Insta360 One X2 - COMPLETE Features & Settings Guide with Examples

hi guys welcome back to the channel my name is chris and this is a complete features and settings guide for the insta360 one x2 we'll be going through all the photo and video features and where the settings are in both the in-camera menus and on the app so hopefully when you get your 1x2 you can get straight to creating some awesome content so let's get straight into it okay so we've got the insta360 one x2 here and as it's seasonal i thought i put it in front of a christmas tree and a fireplace but if we just switch on with the side button here and you'll notice it's not actually a fireplace it's just an ipad playing a fireplace video but it looks cool in the video anyway this is the screen you'll first see and it's just a display of your image and instantly you can look around um by just dragging the image around like that and i'm first going to go through the settings that are the same no matter what mode you're in then i'm going to go through each feature and each mode and show you the different settings available within those modes so all you need to do is tap the screen and then all the settings will show up like this so first let's swipe down from the top and the screen's not exactly the most responsive screen so i might mess up a few times i do apologize if it takes me a couple of tries to tap something but here on the top left we have the brightness setting of the screen pretty self-explanatory you just drag that up and down to adjust the brightness we're going to keep it relatively high and you swipe back like that to go back to the settings the next thing here is to lock the touch screen so if you're doing something action related and you don't want to accidentally press something that locks the screen then all you have to do to unlock it is tap it swipe up and you've unlocked the screen so if you do end up in a situation where it looks a bit odd and you can't get back to a sort of normal looking here we're upside down as you can see you can just press again and tap this little rotation button here and it will automatically fix it on the center of one of the lenses and if you want to fix it on the other lens you just click it again and it will reverse like that so let's swipe down from the top again on the bottom left we have the option to change the leds um so you can't see at the moment but there's a blue led at the bottom of the camera which can turn on and off i just have it off because it's a bit you know a bit jarring sometimes it flashes quite a lot so i have that off normally and on the bottom right we have the option for quick capture and basically it allows you to press the record button when the camera is off and the camera will automatically turn on and start recording and then when you stop recording the camera will turn itself back off again so we have that to on just because it's really nice if you want to record something really quickly and you can toggle that there on the top left here of the screen you can connect your airpods up which is quite handy for sound purposes obviously on the top right here you've got your audio recording settings um so you can set it to wind reduction or 360 direction focus and basically the camera's got four microphones i'm assuming with wind reduction it uses a couple of those microphones um just to detect the wind and sort of counteract that but if you didn't want that on and you're recording indoors and you didn't need the wind reduction you could change it to 360 direction focus and i'm assuming that gives you a sort of um stereo sort of audio as if it was coming from around you like the 360. on the bottom left here we have option for voice command you can change that on or off at the moment i just have it off because i don't accidentally turn it on for any reason and at the bottom right we have settings so if we go into settings we can go into general the first option is usb mode you can change it to desktop webcam or android below that you've got prompt sound and you can turn the sound on or off and the sounds play when you turn it on when you take a photo when you change the mode um so i just have it off because the thing is when you turn this on it makes a shutter sound as if it's taking a photo and people tend to look around so i just have the prompt sound off by standard underneath that you've got the you've got the bluetooth wake up so this allows you to use your phone to wake up the device and just have that off at the moment and underneath that we have auto power off and you can change the time it takes before the camera powers itself off finally at the bottom we have anti-flicker as you see it's a little bit too responsive sometimes so anti-flicker basically you can change the hertz that you want it to be at obviously usually in the us it's 60 hertz and in europe it's 50 hertz but i just set it to auto then it does its thing automatically underneath that we have language obviously self-explanatory i'm going to keep that's english before i accidentally change it and we have the gyro calibration obviously inside the gyro obviously helps stabilize the footage afterwards and you can calibrate using that process certainly that we have bluetooth remote and if we click that you can connect it to any generic bluetooth remote and use that to start and stop your recording etc underneath that we have screen auto sleep and i'm not sure why this isn't in the same place as the auto turn off but it is here and again you can just set the timer for when you want the screen to go to sleep after not using it and it also goes off during recording as well so if you're recording and you don't um and you don't press the screen for a while it will automatically go to sleep but karen recording um probably keep this on don't sleep if you're you know recording for long periods of time and you still want to see the screen otherwise the screen will turn off immediate recording and if that again we have voice control and you can