How To Edit 360 Footage Tutorial (Import, edit, export 360 footage)
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How To Edit 360 Footage Tutorial (Import, edit, export 360 footage)
In this video, Will teaches you how to import and edit any 360 footage, and then export the footage. The footage he uses is from the Insta360 camera, and he is using the Insta360 Studio App to edit. The process is fairly straight forward, although, it does take a little longer than editing regular footage as you’re working with twice the amount of frame space. This video editing tutorial covers keyframing and adjusting 360 footage, tracking a person automatically, working with widescreen and vertical formats, as well as exporting 360 footage in regular and 360 formats.
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Welcome back to another video in this one we're gonna be talking about how to work with 360 footage there's a couple apps that i've tried out and one of them i really like premiere is able to work with 360 footage but in this video i'll explain a little bit about why i choose to not really go down that path let's jump in.
Tthe first thing you want to do to edit 360 footage is go to the insta360.com website once you're here click on downloads we'll be working with the insta360 1x2 footage so we're going to click that and then if we scroll down we have the insta360 studio app whether you're on windows or mac you can download which version you'd like this is the standalone version meaning you don't need an editing program to work with 360 footage you can import it control it all and export files but it does also include the plugin for premiere pro to play back the footage.
However in order to fully work with the 360 footage in premiere pro you're going to want to scroll down a little more to the gopro effects reframe plug-in and then download and install that now i'm not a huge fan of this plug-in inside premiere pro i found it to be a little bit glitchy now the reason for that could be completely on the premiere pro side premiere is notorious for being super buggy so for whatever reason i did find it a little slow to edit the footage in premiere pro so i just stuck with the insta 360 standalone version it is a little less convenient working with a standalone program because if i make a change it's sort of burned in i can't make a change after the fact because the video is actually exported versus working with it in premiere pro with the third party gopro app i can actually reframe and make changes on the fly so depending on the system you're working on or if they've updated it and made it better since i used it you can choose for yourself which path you want to go.
For this video we're going to focus more on the insta 360 studio app so let's dive into that program so with the app launched it looks basically like this you have um an area on the side where you can import footage and then like other programs you have this other area where eventually the options will show once you get the footage into the program find the folder where your 360 footage is and then highlight what you want to bring in and then import that footage on the left hand side you can scrub through the footage by just moving the mouse over the footage and going left to right or right to left in this program you can edit with 360 footage and then export as 360 footage however after we work with the 360 footage and reframe using keyframes we're gonna then export the non 360 footage video so once you've decided on the clip you want to import. You double click and if you scrub through the footage at the bottom you'll see that it does show everything; this is 360 footage, that's because we're on the 360 view.
At the top if we change it to the reframe mode then scrub through it now looks like a regular camera where you're just showing one framed angle so if we set at the beginning and then scrub through until the skateboarder starts to go which is let's say about there that'll be the start of the clip so i'm going to drag the beginning to right there and then we'll quickly go to the end and because i can't see where the skateboarder ends what i'm going to do is just literally click because it's 360 and re-frame the footage so now we can see that the skateboard has landed the track and then it goes all the way back this way so i think about right there we'll end it now we've set the in and the out and now we can start to do some editing so of course at the beginning i want to show the skateboarder and not myself with the camera so let's turn it around we'll frame it on the skateboarder and then in order to keep the frame in this position sort of locked in place you need to add a keyframe much like working in premiere or after effects if you're adding keyframes and zooming in on a spot or changing the position so we can click this button right here we've now added a keyframe that's this big yellow icon at the bottom and then essentially i just scroll around until the frame becomes sort of lost and at that point i sort of realign it until i'm happy with the frame now of course this angle i'm seeing myself in this case i'm going to scroll in until i'm out of the frame hit another keyframe so essentially between the first keyframe the second keyframe it's going to go from showing the skateboarder to zooming in a little bit on the skateboarder.
So let's go back here and we'll show you what it does okay so now we'll keep going and as you can see it's cutting part of the skateboarder's legs off which is not good so we're gonna aim down like this and once again we will zoom in hit another keyframe then we'll go a little further so the camera eventually starts to go down so just before it goes down about there i'm going to click and drag right on the frame and set it about there hit a keyframe then we're gonna move forward to about there we're gonna go back like this then i'm gonna actually zoom out again to about there i'm going to hit the keyframe button and let's go back and see what that looks like so so it's essentially doing an okay job but i think about halfway through it could zoom out a bit and be reframed so so i added another keyframe in between now let's see what that does [Music] okay that's looking better i captured this shot by first having the camera on the left side and then a few seconds later i sort of move it quickly to the other side so just before the movement happens i will make sure i'm on the skateboarder again i'll zoom in a little bit add a keyframe and then as the camera comes around right at the sort of end of the movement which is probably around there i will reframe the camera and you can see i'm holding the pole really far this way now, so of course we don't want to show that.
