In this video I want to show you how you can get the best out of your Insta360 ONE X2,
so best quality footage and I'll just show
you what things you can do to set it up as well and to get started.
So as it goes with any camera really, you want to make sure that the lens is clean and that also
means water droplets so the Insta360 ONE X2 - it's hard to say that - Insta360 ONE X2 is waterproof
but if you use it in the rain you're obviously going to get water droplets on it and then the
quality of the footage is not going to be as good as if the lens was completely clear so you'll see
all the water droplets on the lens so you want to make sure that you clean that as much as possible
and just try not to film when it's raining because the footage just won't look as good.
The other thing is not to use a lens guard with the ONE X2, so Insta360 do sell various ones I
think there's two, I can't remember which ones they are but if you do use them it is going to
reduce the quality of the footage because you're putting an extra lens on top of the
actual lens itself so it's recommended not to actually use those lens guards which is a
bit strange that they sell them but I guess some people would prefer to just keep the
lens protected and just have that little bit-- that little dip in quality but if
you want the best quality footage then don't use a lens guard on the ONE X2.
The other thing is making sure that when you take the compartments apart so for
example the battery if you're changing the battery or you're changing the memory card
make sure that when you put it back together that everything is snapped in properly. So
I just put that back on and you can see that there's a little orange sliver here
which shows that it's not fully-- it shows that it's not fully closed so you want to make sure
that you push everything back and that you can't see any orange bits in any of these
clippy sections - clippy sections - just make sure you can't see any orange because that
means it's not fully closed and then if you go and submerge it in water then that's not going
to be good for the camera obviously it means that it's not going to be waterproof anymore,
so yeah when you take it apart just make sure that you really clip it back in
and then you'll see that the orange goes away and it's good to go.
So one of the benefits of using a 360 camera is getting different angles and perspectives
no matter where you hold the camera and one of the things that I love about Insta360 cameras is the
fact that you get this invisible selfie stick and that basically means that when you're holding it
out you're holding the camera up you can't see the stick when you're holding it so it doesn't
get in the way of your shot and it's basically in the blind spot of the lens so anything that
protrudes past the width of the camera is going to be in your shot but the invisible selfie stick is
just the same width as the camera itself so you can't see it in your shot which is great so if
you're going to be using the Insta360 ONE X2 then do get the invisible selfie stick from Insta360
because it does mean that you're not going to see it when you're holding the camera up.
What you want to do is make sure that you're filming on a bright day and that really goes for
any kind of action camera because the sensors are so small they don't do very well in low light so
if you're shooting on a day which is quite cloudy or it's quite dull ,not that you can help it,
it's just going to make the quality of the footage look a little bit-- not look as
crisp and not look as sharp and not look as good so do try and film on a day where it's
quite bright or you've got a lot of light and then the quality of your footage is
going to look that much better than if you were filming in low light or on dull day.
So now on to the actual camera settings, so the best camera settings in order to get the best
quality footage is really simple you just want to make sure that you've got the camera set to Auto
exposure and you want to shoot in 5.7K 30fps. Now you can shoot in 4K which goes up to 50fps
and then also 3K which goes up to 100fps but if you want the highest quality footage then you
want to shoot in 5.7K30 and also in terms of color profile, so Insta360 recommend that you
use the Vivid color profile because that's going to give you the best kind of colors
and make the footage look as best as it can. So they're pretty much the camera settings there's
not really much else that you need to do. The other thing is not shooting in HDR mode because
that's also going to reduce the quality of the footage. When it's not in HDR mode it actually
looks really good and the exposure if you're using Auto exposure and it compensates pretty well
in terms of, like, the foreground and then the background so if you have a bright sky or, like,
a darker foreground it's going to do its best to kind of expose that scene properly and it actually
works really well, so HDR mode isn't true HDR so that's why it just doesn't look very good, so
definitely skip HDR mode and just shoot in Normal but definitely with the Vivid color profile.
So I think that's pretty much it, I don't think there's anything else that I've missed,
if I have and you use this already then do drop a comment because it'd be useful for me and for
anyone else who uses the Insta360 ONE X2, but if you found this video useful do give it a like,
I did drop another video or I will be dropping another video where I talk about getting better
audio quality so this was just about getting better-- the best quality footage which audio
does come into it but I have done a video or will be doing a video on that so do check that
out. I've created an entire playlist for the Insta360 one X2 where I'll be adding videos
quite regularly I guess, but yeah thanks for watching and catch you guys next time.