**My Experience with the Insta360 One R 360 Camera**

Even on a bumpy trail here it is with it turned off so you can appreciate all the hard work it's doing also you don't need to shoot in 360 all the time there's just a wide angle mode that only uses one of the cameras you can also live stream 360 although i haven't tried it and there's even this picture-in-picture mode that they say is for vlogging i'm not sure about that but i do know you can use it to see how cool i look chasing a soccer ball and then of course there's bullet time you attach this cord swing it around your head like a maniac and then press a button and insta360 edits together these pretty epic shots i felt really silly but it was also very fun.

**Historical Background on 360 Video Editing**

Historically, the most daunting phase of 360 video has been editing. What kept me away for years? Insta360 wants you to do most of your editing in the app on your phone and I think that's probably the easiest way to do it. You can do it over wifi without having to download anything and for the most part, with a few hiccups, it works pretty seamlessly. Although, i'm sure a lot of people know this, i sure as hell didn't so i'll give you a warning in case you're like me if you're connected to the camera over wifi that means everything else you're doing on your phone is on your data plan so if you're editing a lot of stuff in that app you're gonna burn through your data really fast. Okay, moving on there's also a desktop app which isn't as straightforward or hand-holdy as the mobile app but you get used to it after a while except for then you don't have the insta360 shot lab and all your creativity has to come from your cabeza and that can be a little intimidating.

**Comparing Insta360 to GoPro**

Certain things i haven't had a lot of success with like the fully automated flash cut editor that scans through your footage and picks what it thinks are the best parts but other things like the super simple person tracking are consistently very good. Also, footage from insta360 cameras works pretty seamlessly with the gopro fx reframe plug-in for adobe premiere so you can edit your 360 footage in premiere itself. Now is probably a good time to mention gopro i have a gopro hero8 black and i use it a lot and it's really solid i've never actually used gopro max gopros 360 camera but it's roughly the same price as the one x two now i've been using insta360 software on both my phone and the desktop and while they're both in beta and insta360 tells me that all the issues are going to be cleaned up before this thing launches it still has been a little bit buggy. Overall, with the gopro you don't have access to the shot lab and the ai editors and all the fun accessories that you get with insta360 so make of that what you will.

**The Insta360 One R as a Companion Camera**

Which brings me back to the main reason why i really enjoy using this insta360 camera especially nowadays when i can't really make videos with my friends and i'm doing everything as this one-man band it's pretty cool to take this little thing that fits perfectly in my pocket and a big-ass pull and walk around my neighborhood and get all these really cool shots like this shot right here. It looks like a drone is flying on the trail right alongside me which is definitely not the case i don't have the energy to pull off a stunt like that and even if i did i would probably hurt some innocent creatures along the way so in a single sentence, this camera has motivated me to get outside and start shooting stuff more than any other camera has in a really long time. I can remember the last time i went out and rolled around in the snow like an idiot or returned to the old past time of wandering around places like this sketchy ass quarry i feel like i'm 15 again.

**The Verdict**

You're gonna have a lot of fun with this thing or something similar whether you choose this or the one r is a bit trickier of a decision i personally would choose this one because i really like the design fits in your pocket really easily it's really ergonomic and especially as an accessory to all your other camera gear it just seems like it kind of checks off that box a little better. And while we're here, i actually made a video on the 1r all about its ai editing capabilities and i asked it to make an entire skate edit for me you can watch it right here see me fall a few more times. Thanks so much for joining me on the suburban safari as always be excellent to each other and in the meantime, vote please vote thanks so much until next time

