360 Content at the Digital Scholarship Lab: 360 Cameras and Video Editing

Higher resolution 360 cameras

• Insta 360 Pro & Pro 2
• ~8K picture quality
• More complicated work flow to produce videos
• Best for high detail, high resolution projects

Other 5.7K 360 Cameras

• Garmin VIRB (Two available for checkout at Make Central service desk)
  • Company website: https://explore.garmin.com/en-US/virb/
  • Editing software: https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/573412
• Ricoh Theta
  • Company website: https://theta360.com/en/

Less resolution Cameras

• Nano
  • ~4K Resolution
  • Connects to iPhone
  • Company website: https://www.insta360.com/product/insta360-nanos/
• Air
  • Connects to Android
  • Potentially deprecated

Insta 360 Studio

• This software is developed by Insta 360 to work specifically with the files that are produced by the Insta360 OneX. Insta360 Studio stitches the videos that are shot with each of the lenses into a single 360 video.
• There also an app that can be used to control the camera, and can export video directly to Youtube at 4K and with minimal editing control.

Adobe Premier

• The Insta360 Studio downloads comes with an Insta360 Adobe Premier plugin. This allows the video files to be directly moved into Premiere, without the intermediary step of the 360 stitching software.

Camtasia

• Camtasia can be used to edit 360 videos that have been converted into MP4 content. 

• 360 videos
  • Youtube
    • 360 videos in MP4 format can be uploaded to Youtube and will automatically be navigable in 360. This makes your video able to be viewed in Google Cardboard or VR Headsets.
  • Vimeo
    • https://vimeo.com/blog/post/introducing-vimeo-360/
  • Proquest Academic Video Online
• 360 photos
  • Scene VR
    • https://scene.knightlab.com/