 Hello, my name's Stephen and I make running videos and in order to make my running videos. I currently use This it's the GoPro Fusion 360 camera a lens on both sides captures the entire scene around me and I found it to be absolutely fantastic However recently into my possession came this little fellow. This is the new Insta 360 1x it's the new version of the Insta camera the previous one was the Insta 361 so we've just added an X on the end really I have spent literally minutes certainly a few minutes playing with this toy and Here's my review of the Insta 361 X So let's start with one or two things I actually like about the Insta 361 X It is light for me I'm carrying this camera around during marathons during ultra's long distance races over a long period of time now Sometimes I could put my camera in my backpack, but more often than not I just carry it in my hand or hold it in my hand and Having something that's light is really important to me. This is really light compared to the GoPro Fusion You can see that the handle is thicker. It's a weightier more rugged feeling pieces of equipment Whereas this feels much lighter and easier to hold in the hand It's a good and a bad thing I suppose because in a way that the lightness of it makes it feel More flimsy although it's quite well built, you know, it doesn't feel like it's gonna fall apart on me But it does feel a bit Lightweight in more ways than one if that makes any sense. I like the look of it I think it looks pretty decent. It's slim, which is important. You see the Fusion here is pretty thick really and bulky and that's quite difficult to fit in my backpack Especially if it's packed with other stuff. I also like that the selfie stick is long It's so long. It's not going to fit on screen here. Hang on a second. Let me see if I can look I can get it all in the frame there. I Like the fact that it's long. This is the selfie stick for the fusion. You can see it is much shorter I haven't really considered the length of the selfie stick to be a big issue But I guess you could have more possibility for more interesting shots given the extra length of the selfie stick on the 1x So what else do I like? I like the grip It's comfortable. It's not too fat looking at the GoPro fusion. The Selfie stick is quite fat and sometimes that is a little bit difficult to hold Whereas this is much more as I would expect a selfie stick to be much thinner and it's kind of easier to grip It's great that the 361x has a removable battery very important for me again, so I can take spare batteries with me It's quite good that I only need to carry one SD card or like one and a spare one It's a bit of a faff with the GoPro fusion that it uses two SD cards So I've got to carry two SD cards and two spare SD cards There's twice as much that can go wrong there as well, which is also an issue But the problem with that of course is that you don't get as much storage space on the 1x that you do on the fusion You can store a lot more on the fusion than on this and that is about it for the things I like about the Insta 361x. Here's a few things. I don't like First of all this little screen here. It's yeah, it's brilliant that it has a screen Whoopie-do that it has a screen. Okay, but you can't see it in bright sunlight. You cannot see it It's fine indoors. I can see it now. I don't know if you can see it if I hold it up to the camera there It's quite clear indoors. That's not a problem. Okay, but in bright sunlight in any kind of bright light It disappears. I'm Squinting to see what's going on which makes it very lucky that the green light flashes on and off when you're recording Otherwise, I'd have absolutely no idea whether I was recording or not Also, the sound isn't loud enough if you're outside whether at people around there's traffic There's a general hubbub. You cannot hear especially in the wind You cannot hear the sound on this turning on or off or telling you any instructions whatsoever So let's try a little audio experiment I'm going to press record on the fusion and then I'm going to press record on the Insta 361x got that name as well You can't call it the Insta 360 because there's already an Insta 360 You can't really call it a 1x because that isn't specific enough. I mean I'll just call that the fusion That's fine. Isn't it GoPro fusion? That's pretty quick Insta 361x it has to be all of that stuff to make sense Anyway, okay. Here we go with the audio test. So I'm going to press record on the GoPro fusion Right. Beep beep beep Not massively loud, but you know loud enough Let's do this one There we are There's now recording and let's stop it recording We do You can hear it perfectly all right in this nice quiet environment But outdoors you just can't hear that at all whereas the GoPro There's a harshness to the sound of the GoPro on off and it gives you an Absolute definite did it did it did it did it? It tells you I've stopped recording The other thing I don't like the selfie stick. Okay, the selfie stick is nice and long. That's great Look at how easy it is for me to open and lock the selfie stick on the GoPro fusion ready? Here we go. I grabbed the camera look Done solid as a rock Closed okay, if I'm running Then I need that to be quick. I need it to be secure Let's see if I can do a similar thing. Well, I can't do a similar thing I know I can't do a similar thing with this the reason being when I grab the camera and twist It actually starts unscrewing the thread So let's screw the thread back on I Don't