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- Right now, I'm shooting on the Insta360 One R
on the 4K mod in HDR mode
because I have a super dynamic shot here.
Bright sunlight right there, a little bit darker that way.
Now in this video, we're gonna go through
what makes this camera system so unique
and what sets it apart from say a traditional GoPro.
All right, guys, so let's dig into the Insta360 One R
and figure out if it's the perfect camera for you.
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So throughout this video,
I'm gonna shoot on the different mods
for this talking head bit, the A role versus the B roll.
And I just wanna show you that this camera
is not just an action camera,
but you can use it in a lot of different scenarios.
You can plug in audio to the camera,
and you can use it for like vlogging
or if you just want to use it for extreme sports.
Obviously that's what an action camera is intended for.
However, there is a ton of features packed into this camera.
So I'm gonna go through 10 reasons why
you would pick this camera over say a GoPro,
and we're gonna start with the elephant room.
Number one, this camera is a modular system.
So what a modular system is
is basically the ability to use different components
to build up your camera.
So for the Insta360 One R right now
you have these different cameras that you can use.
You have a 4K camera which is kind of like a GoPro.
You have your 1 Inch which has a bigger sensor
which gives you more perks.
It shoots 5.3K.
It's the one I'm shooting on right now.
You also have your 360 mod
which allows you to do things that you can do
with like the 360 One X.
It's essentially the same camera as that one,
but it's just a mod that you add onto this camera.
So beyond these three cameras, the world is endless.
There are so many different potential cameras
that they can add into the system,
and how it works is you have a battery
that's on the bottom of the camera,
and then you have your screen module.
So if you're a vlogger
and you wanna see yourself while you're filming,
then you can have it face you.
However, you can also flip it the other direction,
and so that if you pointed the camera away from you,
you can still see the screen,
and then the third piece to the puzzle is the camera mod.
So beyond the three cameras that I'm showing you
in this video, you go on their website,
they already have different mods planned like a 3D mod.
So say they come out with a better 1 Inch sensor mod,
well all you have to do is replace
that one section of your camera,
and you're not having to replace the entire camera system.
This makes the Insta360 One R so powerful
because there is no other
module action camera on the market.
One really cool thing about this camera
is that it's waterproof,
and I know you're gonna say,
well, the other cameras are too,
but because this is a modular system,
you might think that you can't put this in water
because you have all these different components.
Well, that's not the case.
This goes up to 5 meters without any sort of dive housing.
So for any situation like jumping in a pool,
going in the ocean, heavy rain, mud,
this camera will work great.
All right, so I don't want to get too far in this video
without talking about price because I know price
is a huge factor when it comes to determine
if you want to get a camera or not.
So to compare this camera to say the GoPro,
you really have to compare two cameras
because on the Insta360 One R system, they have a package.
It's the 4K mod and the 360 mod,
and those two cameras together are 479.
Now if you wanted to get that same package in GoPro,
you'd have to get the GoPro Max
and the regular GoPro camera.
The GoPro Max is around $500,
and the GoPro camera is around 300.
So just looking at those two systems and comparing them
because those are the closest cameras,
it's a cheaper system.
Now the beauty of having a modular system
is that you only have to upgrade components,
and for me, I see this as a great value
because there's a ton packed into this one system,
and so with all of the cameras,
you have a ton of possibilities
in different ways that you can shoot.
Right now, I'm on the 4K mod,
and you can shoot 4K, 60 frames per second.
Now if you go to the 1 Inch mod,
you get 5.3K at 30 frames per second,
25 or 24 frames per second,
but you also can do 4K, 60.
Also with the 1 Inch, you have a bigger sensor.
So it performs better than the 4K mod in low light.
Also because it shoots 5.3K, you get better resolution.
Here's a side by side of the 4K mod and the 1 Inch,
and you can see that there's more detail
in the 1 Inch mod.
Now with the 360 mod, it's basically a Insta360 One X.
However, the One R has improved image quality.
So it does look better than the One X.
So you get 5.7K, 360 spherical.
So that means you can punch in on the footage
and still be able to get a nice-looking image.
I love the Insta360 One X.
I've used it all the time when I'm out like
mountaineering and climbing
because it was such an easy system to bring with me,
and essentially now you have that in one of these mods,
and then you could just swap it out
and then put on the 4K mod or the 1 Inch mod
or whatever suits your need.
That's kind of why this system is so cool.
You can keep swapping cameras out
and have all these different styles of filming
without having to bring different cameras to suit
each one of these needs.
