We purchased two of these to evaluate at work. I work at a university where we have LOTS of instructors who teach from their office to online classes. I know the 'Whiteboard' feature isnt really too useful for Streamers, but for Instructors, that is VERY useful, especially how it adjusts the image so even at a somewhat sharp angle, it flattens it out so it looks like it looks directly at it. As for the desk view, that is also very instructor friendly as when you are just using paper and writing on the desk, the 'distortion' from the camera adjustment isnt really viable (because its looking at flat paper). The tracking can also be helpful for those instructors who like to pace abit in their office. So this camera isn't bad for streaming, but its Really Fantastic for online teaching. Also, im pretty sure i recommended you check this camera out a few months back :)
I just now learned this exists and it's the first camera that has the tools to create things that I've wanted to for a long time now. I've had to settle for static views for things I want to feel alive and this is the solution. Every single feature about this cam removes a restriction that current webcams, and even modern cameras, have placed on me. As soon as I saw this, all the ideas that I thought I could never create, or at least do well, became something that could be done at the push of a button or a gesture of the hand. For live production or post, this is a game changer for solo creators. I'm just thinking of the hours I could get back in editing no longer editing footage to create a facsimile of actual camera operation by cropping and zooming in on the footage and that's the tip of the iceberg.
It’s always a fun video when Harris enjoys talking about the product he’s representing so it makes me enjoy the content that much more. Thank you, Stream Doctor.
The whiteboard feature seems pretty neat for keeping the camera tracked on specific items that arent human. Overall, I think the flexibility of it lends itself to streaming all kinds of different content, especially for solo creators
The whiteboard feature is actually really cool. It comes with 4 stickers that is used to frame the white board so when you hit it, it looks around for those stickers then zooms and adjusts the angle so it looks flat. Its really impressive. We're recommending them at our school for teachers who teach online from their home or office.
Amazing features. I wish the DJI pocket 2 would have a clean hdmi or USB out as it can do similar things like tracking, portrait and the good stuff. Props to insta360
This seems like a great camera for someone like me who does traditional art! I've been trying to get a non-intrusive setup to be able to stream it but so far it's been really finicky but that 45degree mode seems like it would be really useful!
Very cool, I’ve been using the OBS bot it’s a similar system of an AI webcam for following your movements. I was using it for following me with workouts for videos/soon for live streaming the same. The issues I had seem to be resolved with Insta360s presets as there were certain times I just needed it framed not followed. A cool feature would be a Co-star/Pet mode to zoom or expand when a friend or Pet enters a field so you can share the spotlight.
Did the same thing as the second camera by using a Ronin RS2 with active track, Sony a5100, and an elgato HD60. It worked but it was complicated (especially with wall power delivery) and it was expensive. Insta 360 would be a great alternative.
Would love to see a deep dive on this. I would that it saves settings on the camera so it also work with the tracking on a Chromebook. And if you touch the base you can active or deactivate the tracking.
I do a lot of product demos and would love to see a video on the best cameras for shooting straight down. I’ve always had trouble with not getting enough detail, a lot of fuzzy text etc.
I'll even add a comment cause I love your content and have been watching you for....probably majority the life of your channel life. I'm torn between this and the Elgato facecam pro. Any chance of a comparison video or pros/cons on both side by side?
This camera would be very interesting for snappy shots during content on tabletops while snapping back and forth seamlessly. I could see cleanly shot TCG games recorded this way.
It's important to note what you said, that unlike other PTZ cameras, this camera does it all physically instead of digitally, is wrong. It does the "PT" (pan and tilt) physically, but zooms DIGITALLY, so exactly like other PTZ cameras. This is a physical "PT", digital "Z" camera. Definitely not as impressive as it comes off in the video, as it does NOT retain detail at higher zooms.
