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Insta360 Pro FAQ (How to Take Photo? (Stitching (Download the Insta360…
Insta360 Pro FAQ
How to Take Photo?
What to prepare?
1.Storage
You can use V30+ SD Card or SSD USB Hard Drive (USB 3.0 interface). Hard drive's priority is higher than SD Card.
2.Calibration
Calibration is necessary for on-board video realtime stitching and on-board still photo optical-flow stitching. For better result, you need to calibrate the camera every time when position or orientation is changed.
For post-stitching, calibration is unnecessary.
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Shooting
Shooting Standalone
Select the "photo icon" on the screen of the camera and enter video mode. When the screen shows up "Ready" you're ready to go.
Use up&down buttons to switch recording mode. When "RTS" shows up that indicates this mode enables realtime stitching. When "OF" shows up indicates this mode enable optical-flow stitching.
Tap POWER button to start shooting. The camera will start count down from 5 seconds and start shooting.
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Shooting via Apps
to use the Apps to control the camera, the phone/computer and the camera have to be at the same local network. There're 3 ways to configure the network.
- Using AP mode. Go to Settings of the camera by select the "gear icon" on home screen. Set the Wi-Fi to "AP". return to home screen and select the "wifi icon" to turn on the AP mode. At the top of the screen it will show up "192.168.43.1"
- Using Ethernet. Connect the camera to the router by ethernet cable. And the IP address will show up at the top of the screen.
- Connect the camera to existing wifi. Go to Settings of the camera by select the "gear icon" on home screen. Set the Wi-Fi to "Wi-Fi". Use app to generate Wi-Fi QR code which contains SSID and Password. Select the "wifi icon" on the home screen of the camera and tap the "setting button", put the QR code in front of the lens next to the screen, the camera will start to scan the QR code and connect the wifi. The ip address will finally show up at the top of the screen.
Start Mobile/Desktop App
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Photo Mode Settings
Normal. in this mode, you are shooting 6x4000x3000 original images of each camera module, which can be used for post stitching 8K monoscopic or stereoscopic spherical images. When seamless optical flow stitching, it will stitch a image inside the camera.
RAW. in this mode, you are shooting 6x4000x3000 original RAW images(.dng) of each camera module, which can be used for post stitching 8K monoscopic or stereoscopic spherical images. in-camera stitching is not supported for this mode.
Burst. in this mode, you are shooting 10 groups of 6x4000x3000 original images of each camera module, which can be used for post stitching 8K monoscopic or stereoscopic spherical images. in-camera stitching is not supported for this mode.
HDR. in this mode, you are shooting 3 groups of 6x4000x3000 original images of each camera module, which can be used for post stitching high dynamic range 8K monoscopic or stereoscopic spherical images. in-camera stitching is not supported for this mode.
Exposure Settings
Auto Mode. In this mode the six camera modules will have auto exposure and always at the same iso/shutter speed.
Manual Mode. In this mode you can manually adjust the iso and shutter speed of the cameras. All the camera will be applied same settings.
Isolated Exposure Mode. In this mode each camera will have individual exposure which give a higher dynamic range for the whole image. Insta360 Stitcher can handle the color/exposure difference of each cameras when stitching.
Property Settings
You can customize brightness, sharpness, contrast, saturation of your images.
Preview
Before shooting the app shows up a 960p@30fps preview. you can tap the "cardboard icon" to enter VR mode to preview with Google Cardboard. During shooting, the app shows up a 960p@1fps preview.
Stitching
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Configure the stitching settings. For stitching mode, optical can handle parallax very well but very time consuming. Scene-specific template if much faster but with seams when object too close to the camera. Gyroscopic stabilization indicates whether the stitcher should use the gyro data to correct the horizon of the image, this option is disabled when stitching stereoscopic images(due to generate incorrect parallax). When
By clicking the "Preview", you will get a preview stitched frame.
To Stitch RAW. You have to process the .dng image using other software(e.g. Photoshop) and export it to .jpg file and put back to the image folder before drag the folder to the Insta360 Stitcher.
Points to remember
If you use in-camera optical-flow stitching, to ensure it works good, you should calibrate the camera each time when you change the camera's position or rotation before you shoot a new photo.
How to Record Video?
What to prepare?
1.Storage
You can use V30+ SD Card or SSD USB Hard Drive (USB 3.0 interface). Hard drive's priority is higher than SD Card.Usually a 64GB SD Card can store 30 mins video and 128GB for an hour.
2.Battery
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You can use AC power adapter for continuous recording. Or use external battery pack(available on mall.insta360.com) for continuous several hours recording.
4.Calibration
Calibration is necessary for on-board video realtime stitching and on-board still photo optical-flow stitching. For better result, you need to calibrate the camera every time when position or orientation is changed.
For post-stitching, calibration is unnecessary.
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When use internal microphone, the camera will capture audio from 4 mics with digital de-noise. The audio of pano.mp4(if you do realtime-stitching) and origin_0.mp4 has two audio channels which represents the first 2 mics' audio and orign_1.mp4 contains the other two's. The rest video files are silent. When use Insta360 Stitcher to stitch videos, it will use 4 audio channels of these video files to compute a spatial audio.
For better audio quality. We suggest to use external 3.5mm microphone(mono audio) or USB spatial microphones(available on http://mall.insta360.com)
Shooting
Shooting Standalone
Select the "video icon" on the screen of the camera and enter video mode. When the screen shows up "Ready" you're ready to go.
Use up&down buttons to switch recording mode. When "RTS" shows up that indicates this mode enables realtime stitching.
Tap POWER button to start recording and tap again to stop. When error occurs solid red light will turn on.
