That was intense!
Okay so in today's video, you're going
to learn 10 cool effects you can do with the Insta 360 One R
and the Insta 360 One X.
Right now it's possible to connect
the one X to the one R app, meaning you can do most of
the things you can do with one R with the one X, probably
not everything, and you're not even supposed do it.
So it may be buggy or laggy.
But you should be able to do most of the effects in this
video, with the One X inside the one R app. #lifehacks.
So grab your camera, grab your phone, and let's get into it.
Every shot we're going to be editing today can all be done
in the one R mobile app, there's no need for a computer.
And what's even cooler, is that you don't even need
to download the footage within the app,
you can connect straight to the SD card of the camera
and edit straight from it.
You don't need to download hundreds of gigabytes of files,
and use your precious phone's memory,
which is seriously cool.
Because in my one R,
I'm using a 512 gigabyte micro SD card, and I'm pretty sure
that the entire memory that my phone holds.
So, I gotta hand it to you Insta, that's a great idea.
The first effect is one of the coolest,
and it's called Clone Trail, and what we're going
to do is; set up the One X or One R on a tripod or monopod.
Press record at 5.7 K video, then move around
the scene doing funny things, or just move
to different areas. Keeping in mind, that you're going
to be cloned every few steps. Try your best
to maintain a distance of two meters at all times.
Otherwise, you're going to be too big in shot,
and the effect won't work.
I found I got my best results,
when being five plus meters from the camera.
As you see here, I'm running past Sydney Opera House like
a lunatic, but it's all for art and the results are totally
going to be worth it.
Now, open up the One R app, and you'll notice down
the bottom right, there's a stories option.
Under Shot Lab, you'll notice there's a whole bunch
of really cool presets, that we can use
to achieve various effects.
And what these do, is they plug in all the right settings
for your specific effect and you barely have to do anything.
The app does it all for you.
So for this first shot,
we're going to choose Clone Trail, right here.
And if you ever get stuck with any of these effects,
they have built in tutorials,
that will show up automatically when you choose each one.
But, we're going to skip past that now,
and press Use This Theme, now we're going to navigate to
the folder of our SD card with our videos.
And our clip, is this one here.
So what we want to do, is skip to the part of the video,
where you want the action to start.
As you can see, I'm setting up the camera now,
and getting ready to move.
And I think at about seven seconds here,
is going to be the time.
So what I'll do here, is long press myself and the app has
picked me up, and it's going to follow me across the screen.
Excellent, so now we choose the Clone Density,
Low, moderate or high.
Of course we want high, why are you even asking me
that, I want as many clones as possible.
So, I'm going to choose high, and now Generate Claim Trail.
Then, you can choose Forward Trail or Reverse Trail.
The difference is; with Forward Trail,
as you move the clones will show up behind you.
With Reverse Trail; when you move,
the clones are already there in the scene,
and as you walk into them, they disappear.
Now, it works it's magic and exports a clip,
that looks like this.
The next cool effect is, Stop Motion.
And to achieve this effect;
put your camera on a selfie stick,
and extend it three to six feet,
the further the better really.
Now, hold it at either 90 degrees or 45 degrees,
in front of you and walk for two to five minutes.
Here, I walked for five minutes in a circle
around the Opera House.
And, I found I got my best results when I was taking tiny
little steps, because it's basically cutting out all
the movement, in between the steps to make it look like
you're skating on the ground.
So if your steps are giant, then it's going to skip over
the rest of the landscape too quickly.
So, try and keep your steps about a foot apart.
Now, in the Shot Lab of the app,
we're going to choose Stop Motion, Use this Theme,
and choose our footage, here's mine.
Again, I'll start right when I start walking,
which is there.
Now, you simply just reposition the screen so you're in
the middle and long press to select yourself.
Now it's going to go ahead
and track me throughout this entire clip.
Now, you can adjust small things in the app after processing
each effect, it doesn't always get it right.
Sometimes it tracks the wrong thing,
or maybe cuts off the effect too early.
So you can go back and change small things,
you can't change everything.
And I'm sure they are going to add the ability
to change more subtle things.
But for now, you're just going to have to count on it
getting it right, most of the time.
Next is the Dolly Zoom effect.
And if you've ever seen Jaws, this is the movie that made
this shot famous.
And it's actually a really simple idea, that camera moves
forward, while it zooms out at the same time or vice versa.
And this is an effect that used
to be really difficult to make.
Normally, you'd need a camera and a dolly,
and the camera operator would need to move in
a perfectly straight line, and it's a shot
that's so easy to mess up.
Well, not when you're using a 360 camera.
Now, you can do it with a tiny little camera,
that fits in your pocket,
and probably get it right first time.
So here's how to do it.