It zooms digitally, but unless you output 4K, that's fine, you can go to 200% as he mentions, without losing quality if you stream in 1080p. Of course if you zoom more than that in 1080p, it starts making up pixels ;)
I love this camera. Been using it for awhile. The only learning moment I had with it was that I use my hands alot while talking and it kept activating the auto follow. lol
this is incredible to be honest, but we need a comparison vid for this cam and the latest pro elgato facecam so we can decide if an extra 30$ is worth it or not especially for a content creator😀
That's what I want as well can't decide lol even though the facecam pro is out of stock everywhere but want to know if I should wait or get this one lol
We used this camera for live streaming lectures. The biggest annoyance was when it auto detects “the stop” tracking gesture. Just like what happens in your video.I want it to only track, and not be able to stop tracking. I use my hands and arms a lot when i teach. It worked superb most of the time but it would occasionally lose me.
You can manually toggle the tracking on and off without having the gestures enabled. I dont remember the hot key for it, but its one of the buttons at the bottom center of the control screen.
@@lyianx that does not seem to be the case. You can manually toggle the specific gestures on or off, but not the tracking it self. Or I’m totally looking in the wrong place.
i was waiting for you to review this, any chance of a comparison to the Elgato Facecam pro debating which one to get. Already own the original Elgato Facecam
I'd love to see an image quality comparison between this and the Elgato Facecam Pro that is identical in price, with fewer features but a higher framerate in 4k. Btw, I actually LOL'ed at the censored feet. I await the uncensored version on the Senpai Gaming channel on that other platform, the one that is only for fans =P
Been using the Insta 360 for awhile!! Its awesome!! My only complaint is I wish the keybinds worked all the time, and not only when you are clicked into the software. The minute you click back into any other software, game, etc. The keybinds don't work. Kinda defeats the purpose
Great video and detail as always! If I don't need the fancy motorised features, how does the 4K video quality of the Insta 360 compare to the Elgato Facecam Pro?
Insta360 has some kind of magic going on, their quality is excellent and their use of AI is actually intuitive and useful, not gimmicky. If I had the $$, I would probably boot my A6600 in place of this because this is much more dynamic and can handle a lot more scenarios.
This looks pretty awesome and it would be great for my cooking streams. A man $300 is a lot. Granted, it has a lot of features and the gimbal is probably worth that alone. But that doesn't mean it's any more affordable
There's a lot in here that is either misleading or just wrong. First off, cropping in does not affect the size of the sensor, depth of field, or the amount of light hitting that sensor. It will change the field of view, though, so that part is correct. You can notice in the comparison that Harris's arms are noticeably larger, proportionally, than his head. This is because at wider focal length's you get more distortion towards the edge of the frame. So objects at the top and bottom of your vertically aligned camera frame will be distorted and stretched to be larger than objects in the center. You are losing resolution, but you're going to lose that anyways since you can't stream to tiktok in 4k. So whether you're cropping from a horizontal shot or a vertical shot, the image will be compressed to 1088 on the long edge, which would be 2160 pixels on the long edge of the cropped frame. As mentioned below, it is digitally zooming and you can tell when he "memes it up" there is a drop in image quality. You would be much better off using something like the move plug in on a 4k signal that has been sized down to your canvas. That is truly lossless zoom. I bring my camera in at 4k and size it down to 1080 in obs, but if I want to "zoom" in I just use move transition to enlarge that back up. As long as you're doing it to your camera source and not the scene, you will lose no resolution. It's facetracking, which is physical and not digital, is probably about as smooth as using a facetracking filter. Also, I thought multistreaming only hurt your brand, not helped it. Could have sworn I saw that on a video on youtube... But if you are going to stream to twitch/youtube and tiktok at the same time, do you really want to have two separate cameras to do that? There are reasons to buy this camera, for sure, but don't burn wrong information in to your brain. And why is the unboxing for their 360 camera and not the webcam you're actually reviewing?
When they get the artifacting and ghosting fixed I am sure this thing will be a banger. You can see it is doing some smoothing also which is why the skin look almost photoshopped.