want to over tighten the thread. I don't damage the camera or the selfie stick so I can't really do that because it just unscrews the camera so I have to grab I have to grab that bit there and then to tighten up again. I Can grab I suppose I can grab the camera there and Then we're done Then I can't close it again easy because again, I start unscrewing the selfie stick so I have to grab that bit It's just a bit more awkward. I have to get my hand out of the way quick because I'll trap it in there If I don't and tightening it up is alright. That's okay. It's just more fiddly. It's more fiddly And actually that's the thing about this camera Everything is just more fiddly more irritating and annoying. I don't like this pouch This pouch kind of doesn't fit properly. I want it to I want it to cover I want it to cover the insta 360 1x But it doesn't so it feels like it's too small so it doesn't cover it It seems like the idea with this pouch is that you would kind of wear it like that and walk around on your holiday Like this, you know and then and then take it out maybe and then screw it on to the Selfie stick like that and then away you go and then you finish and you unpack it and you put it back That's not what I'm going to be doing. I am constantly going to have it on the selfie stick I'm not taking it off the selfie stick Unless it unscrews itself and falls off. I may as well just take this off that can just go somewhere else and Also, I feel like if I if I dropped that on concrete on stone or rocks It's I feel like it would still break the lens inside whereas by contrast the case for the GoPro Fusion is a Hard case it's a hard case it goes round and it zips up Problem with this one is I use it so often I use it all the time the zip has actually now broken so both of them Kind of fail a bit really, but at least if I dropped this I'm pretty sure that the lenses would be okay. In fact, I have dropped it before and the lenses were fine So I think that's it for the things I like and dislike about the kind of functionality the aesthetics The look the feel of the selfie stick and the camera itself Now, let's get on to the software and the video the Insta360 ONE X shoots 5.7 K maximum resolution video the GoPro Fusion shoots 5.2 K maximum resolution video I used to own a Garmin verb 360 camera and that shot 5.7 K Video and it was horrible. I used it for one running video and I was so disappointed with the footage I never used the camera again. So to me resolution makes absolutely no difference I don't care what the resolution is of a 360 camera What I care about is how it looks when I film something The video footage that you get off this little camera is fine. It's okay. All right It's not as good as the GoPro Fusion simple as that no arguments It isn't as good, but you can get decent enough footage out of this camera. The problem is Getting it out of the camera So with the GoPro Fusion I shoot in pro tune, which is a flat format. There's no color grading at all It's it looks pretty bland when it comes out of the camera That gives you more scope in post production for adding color and for adding contrast And pro tune is much like what's called log file on here It's supposed to be a flat color grade to give you more room for processing after the fact So what I do with the pro tune files is I take them off the SD cards in the camera I load them onto my computer and then I use a program called gopro fusion studio to stitch the files together That takes ages But at least when it's finished stitching I get out of it a pro res file that pro res file is a high Quality file that I can use in final cut pro 10. I cannot do that with this Yes, you can take the files off the camera and you can load them onto your computer And then much like the gopro fusion you have to load the files into insta's own editing program Which is called insta studio beta So it is a beta program granted and then you stitch the files in that program again the same as with the gopro fusion The problem is the stitched file is then exported as an mp4 file So that mp4 file is not the original footage. It's compressed So i'm not getting the full quality that I want From my insta 360 camera on my desktop or my laptop video editing suite So let me just briefly take you through my workflow for the gopro fusion and see how it compares to the insta 361x so I take the battery out of the gopro fusion I take micro sd card number one out of the gopro fusion I put it in micro sd card adapter Like so and I pop it in my laptop And then what I do is I create a folder so I'll create a new folder to call it test And then we just wait for that to copy over So once that's done we then need to do the back lens So we'll have two folders a front and a back folder for the gopro fusion footage Put the card back in Put the battery back in And I'm done with the camera itself And now we need to get our files stitched using the gopro fusion studio software movies Test and then once we've clicked on the test folder. We just click open And gopro fusion studio should find all the files load them all in So i'm going to select all the files And i'm going to just click on settings And I don't want any color correction to be applied by gopro. I'm going to apply my own color correction So i'm going to click on flat profile here once I've done that I add the files to the render queue So bottom right here add to the render queue and I want the footage to be rendered in pro res Which is a format that final cut pro x