Honest Thoughts After 2 Months // Insta360 X4

[@FLG8r]

bought one for myself; have used it for road and mountain biking; I designed my own third person mount and 3d printed them for each bike; best video quality are bright, sunny days. I'm an average old man cyclist, so I'm not looking for big air or fast sprints - I want to preserve life and limb. My video capture settings are: -1 EV, Flat color profile, and low sharpness so that I can edit to my liking in FCP X. I pretty much have the same assessments as yours. Supposedly GoPro has their Max 2 in the works - been waiting for that!

[@Seekay92]

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[@galenkehler]

Thanks for the honest regular user examples, it's good to see how these work out in the real world

[@skippyzk]

New resolution: Determine the Original Resolution:Find the original resolution of your 360 footage. Common resolutions for 360 videos include 4K (3840x1920), 5.7K (5760x2880), 8K (7680x3840), etc.Understand the Field of View (FOV):360-degree videos cover the entire sphere around the camera. When you crop, you're effectively choosing a smaller FOV. Common crops might be to a standard HD (1920x1080), 4K (3840x2160) or other resolutions.Calculate the New FOV:Decide on the new FOV after cropping. For example, if you're cropping to a 16:9 aspect ratio frame, and you want to focus on a specific region, determine the horizontal and vertical degrees of the new FOV.Example: Cropping to a 90-degree horizontal FOV from a 360-degree original footage.Resolution Scaling:Determine the scaling factor based on the new FOV.For a 90-degree horizontal crop from 360 degrees, the scaling factor for the width is 360/90 = 4. This means you are using 1/4 of the original width resolution.Calculate the New Resolution:Apply the scaling factor to both the width and the height.Example: For an original 8K resolution (7680x3840):New width: 7680 / 4 = 1920New height: 3840 / 4 = 960So, if you crop a 90-degree horizontal FOV from an 8K 360-degree footage, the new resolution would be approximately 1920x960.

[@TheBikeSauce]

Nice! Yea thought about that, but there’s some losses due to stitching as well. Seems like it’d be easy to incorporate this metric into the desktop app

[@Whoadayson]

The explanation is nice of you, and Im sure its much less complicated/involved to someone who deals with editing or videography on a somewhat normal basis, but this explanation just made me thoroughly understand just how useful an 'adjusted resolution' metric would be, even if just an estimate, being onscreen during your cropping! It cant be that difficult for SW to calc that on the fly... My brain is another story 🤦‍♂

[@my-walks]

if the camera is set on a mount that's hard to get to once set up is there a way to remotely start and stop recordings or do you have to phicicly press the camera buttons?

[@TimothyMullinMedia]

Great video and edit. Thanks so much for all the info and the tip about the lens protection and chest mounting.

[@SleepyF18]

The mount is awesome! Got one and it works like a boss.

[@henryduruji]

Great review! exactly what I was looking for as I am looking for an action cam to use on my gravel cycle trips as well as general hiking/travel. One thing I am not too sure about is picking the X4 over another action cam such as the DJI action or even insta360s Ace pro. Do you think it's worth sacrificing a little video quality and get the X4 as a one for all action camera? Rather than getting a dedicated action cam but miss out on the 360 feature.

[@TheBikeSauce]

You can actually run the X4 in single lens mode, and it becomes a high quality 4k non-360 camera. Pretty good deal imo.

[@EdZachary1]

Personal experience and practical use application vids are great!

[@elrincondelgamer8671]

Great video🎉 What do you think are the best settings for Instagram and the X4?

[@grumpy_TDB]

Does this camera's 360 lenses develop the same, well documented, condensation problems as the Insta360 ONE RS 360 lenses ?

[@charles360]

TY I just ordered one for a trip. This review was good because I now understand what to expect, and I have time to tighten up my plan on how to use the camera.

[@samrr24]

Did you adjust for motion blur? It looks great on your clips

[@TheBikeSauce]

On some of the trail riding clips, there’s a bit of nd motion blur applied. Too much and it looks weird, but seems that you noticed nonetheless

[@waq444]

Came across your video while searching for this camera . You were very thorough about explaining the camera. Kindly tell me if 360x4 would be better choice if i want yo make car videos like mouting.on hood or on windshield. My two priorities are image stabilization and video quality. Thanks

[@scubalibre]

How have you found the single camera use case vs. 360?