I'm going to zoom in just a little bit add a keyframe let's move forward in the timeline a little bit and you can see i'm cutting off the skateboarder's head so we can tilt up to make sure we're getting everything add a keyframe let's go back to make sure that that is what we want and that looks great and then right here we want to make sure we're adjusted back at the bottom so that we show the skateboard as the skateboarder lands the trick after that the skateboarder moves to their right and then i continue back so that we go away from each other and it widens out and reveals sort of the whole location so i think right when the skateboarder starts to veer to the right just to mark the frame to start the next animation for the following keyframe and right there right at the end i'm going to then go super wide and we'll hit another keyframe all right let's press play and see what that looks like [Music] and of course because it's 360 footage at any point let's say on this keyframe here if you wanted to instead show me you could do that and that's of course the magic behind 360 footage you're capturing everything all at once and then later on you get to reframe and choose where you want the footage to be framed another amazing thing with 360 footage is because you're filming everything it's of course very simple to reframe to vertical footage.
Let's go ahead and go to clear current edit data we'll quickly find our in point and our out point and then on the right here you'll see that it says 16x9 we can actually choose a whole bunch of other formats like ultra wide or vertical and vertical is of course good for instagram reels or tik tok or youtube shorts where the preferred format is vertical and then we can just go back to the beginning and sort of do the whole process again and then just like that within 30 seconds you have an entirely reframed uh clip just for vertical now let's say you want to quickly edit and capture the main action without anything fancy very easy to do that so let's go to the beginning and we're going to hit this deep track option at the bottom here and then what you do is you click and drag over the person or object that you want to track and then hit start tracking and just like that it tracked the entire clip itself and it actually did a pretty good job let's play it back and i'll show you that it followed the person the entire time so that's another really cool feature that actually works surprisingly well let's go ahead and reset everything in terms of the stabilization it does have a built-in stabilizer and it does work very very well.
If you click the top button here the stabilization type you can see that it has flow state stabilization on and there's another option for direction lock which means it'll force the camera to lock on a specific view and it'll stay there the whole time once you've edited all the footage and you know you're happy with where everything is you've added all your frames and you're ready to export you can go to file export you can either export the reframe video or you can export the 360 video then you can give the file a name you can send it to the path on your computer that you'd like down below you have your bit rate i typically set this to about 100 if it's exporting into 4k and for 4k the resolution is 3840 by 2160. if you're doing vertical it would be 2160 by 3840 so you'd reverse those or you could export to let's say high definition and instead of going as high as 4k and you could do like 1920 by 1080 or if you're doing vertical hd you could do 1080 by 1920. for the encoding format you have h264, h265, and then you have the ProRes codec.
We have a few different tutorials that discuss all of these, so check those out if you'd like to learn more but essentially h264 is sort of the traditional compressed web format h265 is the higher compressed web format it'll make very very small file sizes the image will look great but some platforms still don't allow it to be uploaded and some editing programs find it a little bit tricky to edit with but in a lot of cases we are capturing footage on our sony cameras in h.265 and then uploading to youtube for example in a264 if you want the highest quality which isn't compressed and it'll be the easiest for a computer to edit with you can choose prores however i wouldn't really recommend prores because it makes such large file sizes that unless you're working on a really really important project you're probably best to just go with h264 or if you're on a faster machine i would just work with h365 so let's go to h264 and at the bottom you can leave these unchecked but i actually like to add both the color plus and remove grain.
Color plus adds some saturation it makes the footage pop a little more and then remove grain helps remove some of the noise in the footage i find that the insta 360 has quite a bit of noise even in bright daylight you can see up here there is still a lot of noise this is supposed to be a bright blue sky but there's a lot of artifacts in the top corner here so because of that i always export with the remove grain option it does take a little longer to export but it does make a big difference after that you can either add to the queue if you're doing a whole bunch of clips at once or you can just start the single export and you are good to go.
If you're exporting with 360 video it's still gonna be one of the three formats and that's because the footage itself was just filmed with basically two cameras one on either side of the device and then the device in this case the insta360 stitches it together in the camera and then spits out the h.264 file with the warped looking 360 footage when you bring it into the program that's where the insta360 plug-in or the gopro plug-in can interpret the footage and allow you to reframe and sort of unwarp the footage allowing you to work better with the 360 footage.
Alright so that's it for this video i hope it was helpful on how to work with 360 footage if you liked the video give it a thumbs up and comment down below we have over 100 other filmmaking tutorials on the channel that you can learn from we put out a video about once a week so subscribe if you want to watch more of those videos from us thanks so much for watching and we'll see you next time why that is and give you a few extra steps to follow suit on man this is a rambling sentence i should not continue.
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