choose your language that you want to use the voice controls in sd card and here you can see how much space you've got left on your sd card and also format it there at the bottom then we have video encoding inside video encoding you'll see you have two options 360 cam and steadicam and this camera obviously has two ways of filming you can either film in 360 or you can film with that sort of action camera look where it's just a normal 16 by 9 image so if you click 360 cam um you have the option between h264 and h265 i haven't tested the quality difference between these two yet um but i can't imagine it's going to make a huge amount of difference i do recommend keeping it on h.264 just because it's easier to edit with computers h365 is quite a difficult codec for computers to edit most of the time so i think most people should keep it on h264 then finally at the bottom we have camera info and here shows your camera name and the firmware you're on and that is it in terms of the settings so swipe back up to get to the main screen and i'm just going to show you the playback functions if you swipe from the left here you'll see the last photo or video that you've taken and again you can just press play and the last video i'd taken was a 180 degree shot so it was like an action cam shot not a 360 shot um but you can see the little blue circle going around here that shows the duration which is pretty cool and then we can just pause it like that then if you press this little button down here it will show you four files at a time and here we have a 360 one so i'm going to play that and when you're playing one of the 360 videos you can also scroll around as it's playing which is pretty cool again we can pause come out of that and on the left here you can delete your images as well and that's pretty much it in terms of the playback functions okay so now we're going to get into nitty gritty and show each feature and over the top i'm hoping to overlay an example of each feature as well but the settings do change depending on which feature you're in so on the screen here we do have the battery indicator in the top left an sd card indicator showing you how much space you've got left in your current setting the option change between 360 degree mode and action cam mode which is 150 degrees then we have obviously the center button which i mentioned earlier so change it back to 360. these are the fiddly ones from me okay so we're gonna start at the top with standard photo and you'll see with standard photo um you'll get this little image up here which is highlighted in blue and that is pure shot pure shot is set on as standard and basically what it does is sort of edits your photo for you makes it a little bit more saturated a little bit more vibrant um and is on by default so it makes it a bit more social media ready but you'll see later you can also shoot in raw which is probably better if you do want to edit it a bit later you can use pureshot and raw together when you put the raw file into the desktop app it will automatically add pure shot to it and i think this kind of is the best balance because pure shot on a jpeg image um doesn't produce the best dynamic range but if you tap that you can turn pure off and just have a normal shot that you can edit later so i'm going to keep that on for now if you do see a lot of cuts it's just because i'm trying to tap things and it's not tapping it the way i want it or something it does happen quite a lot with this camera which is quite annoying but again you can use the phone app to get around that if you really wanted to so self-explanatory here you've just seen me do it but if you click this little camera icon down in the left you can choose between photo video and your custom modes at the bottom starlapse is set as a custom mode by default so let's come out of that and on the bottom right where it says 5s that is like a sub menu and it changes depending on what setting you're in in this case it shows you the timer of the photo so i've got it set to five seconds as a timer so if i set it to three seconds for example and press the capture button there we go we've taken a photo so in each mode if we swipe from the right there'll be a different amount of settings so with photos you've got the option obviously at the top between jpeg and jpeg and raw if you're going to edit your photos afterwards i definitely recommend jpeg and raw especially if you're using pure shot because then you get the option to have one without pure shot as well and if that you have your exposure options you can either choose between automatic or manual so if we set it to manual here you'll see that underneath this appears with your shutter speed and this menu appears with your iso as well so i'm going to go back you can also change it to iso priority shutter priority and isolated which is where basically each of the lenses the front and the back has its own exposure so i'm going to set it back to auto because it generally works quite well and then you have your ev so basically if you wanted to expose it a bit more on the brighter side you could bring that right up and again if you wanted it to be slightly on the darker side maybe to retain some highlights maybe in some clouds you could scroll right down like that i'm gonna keep it on zero underneath that you have your white balance options and you can keep it on auto or you can scroll through a list of custom white balances here if you wanted to keep your white balance set so that's all the options you have in photo standard mode so let's scroll back let's go back in now and change the photo mode to hdr and you'll see that the pure shot has gone just because hdr essentially takes a few different photos puts them together and creates an image with a higher dynamic range so pure shot isn't used in that process and in the sub menu here we get the option again between a little countdown i'm going to keep that off for now and when we swipe into the settings again we have jpeg and raw we have the