So we need to talk about the flow state stabilization
because this is an algorithm
that helps stabilize your footage,
and it's not only in the 360 camera,
but it's in all the mods that comes
with the Insta360 One R system,
and this allows you get super stable footage
in any situation that you're in.
You don't have to have any additional products
around the camera like a gimbal to get smooth footage.
Here's a quick snippet of a video
that I shot with my buddy Travis Elliott.
I was just hand holding the 1 Inch mod
and following him as he did his yoga flow,
and with the flow state stabilization,
it looks like it's on a gimbal.
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I think one of the biggest reasons
that you'd get this system
is the ability to shoot now and reframe later,
and with the 360 footage
you have so many potential possibilities.
You can do some crazy edits
because you're filming in a spherical format
which allows you to basically shoot everything,
and then later you get to point your camera around
in the direction and change the width
and everything about the image,
and then you can export it in any format
whether you're using it in your YouTube videos,
your Instagram, your Tik-Tok, whatever.
There's just so much flexibility with the 360 mod,
but one thing that's really cool that I really like
about the 1 Inch mod and the 4K mod
is you can also reframe later.
So say you shoot in the wide format,
well, maybe you want to have a narrow looking image
so you don't need to have so much width from the shot.
Well, you can go into the software
and be able to reframe this later.
There's definitely been some situations
where I shot with a GoPro in the linear mode,
and then I bring it back to the edit
and I wish I'd shot in like ultra wide
just because I kind of missed the framing.
So the workflow on this system is super easy to use,
and you either can do it on your phone through an app
or you can use their desktop software, Insta360 Studio,
and be able to do all of this editing and reframing later.
So let me just walk you through the workflow
so you have an understanding of how this all works.
When you shoot on the Insta360 One R, it creates a file
that Insta360 app in the studio reads.
Now if you don't wanna have to go through this step
of doing all the re-framing and everything later,
you can shoot in an MP4 format.
Just know you can't do any of the reframing
if you decide to do that.
However, the option's there.
Now once you bring it into the studio or the app,
you can go through, do your editing, do your tweaking,
your reframing, and then you can export it
and bring it into your software.
Now they've developed a plugin that works with Premiere.
I don't personally use Premiere, I use Final Cut.
So for me that's the workflow.
Yes, there is an extra step,
and it takes a little bit more time.
However, that allows you to have more creative freedom
with the footage that you're getting out of these cameras.
We need to talk about the artificial intelligence
with this camera, and there's a few different things
that you can automate when shooting on the Insta360 One R.
Now the first is your shot lab.
So in the phone app, you have the ability
to do these kind of creative edits on your footage.
You have stop motion, you have dolly zoom,
you have jump planet, you have time flip,
and essentially these create fun little edits
that you can use on social media
or if you just want something
that's kind of creative and different.
So also with this AI, you have this ability to track.
So if you don't wanna go through manually
and follow your subject, you just hold on the subject
and it will track it through the frame
and keep the shot centered on them the whole time.
Now the other aspect of AI that I really wanna talk about
is this auto-frame function
that's both on the app and in the studio.
So when you're shooting your 360 footage,
you have to go in and actually reframe all the shots,
and sometimes it's tedious to do that
and it takes a lot of time,
especially when you have a ton of footage.
So what you can do is use this auto-frame function,
and what this function does
is it looks through your entire shot
and comes up with a bunch of different edits,
and it cuts a whole series of these different times,
different framings, different shot sizes
so that you could just scroll through them real quick
and batch export the ones that you like.
It's just an easier way to edit this footage
because sometimes looking at the 360 footage is daunting
because you do have to put in this additional work
to get the shots that you want.
So what's cool about this system
is it uses the same two-prong attachments
that you find on a lot of action cameras.
It's like the chest harness
and the car mounts and the poles.
I've had no issues using all the products
with the Insta360 One R.
So essentially you're just upgrading a camera.
You don't have to upgrade the entire system of products.
I think the best part about this entire system
is that it is a camera with unlimited possibilities.
With the modular design,
they could just keep upgrading the different components,
and you never have to get a whole new system,
and then in terms of your creative flexibility,
you could shoot so many different styles of content,
create so many different looks
because you just have so much flexibility
with all the reframing in post.
So I'll put links in the description
to more information about the Insta360 One R,
but also if you want to learn
how to get cinematic-looking action camera footage,
then I highly suggest checking out this video right here.
It goes through what is cinematic
and also goes through 12 different things that you can do
to make your footage look that much better.
All right, guys, I'll see you over there.