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enall right here's the insta360 one x2 and here is the bullet time cord the first time i've ever attached a cord to a camera i have the sneaking suspicion that this is actually going to fly off and turn into an actual bullet and kill somebody i hope that intro montage turned out okay because right at this moment i'm not totally sure it's going to come together but regardless i have the newest insta 360 camera this is the one x2 and this is the first time i've used one of the x line of cameras i've used this guy a lot this is the 1r which is a modular 360 in action camera and personally i kind of love this niche that insta360 has carved out for itself a few years ago i wasn't all that interested in 360 video because it seemed like a lot of work it was a little intimidating and i wasn't quite sure what to do with 360 footage but now with insta360s app the shot lab which is a collection of tutorials and ai assisted editing tools that combine with these sort of wacky accessories like the invisible selfie stick or the bullet time handle which has now become the bullet time cord those all combine to kind of guide you along on this journey to making something with your 360 footage and honestly i appreciate that okay so with that said that ecosystem is integrated into most all of insta360s cameras and that's not the only thing similar between the x2 and the r for starters the 1x2 costs 429 which is currently the same price as the base model of the 1r now the 1r is modular and you can add stuff and even get a 1 inch sensor and a leica lens that will get you up to the 600 and up range but much of the actual features are the same spec wise they're pretty similar too they both top out at 5.7 k resolution at 30 frames per second and shoot 4k at 50 frames per second but keep in mind that when you stitch your videos together you're probably going to want to export at something like 1080p for it to still look crispy now both these cameras shoot slow motion 100 frames per second at 3k whatever 3k means oh yeah it's right here both still kind of struggle in low light here they are side by side when i skated to capture this crazy ominous sunset they have their obvious flaws but for what it's worth i still love this footage i felt like i was stepping up to the river sticks and what dreams may come and the fact that i could just roll a camera and capture everything around me was pretty amazing both cameras can shoot hdr and log and both have 18 megapixel sensors that can capture raw photos they also have a decent set of manual controls for exposure and white balance but personally i'm leaving it in auto most of the time for just fun and quick shooting and exporting okay you see where this is going these cameras are really similar so let's talk about where they're different it's design time baby now i'm sure opinions are going to land all over the place on the design of the 1x2 but i for one like it it kind of reminds me of an old flip video camera i don't know if you remember those i actually had one and we'll give it some credit for getting me into videography in the first place and the ghost of the flip video camera is alive and well in the one x two it's got matte plastic it's got rubber it feels really solid the micro sd goes right next to the battery which can be a little hard to get to but you get used to it after a while and best of all this thing fits in your pocket really easily it comes with a nice neoprene sleeve you can really just put it in your pocket and take it with you wherever it has this new circular touchscreen lcd viewfinder that is kind of funky but i think it looks cool and kind of maybe symbolizes the nature of the footage you're shooting it almost looks like a portal to another dimension and speaking of portals to other dimensions let's hop inside real quick and give the mic a listen oh seems like the parallel universe is some sort of snow planet well i have the audio set to wind reduction off you can also turn wind reduction on there's not much wind right now i haven't noticed a huge difference between the two modes but take a listen you probably wouldn't want to rely on this for any sort of important audio but it works it's waterproof up to 10 meters better than the 1r i don't have 10 meters but i do have 10 inches of freezing cold snowmelt suppose now it's a good time to talk about battery life supposed to be an improvement over the 1r and i think i've noticed it's been lasting about two hours give or take under heavy usage but let's get back to that warm off whoa i'm glad that's over with i was worried i wasn't gonna make it back here in one piece my head feels funky right now but we gotta move on as you probably noticed by now the stabilization inside this camera is pretty amazing insta360 calls it flow state stabilization and it's on by default but you can turn it off in camera or while you're editing this is me riding the bike one-handed holding the camera on the selfie stick like heath ledger and knight's tail but way less hot and you can see it's just buttery smooth even on a bumpy trail here it is with it turned off so you can appreciate all the hard work it's doing also you don't need to shoot in 360 all the time there's just a wide angle mode that only uses one of the cameras you can also live stream 360 although i haven't tried it and there's even this picture-in-picture mode that they say is for vlogging i'm not sure about that but i do know you can use it to see how cool i look chasing a soccer ball and then of course there's bullet time you attach this cord swing it around your head like a maniac and then press a button and insta360 edits together these pretty epic shots i felt really silly but it was also very fun and let's talk about editing historically the most daunting phase of 360 video and what kept me away for years now insta360 wants you to do most of your editing in the app on your phone and i think that's probably the easiest way to do it you can do it over wifi without having to download anything and for the most part with a few hiccups it works pretty seamlessly although i'm sure a lot of people know this i sure as hell didn't so i'll give you a warning in case you're like me if you're connected to the camera over wi-fi that means everything else you're doing on your phone is on your data plan so if you're