white balance i've accidentally set then we have how many photos it's going to take so generally the more photos it takes the better the dynamic range so but the longer it will take and then underneath that you have the different exposures that you want it to take so if you're taking four different photos plus two is a good option but you can also go all the way down here two plus or minus four um satellites essentially expose four stops underexposed and forced off overexposed as well as a couple of photos in between put them all together and you get a nice high dynamic range shot obviously the more shots you take the longer it's going to take so let's go back and let's go to burst mode so in a sub-menu of burst mode again just the timer there and if we swipe from the right we have jpeg and raw exposure your ev and your white balance and underneath that we have interval mode so this is essentially like a time-lapse mode um but it's not doing the time-lapse for you it's just taking photos in intervals um not sure why you'd want to do this but it's there anyway so you can't have a timer of this so that's just set to off by standard and if we swipe from the right option between jpeg and raw exposure the eevee the white balance and how many seconds between each photo that you want so let's scroll back go back into the menu and choose night shot in the sub menu of night shot again you can change the timer and if you swipe from the right you've got jpeg and raw and the white balance you can't change the exposure here because obviously it's doing all of that in the camera to try and get the best shot for you at night so then we're going into video modes let's start with standard and in the sub menu here we have a list of different resolutions and frame rates so in 5.7 k you can film in 30 frames 25 frames or 24 frames in 4k we can do 30 frames 50 frames and in 3k we can do 100 frames for when you want that slow motion let's go back up to 5k at 30 because that's the highest quality option and press ok so when you're in standard video mode again you can change the field of view from 360 to 150 degree field of view and that also changes the resolution from 5.7 k to 1440p and it will change to 50 frames per second you can click this here and you can actually change that to 1080p at 30 or 50. you can also click the pro mode which allows you to add the flow state stabilization afterwards in the studio the normal stabilization is good enough for me so i don't tend to go into the pro mode so let's tick that and come out of that and again in video you have the option at the bottom to change your field of view from ultra wide to wide to linear now i've tested the quality of this 150 degree mode and it's just not very good it's not going to stand up to any action cameras and you're probably better off recording in 360 and chopping up in the studio finally at the bottom right here you can actually change the orientation if you wanted to record a portrait video you can click this little button and there we go we're recording a portrait video or say you wanted to hold the camera to the left you could also do that and it will automatically rotate as well if you wanted to hold it landscape i'm going to swipe from the right and again you have the option between exposure your ev your white balance and at the bottom here we also have a color mode so by default it's set to vivid so you get nice bright saturated colors but if you wanted something more editable you could either go with standard or go with log for those flat colors um you can grade later i think standard is probably the best option if you did want to do a little bit of grading um if you're doing this professionally for whatever reason log might be a good option if you're whacking this straight on social media then vivid is a good option as well so swiping back then let's go back to video and hdr video hdr video is only available in 5.7 k and it's at 25 frames or 24 frames and if we swipe from the right the only option you get is white balance again the camera's doing the hdr effects for you so you can't change the exposure here we're going back into the settings and we go down to time-lapse now in time lapse the only option i've got available here is 5.7 k at 30 frames obviously what it's going to do is it's going to put it all together for me and that's going to be the final resolution and frame rate of the time-lapse video so for swipe from the right here i have the option of exposure the ev the white balance the color mode again and at the bottom here you also get the seconds between the photos taken um it's set to two seconds by default i think now it's set to five seconds by default um but you can go all the way up to 120 seconds between photos it really gets me that for certain modes where it'd be nice to have the settings already available on the screen they're sort of hidden within the menus so for example time lapse it'd be nice to have the interval setting somewhere here but you have to go all the way into here and then scroll down to the bottom just to get to your interval for time lapse so that's a bit odd for me um but hopefully they can change that in firmware so we're going back into modes and then we've got time shift now timeshift is essentially just recording a video but afterwards it will allow you to speed up certain parts and add motion blur so that you get a really nice sort of time-lapse hyperlapse style video that you can also slow down to look at specific objects or specific locations um within the video so the result is basically a time-lapse video that you can slow down into a normal video at times where you need to with time shift on the right menu we have the exposure the ev the white balance and again your color mode there and in the sub menu we have 5.7 k at 30 frames 25 frames or 24 frames now we're going to our next menu item which is bullet time i haven't actually used the bullet time effect yet because i don't have the stick but you can change it it automatically