Why hello there it's good to see you guys
on this bright, sunny day (laughs).
Well actually it's miserable outside
which is why I have to shoot in here with the lights on.
You may recognize this camera from many
of my previous videos, the Insta360 One X,
and it's my favorite 360 camera in early 2019.
I've already made not one but two reviews about this thing.
Have you seen them yet?
Those reviews will tell you 94% of what this camera can do.
Wait a minute, where's the other 6%? You might be thinking.
Well the other 6% of stuff this camera can do
came after I made those reviews.
The firmware updates have been rolling in
and this camera can do a lot more things
than it could do even two months ago.
So in this video we're going to look
at 10 new features of the Insta360 One X.
The first new update is HDR video.
This is one my favorite things about the photos
taken with camera is you can use inbuilt HDR
to get really good dynamic range on your photos
in basically any kind of lighting situation.
No doubt HDR photo is one of the biggest pros of this camera
and now it shoots HDR video, that's just another pro
to add to the list of pros.
HDR video is a really a rare thing to see
from any kind of camera, really.
So don't expect miracles because
if you think about it what HDR is,
is it's blending three different exposures into one.
And this is easy to do with photos
because a photo is taken like that.
Whereas a video is taken over several seconds and minutes.
This makes it kind of hard to shoot
at three different exposures at once.
So while the results haven't been as impressive
as HDR photos, I've noticed a significant improvement
in they dynamic range of all videos I shoot,
with the One X in HDR video mode.
The next new feature of the One X
is you can now create 3D Tiny Planets.
You know the 3D photos we've been seeing all over Facebook?
Yeah you can do that with the One X now.
You will need a dual lens iPhone to do this
so don't get too excited Android users,
maybe they'll add it to Android soon
but at the moment it's just for iPhone.
And what they've done is cleverly simulated depth
in Tiny Planets so when you move it around
on your phone, after you've uploaded it to Facebook
it moves around as if it was shot in 3D.
I found the effect to be quite cool,
but since the effect is still quite new,
the manipulation abilities aren't as good
as any other kind of 360 photo.
No doubt this is a bundle-fix in the next firmware update
but I found this effect to be pretty good.
Feature number three is looping,
and this is really similar to boomerangs
you might see on Instagram where it takes
three-to-five-second snippet, and they put it on the video
and reverses them, except you can do this in 360.
So you get to choose your style angle and your end angle.
So if you're dealing with any kind of action
this effect is going to be surprisingly effective
because it freezes that moment in time
and replays it forwards and backwards,
over and over, and over and over, and-- you get the idea.
The next feature is called stats and this very similar
to the gmetrix we saw with the Garmin Virb
where it shows metrics on screen like speed,
elevation, and the close you've taken,
live as you play back your video.
If you're using this feature be sure to turn on GPS mode
before you take your shot.
Next they've given us the ability
to upload both 360 photos and videos to Google Street view.
If you're a Google Street View photographer
and not just that but a lazy Google Street View photographer
and your taking photo after photo after photo,
you can just record a video, walk around your location,
then upload to Google Street View 3D app,
and it will take photos from your video
and place them throughout the map.
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Please use this feature wisely.
A lot of people that buy a 360 camera
instantly think they're a certified Google Street View
photographer and they'll upload poorly-taken photos
with motion blur and over-exposure.
Don't be that guy, make sure your photos and videos
look really good before you share them
to Google Street View.
I'm a Google Street View photographer, ooohh.
The next feature has to do with post production.
And if you're someone that doesn't like editing in the app,
which I don't know why you could be that kind of person
because the app is so good.
But if you are the kind of person that prefer editing
on desktop, Insta360 have just released
a brand-new software, Insta306 Studio,
for One X, version 3.2.1, and it allows you
to not only stich your 5.7K video but you can reframe it
and create stylish animations with your footage.
This software is really awesome and it's the best, free,
360 video reframing app you can get for computer.
By the way, it works for footage with any 360 camera.
If you haven't seen my tutorial yet for the new
Insta360 Studio, check it out on my channel.
Next, they've finally introduced the no stich Premiere
editing work flow, so if you use Premier
as your main video editor, you know longer
have to stich your footage before you edit it.
You just import the ins feed files to Premier,
edit your 360 video and export as you normally would.
That's one step out of the workflow
and 10 more minutes in your day to go play Pokemon Raid.
The next feature is a subtle one but a really good one
and it has to do with the way
you view your 360 photos and videos.
Sometimes your work can look to fisheyeish,
yeah I just invented a word there.
It can can look to fisheyeish which means essentially
it's too wide and bulbous, it's like it was obviously shot
with a one-angle lens, and that's not always
the most flattering viewpoint to watch back your 360s.
To address this they've introduced linear mode
which essentially de-fisheyes the image.
So when you look around it looks like a much more normal
viewpoint and it wasn't shot on a wide angle lens.
Again this is subtle, but it is very effective.
They've added a whole bunch of new aspect ratio options
in the app that include the linear version
and the normal wide angle version of each aspect ration.
Also I've noticed they added 2.35:1 aspect ratio
to the app which is the cinematic aspect ratio
which I use way too much in film school
and it made my videos 2.35 times more pretentious.
I sat and contemplated my own existence,
was I to live or was I to die, that was the question.
Next you have the ability to pull high resolution
and reframe 306 photos from your 360 videos.
In the app there's now a screen shot option
which means you can now freeze a moment in time.
So if you have a lot of action in your scene
and you want to stop just as you're in the air
and save that as a conventional photo
you can now do that with the maximum amount of resolution.
All this will work especially well
if you shoot in slow motion, I recommend 4K,
60 frames a second because that way
you're not sacrificing too much resolution,
yet you can slow the moment down just enough
to get a clear, crisp, image.
Finally, feature number 10 is something
they're not really advertising but I've noticed it
a lot in the Facebook group.
Since this camera is is so popular,
lots of people own them now and lots of people
are breaking them, I've seen countless photos
in the Insta360 Facebook group of people
that chipped their lens or scratched it
because the wind blew the camera over
and they're begging for help.
And what I discovered is Insta360 offer
a lens replacement service.
You simply contact them through the One X app,
tell them about your unfortunate camera,
then you send it back, they fix it,
and they send it back to you.
Now this isn't free so don't get too excited.
But I've seen on average people are paying
around 100 US dollars on average.
I think they charge per lens, so it will be twice as much
if you break both lenses, but still,
what's that compared to having to pay
the full price again for a second camera.
I consider this to be a really good feature
and it's really decent of them to do that.
I can't think of any other camera companies
that offer this service, almost every other 360 camera
would have to be written off entirely,
with the exception of the Garmin Virb
and the Gear 360, 2016 which both have replaceable lenses.
So that's something that's just good to know
because it's not the cheapest 360 camera out there.
So that's it, those are the 10 features,
be sure to update your camera's firmware,
update the mobile app, and the desktop app,
to get the latest and greatest features for the One X.
Oh, and join the Insta360 Community Facebook Group
if you haven't already, there is so much
valuable information in that group.
I'm learning new things I can do with this camera
every single day, from processing that group.
If you haven't bought this camera yet
but you'd like to, check out the link in the subscription
because all purchases will come with a free selfie stick.
So that's it for me, hit the like button
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Oh, and one One X users,
what's your personal favorite feature of the One X and why?
Let me know down there.
Now don't forget to get out and capture your own 360 today,
I know I will be, and I'll see you very, very soon.
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