sup guys this is Ben from Life in 360 and today I'm going to show you how to
use Insta360 studio which is an amazing 360 video editing software that
allows you to edit 360 footage from no matter which camera you've got you can
edit it into whichever manipulation you like and the amazing thing about this
software is is completely free when I first discovered it I thought I hit the
jackpot I surely more people know about this but I was pretty much the only
person that I knew of that had discovered this software and when I saw
what I could do I realized it could do a lot of the stuff that some 360 software
companies that are charging three four five hundred dollars for on completely
for free so this is a really good find and it doesn't take long to learn at all
so I'm going to teach you exactly how to use it alright so firstly we're going to
go to the insta 360 website and you guys might know Insta360 for their cameras
I've got some awesome cameras including the Nano Insta360 air and the pro so
they're an awesome company that happen to make this awesome free software so
thanks guys your legends and we're going to go to the download section I'll link
this in the description but it's pretty easy to find on their website as well so
on their download page we'll just go Mac or Windows I'm on Mac and click download
so here's the basic interface it's as simple as just dragging our photo or
video straight into that main window there so let's just pick one at random
here and here we have a 360 photo I've taken it automatically recognized it as
a 360 and there we go we can pan around it straight away so with photos and you
can only output photos so if you want to edit tiny planets or you want a specific
view within your 360 so say I want to flat image of the opera house there just
click photo and then save that to my desktop and automatically that exports
at full resolution at the maximum resolution in relation to how big the
photo actually was to begin with so another
cool feature is you can edit tiny planets here so this is essentially the
the tiny planet equivalent for your Mac or PC as many of the editing apps you
might use like roll worlds on smartphones so this is a really handy PC
tiny planet editor and it's free again so here we can edit our tiny planet do
whatever we like and it's as simple as if zooming in and out on your mouse very
very intuitive does it's not complex at all I sucked big time at post-production
and After Effects can't use After Effects to save my life
however click-and-drag works in my books so it's very easy to pick up so let's
say I'm happy with that tiny planet again I'll just hit the photo button
there which is screen shot which will export
quite a large photo so if you want to turn a photo into a video what you'll
need to do is firstly bring it into your editing program like premier drag it out
to about 60 seconds and then export it as a video at the moment you can't edit
photos into animated videos just yet in Insta360 but that's a fast way to work
around it then you just simply bring it back in the Insta360 and edit a video like you
would any other video so on the left hand side here we can also open up our
browser if you want to bring in video or photo files but it's even easier just
dragging and dropping into the middle window there so I'm going to grab some
360 footage and drop it into the timeline and show you how the video
animation aspect of it works so it's already playing it's already displaying
in 360 which is awesome it should recognize basically any
footage from any camera that you're using so hopefully you don't encounter
any issues there this first screen that I'm looking at is the viewer aka pano
play as they call it and so this is just for having a quick preview of your image
and you just want to have a look around and see how it looks in 360
what we're going to do is we want to start animating this footage so we can
turn into tiny planets or we can change perspective from one end of the
camera to the other I'm staying tight we can do whatever we
like but what we'll need to do is going to record a mode so now that we're in
recording mode now our timeline is usable down the bottom here and what I
like about this software is it has very few buttons it's very easy to pick up so
here's our main panel of options so firstly what I'm going to do is just
select a portion of the footage that I want to use so let's say I want to make
it a minute and a half here we have start times and end times so we're
essentially going to crop off to the beginning and end and start and end
where we want to so I'm going to going to start about twelve seconds in and
just press that button there and it brings my starting point up to roughly
the 12 second mark and say I want to end it two minutes so I'll click this one
here and now we have roughly our start and end points alright so the first
thing we need to do to start editing is add our first keyframe so we'll want to
go to the very start of the footage and essentially anywhere you place your
first keyframe so say we'll place it there and that's maybe a 13 second mark
and we make a manipulation so looking down everything before that is going to
be at that manipulation so there are a few different viewing modes as you can
see down in this corner here you might want to play around with them I've found
the most helpful mode to editing is little planet even if you don't want to
create a little planet it gives you the most flexibility lets you zoom out as
far as you want or zoom in as far as you want within the image the other one end
up with a black border around if you zoom out too far and start skewing the
image too much so a little planet even if you don't want to do a little planet
is the best editing mode to edit in so what we want to do is travel between
several points of our 360 so this means creating several keyframes which we will
then tell Insta360 to move between almost like there's a camera person
there in the frame moving the camera around spinning around going up down all
around as we please so this is very easy and intuitive and
requires mainly just clicking and dragging which is the idiots way to do
it which makes me very very happy so now the ring little planet mode we'll
go to our second key frame we started roughly down here and all you need to do
is just do that to go back and we can see it's now spun around okay well
that's not bringing something is it so I think I want to change that second
keyframe so I'll just click that and zoom out so now it's going to spin
around 180 and zoom out within that eight second transition point so it
starts at one there and it zooms out to keyframe - all right I like that so
let's create a third one so how about we follow this couple here as our next
camera movement so let's say by second 25 I want to end up in quite close on
them and have the camera follow them as they walk away from the camera so we
