Ahoj! Ontario is going through crazy heat wave so I'm going to keep myself cool nicely in the studio
talking about storytelling through short cuts with this brand new camera Insta360 GO2.
As I'm keeping myself cool, I'm gonna take you to a very hot place. You can do short cuts
with any camera but in today's video I'm gonna be showing footage only from this
little new tool. What is short cuts? How can it help you? Why should you do them? Why not
cinematic b-roll? Why not slow motion? Let's talk. And for the new faces welcome. My name is
Zdenka Darula. If you're all about photography and video and want to participate in creative camera
challenges, consider subscribing to this channel. First of all, people these days have very short
attention span and if you're gonna be serving them with a video which has very monotonous content,
it's a very slow pace, it has the monotonous cuts, the same kind of thing over and over again,
there is a high chance they're gonna stop watching. But if you throw in suddenly a
short cut sequence, you're gonna wake them up. It will grab their attention. So attention grabber.
Second of all, when you want to share a lot of information, you really want to share everything
what happened on the trip or everything you've done during the day but if you're going to be
matching the pace of the video, if you're going to cut it the same way as the video,
you're going to end up with hours long video so this will help your storytelling. How is it done?
What clips to choose? How to spice it up in the edit? A week ago I went with my family to Wasaga
beach for a mini vacation. Just 4 days. Well, we didn't have enough so we went there last
weekend for 2 more days. And every time I'm on the vacation, I just filmed with my smartphone.
This time I was also using a gimbal Hohem iSteady V2. Well, 90% of the time I was using
this insta360 go2 camera which was sent to me by insta360. I have reviewed the first version
GO on this channel when it came out and this is a much updated version of this camera. I am
sure you have already seen many reviews online. I used it everywhere. As I was walking, riding
ridge runner mountain coaster, playing mini golf, as I was swimming, underwater in the high winds,
you name it. As I was using it a lot, ended up with a lot of footage.
What to keep in mind when you film shortcut sequence? Well, the beauty about it is that
most of it will happen in a post. It will depend on what clips you will choose, the
order you're gonna place them in and the way you're gonna cut them and what effects you're gonna use.
We'll get to that later. So you can either choose to film anything and everything or if
you know that you are going to be definitely using short cut sequence, you can be more intentional
about it by doing following. Number 1. Making the clips simple. Make sure that you place the object
in the center of the frame because during such a fast pace your brain doesn't have a time
to look for the stuff. Number 2. Filming lots of movement and action but making sure that it's
all flowing in the same direction. Because I was on the vacation and I wanted to enjoy the time,
I decided to film anything and everything like the mini golf. I had Insta360 GO2 camera set
to 1 minute recording. The beauty about this version is that there is no more 15 seconds
or 30 seconds limit. You can record way longer than just 1 minute but 1 minute is working for me
just fine. You press it, it will start recording, when it's done, it will shut off. So I was wearing
it on this pendant necklace or I was holding it in my hand because it's a very strong magnet I pretty
much attached it to a golf club or street lamp or anything which would accept magnet. And then if
I couldn't find anything, I just put it in the charging case because it's got these two legs.
I simply placed it on the ground. When I was in a Blue Mountains, I wore it on the pendant. The same
thing was happening on the mountain coaster. When I was in the water, I just had it in this housing
attached to the wrist. Make sure you lock it and you are all set. The magnet is so strong
it's not gonna fall out. You can take it up to 4 meters underwater or 13 feet. I was doing it
all the time, no issue there. I was filming in pro mode so then I could play with it further in
Insta360 studio. So that's how I did it. Let's get to the editing part. What clips to choose
in what order? First of all, the way I prepared my clips was uploading all of it to my computer.
Open up insta360 studio, went clip by clip and selected all important pieces by dragging the
front and back of the clip. I reframed the clip by either dragging it up and down. Guys have
it so much easier to record with the Insta360 GO2 on a pendant. I've got the whole Boobology
situation here happening so I record a lot of the sky. So I need to kind of bring it down.
Then I just export in the highest quality possible and now my clips are ready to be
edited. You can choose clips and order of the sequence many different ways. Number one just
telling a story of an action like I was playing a mini golf. You don't want to do step by step.
