- Hi everybody, Happy Holidays!
Time for Thanks Giving, turkey, stuffing,
Christmas trees, and all the snowflakes,
and all that crap.
But we all know the truth,
it's all about those Christmas gifts!
Especially the gifts you get yourself.
Or your loved ones, or whatever.
But most importantly, yourself.
The GoPro Hero 7 is definitely going to be at the top
of a lot of people's wishlists, and rightfully so.
This thing is awesome!
Right now we are recording on the GoPro Hero 7.
They did a really really fantastic job with this camera.
You get super good stabilization, so I can jump around.
But before you rush out there and hit that buy now button,
there's another camera you might want to take a look at
which is the Insta360 One X.
Now this itself is not a camera for everybody.
But it is incredibly impressive that this camera
is now the same exact price as the GoPro Hero 7,
and the things you can do with this camera, is insane!
What the hell is this?
What is even going on, I'm so confused right now!
No I'm just kidding.
360 cameras used to be either way too expensive
or really cheap and crappy.
But this has really good stabilization,
and high resolution, and good funtionality,
ease of use, and all of that.
So it's finally a contender of a GoPro Hero 7.
So let's compare these two real quick.
So the good people over at Insta360 have agreed
to give away two of these to you guys.
So stick around and Santa might come by your pad
and be like, "Yo dog, here's a 360 camera for free!"
and then he'll just take a big puff of his blunt
and just take off!
That's just how I generally imagine Santa Clause
to be I wouldn't know for sure though,
I've never met him in person.
It's also possible he's a very bitter old man
just like, "People only like me because I give them
free stuff, people are so selfish!"
"I'll show those entitled kids by giving them a
fidget spinner which was on their Christmas list
three years ago!"
(laughs)
Even though I do work with this company
I told them I will still talk smack about your product.
I'm a master trash talker and I also really love my GoPro,
and they were like, "Yeah, that's exactly what we want.
A brutally honest review, so bring it on (beep)!"
We're really comparing two completely separate animals here.
The only thing they have in common really is the price,
and they're both action cameras.
Now I would say GoPro is the way to go if
what you're looking for is simplicity.
It's as easy as it gets.
I got mine programmed in so all
I have to do is press one button.
It turns on and starts recording automatically,
and then I just point it at whatever
the hell I want to record.
I could record myself.
If I was to give one of these cameras to my mom,
I would probably give her this one
because anyone can use it.
It's very very straightforward.
The Insta360 on the other hand,
alright so see how it has two cameras,
it has one lens on that side and another lens on the other.
Once you hit record everything on this side,
this side, and even the sides are stitched together
to make one big global image.
You could put it anywhere.
You don't have to point it at anything.
If you've never filmed on a 360 camera before
this is going to be a very very unique experience to you.
People are always like, "How the hell did you get this shot?
Like what is going on?"
So much confusion I love it!
You know it's filming everything.
It's filming you, it's filming what you're seeing.
So filming on this thing is actually a little bit easier
than filming on this because this you still have to
be conscious of where you're filming.
We've all had that time where we mount it
and we're like okay we think we have a pretty good angle
you look back at the footage and you're like
that's not really the angle I wanted.
But with this you just mount I, hit that record button,
you're not gonna ever miss your shot which is awesome.
But you're going to have to do all
your framing and stuff afterwards.
So that's where it becomes a little bit of a hassle.
You can distribute it out as full 360 shot,
so people watching can actually do this with their phone
and look around and get that full scope.
Or you could just extract a traditional shot out of it.
So let's look at one of these shots that we just imported.
You could change your aspect ratio depending on
where you're uploading it to.
I want to upload this in 16x9 for YouTube.
There's a couple different ways to frame your shot,
but I think the simplest and my favorite is
probably viewfinder.
So now see how as I move this camera,
it's almost like I'm actually there using my camera.
Let's say we want to start here,
I'm going to hit that record button, and we're movin'.
So as I move my camera I could frame and
(laughs)
I think Dylan scared those girls there.
