Yesterday, after we'd had breakfast and I'd made myself a coffee we headed into Canberra's city centre, Civic, and went to the Canberra Centre, basically a big shopping centre. I went into the Apple shop and lo and behold, there was the Insta360 One Bundle. I'd done some research in the last few days and discovered that it would be cheaper for me to purchase the bundle from Apple and then buy the Android adapter and waterproof housing online from Amazon (which I've now done).
Wifey took the kids to swimming in the afternoon so I ducked out for a walk and took the camera with me to get some footage. I went down to the river and took some video and some photos. When I came home, I spent some time trying to figure out how to transfer the images to the PC and in the end I looked on the Insta360 website and found out that you can't transfer files via the supplied USB cable, that's just for charging. You have to put the SD card in a card reader.
Well, my PC doesn't have a card reader so I was trying to figure out another way. As I don't have the Android adapter yet, I tried my wife's iPhone, but it wouldn't connect. When I first set the camera up it asked me to change to Android mode, now I can't figure out how to change it back and I'm guessing that is the issue. Then I put the SD card in my action camera thinking that it may work as a card reader as that's how I transfer files off of it. No, that didn't work, what it did end up doing was messing with the format of the card so it no longer worked in the camera, doh! Suddenly I wondered if wifey's laptop had a card reader in it and it did, woot! I plugged it in and it asked me to format it.... dang it, I lost all the footage I took. I headed out again today but this time I attached it to the motorbike. I think that I'll need the Android adapter to fully set up the camera but here's a tiny planet photo that I created out of the video footage using Insta360 Studio on my PC.
I worked with the video in Insta360 Studio and created a "Free Capture" video, basically you turn the 360° footage into standard 16:9 footage and pan the camera around. The end result is that it looks like you filmed with a normal camera and were panning around and looking at things, when in fact you just had the camera in the one spot. Then I put the free capture video into Davinci Resolve and had a little play with it. I'd recorded audio on my bluetooth headset but Davinci Resolve wouldn't open the file for some reason, the audio quality wasn't that good anyway but I'll play with the file and see if I can tweak it a little.
I added music from a free music library, added the correct comment in the description and already I've been pinged for copyright infringement. The artist chose to make money from people who used their track. I think it's a bit of a dog act to put music up for free use and then change your mind later and ruin other peoples monetisation efforts. I guess that's the price you pay for using music where the owner can change their mind whenever they like. I haven't monetised my YouTube but I was annoyed that I'd been duped. SO, I went back into Davinci Resolve, changed the music, re-rendered the video and re-uploaded it to YouTube. Oh yeah, by the way, that means I now have the Blog and two YouTube channels to manage.
Anyway, back to the camera, I think for the price and the ease of use of the Insta360 One, I'm pretty impressed, this little thing should do wonders for my motocamping YouTube channel. I'm hoping to start filming proper footage soon so I can put together an intro video for the YouTube channel. The weather is warming up and the days are slowly getting longer, bring on the sunshine.
Bomber
Living life in 360° and contemplating paying for music 😒
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