- This is the Insta360
Go number two.
It's like a tiny, small point of view style camera.
And I'm actually working on a project right now
where I'm going to shoot an entire mountain climb
in point of view.
So I need to test a few things out with this camera
to make sure that I'm filming things properly
so that I could get the best point of view style footage.
So essentially there's a few things that I want to test out.
I'm going to put the Go on my head
and see that point of view versus on my chest.
And when I'm testing it on my chest
I want to test the magnet that comes with it
which is actually pretty useful.
And then also just a chest harness
with like the typical GoPro style of prong mount.
Now, I also got one of those mounts
that's like a big pole that goes off of your helmet.
And then also I want to test the sticky mount
for just like a quick tripod.
So I could like stick it on a rock or stick it on
whatever I'm walking by.
And to get a shot that's not from the point of view on me
but you can actually see what we're doing from a distance.
The idea with the project that I'm working on
is to completely immerse yourself in a mountain climb
and actually get that first person perspective.
And when I was using my GoPro on my last climb
I had so many issues with the footage
and I didn't really get to use much of it.
So I need to do a few specific tests now
with the Go 2 and the reason that the Go 2
would make more sense than a GoPro
is that you can reframe and post.
So just like the Insta360 One X2
you can go in and actually reframe
but there are a few limitations with the Go 2
that I also need to test out
like how to get the footage off
because I'm going to be climbing for three days.
And with the Go 2 there's no memory card.
So I have to pull that footage off.
So I want to shoot a few different samples
and really just test out these features
to make sure that this camera's gonna work well
to get this point of view style.
So first the one thing I wanna test is on the helmet
and how it looks with that helmet mount.
And I'm gonna be testing everything
doing some mountain biking up here in the hills
because it gives me some action to play around with
when I'm climbing, it's gonna be a little bit different
but still there's a lot of movement.
There's like ropes and different things.
So I just want to see how my hands work
with the point of view perspective
and the different things that I'm doing with my hands
and also how the view is
from the different spots on my body.
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- How's that look?
I'm going to sweat a little bit on this.
All right.
So let's go through this footage and see what we got.
All right. So looking at that footage
when it's up on my head
I feel like you don't get any perspective
of being a point of view.
You get that head point of view.
But the only thing I think this would be good for
is if I want to see my head swivel
because when I moved my head
you could see that the camera moved a little bit.
And I think if I'm climbing
and I want to get that perspective where I'm looking around
then this position might be a good position to use
because I could be looking straight ahead
or like looking up at what's coming
or I could be like looking down and around
but it won't get as much hand movement.
It's not going to be fully immersed into that point of view.
So I can get a clean frame point of view.
That's mounted on my head and I can get that swivel.
I can get the perspective of actually moving.
Now, let's try the pole that goes out from the helmet
to get that reverse shot and see if I could get
like shot, reverse shot, what I've seen
and then seeing my face.
And one thing with the Go 2
is when I first got this camera
I accidentally kept putting it in the standard mode
which basically you're not able to reframe.
So you have to make sure that you put it in pro mode
to be able to get that ability to reframe
and post on your phone or on the computer.
And to do that you have to hold and then it turns on
and then you click it once and it starts recording.
Whereas if you just click it once
it goes into standard mode.
So that is one thing that I got to
kind of keep thinking about when I'm filming
because I have to get everything shot in pro mode
so I have that ability to reframe
because that was the issue that I had with my GoPro.
Definitely feel like a unicorn with this thing.
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Okay. Putting it with the unicorn pole
is actually pretty cool.
I mean, that gives the right amount of distance
where it doesn't distort too much.
And you get a really unique perspective
like looking at the face.
I think this can become super useful
in just getting that shot, reverse shot.
So getting some expression of what's going on
because when you're shooting point of view
a lot of times you're always focused on
what the person is doing, but I think
one of the more important things
when it comes to storytelling is also getting reactions
especially of the main subject.
And if that's me doing the point of view
I need to get those reverse shots
and it's kind of a cool look to it.
So I definitely think I'm going to be using
this kind of shot for the video that I'm shooting.
All right. So when it comes to point of view
the last position that I really wanted to test out
in this kind of setting was chest and pendant
versus, you know, having the harness on.
And last night I actually went out
shot a bunch of footage with the pendant.
So this was all shot with just the magnet
and appendant under my shirt.
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Now I want to put on the chest harness and do it that way
because there was definitely some moments
where I hit the Go 2 and it fell off.
And if I'm climbing on a mountain and I hit the Go 2
and then it goes down like a thousand feet off the edge
while I just lost, not only the camera
but all of my footage.