changes it down here and the bottom to 3k 100 frames obviously you need it to be as slow-motion as possible and for the bullet time effect to work if you swipe from the right here we get exposure ev white balance and the color mode so i'm going to scroll back then we're going to change to our custom modes so to demonstrate the custom modes here at the bottom i'm going to do is i'm going to go into video mode standard i'm going to change it to 4k at 50 frames per second for when i want that slow-mo 360. then i'm gonna swipe from the right go to um my av and raise that to plus one then for fun i'm just going to go to white balance change that to 5000 and record in log okay then i'm going to swipe away from this and i'm going to go into the custom settings again click where it says none and save so now if i go into the photo standard photo setting at the top just to get away from that and i go back into custom settings and go to my saved custom setting if i click that everything i just set is now saved and now comes back so we're in 360 4k at 50 frames a second we're in the ev is plus one the white balance is set to 5000 and we're set to log so that's how the saved modes work the final thing to note is the quick modes um so it's just the most regularly used modes are accessible from the bottom and you've just got standard video which is 5.7 k standard photo and at the bottom just a regular time lapse so that's it for on-screen controls now we're going to move over to the app okay so now we're in the app i've just had to do a firmware update so apologies if anything has changed um since the tutorial we just did hopefully it should all be the same i'm just going to go through that very quickly as it's all pretty much the same stuff um just to show you where everything is really okay so at the top here on the screen we have the sd card space and the battery and we have a little settings icon here which you can change add the histogram and turn gps on or off again you can scroll around your screen zoom in zoom out so we're in video at 5.7 k you'll notice this little paper airplane icon if you click this icon it goes into the fly-through mode i'll try and demonstrate that but it's like an fpv mode that you can fly through things and do different transitions and that's another tutorial entirely but it's a pretty cool mode if you can master it again just above the record button here you can change between whether you want 360 or you want to just use one camera in the 150 degree view but if you do go into this panorama view in the middle it'll automatically change to photo so on the left of the record button is your preview window so if you click that it will take you to the latest photo that you've taken here's this photo we shot earlier in the last demonstration and again you can just look around zoom in you can also edit things in the app i'm not going to get into it in this video because i think that's a different video entirely another way to preview your photos and videos is to go use the back button in the top left make sure album is selected at the bottom and make sure camera is selected at the top and you can preview all the 360 photos and videos you've taken so here's a 360 video here and you can look around and again you can edit by putting keyframes in the bottom with these edit tools here so let's go back and let's go into the camera using the yellow camera icon at the bottom so on the right of the record button we have these settings menus here this one generally just changes the exposure and the white balance and that's pretty much all you need to know about this one and on the settings on the right it changes depending on which mode you're in so again you can change the video mode between standard hdr time lapse time shift and bullet time you can change the resolution and frame rates here which you went through in the last demonstration and you can change the color modes so coming out of that and going into photo again you can switch between 360 panorama and 150 degree mode again you've got the exposure and white balance but in settings you can you now can change the photo settings between standard hdr photo burst interval photo and night shot next to that we have the option to set a timer on the photo anywhere between 3 seconds and 15 seconds and after that we can turn pure shot on or off unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way in the app to change the recording from jpeg to raw and jpeg i think you do have to do that in the camera which is a little bit annoying but you just have to get around it in the app we do have the option also to go live so you can connect up to your facebook account youtube or other streaming platforms and go live in 360. which is a pretty cool thing to have and again you can only do this in the app as far as i know so when you're in photo and video and you go to 150 degree mode where we only use one lens you can still change the field of view answers you have to go to the settings on the bottom right and you'll see here you get the option between ultra wide and wired now where's the linear you might ask they've actually put it in a separate menu for distortion so if you go to no distortion we end up in linear mode bit weird that they didn't put it all in the same menu that they did on camera but that's just the way they've done it so to come back to ultrawide you have to turn distortion on and then you can switch between ultra wide and wide again so that's been a complete features and settings guide to the insta360 one x2 hopefully you found it helpful and hopefully you can get straight into creating some content now if you did find it helpful then leave a thumbs up down below and if you've got any comments or questions leave them down below in the comments section and i'll try and get back to you as quick as i can if you want to see more videos like 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Length: 26min 46sec (1606 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 08 2020