How would you like to edit Insta360 One X videos without having to stitch
them first? In this super easy tutorial you will learn how to stitch and edit
Insta360 One X photos and videos on a desktop. You'll also learn about an
amazing feature for Insta360 cameras called the no stitch editing
workflow for Adobe Premiere. I'll also show you an Insta360 One X beginner's
guide for 360 video editing on Adobe Premiere. I'll show you how to do it for
360 videos or flat reframed videos called overcapture or freecapture. Hey
good to see you again you know we just got back from Legoland and now it's time
to check out our photos and videos. Normally if I have only a few, I'm
gonna use my smartphone to do that, but after a trip like this I prefer to use
my desktop for three reasons: 1. it's faster. 2. I'm going to save
space on my smartphone storage and 3. I want to archive my photos
and videos. So let's do that now. There are several ways to do that. One way is
to take out the microSD card from the Insta360 One X and plug it in to your desktop,
either directly into the SD card port or through an SD card reader. Another way is
to connect the Insta360 One X to your desktop using the included micro
USB cable. Some of the ways are faster than others and it just depends on your
desktop. You'll have to experiment. In my case, I found that the fastest speed is
when I take out the micro SD and plug it into a USB 3.0 card reader.
Alright so I've copied my photos and videos to my hard drive and you can see
that they have two kinds of extensions. Photos I have an extension of .insp and
videos have an extension of .insv . These are proprietary formats so you
can't view them on regular viewers. To view and stitch them, you will need to
download Insta360 Studio for One X. It's available to download on Insta360.com for
both Mac and Windows. so after installing Insta360 Studio we can import the
photos and videos into Insta360 Studio either through the menu or by
dragging the photos and videos. now when we open it the first time, we see this
kind of like a distorted view and this is called an equirectangular view and
it's the standard way to view 360 photos and videos but what we
want to do, really, is to look around the photos and videos and to do that, look at
the upper right corner. There's this rectangle and you click on that and it
can change the way the 360 photo or video is shown so by clicking on fisheye
for example, it will show a fisheye view. Or by clicking on "perspective," that'll be
a rectilinear view, kind of like the view you'll see on your smartphone or a
typical non-360 camera. At this point, usually I go through the photos and
videos and I take out the ones that I don't need. I right click and choose "remove."
That way, I'm not stitching anything that I don't really need. When we're ready,
to stitch a photo or video, then we just right click on it and click "start export"
then you can specify the filename, click OK, and you'll see that it will be added
to a queue. The queue shows you the progress of the stitching tasks. We can close it
out and it will continue stitching and you can continue viewing the photos and
videos. One cool thing about Insta360 Studio is that you can actually
export multiple photos and videos at the same time. This batch exporting feature
comes really handy especially when you have a lot of files. you don't need to
individually stitch them. you can just select all them or select the ones that
you want to batch export and then right click and then click on batch export and
then in the settings you just choose this the bitrate that you want and you
can leave flow state checked and just specify where you want to save it. now on
the right side of the screen you'll see additional options for stitching. first
of all you see different stabilization modes. one is flowstate and the other is
lock direction. let's see the difference. here for example I'm riding a roller
coaster. now so far everything looks normal.
when the roller-coaster turns, the camera doesn't turn with it. instead the camera
keeps facing the same direction. when we're riding a roller coaster or some
other vehicle usually we prefer that it will point in direction the vehicle is
going. so to do that we're gonna use direction hold. this time let's use
locked direction so this time when the roller-coaster turns, the camera turns
with it. so this mode is useful not just for vehicles but can it's also useful
for vlogging, because for example if you imagine that the camera is pointed at me
then it'll remain pointed at me regardless of which direction I face.
below the stabilization options, you'll see a bunch of stitching options.
waterproof case that means you're using the venture case -- this one.
the venture case is for protecting the camera so here in this ride I was afraid
of damaging the camera because it was a little bit violent. I used the venture case.
now we see that there's a dark line around it.
that's this - the gasket around the lens. so when we click on venture case or
waterproof case the black line disappears.
now it's stitched smoothly. the venture case is only for protection it's not
intended for underwater use. now there's another case called the dive case and
this one is intended for underwater use. so here's a video where I used the dive
case and you can see that I've pointed the stitch line toward this sign. it
shows the depth of the water and let's see what happens when I go underwater.
when I go underwater you can see that part of the side got cut off. now let's
use this dive case setting in the stitching option so let's click on
underwater and boom we see that it's now stitched smoothly and there's no missing
kind of like a blind spot. but when i go above water you can see that it's a
little bit doubled, see? so now let's check out the other stitching option for
"above water" and now it's stitched smoothly. so that's what these two stitching
options are for.
after exporting your 360 photos and videos they'll be in standard mp4 and
JPEG format and from there you can view them on a bunch of programs. the program
that I like to use is gopro vr player but there are several that you can use.
