Our Whole Company Went on Vacation - Insta360 One X Showcase
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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979 words · ~4 min read
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many of you know that all of us here at Linus Media Group recently went on a
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company retreat to bents National Park where we hiked and hung out and also
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played lots of video games but what you may not have known was that before we
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went insta 360 reached out to us to
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showcase their new one X 360 camera in a
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sponsored video it was actually perfect timing because I wanted to take some
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nice high resolution panoramas in damp anyway so we said yes and we took it
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with us and now all of that in the past
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so I can show you
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if you've never used a 360 camera before
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the first pro tip is to do less because
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you do not have to point the camera at whatever it is that you want to capture
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it's already capturing everything around
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you and this sounds simple but it is surprisingly hard to break the habit of
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shooting at things because we're so used to pointing the lens in the same
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direction as our eyes once you let that sink in though suddenly you can forget
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all about the camera and just focus on what you're doing whether that's
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snowboarding or hiking or
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fun about my wife trying to do a push-up
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oh that's ok anyway you can also invent
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completely new use cases like having a single camera act as both your dash cam
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and your backup camera at the same time the next thing you need to get used to
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is that your selfie stick is going to be invisible in the final footage I mean
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you still look like a turd when you're taking the footage but once you're done
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it actually looks way more natural because it can Stitch the footage
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together from the two lenses to create a blind spot that hides the stick and the
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footage itself looks really good so the 1x does 4k at 50 frames per second it
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also supports 5.7 K at 30fps which is a nice to have
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because having that little bit of extra resolution to work with might be nice if
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you want to crop in to get just one part of the image and then it also does 3k at
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a hundred frames per second which you could use for slow motion or better yet
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Zack Snyder asked dynamic slow-mo editing which can be done using the 1x
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companion app actually the app is pretty helpful overall first of all for footage
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preview because who wants to wait until they're back at the hotel to find out
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that there was poop on the lens the whole time and then inside the app you
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can pan around zoom in and out and then if you zoom out far enough you actually
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get little planet mode which always reminds me of Dragon Ball Z when Goku's
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training on King Kai's planet with the intense like gravity and stuff anyway
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that's off-topic the point is this camera will make you super Sayan sand
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saying I don't you know I've never watched Dragonball Z but do I look like
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I'm 12 yes but Dragon Ball Z wasn't a thing yet
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you yes this camera will make you Super
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Saiyan warning camera may not actually make you Super Saiyan or increase your
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power level in any way in terms of creative possibilities you can publish
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360 videos that your friends can pan around in but you can also export like
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have you called non 360 video video flat video so you can use the app
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to enter free capture mode and then sort of play director by pointing the camera
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and then changing the angle to frame the shots that you want and then you can
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edit together shots from multiple different clips in your video so
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basically yes this camera will make you
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James Cameron and then hopefully we have another warning warning camera may not
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actually make you James Cameron or allow you to visit the Titanic or travel to Pandora in any way probably the most fun
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way to use the 1x though is the mode that they call bullet time which for
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those of you boarded to 2000 I guess is a reference to the 1999 movie The Matrix
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which I guess I was also 12 when it came out what year is it no I was 14 I can't
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do that forget it it doesn't matter the point is on the 1x all you need is a
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rope or if you want to be slightly less jank this special handle that screws
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into the selfie stick so that you can swing it over your head like a madman
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while your friends try to shoot your crotch with arrows it's a really cool
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effect and it's made possible by the one axis flow state image stabilization
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which is good enough to even make dog footage watchable which is pretty
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impressive so thanks tends to 360 for sponsoring this video you can check out
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their brand new 5.7 k1x 360 camera at
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the link below it's also it's also very
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durable we hope seems funny so thanks
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video description Richards has cool shirts like this one and our community
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forum which is your definitely join that's for all of you watching at 1.5 X
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I'm just trying to mess with you cause setting right now yeah it is