editing a lot of stuff in that app you're gonna burn through your data really fast okay moving on there's also a desktop app which isn't as straightforward or hand-holdy as the mobile app but you get used to it after a while except for then you don't have the insta360 shot lab and all your creativity has to come from your cabeza and that can be a little intimidating certain things i haven't had a lot of success with like the fully automated flash cut editor that scans through your footage and picks what it thinks are the best parts but other things like the super simple person tracking are consistently very good also footage from insta360 cameras works pretty seamlessly with the gopro fx reframe plug-in for adobe premiere so you can edit your 360 footage in premiere itself now is probably a good time to mention gopro i have a gopro hero8 black and i use it a lot and it's really solid i've never actually used gopro max gopros 360 camera but it's roughly the same price as the one x two now i've been using insta360 software on both my phone and the desktop and while they're both in beta and insta360 tells me that all the issues are going to be cleaned up before this thing launches it still has been a little bit buggy and overall my experience with a non 360 gopro and these 360 cameras is that gopros are a little less buggy but that being said with the gopro you don't have access to the shot lab and the ai editors and all the fun accessories that you get with insta360 so make of that what you will which brings me back to the main reason why i really enjoy using this insta360 camera especially nowadays when i can't really make videos with my friends and i'm doing everything as this one-man band it's pretty cool to take this little thing that fits perfectly in my pocket and a big-ass pull and walk around my neighborhood and get all these really cool shots like this shot right here it looks like a drone is flying on the trail right alongside me which is definitely not the case i don't have the energy to pull off a stunt like that and even if i did i would probably hurt some innocent creatures along the way so in a single sentence this camera has motivated me to get outside and start shooting stuff more than any other camera has in a really long time i can't remember the last time i went out and rolled around in the snow like an idiot or returned to the old past time of wandering around places like this sketchy ass quarry i feel like i'm 15 again you're gonna have a lot of fun with this thing or something similar whether you choose this or the one r is a bit trickier of a decision i personally would choose this one because i really like the design fits in your pocket really easily it's really ergonomic and especially as an accessory to all your other camera gear it just seems like it kind of checks off that box a little better and while we're here i actually made a video on the 1r all about its ai editing capabilities and i asked it to make an entire skate edit for me you can watch it right here see me fall a few more times thanks so much for joining me on the suburban safari as always be excellent to each other and in the meantime vote please vote thanks so much until next timeall right here's the insta360 one x2 and here is the bullet time cord the first time i've ever attached a cord to a camera i have the sneaking suspicion that this is actually going to fly off and turn into an actual bullet and kill somebody i hope that intro montage turned out okay because right at this moment i'm not totally sure it's going to come together but regardless i have the newest insta 360 camera this is the one x2 and this is the first time i've used one of the x line of cameras i've used this guy a lot this is the 1r which is a modular 360 in action camera and personally i kind of love this niche that insta360 has carved out for itself a few years ago i wasn't all that interested in 360 video because it seemed like a lot of work it was a little intimidating and i wasn't quite sure what to do with 360 footage but now with insta360s app the shot lab which is a collection of tutorials and ai assisted editing tools that combine with these sort of wacky accessories like the invisible selfie stick or the bullet time handle which has now become the bullet time cord those all combine to kind of guide you along on this journey to making something with your 360 footage and honestly i appreciate that okay so with that said that ecosystem is integrated into most all of insta360s cameras and that's not the only thing similar between the x2 and the r for starters the 1x2 costs 429 which is currently the same price as the base model of the 1r now the 1r is modular and you can add stuff and even get a 1 inch sensor and a leica lens that will get you up to the 600 and up range but much of the actual features are the same spec wise they're pretty similar too they both top out at 5.7 k resolution at 30 frames per second and shoot 4k at 50 frames per second but keep in mind that when you stitch your videos together you're probably going to want to export at something like 1080p for it to still look crispy now both these cameras shoot slow motion 100 frames per second at 3k whatever 3k means oh yeah it's right here both still kind of struggle in low light here they are side by side when i skated to capture this crazy ominous sunset they have their obvious flaws but for what it's worth i still love this footage i felt like i was stepping up to the river sticks and what dreams may come and the fact that i could just roll a camera and capture everything around me was pretty amazing both cameras can shoot hdr and log and both have 18 megapixel sensors that can capture raw photos they also have a decent set of manual controls for exposure and white balance but personally i'm leaving it in auto most of the time for just fun and quick shooting and exporting okay you see where this is going these cameras are really similar so let's talk about where they're different it's design time baby now i'm sure opinions are going to land all over the place on the design of the 1x2 but i for one like it it kind of reminds me of an old flip video camera i don't know if you remember those i actually had one and we'll give it some credit for getting me into videography in the first place and the ghost of the flip video camera is alive and well in the