Hold the camera close to your subject,
in this example; I'm the subject, and my friend Maxi
is the camera operator, press record
then move slowly, in a straight line back,
you only need to go about five to 10 meters max,
and you don't even need to go fast.
The shot's done backwards, to make it easier
to end up on your subject, at the end of the shot.
Because, what we're going to do later is, reverse it.
So that's it, all you've got to do is take a 10
to 15 seconds shot and yes,
it does help having a foreground element like a person,
a statue, a building or something
that stands out from the background.
Now in the app, we're going to choose the Dolly Zoom option,
Use this Theme, and now on this screen,
we're going to choose person, and simply tap
and hold to choose the person and hit the tick.
There we go, striking me, and it's going to apply
the effect automatically to this shot.
Effect number four, is the Barrel Roll,
and this one's super simple.
Just press record, walk in a straight line towards something
interesting, for at least a minute.
Now, this time in the app, instead of going to the shot lab,
what I'm going to do is select my clip,
and edit it in Free Capture, as we normally would.
So, here we can apply all the normal effects.
Firstly, I'm going to change the Aspect Ratio to 16:9,
then I'm just going to make sure
the Opera House stays in the dead centre, by tapping
the screen and creating a Key Frame.
Now, what I'm going to do is move forward, all the way
to the end of the clip and I can say it's a minute 35.
So, what I'm going to do is go backwards,
and half that, half a minute 35, is 45 ish seconds.
Here we go, 47 and I'm going to create a Key Frame here.
And what I'm going to do, is tap the plus button at
the bottom to create a Key Frame.
Now, you can see we've got the option to change the horizon,
and what I'm going to do, is flip it in this direction,
180 degrees.
Great, now I'll simply go to the end of the clip,
maybe a little bit off of the end, going to create another
Key Frame there, and continue the spin another 180.
Next, I'm going to go to Speed,
and turn this into a Hyper Lapse.
And you want to highlight
the entire clip, like I've done here.
Now we press the tick and export.
You can customise your export settings by the way,
just tap custom, as it's exporting.
And the little settings icon will allow us
to change small things.
Sometimes, you can change the resolution,
you can always change the bit rate and there's also
frame rate.
I'm happy with that.
So, I'm going to go back and right there, in one minute
I've edited a really cool barrel roll.
The next effect is called Flash Dash and what it does,
I can't think of any other description for it, other
than, it turns you into Pikachu.
Meaning, you speed really fast and you've got lightning
bolts coming out of your eyes and ears and head.
To do this one, again just press record, hold the camera
on a selfie stick and walk for at least one to two minutes.
Now, in the Shot Lab, we're going to choose Flash Dash.
Trim it down to the part of the clip you want to use,
then it will give you the lightning bolt option here,
we're going to hold that down, to apply the effect.
So there you go.
It's a similar effect to the hyper lapse.
You're just Pikachu this time. Now I'm going
to hit the tick up the top right, and export Pika.
The next effect is Auto Time Shift.
And this is an interesting one, because what we're doing
here, is letting AI edit a time shift for us.
Surely it can't be that good, right?
Like if you have no creative control over it,
a computer can't be more creative than you can, can it?
So, as you'd film a normal time shift, just record 360 video
with your camera on a selfie stick, walking around with
the changing landscape, for about three to five minutes.
Now, we're going to choose Auto Time Shift in the Shot Lab,
choose our clip, and now it automatically picks out
what it thinks are the interesting bits of this clip.
I mean, it's not a human
and it can't determine what is interesting
and what's not, but it does its best.
And then with everything, it thinks is boring,
it speeds through like a normal hyper lapse.
So as you can see, it's chosen a few sections here
that it thinks are interesting.
Let's take a look. Here I am at Circular Quay Train Station,
at Circular Quay in Sydney.
And okay, that's great.
It's like a warped look at the train station.
And now, a building that is not really that interesting.
Now I'm going backwards, that's a bit weird.
Okay, that's better.
Now we're getting into the cool shots.
That's a much better perspective and oh nice.
It panned over to the Sydney Opera House.
How did it know?
It's actually pretty good.
Okay, now I've stopped for some reason.
I don't know why, going up the steps.
And yeah, I think it's figured out that
the Opera House is a point of interest.
So yeah, I'd say it did a pretty good job.
Nowhere as good, as I would have done
if I manually key framed it myself,
but I'd give it a solid 5 out of 10, no doubt they're
working on this, and it's gonna become better over time.
But right now, I wouldn't use it.
I mean, it is cool, you got to give it to them.
They're trying to make editing much faster, that's great.
But, in terms of programming a computer
to have creative control over shots, we're not there yet.
The next effect is, Roll Planet.
And this one is seriously amazing for the tiny planet
photographers out there. Because what it does, is it tracks
you as you're moving around your 360 video,
and it repositions the planet, so you're always at the top.
