Hello, I'm Christoph and in this video
I’m going to break down four seemingly
impossible shots made easy with the new
Insta360 Sphere.
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The Sphere is the newest camera from
Insta360 and it clips onto your drone
and has a camera at the top
and the bottom.
All the parts of the drone are
between the two cameras.
This means that the drone is completely
cropped out of the final shot.
It's invisible.
We'll start with this shot which was
by far the most complicated to pull off.
The good news is the shooting part is easy.
I just picked a visually interesting
location and then just sent the drone
straight up.
Make sure you start recording on the
Insta360 before you take off.
Now that I have my shot, I bring it into
editing software and get rid of the sky.
Unfortunately in this case that meant
manually masking it out.
Then I reverse one of the clips and
rotate it so it replaces the sky
from the lower clip.
Now that I've built this new universe
with two parallel worlds I bring it back
into after effects and do my
360 reframing.
Because I can't see the drone I can
look in any direction I want and I can
keyframe the camera movement.
Of course every step of the way takes
some time and a bit of fine tuning but
I think the final result is
well worth the effort.
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This next one I've done before
but with a regular drone
but this new camera makes it so much
easier and smoother because I can
fine tune the camera movement in post.
I was recently in Spain for a vacation
so we picked a downtown Barcelona
location and then a remote beach
location to highlight the two uniquely
different parts of our trip.
Then all I had to do was
send the drone straight up
at each spot at around the same speed
and overall end height.
In editing I placed the city shot on
the timeline first and then reversed
the seaside shot and put it down next to it
with a cropped transition strategically placed
where I wanted to seamlessly switch from
one shot to the next.
Then I speed ramped the whole clip
to match the pacing of the song.
Then all that was left to do
was have some fun with the camera
reframing on the final composition.
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I've also done this effect before but I
had to mount two different 360 cameras
to the top and bottom of my drone and
then stitch it manually myself.
With the Sphere it's so much easier.
This truly unique setup allows me to do drone
and camera movements that just aren't
possible with any other drone
including FPV.
In this case I'm basically mimicking the
drone doing a somersault while focusing
in on me on the bridge.
The best part is all I had to do
is mount the camera and
fly the drone in a straight line.
In editing software I used keyframes to
make the camera spin forwards at a
consistent speed all the way around
and then I speed ramped the footage to match
my song and added some motion blur.
It really is that simple.
The result is an eye-catching and
dizzying clip that will definitely get
people wondering how you pulled it off.
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This shot really demonstrated the
flexibility of this camera because at
the time I did this shot I had no idea
what I was going to do with the footage
I just knew that because of the layout
of the streets and the buildings here
it would look really cool from the sky.
So I took off from the center of the
traffic circle and just flew straight up slowly.
It wasn't until I found this song that
the idea actually started to form in my head.
So I speed ramped the footage to
match the song, reversed it so it would
loop back and then copied and pasted the
boomerang clip to repeat four times.
Then I brought this clip into After Effects
and used the reframe plugin to
keyframe the movement of the camera
to the beat.
Of course I made sure that the end of
the clip matched the beginning of the clip
so I'd have a perfect loop.
Do those are the four clips that I made
with this camera but I'm excited to see
what you make.