What if I told you.. you could reframe 360 photos and videos from any 360 camera
completely for free on Mac or PC? You might be thinking hmmm yeah I'm
listening well i've got good news for you this is what I'm going to show you how
to do today and the software we'll be using is called Insta360 Studio
Wait a second Mr. Ben, don't you already have a tutorial about Insta360 Studio?
I'm glad you brought that up little man because today we've received a major update Insta360
Studio that now allows us to edit 5.7 K video from any 360 camera! If you own an
Insta360 One X you'll be able to do more things with this software things like
stabilization and importing without stitching but for every other camera
it'll work just the same I'll put a download link to it down there now let's
get started! so once you've installed the software
locate the file you want to import I'm going to be importing this INSV
file which is insta360 One X's format and drag it on to the left hand side if
you're shooting with a different 360 camera it will probably be an mp4 file
and make sure you stitch your footage before you bring it in because this
isn't a stitching software. So straight away we can see our clip and by default
it takes us into View mode we can't really do much here so you'll want to go to
the free capture option and now we have the full ability to edit our 360s
however we want for One X users flowstate stabilization and stitching will be done
automatically. At the bottom of the program you'll find the timeline and the
first thing I want to do is trim this footage because as you can see it starts
with me setting up the camera and I don't want that included in my final
shot so we're going to navigate to the part that I want to start at and I'm
simply going to drag the in point to this point likewise at the end i'll find my
end point which is about there and I'm going to drag my out point to that point
I thought it would be fun in this video to try and replicate the opening
sequence from my last YouTube video where I'm jumping around dancing around
like crazy on the tiny plant looking very very silly and I actually did that
in about five minutes using this software so I'm going to show you
exactly how I did it so what we're going to do now is add a
keyframe and for those of you who don't know what a keyframe is it's essentially
a pin point where you tell the software I want everything to look like this at
this point in the timeline so let's go ahead and press the keyframe button and this
is going to set our very first perspective of the video there are four
different options here that show you different perspectives of your 360 but I've
found consistently the tiny planet option has given me the most amount of
flexibility when editing my 360s you can get basically any kind of edit you want
whereas the other ones are a bit more limiting so I would suggest even if
you're not planning on doing a tiny planet, selecting the tiny planet
viewpoint down the bottom left and I'm just going to use my mouse wheel to zoom
in I want this to be quite close on me and I'm just simply dragging the screen
to change my perspective when you're happy press the spacebar to play and
we're going to pause it again at our second perspective so this is where I
want my next keyframe to be therefore I need to choose an entirely different
perspective firstly I'll hit the keyframe button again and this time I'm
going to zoom out all the way into a tiny planet now when we play back we can
see it's nicely transitioned between the two points next let's go forward in our
timeline and figure out where our next keyframe is gonna be so here I'm doing a
gag where every time I jump up and down I want the tiny planet perspective to
move slowly just as if the gravity from me hitting the ground moves the tiny
planet to do that I'm going to go to the exact point that my feet hit the ground
and I'm going to set another keyframe this is important because even though
nothing changed between this keyframe and this keyframe it's important we tell
the software that we want it to remain exactly the same for this distance of
time which is why we need to create a start and end of this view point which
is done by setting these keyframes alright I'm going to add another one and
change the viewpoint again okay let's take a look great that worked really
well if you ever want to remove a keyframe you simply just right-click and
go 'delete' likewise if you want to edit an existing keyframe just click on it
and you can then move the perspective like that it won't work if you move the
image at a random point that doesn't have the keyframe because you're not telling
the software to lock in this viewpoint so even though I did that as you can see
there's no keyframe there so when I press play it just defaults back to the
existing viewpoint okay now I'm going to go ahead and add the rest of the
keyframes to this video
when you're done adding keyframes you'll now want to focus on transitions which
are these lines in between the dots on the timeline to edit a transition simply
click on it and now we have a few options for how we want this transition
to look there are six presets here which are essentially pre-recorded movements
some of them start fast and end slow some start slow and end fast you'll just
have to have a play around with them but these are going to help you make your
transition as smooth as possible so I would recommend using them so for this
gag here I want to make it where my feet hit the ground I want the planet to move
quickly and then end slowly and smoothly so I'm going to 'slip in fade out' now
when I play it back it does just that now I'm going to apply this transition
to my other two jumping bits
but you don't have to make a silly tiny planet animation if you don't want to
you can use this software to reframe to more conventional shots if you just want
to pan around your environment this is the perfect software to do it so we're
going to do that by pressing the keyframe button again you can stay in
fisheye mode this time that's perfectly fine and just like before we can use our
mouse wheel to zoom in so I'm going to start on this perspective my keyframes
set this time I'm going to move the perspective with me running around the
camera so I just simply drag my image set a keyframe and I keep doing it keep
repeating make sure I'm in the middle each time, new keyframe, all the way
around and when we watch this back take a look at this
how good is that? One cool update in this version of Studio is you can now save
your projects so if I go file save next time I open up this file these key
frames are going to appear in the timeline just as they are now now it's
time to export so we go file export and then we choose our resolution
depending on how big you want your final video to be you can enter it in manually
so I want this to be 3840 by 2160 because I want to add it into a 4k
16:9 timeline if the project you're working with is only HD then put
1920 by 1080 you can choose your bitrate and at the very least I'd put 30 but if
you have space on your hard drive I've go to 100 at least because this means
your file is going to playback with the maximum amount of detail and quality
possible now give your file a name and hit that big old export button! Alright
that's it that's the workflow for reframing 360 videos but you might be
wanting to reframe a 360 photo how do you do that?
well you can't yet do that in this software but I know a sneaky little
workaround that i'm going to show you right now it's quite simple really what
we're going to do is open up our editing software you may use Premiere, Final Cut
or something else we're going to start a new project and import the 360 photo
that we want to reframe make sure the timeline resolution is the exact same as
the resolution as your 360 photo next we're going to drag out the length of
the photo to however long you want your animation to be in this example I'm
going to drag it to 30 seconds now that's it I'm going to export that now
and you're to make sure you're exporting again at
the exact same dimensions of the original 360 photo so we have maximum
resolution later on to reframe so now we've turned this equirectangular photo
into an equirectangular video file and now we simply import it and
reframe in Insta360 studio just like we did before and voila we have an
awesome-looking 360 photo reframed at high resolution I've got to say this
software is really incredible they could easily be charging money for this
because of value it gives you as a 360 photographer or video creator is
incredible it allows you to create professional 360 animations in minutes
on your computer and you get that high resolution so it looks super
professional and really helps you get the most out of your camera if you want
to learn more about the entire 360 video workflow I have a video course called a
beginner's guide to 360 video you'll definitely want to check out because it
teaches you my entire workflow from beginning to end and how to get the most
professional result possible with your 360 camera when shooting 360 video. Link..
you know where it is! Well that's it from me be sure to hit that subscribe button
for more awesome 360 photo and video tutorials coming very soon and now it's
time for me to go get some exercise I'll see you in the next one!