But I can literally go and reframe however I want.
So see that, and I could also zoom out.
I could zoom all the way out like that, which is crazy,
and I could zoom in to myself.
I can zoom to Dylan.
So all that motion that I just did while
I was like going crazy like this,
was being recorded so now I can hit play
and basically it's going to show me exactly what
I was doing with that camera.
So it's cool in the sense where when you're filming,
you don't have to really think about
what you're pointing it at.
Then afterwards you come back and then you compose your shot
and figure out what kind of footage you want out of it.
If you think about how crazy this technology is,
it's actually pretty impressive
how simple this app is to use.
Oh my God guys, I just went back
and reviewed some of the footage,
and how come none of you guys told me that
my nipples were so perky?
They were just very very visible.
I think it's because it's a white shirt
and all my lighting is coming in down this way.
So, note to self, do not wear that shirt.
Now we all know that the Hero 7 stabilization
is pretty insane, and I'm incredibly impressed at this.
You can hand hold this thing and do like
a light jog with this thing and it looks very very smooth.
It's really impressive.
But obviously if you start doing like a fill on sprint
or jumping or whatever, you're gonna start doing this.
But the Insta360 is always capturing everything.
So it has unlimited room to do a digital stabilization.
So if you're doing like a super fast run,
or jumping, or whatever, this is going to have
much better image stabilization.
Simply because it has all that room to digitally stabilize.
Now talking about quality and resolution for a second.
The GoPro is 4K and this is 5.7K.
That doesn't necessarily mean this is sharper.
When you're shooting 4K on the GoPro,
you're getting all 4K resolution in that rectangle,
but on this thing it's getting
5.7K which includes everything.
But if you're going to punch in
and frame into a certain part of the shot
then you're getting much less resolution of that
because you're only using a fraction of that 5.7K.
So even though this gives you more flexibility,
if you're just trying to get a very standard shot,
maybe like a vlog angle this is going to give you
a higher resolution at whatever it's pointing at.
Another this is the GoPro is definitely wide.
But even when you put this in super view,
the widest setting, this is still going to be wider,
and you can infinitely zoom out.
So let's say you're filming something like sports,
or snowboarding, or paragliding.
Then you don't really even have to punch this out very
far to film your entire body.
Like, here's a shot I filmed with the Insta360
and everyone was like,
"Wait how did you mount the camera out so far?"
I literally just took it and mounted it like about
a foot or two away from my hand.
So I was holding it while I was holding the clutch,
and it looks like this kind of impossible shot,
that's really really cool because
you could literally get that wide.
Like, you're not limited to that angle of view.
You can go all the way until everything
just looks like one little tiny planet.
I've been snowboarding before where I try to film
myself doing these lame little tricks,
It's incredibly hard to film yourself
while you're trying to do a sport
because your mind's fully focused on what you're doing.
Another benefit of framing later is some of the
accessories you can use with it.
This is one of the popular ones,
it's called bullet time.
So you mount the camera at the end of it,
you extend it out and you just spin it around like that.
You can set this camera to 100 frames per second.
It wraps around your head and gives you kind of this
Matrix effect that's like really cool!
So I do have this one accessory where you can mount
the GoPro to the end of this string and then you
swing it around, and you can get something similar.
This goes up to 240 frames per second.
So it does get more slow motion capabilities.
This thing was difficult to use,
you usually see the string in the shot,
and you need a lot of space to swing it around.
Now I'm looking at Insta360's website
and they have this new thing called a drifter
which looks like a NERF ball,
and you stick this thing inside of it, and you throw it!
Then you compose your shot later.
I mean look at some of these shots on here.
What, this is awesome!
Insta360, I thought we were buddies,
how come you haven't sent me one of these yet?
Another beauty of filming 360 video is
lets say there are a few of you sitting around a table.
You slap this in the middle,
and then you can later extract the camera angle
from each person at the table.
So essentially you're running like multiple
camera angles from this one camera.
A few weeks ago I made a video
about making this into a vlog camera.