likes and can use So i'm changing it from cineform To pro res And then we just click render all I have actually deleted a couple of files that I don't need So we're just going to render one of the files And then all we do is wait for it to stitch now. This is one of the problems with the gopro fusion It just takes ages to stitch So while we wait for the gopro fusion footage to stitch together We need to get the footage of this little fella here now. This should be easier It is a little bit easier. We take a usb cable We plug the mini usb cable into there And then we plug the larger usb in there like that And then we need to load up insta studio beta So we select the footage that we want and we just simply drag it in To the insta 360 studio and drop it What should happen is that the image should appear there And we should be able to do some editing And render it out But we get nothing Nothing at all. It's a shame. Uh, they will sort it out The thing is it does actually work properly on a pc. You can see the picture and it kind of works on here Even though I can't see the picture. I know the footage is there And all I want to do with this is export it so I can edit it in a different program So i'm going to click this button here And click okay So now we've got the gopro fusion footage Which is rendering out and we've got the insta 360 1x footage which is rendering out But essentially we just need to leave them now to get on with their work and render the footage So that we can have a look at it in the editing program that we want to use So it's literally two days later now I spent the first day basically just waiting for the software to render out the footage from both cameras So we had the footage from the insta 360 1x being rendered out by the insta studio beta software Which is not the best software in the world at all and then we have the gopro fusion footage being rendered out By the gopro fusion studio software which when it came out was terrible as well But has improved with various releases since then the insta actually did take an awful long time Much longer than I thought it would to render out the footage the files produced are 360 equirectangular files I imported them into final cut pro 10 like you would with any other footage And I created a 1080p project and my plan was obviously to render out the footage as flat 1080p Not 360 video. So let's have a look at the footage. I shot using both those two cameras It has been color corrected to my own preferences. You may like something different, but that's just the way it is, isn't it? So I'm not even going to compare the sound quality of these two cameras The gopro fusion sound is way better without a shadow of a doubt than the insta 360 1x The insta 360 cannot handle wind noise and just sounds all together far worse I could also dip these cameras in the water The insta 360 1x would die and the gopro fusion would be absolutely fine We can of course buy a waterproof housing for the insta 360 1x, but that's for money, isn't it? It's a very dull overcast day here on the south coast of the UK But look at the contrast Both of these cameras are shooting in their raw mode, so log mode as it's called on the insta 360 1x And pro tune flat profile on the gopro fusion But look at the contrast. Look at the detail. What can you see? Can you see clouds? Can you see good blacks? But look at the contrast. Look at the detail. What can you see? Can you see clouds? Can you see good blacks? Can you see good highlights and good shadow detail? Can you see good highlights and good shadow detail? I've got the sun right in front of me now over the sea that's just trying to poke through the clouds but not doing a very good job I've got the sun right in front of me now over the sea that's just trying to poke through the clouds but not doing a very good job How detailed is the pier over there in the distance? How detailed is the pier over there in the distance? Because I'm a runner I need to know that these cameras are going to be stable so let's just jog up to the top here and let's clamber over these rocks here without dropping the camera or breaking the lenses both of these cameras if you drop them on the rocks and there you go that's it not doing any more I know what you're going to say you're going to say that the Insta360 footage looks better aren't you well alright I admit to you that the Insta360 footage is better than I expected it to be but I actually like the GoPro Fusion footage better and I'll tell you why look at the skin tone on my face let's see if we can just show you another bit of the video again so there's the one X footage just look at my face look at the skin tone on my face I could also dip these cameras in the water I think that looks much more natural now look at the pebbles on the floor you might argue that the pebbles look sharper on the Insta360 footage but I just think it looks like it's over sharpened actually the GoPro Fusion footage looks more natural it's a very dull overcast day here on the south coast of the UK so there we are that's the workflow for editing footage from the GoPro Fusion and from the Insta360 ONE X on a computer now I don't think Insta want you to do that certainly at the moment the Insta Studio Beta software is not ready certainly on a Mac it's not ready and there are lots more things that they can add to the functionality of it on the PC as well to make it more user friendly there's no plans for Final Cut Pro yet but certainly for Premiere in the next few