So I want to have the camera mounted on me
as much as possible in those situations.
And I think there'll be times where the pendant
makes more sense where I just need quick shots
and I'm not worried about the camera
dropping into the abyss.
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Okay. Definitely the chest mount gives you more of that
point of view perspective because you can see my arms
and you can see everything that I'm doing
when I was grabbing the bag
and putting the camera away and grabbing my bike.
Like all of that is just so visual
because it's right from that perspective
that feels like you're immersed in the video.
From the head you didn't get that sense
but the head is definitely a clean one.
And I think there's time and place for both
because you don't always just want arms
in the shot at all time.
Especially when you're telling a story
you might find some areas
where you might want to clean perspective.
But having the arms just gives you that full immersion
and riding the bike, it's so cool.
I can imagine when I'm up on the mountain
and I'm gonna be doing ropes, rappelling or climbing
you're just going to get that first person view
that perspective.
All right. The last thing that I want to test
is the sticky mount that comes with the Go 2.
It's kind of a quick little tripod
that you can stick on anything.
I'm just going to test it out by sticking it
on stuff around here.
But a lot of times when I'm on a mountain
I realize there's not really good places to stick tripods.
And sometimes if I could just stick something on a rock
it might be a good way to get those shots
at a distance from me.
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So with that sticky mount, it's really easy to use.
You just got to make sure that the sticky part's clean
and you can kind of stick it to anything.
I tried a few different mounts here.
Stuck it to trees and rocks, and it seemed to stick.
The issue is if it was vertical on something
and I left it there too long
it slowly started to peel off and then come completely off.
But that's just pretty cool because it's a stationary shot
and you have the ability to reframe.
So you can create these small pans
and movements within the shot
and you don't have to do any movement of the camera.
So it could just be sitting there
but you could have a reframe from top to bottom.
So I'm going to try to use the sticky mount
when I'm out filming.
And then I'm also going to bring a few other little mounts
like tripods and things
and we'll see what kind of perspectives I can get
when I'm out shooting, trying to really immerse
the viewer into the video that I'm shooting.
All right. So the last thing that I want to figure out
is workflow, because this doesn't have a micro SD card slot.
It basically has 29 gigabytes of hard drive space.
And then it's full.
So when I'm out climbing for three days
I'm not going to be able to just rely on the data
that's in here.
So what I can do is connect via the USB-C to my computer
and I could pull the data that way
but I really don't want to have to bring a computer
up a mountain.
I want to try on my phone.
I'm going to connect the app here.
And I want to see what happens
when I pull this footage onto my phone.
Ideally, what I want is the Insta360 file.
I don't want an MP4 because I want the ability
to reframe later and I need that Insta360 file
and bring it into the Insta360 software
to be able to get the horizon leveling
and the stabilization.
So it looks like in the app I can only download
the finished video that I've edited on the app.
Okay. I don't want to export it.
No, let's cancel this.
All right. So from the home screen where all my footage is
I can download it to my phone.
So let's try this.
I'm going to download it first
because then I could just keep my phone clear my phone out
use this as my data storage.
And then when I'm back at base camp or home
I can take the footage to my computer
and it'll just make things a little bit easier.
It wouldn't take that long for me to download
all the footage onto my phone.
You know, I'm going to be sparing with the way
that I shoot this camera.
Make sure that I'm not shooting too much
because I'm going to be limited.
All right, I'm going to try one more thing
because it's not in the app any way to send it
but let me, let me go grab a cable.
Okay, cool.
Figure that out.
So when you go into your phone on your finder
you can actually find the folder
where the Insta360 files are being stored.
And then you can just copy that over to the hard drive
and then be able to edit it in Insta360 studio.
And the editing is a little limited.
You can only go up and down.
You can't push around as much
but I think for the majority of the shots
that's going to be fine
and I'm still going to have a copy of it in my phone.
So if I need to go in and do different styles and movements
I can do that edit in my phone and export it that way.
So I think problem solved.
I can use my phone as a backup.
Now I need to clear my phone so that I have enough space
to be able to hold all this footage
but this will be my hard drive.
And I'll be able to pull everything on it.
And using this as a hard drive will give me
plenty of storage to be able to capture footage
throughout the three days
and be able to not run out of space.
But next I highly suggest you check out
this video right here.
It's the last climbing film that I did.
And you can see in this video, when I was using my GoPro
how the shots just weren't level.
And I had a lot of issues
with the point of view perspective.
All right, I'll see you on the next one.