Which is very possible to do.
You can accessorize it and get a microphone on here.
This on the other hand I wouldn't
necessarily use for vlogging.
Your workflow is going to be much faster
if you just hit record and then you have that clip already.
This is more flexible but again it's
going to take a little bit more time.
So if you're trying to pump out a ton of content,
then this might not be the camera for you.
Let's say you're trying to get a whole
bunch of Instagram clips, or trying to get a couple
unique shots to incorporate into your vlog.
You're much more likely to blow people's mind's
with this camera and kind of the unique shots
you can get out of this.
Now one feature that they recently added
into this One X is this time warp
feature which is pretty neat.
It's just like a time lapse but they add in
this motion blur to make it look more organic.
Like here, watch this.
(dubstep music)
I mean come on that's pretty cool right?
The GoPro also has a time lapse feature
but it doesn't give it that motion blur effect,
and this whole effect I'm doing just from the phone app.
So pretty cool.
Oh right and the giveaway details,
Insta360 is giving away two of these units to you guys.
So for a chance to win just follow both of us on Instagram
and then leave a comment down below on
what you want to film with this camera.
Maybe you want to do something with this crazy time warp
feature, or little tiny planet,
or whatever the hell you want to do.
We're still about 30 seconds away from crossing that
10 minute mark so let's read some comments,
and right now I'm filming with the Insta360
and I got this little crotch camera down here.
I'm just really using this for the audio
because it's so windy up here.
So I'm using this because this has all like
the fluffy goodness that covers up all that sound noise.
Alright my last video was about the Blackmagic
Pocket camera and how it basically stopped working
five minutes after using it,
and yeah, let's see what you guys had to say about that.
"Wow no review and you still managed to make an
11 minute video... I'm impressed."
I'm an expert at dragging out videos,
and I should be crossing over just about now.
Felipe says that,
"This has been a nice bunch of annoying filler."
How could you possibly think I'm annoying?
Oh, okay I think I get it.
"Please don't groan like that. People will think I'm
watching gay porn because the volume was high."
(laughs)
(groans)
"u look like a rabbit who's about to demolish the
entire world's supply of pizza"
"I guess the Black Magic wasn't
UP to the quality standards.."
(laughs)
Not funny.
Brendan says "Why does RED get the pass when their
$40+k "professional" cameras fail horribly,
but Blackmagic gets crucified when their 1$+k camera fails?
I've seen REDs fail more frequently then Blackmagics
and barely anyone talks about that.
I don't get it."
Well just to clarify, I talk about REDs failing
all the time, I actually made an entire video
complaining about how professional cameras shouldn't
fail and REDs do that all the time.
So for me it really doesn't matter what
kind of camera it is.
If it claims to be professional,
and then it stops working on me
for no apparent reason, then you can expect me to (beep)
about it for an entire video.
That video is probably going to
be about ten and a half minutes long,
and same with if I accidentally break a camera.
I know I'm going to get a lot of hate for it,
but come on those views though!
By the way, Blackmagic did repair it
and they're shipping it back to me all within a week.
So I'm pretty impressed with their customer service.
Ivan says, "Why is this guy SO ANNOYING???"
You know what Ivan, I'm sick of your negative attitude,
I think your mustache is annoying.
My mustache is way more legit.
You know you can see, you can see it.
Talking trash about me two can play that game!
I'm going to stalk you YouTube chanel.
Oh my god that is not at all what
I was expecting you to be like!
Your voice is epic, holy crap!
I came here to talk trash but I'm going to like this video,
and wow that is an epic voice.
(laughs)
I got nothing.
Oh, forgot a few things.
Quick congrats to these two guys
for winning a fresh new set of glass,
and also Insta360 gave me a partner link.
So if you use my link in the description
to buy one of these then you get a free selfie stick,
and look how telescoping it is!
Whoa, and it compacts nicely so you can pack it away.
You can film yourself and it's cool.
Free, using my link down below.
Alright I'm out for real this time,
see you guys later.