That is so cool.
I remember the good old days, like five years ago,
when you had to manually try and key frame yourself at
the top of the tiny planet, and it would always be off and
you could never get this kind of shot looking 100% perfect.
So what I did here, was I tested this effect to the extreme.
I placed my one R on the ground and pressed record,
and then I ran around like a maniac,
this time changing my direction as often
as I could, trying to confuse and mislead it.
Now here in the app,
I'm going to choose the Roll Planet effect which by the way,
I called the tiny planet treadmill when I wrote my ebook
about tiny planet photography a few years ago, and I don't
think either name is really very attractive at all.
Now as you can see,
it's tracking me in the app, hasn't lost me yet.
And when I play back, that's what it's done.
Nice, look at that.
I'm right at the very top no matter how many times I change
direction, and the transition between
the directions is really smooth.
So overall, I think has done an excellent job here.
The next effect is Parallel Planet.
And, I'm going to use the same clip that I just used.
And now, it's basically going to do
the same thing except this time,
the planet is also going to be inverted underneath it.
And there we go.
Yeah, that turned out pretty good.
I don't think I'll use this effect,
but it's cool to know that you can do it.
The next effect is called Time Flip,
you're basically rotating the camera around you 180 degrees,
and then recording that exact same clip, at one,
two, or three, or more other locations.
So, I tried this effect out in three different locations.
The first one, was my office behind me.
The next one was the train station,
and the third one, was just outside the Sydney Opera House.
So I've just chosen those three, going to hit the arrow up
the top right, and automatically it's going to piece the
three together into that effect. You can continue editing
them, if you feel like it didn't get it quite right.
For me, it felt like this wasn't quite wide enough on
all three shots, so I'm going to adjust
that quickly here, by going into Selfie View.
Yeah, that looks better.
And, just like before we're going to export it, up
the top right. I always select colour plus by
the way, it's a nice little enhancement that makes
the colours that extra bit better,
and means you probably won't have
to colour correct later.
And this brings me to the 10th and final effect
and have I saved the best for last? I very well could've.
Because, this effect freezes time.
It doesn't matter if you shot your clip
in slow motion or not.
What it does, is it freezes the frame in the middle
of a video and through some clever interpolation
and AI, it simulates extreme slow motion.
So, I tested out a silhouette jump shot, with all three
resolutions and frame rates of the one R,
both the 360 build and the 5.3K one inch build,
and each of these clips are recorded was literally three
to five seconds long, and that's it.
Now at this point in time, you can't apply this effect,
when the shot was already in slow motion aka 100
or 120 frames per second.
So firstly, what I'm going to do is open up my 5.3K
shot here in the app, where I do my miraculous jump.
There we go.
That seemed kind of anticlimactic, didn't it?
Well just wait.
Firstly, I'm going to trim the top and tail off it, so the
video starts with me about to jump and end with me landing.
So, we've cut this shot down to one second already,
but we're going to lengthen it by adding this effect.
So I want the Freeze Frame to apply, right when I'm at the
top and my legs are in the air. I'd say about there is good.
So now, I'll tap speed.
And, all you need to do is tap Freeze Frame.
Now, we can choose one, three, five or ten seconds,
and of course for dramatic effect.
I'm going to choose 10 seconds.
Now, hit the arrow up the top right and it's applied
the effect, and we're going to export it
from here, choosing 4K UHD video.
And here's the end result.
Wow,
cool,
I'm flying.
That's really cool.
I can't believe that! That's
from a 30 frames per second video.
I honestly found this to be as good, as using super slow
motion mode with this camera, sometimes better because you
can get even slower than the slow motion mode offers.
And sometimes it's not as good,
because it looks a little bit interpolated,
which basically means it's trying to predict
the pixels in between the frames.
So this will happen in some situations,
but not all, I found it does a good enough job for me
to want to use this effect more and more.
I'm looking at my foot, that's touching the Harbour Bridge.
Yes, you can see a bit of that interpolation there.
But it's really minimal,
especially from a zoomed out perspective.
So this shot is totally passible,
and I'm just gonna say it I'm impressed.
So that's definitely a nice addition,
if you're shooting action shots, or you want some kind
of cinematic shot, to mix in with the rest of the 360
or regular footage you might be using.
And that's it.
Those are the 10 shots.
Which one did you think was coolest?
I'd say mine was probably the Clone Trail or
the freeze frame. Those ones are seriously epic.
Oh, and by the way, if you want to learn more cool 360
and tiny planet effects, I wrote an E book called
A Beginner's Guide to Tiny Planet Photography.
It used to be for sale now, I'm offering it completely free.
I don't know how long that will last.
But for now, you can download it through
the link in the description.
And that's it for this tutorial.
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