possible which is why you
really need to learn a mobile workflow
so good job collect I can't wait to see
what this app brings out in the future
so you should definitely definitely
download it if you're on Android and
iPhone users stay tuned because i'm
pretty sure it's going to be coming out
in the next few months.. years.. decades..
millenniums.. what comes after millenniums?
lifetimes? until the next big bang? until
the end of time? *until the end of tiiiiiiime*
Alright 360 nation this is your boy Ben
Claremont coming at you with
another 360 video and i'll post the
results of this collect experiment after
this video on youtube so you might want
to check it out to see what the final
interactive 360 looks like until next
time keep living your life in 360 don't
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you better get busy 360in' or get busy
dyin'.. one of the two.. and I hope is the first
one