Shooting via Apps
to use the Apps to control the camera, the phone/computer and the camera have to be at the same local network. There're 3 ways to configure the network.
- Using AP mode. Go to Settings of the camera by select the "gear icon" on home screen. Set the Wi-Fi to "AP". return to home screen and select the "wifi icon" to turn on the AP mode. At the top of the screen it will show up "192.168.43.1"
- Using Ethernet. Connect the camera to the router by ethernet cable. And the IP address will show up at the top of the screen.
- Connect the camera to existing wifi. Go to Settings of the camera by select the "gear icon" on home screen. Set the Wi-Fi to "Wi-Fi". Use app to generate Wi-Fi QR code which contains SSID and Password. Select the "wifi icon" on the home screen of the camera and tap the "setting button", put the QR code in front of the lens next to the screen, the camera will start to scan the QR code and connect the wifi. The ip address will finally show up at the top of the screen.
Start Mobile/Desktop App
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Video Mode Settings
Normal. in this mode, you can customize the video type (stereo or mono) and resolution. When enabling realtime stitching. You can record a 3840x1920@30fps stitched video with 6x2550x1440@30fps(5K) original footages or record 3840x3840@24fps(3D) stitched video with 6x1920x1440@24fps(4K) original footages. If you turn off realtime stitching. You can maximumly record 6x3840x2160@30fps(8K) or 6x3200x2400@30fps(6K) original footages. Original footages can be use to post stitch high quality videos using Insta360 Stitcher. Original footages with 16:9 aspect ratio can be used to stitch monoscopic spherical video and 4:3 aspect ratio can be used to stitch stereoscopic spherical video.
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Timelapse Mode. in this mode, realtime stitching is not supported. You can record 6x4000x3000 original image sequence which can be used to stitch 8K monoscopic or stereoscopic spherical image sequence. The image sequence can be used to generate timelapse video.
Exposure Settings
Auto Mode. In this mode the six camera modules will have auto exposure and always at the same iso/shutter speed.
Manual Mode. In this mode you can manually adjust the iso and shutter speed of the cameras. All the camera will be applied same settings.
Isolated Exposure Mode. In this mode each camera will have individual exposure which give a higher dynamic range for the whole footage. Insta360 Stitcher can handle the color/exposure difference of each cameras when stitching.
Property Settings
You can customize brightness, sharpness, contrast, saturation of your footages.
Preview
Before shooting the app shows up a 960p@30fps preview. you can tap the "cardboard icon" to enter VR mode to preview with Google Cardboard. During shooting, the app shows up a 960p@1fps preview.
Stitching
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Configure the stitching settings. For stitching mode, optical can handle parallax very well but very time consuming. Scene-specific template if much faster but with seams when object too close to the camera. Sampling type only affects the accuracy of stitching but there's little difference between "fast" and "slow". However, "fast" is around 5 times faster than "slow". Blender type enable stitching hardware acceleration but depends on the capability of your computers' graphic cards. For Nvidia users you can choose "cuda" and for Mac users you can choose "opencl". If any crash happens to hardware acceleration, choose "cpu" for safe stitch. Gyroscopic stabilization indicates whether the stitcher should use the gyro data to correct the horizon of the video, this option is disabled when stitching stereoscopic videos(due to generate incorrect parallax). When stitching monoscopic video under 4Kx2K or stereoscopic video under 4Kx4K, you can enable hardware Encoding to accelerate the encoding. At most you can configure to use hardware decoder to decode 6 original footages but most of the computers can just hardware decode 3~4 footages. You should modify the number to find out the maximum hardware decoding capability of your computer.
By clicking the "Preview", you will get a preview stitched frame for the current position according to your stitch settings. And this will also get the Stitcher to use this frame as a reference frame to stitch this video. Selecting and previewing reference frame is important to stitch a video. Choose a frame where no objects being too close to the camera.
Before stitching, you can customize your encoding codec, resolution and bitrate. For H.264 codec, we suggest 160Mbps for 8K monoscopic, 100Mbps for 4K stereoscopic, 60Mbps for 4K monoscopic.
Points to remember
You're able to disconnect the app during the recording without stop recording, and reconnect when you want to take control of the camera again.
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Playback
Download Insta360 Player for each platform from https://www.insta360.com/download/insta360-other
iOS. Insta360 Player can play 8K stereoscopic and monoscopic images and 4K stereoscopic and monoscopic videos on iOS. You can use iTunes to push the files to the Insta360 Player Apps or to local album and use the app to choose from the album.
Android. Insta360 Player can play 8K stereoscopic and monoscopic images and 4K stereoscopic and monoscopic videos on Android. You can push the files to "Insta360 Player" folder of the android device.
Windows. Insta360 Player can play 8K stereoscopic and monoscopic images and 4K stereoscopic and monoscopic videos on WIndows. For video of 6K or 8K, we recommend to use GoPro VR Player to play.(Not supporting Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, please use other players)
Mac. Insta360 Player can play 8K stereoscopic and monoscopic images and 4K stereoscopic and monoscopic videos on Mac. For video of 6K or 8K, we recommend to use GoPro VR Player to play.(Not supporting Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, please use other players)
Samsung Gear VR. "Samsung VR App" can play 8K stereoscopic and monoscopic images and 4K stereoscopic and monoscopic videos. Push the files to the device and the App can play the files.
We're developing a new technology "local dynamic streaming" which split an 8K files into many smaller fragment videos. An our player can dynamically load and play the fragment videos when the user change his view orientation. This technology will enable devices that can only decode and render 4K to play 8K video files. The beta version is supposed to be released at August.
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