I got ready to hit the golf ball then I hit the ball and it's going there and
it's going back and it's going there. Oh I missed and then I was going there
and I finally did it. No you don't want to do that because that would be very boring, very long.
You just want to choose the key moments, you want to choose few clips only be quick.
Number two. Have fun choosing only action shots going in the same direction.
If you're gonna have action shot where one is going left, the other one is going right,
then it's going forward and it's going up, it will be too confusing to the brain.
Number three. You can choose clips which don't have the same action but they can share
the same color or the same shape. How about choosing clips where dominant color is red for
example or how about choosing clips where circular shape is dominant? Number four. The same goes with
sequences of sunsets, sequences of silhouettes, sequences of laughter and motion. One clip can
start with the action, the next clip can finish the action and so on. No rules just imagination.
Forget the rules. Think how can you surprise your viewers with such sequence. The worst thing you
can do is copy whatever is already done especially on YouTube. If you are posting to YouTube. Don't
copy, you will kill the originality, the special you. When you throw such a short sequence
into your just long talking video or actions, you're going to the car, just the random action,
you will suddenly wake up the viewer and they will stay longer. Lining up the clips in order
is not going to create the final impact. If you are filming lots of static shots like I did,
think about adding a zoom in or zoom out effect digitally in the post to give extra motion. Add
sound effects but don't overdo them. Perhaps you like very strong sound effects. We are all
different. I personally I don't. I like them very subtle. You know just under the music,
just to add a little bit of the sound but not too much. I find that I see a lot of videos
especially on YouTube where the sound effects are so overdone. It just becomes highly unrealistic.
Again, try not to do what everybody else is doing. Use your logic. Think why you are doing it and
if it all makes sense. These shortcut sequences can really spice up your travel videos or vlogs
or just random videos and yes you can mix cinematic sequence, I mean slow motion sequence
with a shortcut sequence in one video. No rules. I want to return to the insta360 GO2 camera. I'm
gonna be 100% honest here. When I reviewed the original Insta360 GO a long time ago,
after using it for a while, it was kind of bugging me that the maximum record time is only 30
seconds. So naturally I ditched the camera. When insta360 contacted me, offered me this one, it's a
360 GO2 version, I was a little bit hesitant but I wanted to give it another chance. Then I found out
that you can change in the settings the recording time. You can record way longer than 1 minute.
That caught my attention. My experience using it on a vacation was amazing. Usually by the
time I pull out the smartphone and I put it on a gimbal, my family is already a few feet away
and I got to chase them. But with this, I had it on me all the time so I pressed the button,
I felt like I'm in the moment. I'm not missing anything. Usually when I'm doing photos of them,
or videos, I'm just like being taken away from the action and I'm not in that moment. But this
was very different. I was feeling like I'm still in what's happening right now. Also, when I had
it on the t-shirt between the people like the Blue Mountain situation there and I was talking
to a lot of people there, nobody was pointing at me, nobody said anything. Nobody it seemed, like
nobody really noticed that I have a camera on me and I was recording. That was interesting. I was
impressed with the picture quality and the sound was pretty good too.... but this is as busy as it
gets. So the whole beach as you can see right now. There is like a trampoline on the water,
the whole beach is busy all the way to a number of beaches, all the way up there to
Blue Mountain behind me.. I cannot wait to take it with me on the next shoot I'm gonna be doing.
I can take you with me on the journey as I'm taking some street photos. That video is coming up
next so don't forget to subscribe to this channel if you are not already. This camera Insta360 GO2
comes with a whole bunch of accessories. It's got also this attachment, you can have it on your cap,
you can also get the invisible selfie stick. Yesterday this package showed up by the door.
I haven't opened it even yet and it's a mount adapter bundle. It's got a whole bunch of
mounting options. I can't wait to use it all. I think it's going to be useful for the videos.
Well, for those interested, link to this camera can be found below the video in a video
description. If you like this video give it thumbs up and if you have any questions,
comments or maybe requests, like you want me to maybe create a tutorial how to edit
in Insta360 studio, don't forget to write it below in a video comments section. Well,
I'll see you in the next video, perhaps the streetstyle photography. Cau... Ahoj...