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Capturing VR video with an Insta360

Capturing VR video with an Insta360

From the course: Virtual Tours: Video, Photo, and VR

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Capturing VR video with an Insta360

- Let's switch to capturing video on the same camera. Now some folks will use video particularly if there's action or things happening. We're working in a very quiet environment today without the guests or customers present, so video is not as useful in this type of tour, but it may be for your situations, so let's cover how to use it. First up, same sort of things. Make sure that the VR camera is on some sort of stabilization device. In this case, I'm using the Insta 360 1X, and it's attached to the company's selfie stick that's designed to disappear. They've actually created their own type of metal coating and programmed the camera and software to ignore that, removing it during post production, very quickly and easily, so it effectively disappears from the shot. You could of course use any type of stabilization device that you want, but this just makes for less work. I've adjusted the camera, and in this case, I want to lower it just a little bit. That's because I want to capture…

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