SIMPLE SECRET to Mastering the New Insta360 App 2.0

Many people are confused with the new Insta360 app 2.0.  But if you understand a simple secret, the new Insta360 app is faster, easier and even more fun.  Here’s the tutorial with timestamps:

00:00 – Intro
00:48 – The secret of the new Insta360 app 2.0
02:22 – Basic setup of the app
05:17 – The 5 perspectives
09:33 – Multiple perspectives – Record / Viewfinder mode
12:27 – Multiple perspectives – Editor mode
17:16 – Bonus technique

360’S VERSATILITY IS ALSO ITS PAIN POINT

360 cameras have many advantages over smartphones and other cameras, including the ability to shoot first and frame later. Instead of worrying about how the shot is framed, you can just put your 360 camera on a selfie stick, start recording and forget about it – leaving you free to focus on having fun with your family and friends.  After getting home, you can reframe the video and choose the view that you want.  But 360 cameras’ versatility also means that you do have to spend more time editing it.  While creative people may enjoy the process, for many people, the extra step is a chore.

The new Insta360 app is designed to address this pain point by making editing faster and easier.

VERY DIFFERENT

In the previous app, most users reframe their videos by keyframing.  With keyframing, the user chooses the view that that they want to start with and the view that they want to end with, then the app pans the view automatically from the starting point to the ending point.  Keyframing one or two movements is easy enough, but to tell a story, you’ll usually end up using dozens of keyframing points, which can be tedious.

THE NEW INSTA360 APP’S SIMPLE SECRET

In the new app, keyframing takes a backseat and instead, the reframing is more similar to the way movies and TV shows are shot.  In shows, the camera doesn’t usually pan from one subject to the other.  Instead, the director usually has several cameras that each show a subject or perspective then the director switches between those perspectives as needed.  For example, in an interview, there might be three cameras: one for the interviewer, another for the interviewee, and a third one that shows both of them.

The new app uses the same editing style as movies.  Instead of a continuous camera movement panning from one subject to another through keyframing, the new app lets the user switch between different perspectives, such as a selfie view and a forward view.  When the user switches between these views, there is a simple cut instead of the camera panning back and forth as in keyframing.

Once you understand this design principle, you’ll see how the new Insta360 app’s tools make sense and why they’re designed that way.  Not only is this method faster, simpler, and easier, but I would argue that the editing result also looks better — more like in movie productions that have multiple cameras.

UNIQUE FEATURE

So far, Insta360 app is the only app that has taken this bold new approach to editing and reframing and may put them farther ahead of their competition.  It’s a unique and powerful new feature of Insta360 and I hope more people will learn to take advantage of it.

BONUS GUIDE

Are your vacation videos just stuck in your hard drive with no one to see them?  How would you like to learn the fastest and easiest way to create a vacation montage?  Here’s my free guide!