[@TheBikeSauce]

it works well, basically just like any other action can at that point. But I still prefer the peace of mind to shoot in 360 all the time

[@RunBikeMike]

I ordered a mount. Looking forward to trying it.

[@TheBikeSauce]

Thx, Mike!

[@Gerald-iz7mv]

Can you mount it on the mtb handlebar?

[@WalkWithWallace]

Good review buddy, are they quite reliable with no glitches?

[@issambres]

Did you try using single lens freeframe mode for MTB ?

[@TheBikeSauce]

Yea it works well, with the ability to somewhat reframe after the fact, but I still prefer the peace of mind to shoot in 360 all the time

[@MountainDeweyMTB]

Super helpful, I am running into stitching issues with mine right now, hoping to get it figured out

[@TheBikeSauce]

Are you making sure the stitch lines aren’t in the primary fov? As in don’t point the edge of the camera forward

[@MountainDeweyMTB]

@@TheBikeSauce I think that’s what’s happening with the chin mount, my head is always turning so the stitch lines sometimes are in the wrong direction

[@A-Viking]

How big are the biggest files you got from the X4? i would like to run it with a powered selfiestick for up to 4 hours roadtrip with the gps data in 1 file instead of many 30min, like on my X3. Tnx.

[@gingerwolverine77]

thanks for the helpful review. That mount you have created looks much more useable. Adding to things i want to buy 😅

[@Desitrailblazer]

Should I buy this or Go pro hero 12 for hiking purpose

[@RGBeanie]

360 gives you way more editing options

[@unknownknown8555]

Does the trail video look extremely blurry or is it just me?

[@TheBikeSauce]

Could be the compression by KZbin. It’s only been live a few hours, I think sometimes it takes a bit of time for full res, but not entirely sure. Looks ok on my end!

[@galenkehler]

Just you unfortunately 😂 looks good from my end

[@SergejGrabun]

@@TheBikeSauce I am watching this 18hours since it is published, but I have to agree, the quality of MTB rides is really really bad (I had to go check if my playback settings didn't go to low resolution even).

[@andreas9119]

Nah. Looks horrible in 1080p on a 4k tv. Reminiscent of 540p or 720p videos from twenty years ago. Blech. Pointless to review x4 over an x3 on this bitrate and compression.

[@TheBikeSauce]

Dang, I’ll have to look into it. I was using H.265 for this one, but the final vid looks ok on my end

[@nonelost1]

8:07… Now, if they only will just come out with KZbin editing software that you don't have to be Albert Einstein to be able to figure out. For chrissakes it's like trying to edit a Wikipedia page!

[@mtblove229]

Best recordings in every way compared to every other cam Like GoPro. BUT its so heavy and big… hard to mount comfortably :-/

[@ManTeybor]

I just buy insta X4. I used phone Redmi C13. I can't download the insta360 app.. it says that my phone didn't compatible for the app... Can anybody help me? What should I do? 😭

[@LarryHopper]

Either buy a new phone or return the camera while you still can.

[@ty1134]

Why 24 FPS vs. 30?

[@FayeAbram-h7s]

For bike rides it feels faster just like the true feeling while riding.

[@samuelbergeron1296]

Movies on a projected screen are at 24 fps Pal video format is at 25 fps Ntsc video format is at 29.99(30fps)

[@merkyuk]

The beer looked nice… more beer shots :)

[@togateo9090]

You guys are arguing about 2k,4k,5.7k,8k,11k and i watch all videos on 360p

[@sr16gotheextramile51]

Hahahaha nice one.

[@togateo9090]

@@sr16gotheextramile51 I have no choice i have limited wifi internet in Egypt

[@AckerQ.]

I don’t read all characters from comments…

[@AkiTsukita]

tbh, Insta360 don't really need to sponsor any creator. Just sending them a review unit is more than enough. Because their product is already very decent.

[@srijuarpanvlogs6294]

Waiting for mine. I😂😂

[@subliminalfreedom]

Interesting!

[@roveism]

Partnership / Sponsorship = no thanks, not watching it

[@ElProsepoem]

As opposed to dishonest thoughts?

[@TheBikeSauce]

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