For sharing them, there also a bunch of options. The biggest ones are probably
YouTube and Facebook but you can also upload them to sites such as let's say
Veer for videos and Kuula for photos. if all you want to do is look at these
photos and videos one at a time in 360 then you're actually done. but let's say
you want to edit them. why? well let's say you want to add music or you want to
create a montage or you want to combine them with non-360 cameras. well for that
you'll need a 360 video editor and right now the one I like best is Adobe
Premiere. and I know, I I'm not a fan of their subscription model. I really
dislike it but I can't deny that right now they're the best one. so here's a crash
course on the Adobe Premiere's 360 video editing. so we're just going to open a
new project that's called Legoland 3. We click on File... Import and say we import this
Editing 360 video is very similar to regular videos. there's just a
few differences. Number one is viewing it. The normal view is
equirectangular view. If you want to view it as a 360, click on the button editor
and look for this icon called toggle VR display. click OK and toggle it and then
you'll be able to see the video as a 360 video. now we'll toggle it off.
the second difference is that sometimes you might have to level the horizon. so
here for example the horizon is not level. look for the effect called
VR Projection. here it is. drag it to the video, go to effect so you can adjust the
parameters and here we're going to experiment and make sure that it's level.
so now it's level. the third difference is with titles. normally if you put a
title here let's say hello world it's going to look a little bit distorted.
so to avoid distortion, we want to convert the text into equirectangular
format. to do that, we look for an effect called
VR Plane to Sphere and we apply that toward the text. so now the text is no
longer going to be distorted. check it out. so if you want to move the text
around then just use the parameters for the vr plane to sphere. for example
if you want to make it larger or you want to move it around you can do that. you could tilt it
or pan it you can do all that. The fourth difference is with transitions some
transitions don't work like a normal. Wipe doesn't work the same way so to use transitions
for 360 videos you need to use these 360 video transitions just type vr
and effects and you'll see a whole set of video transitions such as this mobius
zoom. so just apply it here. it's gonna quite well right now there's only one
videos you're not gonna see the full effect but you saw the what it looks
like. it gives you an idea of what it looks like. now the fifth difference is
that when you're exporting the video, you you just go file export and in media and
you want to make sure that there's this check box here that says "video is VR"
anyone make sure that's checked and that's all you need to do so those are
the basics of video editing. now let's talk about the no stitch editing workflow
of insta360. right now I just showed you how to import a stitched
video but you can also import unstitched insta360 videos. now to do that
you need to install Adobe Premiere first and then install Insta360 Studio for One X next.
assuming you've done that then it will install a special plug-in that will
let you import on stitched Insp and insv photos and videos. here
for example we're going to go file import drag it to the timeline and even
though this is unstitched, it appears as a stitched video. not only that but it's
also stabilized. so this no stitch workflow has many
advantages. it's not only faster but it's also easier. it also saves hard drive space and
it improves the video quality because you avoid one level of compression by
skipping the stitching process. and when you're ready to render your video just
go file export media just like a regular project and Adobe Premiere will stitch
the unstitched videos on the fly while rendering your final video. how
cool is that? now even though the no stitch workflow
is really awesome, it does have a few disadvantages. number one is it's very
processor intensive. sometimes your PC is going to crash and so you better save
very often. also it doesn't have the correction for the dive case or venture
case (correction: see description to learn how to use dive case and venture case for no stitch workflow) and there's no option to use Direction hold but it's a very useful
feature. so so far i've shown you how to edit these
360 videos and export them as a 360 video but one of my favorite
things to do with 360 videos is to use them for non 360 videos. and why
would you want to do that? well, you can do a lot of really cool camera moves. let
me show you. in order to use the 360 video for non-360 videos, you need
to install the GoPro VR Plugin. it's a free plugin. there's a link in the
description. so after adding the 360 video to the timeline we're gonna look
for this effect called VR Reframe effect. that's one of the plugins or effects
that it was included with the GoPro VR plug-in. so I'm gonna apply that and drag
it into this file. now we can see that it's not 360 anymore. it's over capture
video and you can see that you can change the yaw, pitch and roll. and you can
also change the field of view. you can even get make a tiny planet in the way
that you want to. Here we're walking and we were passing by this Lego statue
and what I want to do is show the statue first and then have the camera pan
toward us as we're walking. so here's how to do that we're gonna drag this
playhead to the beginning of that clip and then I'm gonna use yaw to turn
toward that dragon and then we're gonna use keyframing. if you're not
familiar with keyframing basically what keyframing means is that you're telling
the computer what you want to start with, what you want to end with, and then the
the computer figures out everything in between. so we're gonna use keyframing
to pan the camera. I'm going to click on this stopwatch icon to create a
keyframe and then we're going to press play and so far the dragon is still in view. now
now it's no longer in view. so we stop the video there and then we
rotate this this yaw. we adjust it so that it's looking at the statute again. so
now we've set the starting keyframe and then the last keyframe now
the computer has figured out everything in between. so watch this. when we press
play it's going to slowly pan the camera toward this dragon.
now let's say we want to continue panning it so that it's facing my family
right after here. let's say here and do a keyframe there.
pan it there. so now let's try it out again. so from here it pans toward us.
there you go. from here let's say you want to adjust the
field of view and let's say it's from a wide shot you wanna do a close-up. now for
that I use field of view over here. now I could do it with keyframes like a
gradual zooming in. but let's say I want to do a cut instead. so to do that I use
this razor tool - and just split the video where I want to do the cut. so I
select this other clip and I'm going to adjust the field of view to make it much
tighter. so it rotates around and turns toward my
family and then there's a cut and we show like a closer view of our family.
so when we're ready to export we go to file export media just like usual. the
difference is that this time we want to make sure that the VR box is unchecked.
so here for example video is VR unchecked because it's no longer a 360 video.
it's now an overcapture flat non-360 video then we click on export. and those
are the basics of editing a 360 video. Premiere is kind of pricey. if you
don't have it, don't worry - there's another alternative I'm gonna show you
next time. now also you might have noticed that I was shooting with the Insta360 One X
and the Osmo pocket as well as other cameras at the same time. if you want to
see a comparison of the One X against them Osmo pocket and other cameras then
check out my next video. thanks and i'll see you in 360