weeks or months possibly there will be a plugin so you don't have to render out MP4 files and then load them into your software of choice you will be able to edit the log files directly in Premiere what Insta want you to do is to edit the footage on your phone so I've done that as well so here we are on my iPhone and I'm just going to click on the Insta360 ONE X app and load it up and you can see I've got some footage here shot in the sunshine so let's just load one of the clips up now call me old-fashioned but I like to look at video on my phone in landscape mode it's how your TV works your TV is in landscape but I'm not a fan of portrait mode so I would turn my phone sideways so let's just have a look here sideways mode that's more like it and I want to edit like that as well but unfortunately the Insta software does not allow me to edit out the footage sideways in landscape mode like this so I have to turn it portrait mode up and edit that way which means a smaller screen so less detail for me to see I can't see enough of what's going on because the screen is so small to edit well but I don't suppose Insta are particularly worried about that they're not targeting pro video editors here as I said at the beginning of this video really the Insta360 ONE X is more of a toy than a serious tool but that doesn't mean you can't get decent results out of it by any means so we're stuck with editing in portrait mode now there are a few different options for you to choose from in order to edit this footage you can just edit it as 360 footage to view in a VR headset or whatever but as before we're going to do flat 1080p footage so we're going to reframe the footage as we go Insta call reframing free capture mode and you can edit using a pivot point placed in different points throughout the footage or you can use smart track which follows a particular point that you specify or you can use your phone to literally move around the scene using the accelerometer in the phone to highlight various parts of the scene so that's the most fun bit actually so let's do that shall we because I quite like that so we press viewfinder and we get a little red button there now the red button allows us to create a mini planet so we can go like that look but to reframe the footage to capture different parts of the scene we need to literally move around so I'm going to do that now so if I hold the red button it will automatically start recording and it's off so we need to follow me but now I'm going to turn around and capture my son there on his bike and then we'll come back to me here and then I'm going to turn around again and there's my daughter on her bike so we keep her in the frame by moving around there like that so this is actually quite fun and then I can create a little tiny planet look and then we'll move back out here and back around again now we'll just follow me so that's quite fun but it's not very precise I mean if I was doing an edit I would want much more precision over exactly where the frame is going that it's a bit haphazard to just move your phone around to get the shot that you want but for something quick and easy it's fun so now let's put some pivot points in so you can see how that works so pivot points so we have one there and then let's press play and then let's say we now need to reframe it and put a pivot point here because we want to keep my eye on me here that's another pivot point right now we're going to reframe again and have my son in the centre there pivot point there carry on again we can put as many pivot points in as we want so let's say I just want to focus on the feet there put them in the middle and stick another point there move on a bit we definitely want to change that so let's go to there and put a pivot point in there so now if we go back and play the footage it will automatically move to those pivot points as the scene goes on again that's quite fun but you're not going to get the precision that you would have on a computer using Final Cut Pro or Premiere but it's fun and it gets a job done so lastly let's look at Smart Track let's follow me on the bike here so we'll click the little man again the crosshairs there tell you what we're going to focus on so it looks like we're focusing on my stomach at the moment so let's try that that's exactly where it's focusing but that's not bad because it keeps it in the middle of the frame and when we're finished we can just press stop track so that's useful if you want to follow some action and you don't want the camera panning away anywhere else major problems with this app are that when you're editing there's no sound so you've no way of knowing say you wanted to do a hyperlapse you've no way of knowing if somebody's talking or if there's something going on that you need to be hearing in the final edit because it won't allow you to hear any sound at all what you have to do is you have to render the footage out see if it worked if not you have to go back into the app and redo it which is terribly time consuming and annoying you are able to do something called hyperlapse which is basically speed up the footage so if we go into edit mode here I can choose 16 times hyperlapse and then I drag whichever way you want that way might be helpful to create your hyperlapse I can't play that hyperlapse it won't play until I render the footage out so I don't know what it looks like until I've rendered it out and then if it's wrong I've got to go back in and do it all again seems stupid to me if