just go back a bit now let's see and already it's done it it has mended it
and now we can preview it the 360 is moved to follow that couple that's
awesome it's so quick and intuitive it's now so simple as adding as many
keyframes as you like might add a third one where it keeps going and turns into
inverted planets that looks really cool so again now we'll just go back and it's
already prepared that the animation for us and there we go is going into an
inverted planet and already we've got four different key points key frames
that was so fast and easy to do and that would have taken me hours to work out
how to do in After Effects I'm really grateful for this program so yeah you
want to add as many points as you want so I'm going to go back into it into
little planet mode with our next keyframe okay so moving your keyframes
is very easy so I think this this transition is taking a little bit too
long I want that to happen say within 2 or 3 seconds so it's just a matter of
clicking on the keyframe and then dragging it back so now instead of 10
seconds it's going to take about 2 or 3 and now yeah it's a fast transition good
to mix things up and make them exciting so if you want to alter that your
keyframes you can do that at any point within your timeline just grab a
keyframe and moves along to another point
so therefore this transition gets longer and this one gets shorter so now that
we've done that we can see that it transitions but the transition isn't
very smooth the start and end it goes point 1 so that's not really an ideal
camera moves because you do want to ease in and not be so jarring and there's a
way we can avoid that and what we do to change our transitions is you click on
the line in between the two keyframes and that will give us our transition of
options at the moment it smooth dissolve but that wasn't so smooth was it but I
think the one we want is fade in fade out so now let's have a look and
see how at the end instead of going like this it went like that so smoothing twist
into us it slowed to a stop instead of stopping suddenly and there are a number
of different transitions there's a six of them here um the slip in fade out
fade in slip out,slip in and slip out, smooth dissolve, so slip in fade out
just try that one quickly so slip in fade out is essentially means start
quick and slow so start unsmoothly and then end smoothly and obviously fade in
slip out the opposite of that slip in slip out is let's have a look so slip in
slip out is essentially quick movement to start slow in the middle quick moving
in at the end I find most of the time either smooth dissolve or fade in fade
out is the best because that allows the most seamless transition of speed
between all of your various movements you don't want it to jam you never really
want it to stop or obviously stop you can have it slow to a stop but when it's
just constantly go like this this this can be really overwhelming for the
viewer whereas you can make it a much smoother experience so you might want to
have a play around each transition would might require a different kind of effect
transition effect so play around with all of them depending on what the actual
trend to transition points are if it's a big one you'll want to make it as smooth
as possible if it's a small one you can make it a little bit more more giant if
you feel that's best so once we're we're happy with our animation I, it tend out I
didn't use all of this footage here so I'm going to move that end marker
forward to about the 40 second mark so we have and move this one
forward a tiny bit so we have our final animation plays out as so, start down low
we go up and spin then we go we followed a couple and as they walk we're going to
zoom out into inverted planet and finally do our crazy little movement on
crack and end up there into our tiny planet so
I'm happy with that and I'm going to end it there so now we simply export using
the right hand section up here at the moment there isn't a lot of exploring
options I'm sure in future releases they're going to update your export
options at the moment 1920 by 1080 is the max you can export that and you can
export it lower than that or custom sizes but yeah I'd go for the full 1925
if I were you honestly like this is a free software you can't expect it to be as
good as premiere or after-effects and we'll compute actually will be one day
but for now I'm just going to be happy with learning given because it's pretty
incredible what this can do and it's just as simple as choosing an export
location and hitting export okay so that's how you edit one single 360 video
at a time normally I like to do just one because I do a daily Instagram post
every day and when I want to do something like this and advance 360
animation I'll do that for one singular shot and upload to Instagram just so
it's not too choppy and changee however if you want to do several different
videos within the same video you'll have to do it one at a time and then bring
that into your editing program combine them there at the moment you can't edit
several videos within Insta360 studio it's just one at a time and
unfortunately you can't save your projects either so you'll need to do all
your manipulations and then export as a video file which is a very workable
workflow in my opinion because I only need to do one at a time anyway I did
have a music video project where I had about nine or ten shots total
so I had to do them one at a time export them bring them into premiere combine
them in premier sync them up and then export as one video later so it wasn't
really a huge issue to be honest I'm sure what future releases they'll allow
you to edit multiple clips the moment is just the one so this has been one of the
most amazing finds I've ever come across in my very short 360 career and it
allows you to create really impressive works very easily and really get the
most out of your 360 footage it doesn't matter which camera you're shooting on
which is so cool I've literally edited four different cameras footage in this
free program so you might want to check it out and get a hang of it if you want
to take your 360 video editing to the next level if you enjoy making tiny
planet photos and videos you might want to check out my ebook it's called life
in 360 a beginner's guide to tiny planet photography it's going to teach you
everything you need to know about creating tiny planets tiny planet video
like we've done here it'll teach you everything so check it out until next
time guys keep living your life in 360 and feel free to follow us on all the social
media channels will be posting heaps of cool content in 2017 I can't wait to share it
with you guys oh and by the way don't tell anyone about this let's just keep
it a little secret between you and me and we can create awesome 360 videos and
leave everyone wondering how we did it and we say it's magic alright guys until
next time ciao