Insta360 Ace Pro vs DJI Pocket 3 - Which one is MY Winner? 

Yeah that’s one thing. The Pocket 3 does seem delicate. It’s DJI’s third time doing a gimbal camera and they’ve got experience with gimbals, so maybe it’s not as delicate as we think. But in comparison to an all weather action camera it does seem delicate.

Absolutely. I've ordered the Ace Pro and bike kit for mainly mountain biking.

I agree, I’m filming hikes/camping videos of me and my kids and dog. I currently shoot with the insta360 GO3. But I’m on the look for a second camera and initially wanted nothing but the osmo pocket 3. However, since using the GO 3regularly for a while now… I’m starting to realise the action cam features is necessary, albeit less sexy than pocket 3 features. I’ve needed to shoot 1 handed in rain, crossing rivers, I’ve placed it in trees to get shots of myself, I’ve dropped it a bunch of times and I think it’s great I’ve able to bring it along adventures on a lanyard around my neck 😂. I know the pocket 3 is a 1 handed device also, but getting it in and out of my pocket would need 2 hands because of the housing, having to put it back in its little case after every recording has got to be a faff. Also a bit annoying that I still have to store the housing in my pocket when filming. I really wanted the osmo because of the foreground/background separation, but actually I’ve managed to get accidental natural cute clips of my kids in the background on my GO3 and I’m grateful they haven’t been bokeh’d. Also, another thing I’ve thought is that because I’m hiking and travelling to all these different places, i want the environment included in the shots more often than I’m willing to admit. I think Zander is right, I think I’d worry about the osmo a lot more, and if I was to have both, when push comes shove, I’d just grab the ace pro over the osmo just in case it: rains, we go to the beach, we’re going in the sea, I need more battery life, we go somewhere where it would die if I dropped it etc etc. as much as I convince myself I can just bring all my cameras to have all scenarios covered, the reality is, I carry a lot of children’s crap, and the dog is on the lead, and the less camera equipment/accessories the better. But at the same time, the osmo is so cool 😂😅 if you got it in the end and can de-bunk any of my concerns, feel free to convince me to get it 😂 sorry that was a whole bunch of info you didn’t ask for but no one in my life has interest in photography/videography so I talk to people on RU-vid instead 🤣

Not that honest for me because he forgot lots of advantages of the pocket 3 ;)

@@SFLfights Do you understand the definition of honest vs things not mentioned?

Like I said, it’s my opinion when you use these cameras every day for me the Ace pro is just nicer to use, even if the image isn’t quite as pleasing

Pocket 3 looks like trash. Soft image on his face and horrible outdoor video on the lake near the trees. It looks so doom and gloom!

I agree, love the pocket 3 ! The image is “softer” and slightly brighter and looks more cinematic to me, if you will . I’m saving money and hopefully will purchase soon.

I agree but it really depends on where and how your using it and for me in the UK I feel much happier and more confident taking the ace pro outside

@@ZanderRound Yes. I can understand that, and I've watched a few videos and honestly the DJI action 4, seems to have the better image quality. I wish the Ace pro was better, because I really liked it at first.

DJI Action 4 and the Ace Pro both use the same exact image sensor. So images from both will look fairly similar. The differences will be in how each camera deals with the processing of the images.

@@ZanderRound Or maybe it depends on the uploader like, if you want the other one stand out to the other one, you can make the other one less better! like what you did on this one!

@@spirittravels. For me, the ace pro as a better image quality vs dji action, especially when there's less light.

Wtf. It is good cabel

Done 🫡

I'm asking myself the same questions as I have a gh6. I think it really depend if you need to use it in bad weather conditions, underwater and extreme sports or not. Because if we simply look for the image quality, the pocket 3 is the best, especially when there's less light. The pocket 3 is more fragile but the lens of the Ace pro isn't removable. .I'm interested by both too but as I don't have a stabilizer with my gh6 because it's too big, i think i'll go with the pocket 3.

The image quality of the ace pro is far better as you can see in this video. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Just use an ND filter no problem.

Yes the status light can be turned off in the settings

@@JackHolding-rl8be thank you

Ace pro definitely

I think you can change the sharpening in settings.

It depends. With the Ace Pro you can be relaxed because it is much more resistant, so you can do lots of things that you can’t with a pocket 3 (water, rain, sport, rollercoaster, …). With the Pocket 3 you can do calm creative shots (bokeh, gimbal automatic movement). The best would be able to have both.

@@ricarmig Exactly, they are complementary

I don’t like face tracking for vlogging

@@bzdishekzapadlovsky ok that’s enough of you

because the ace pro is a better choice. 🤷🏻‍♂️ The image quality is outstanding.

No one cares about that when you're vlogging. I much rather see a bright clear video vs some gloomy bokah bs.

Pocket 3 produce a better image for sure.More professionnal.

Trust me, This guy is a biased!

LOL, then don't reduce sharpening. I shoot in low sharpening mode, the details are still great. Not sure what you're doing wrong.

@damench22 No you should reduce sharpening or else it does look horrid like this.

@@yamahaevo oh, yah, I cranked mine down to low looks great, it does over sharpen above low lol

It’s two options people are looking at buying, this is more of a review of my user experience over the last month

can i record a long video about 90 min with high quality 4k60 with pocket 3 ?

Fair points, totally disagree with all of them 👍

can i record a long video about 90 min with high quality 4k60 with pocket 3 ?

​@@ZanderRound this video looked like an ad video of Insta360

I have one and it’s very easy: - you pause and keep recording as on Android phones - you can the AI select the highlights or manually and then you can cut and export the highlights as a combined movie - the insta360 software (I use it on my iPhone 15 Pro Max) is fabulous!!! A free edit suit! And with the iPhone 15 Pro chip…wow super fast! I would even say that an Adobe Premiere Pro would take 5x longer on a much more powerful hardware to do the same vi (yes, I hate Adobe software)

@@bzdishekzapadlovskythe Ace Pro allows you to do it internally if you want just the highlights on a video. But if you want to cut and join different files, then you have to use other software.

@@bzdishekzapadlovsky for the same reason laptop and desktop sales have been declining: controls on smartphones and tablets have improved greatly so I don’t need for personal private videos to edit them on a PC. If I can afford a iPhone 15 Pro Max, it’s very unlikely that I can’t afford a PC.

@@bzdishekzapadlovsky why would I do such a thing? Anyone doing any cut and paste will have lousy sound and joining points. The best to do is to edit them on a software that handles all formats. Cut, join, transitions, soundtrack, drive

Yes mate video coming soon, the editing tool in camera is more geared towards saving space on your storage, it allows you to save clips within a clip and either export them individually or as a merged clip, what you do with them after that is entirely up to you. I’ll be doing that video hopefully before Christmas, thanks mate 👌

Right. He's a Fanboy because I sent my AcePro back. Lens was already scratched after one day of use. ​@@bzdishekzapadlovsky

People need to know the downsides of the Ace Pro. He hasn't mentioned one bad thing about it.

@@sirgigolo Because he's biased.