we go into settings up here there is a LUT that you can choose so if you take that off the footage looks flatter no colour correction going on if we add the LUT that does add some colour correction to the footage however you can also add some edits so if I go into filter here you can see I can add some different colour correction by way of filters here much like you would get on Instagram or something like that you can also adjust the colour temperature the contrast so you have got some tools for colour correction colour grading on a basic level you can also trim your footage so you can trim the beginning and the end what you can't do is load various clips in and edit them all together to do that you have to export each individual clip that you've shot out of the Insta app and edit in a different app so iMovie or LumaFusion or Premiere Rush something like that again very time consuming very annoying I mean it may be that they change this in the future so you can load various different pieces of footage in and edit them all together but again I think what Insta are trying to get you to do is film one piece of footage one shot and edit that and send it to Facebook or Instagram really quickly it is not a tool for the professional it is not even a tool for the keen amateur it's a tool for fun it's a tool for the family it's a tool for people on holiday it's just a bit of fun it's not a serious tool so I had a good go at editing this footage that we shot on a bike ride up to the playground on the InstaPhone app I just found the precision wasn't there for me I just need a bit more control over my editing so what I ended up doing was transferring the footage over to my computer, onto my laptop onto Final Cut Pro and edited in there and actually the quality is really not bad at all look at how lovely and deep blue that sky is I did obviously colour correct it but that's what you want to see isn't it you don't want to see flat ungraded footage I just found that reframing, that doing hyper lapses almost anything apart from possibly tiny planet is so much easier on the computer especially if you're using proxy files proxy files are lower resolution so smaller files that your computer will find a lot easier to use you do not need a high-end computer to edit 360 footage it's quite simple to do if you use proxy files one thing I did notice though about the footage from the Insta360 is the stitch line in this bright sunlight here if you look carefully you can see from the upper lens to the lower lens there's a big difference in the exposure the upper lens obviously exposed to the sunlight is much brighter and you can definitely then see the stitch line between the lower lens that can be sorted out with a firmware update but there's obviously always going to be some kind of compromise the sound is still absolutely horrible even with the latest firmware update and the only thing to bear in mind look at that skin tone there again even in bright sunlight it's not as good as the GoPro Fusion it looks pasty and regardless of how much colour correction you do so look my conclusion is this the Insta360 ONE X produces some very decent footage but I do not think it is as good as the GoPro Fusion footage the one thing I would say is that you're paying a lot less for the Insta360 ONE X this camera is almost certainly worth the money compared to the GoPro Fusion you're paying a lot more for the GoPro Fusion for what is definitely an improvement in image quality but whether it's worth it for you is another matter you have to balance the cost against the difference in image quality I have no doubt that the GoPro Fusion has better image quality but it's a question of price and this is a lot cheaper it's a lot lighter it's a lot easier to carry around and possibly it's a lot easier to edit footage if all you're going to do is one quick shot and upload to Facebook, YouTube or Instagram also worth remembering that GoPro have had some problems with software development we don't know whether we're going to see a GoPro Fusion 2 we don't know whether we're going to see any updated firmware or any updated software however we know that Insta are right behind the Insta360 they've got a good software team they do release updates regularly so that is another thing to consider there are certain things about the Insta360 that you cannot improve another thing I noticed the other day it's really difficult to get the micro SD card out you need another implement to press in unless you've got really long fingernails you can't get the micro SD card out now that isn't something they can solve with a firmware update however the software either on the phone or on the computer can be improved and will be improved no doubt in the months to come so that's it for my review of the Insta360 ONE X the GoPro Fusion is better but costs a lot more money this is well worth it if you don't want to spend big bucks thanks very much for watching if you found this video useful, interesting helpful, if it's made a decision easier about whether or not you're going to buy the 360 ONE X or the GoPro Fusion or any other 360 camera do let me know in the comments down below do subscribe to the Film My Run YouTube channel, remember I'm a runner and I use the 360 ONE X and the GoPro Fusion for running videos so do subscribe to the channel do watch some of my real world marathon and ultra marathon running videos with that, thanks very much for watching take care and we'll see you for another review next time bye bye