I know you said it works with streamdeck does insta360 have a streamdeck plugin to be able to do so and also should I just get this over a facecam pro whenever they are available again love the videos sir helped me out a lot 👍
I have a dual pc and use a go xlr and when i use this camera i just get a high pitched ring for audio. If i hook it up to just my gaming pc it works fine? Any clue as to why?
Does this camera have on board memory? We are considering using these at work, but we will never install the software on our workstations since Insta360 is a Chinese company. Can you disable the hand gestures once in software so the camera doesn’t react to them?
I have to be honest, i've been waiting on you to do a review of the insta360.... i was hoping you'd rip it apart but, but you didn't.... it looks really great.
Does it work for windows ? read some reviews from people that said they had issues with connecting to a PC desktop but when they connected it to their laptops it worked fine.. wondering if this is a thing ?
I have the insta360 link: Make sure you read the full EULA, it requires you surrender all your data to the Chinese Govt. You do not have to use their software to take advantage of the gesture controls or a.i. face tracking, but it is more limited. The official software is frustrating to use as it will simply refuse to let you turn the camera on at all. It doesnt fully crash, but if you move the window it will jump off the screen and be uninteractable, you must restart the software to get it back on the screen again; it is not fit for purpose. i tried for several hours to get it to work and maybe its my fault but it just WILL NOT WORK. it worked the first day, but now it just turns on.....rotates....then its on briefly, but shuts off the camera feed and the buttons stop responding. the official software appears to be garbage. i just use it with discord or OBS without issues via whatever windows is doing for webcam drivers; so its not a lost cause entirely. the tracking is pretty fast, you can easily move around like you see that girl doing and have all your dance moves be tracked across the stage. Its probably great for doing VR related content as well, since you cant move out of frame anymore. Do be warned to not let any mirrors into the shot, it will lock onto that image as it is also 'your face'. You can gently touch the side of the gimbal and point it directly at yourself to re-center its "this is actually your real face" a.i. tracking. overall? a solid purchase the gestures work, camera quality is great, the gimbal works as desired. but the onboard mic is not worth using unless you're desperate, the quality is not good but not terrible.
I know the chances of @Senapi Gaming responding are small but i'm a growing Art streamer on Twitch and i'm looking for a good webcam to use on my art. Right now i use the Brio and it's in 1 word AWFUL and was a waste of money when it comes to colours. I've watched many of your webcam/camera videos but i'm still not sure what would be the best pick for Art where blue is blue, purple is pruple, pink is pink and not where purple is blue, pink is red etc. My budget for a new webcam or camera is around 400,-. All tips are welcome!
can it turn all the way around? i have a large window with a great view of my city right behind my main gaming monitor, it would be super cool if it could do a 180 and look out my window for a live brb scene
I'm a little confused. You mentioned this camera 4 months ago and basically said this webcam wasn't good for most streamers/creators and it was only really useful for people doing presentations or elaborate/crazy camera work streams. Obviously anyone can change their minds, but this video didn't mention any of those things and was mostly a glowing review.
He didn't really say that exactly, what he said was this was for a niche group of *streamers* (he didn't mention creators). I can see that. I think he has since realized that youtube content creators more often will benefit from the ptz features than streamers do. In that video he was looking more for ultimate quality at lowest possible price, so he felt it could have been stripped down, which is true- would be nice with a simpler version from them. In any case, I can see strong usecases for streamers that aren't game streamers either. Look at all the people playing instruments on Omegle for instance. It's cool for them to move around and pick up instruments etc. For youtube videos, you of course have all the unboxing stuff etc, and he probably didn't think about how useful it is in education etc. I would say this current video isn't telling everyone to run out and get one either. He just likes the functionality and thinks it is cool for some people. The title isn't "The new webcam to get!" :) I ended up ordering it because I wanted an actual webcam with good image for zoom and meetings, and why these features are kinda overkill, the only competitor is Elgato Facecam Pro (in terms of picture quality), and it cost the same without any of it. I can see myself using some of the features at least, and who knows, maybe I will start content creation, lol.