one x two it's got matte plastic it's got rubber it feels really solid the micro sd goes right next to the battery which can be a little hard to get to but you get used to it after a while and best of all this thing fits in your pocket really easily it comes with a nice neoprene sleeve you can really just put it in your pocket and take it with you wherever it has this new circular touchscreen lcd viewfinder that is kind of funky but i think it looks cool and kind of maybe symbolizes the nature of the footage you're shooting it almost looks like a portal to another dimension and speaking of portals to other dimensions let's hop inside real quick and give the mic a listen oh seems like the parallel universe is some sort of snow planet well i have the audio set to wind reduction off you can also turn wind reduction on there's not much wind right now i haven't noticed a huge difference between the two modes but take a listen you probably wouldn't want to rely on this for any sort of important audio but it works it's waterproof up to 10 meters better than the 1r i don't have 10 meters but i do have 10 inches of freezing cold snowmelt suppose now it's a good time to talk about battery life supposed to be an improvement over the 1r and i think i've noticed it's been lasting about two hours give or take under heavy usage but let's get back to that warm off whoa i'm glad that's over with i was worried i wasn't gonna make it back here in one piece my head feels funky right now but we gotta move on as you probably noticed by now the stabilization inside this camera is pretty amazing insta360 calls it flow state stabilization and it's on by default but you can turn it off in camera or while you're editing this is me riding the bike one-handed holding the camera on the selfie stick like heath ledger and knight's tail but way less hot and you can see it's just buttery smooth even on a bumpy trail here it is with it turned off so you can appreciate all the hard work it's doing also you don't need to shoot in 360 all the time there's just a wide angle mode that only uses one of the cameras you can also live stream 360 although i haven't tried it and there's even this picture-in-picture mode that they say is for vlogging i'm not sure about that but i do know you can use it to see how cool i look chasing a soccer ball and then of course there's bullet time you attach this cord swing it around your head like a maniac and then press a button and insta360 edits together these pretty epic shots i felt really silly but it was also very fun and let's talk about editing historically the most daunting phase of 360 video and what kept me away for years now insta360 wants you to do most of your editing in the app on your phone and i think that's probably the easiest way to do it you can do it over wifi without having to download anything and for the most part with a few hiccups it works pretty seamlessly although i'm sure a lot of people know this i sure as hell didn't so i'll give you a warning in case you're like me if you're connected to the camera over wi-fi that means everything else you're doing on your phone is on your data plan so if you're editing a lot of stuff in that app you're gonna burn through your data really fast okay moving on there's also a desktop app which isn't as straightforward or hand-holdy as the mobile app but you get used to it after a while except for then you don't have the insta360 shot lab and all your creativity has to come from your cabeza and that can be a little intimidating certain things i haven't had a lot of success with like the fully automated flash cut editor that scans through your footage and picks what it thinks are the best parts but other things like the super simple person tracking are consistently very good also footage from insta360 cameras works pretty seamlessly with the gopro fx reframe plug-in for adobe premiere so you can edit your 360 footage in premiere itself now is probably a good time to mention gopro i have a gopro hero8 black and i use it a lot and it's really solid i've never actually used gopro max gopros 360 camera but it's roughly the same price as the one x two now i've been using insta360 software on both my phone and the desktop and while they're both in beta and insta360 tells me that all the issues are going to be cleaned up before this thing launches it still has been a little bit buggy and overall my experience with a non 360 gopro and these 360 cameras is that gopros are a little less buggy but that being said with the gopro you don't have access to the shot lab and the ai editors and all the fun accessories that you get with insta360 so make of that what you will which brings me back to the main reason why i really enjoy using this insta360 camera especially nowadays when i can't really make videos with my friends and i'm doing everything as this one-man band it's pretty cool to take this little thing that fits perfectly in my pocket and a big-ass pull and walk around my neighborhood and get all these really cool shots like this shot right here it looks like a drone is flying on the trail right alongside me which is definitely not the case i don't have the energy to pull off a stunt like that and even if i did i would probably hurt some innocent creatures along the way so in a single sentence this camera has motivated me to get outside and start shooting stuff more than any other camera has in a really long time i can't remember the last time i went out and rolled around in the snow like an idiot or returned to the old past time of wandering around places like this sketchy ass quarry i feel like i'm 15 again you're gonna have a lot of fun with this thing or something similar whether you choose this or the one r is a bit trickier of a decision i personally would choose this one because i really like the design fits in your pocket really easily it's really ergonomic and especially as an accessory to all your other camera gear it just seems like it kind of checks off that box a little better and while we're here i actually made a video on the 1r all about its ai editing capabilities and i asked it to make an entire skate edit for me you can watch it right here see me fall a few more times thanks so much for joining me on the suburban safari as always be excellent to each other and in the meantime vote please vote thanks so much until next time\n"