Why? This is probably the worst action cam review of all time, check the " Slow camera response" OMG it takes 3secs before it starts.... how about let it on sleep mode?! I wonder if Gopro can start recording in 1sec or less.....
@@jcap8391 its a trash camera. i recommended it to my buddy and he had similar problems. ontop of that, the lens tends to get foggy in warm weathers. its not a straight up action camera. also the 1 inch is a gimmick, its a slow f stop which makes it still bad in low light and the full sensor is not being utilized.
@@truthseeker6804 I have the Rs don't know what ur talking about. Haven't had any of those problems. And why would you recommend it if it's trash lol wtf makes no sense.
I respect your opinions and totally agree that in your workflow, it might not work for you. I bought mine with my own money and I love my 1-inch edition because it solved a very specific problem I had. Which was the need to have great quality in low light from an action-camera form factor. I don’t know any other product that can do that for me. At 2000 ISO, the noise is very low, sharpness is very good, and colors look amazing. Not to mention, there’s no hideous giant highlighted lens flares that GoPros are notorious for. I film in low light very often from nightclubs to outdoor lightsaber videos. Compared to all options, this camera has been the best solution for those specific work environments. I look forward to seeing improvements. To everyone reading this, take every opinion with a grain of salt, including mine. What can be a terrible camera for one person can be a perfect camera for another.
6:37 there is an option in the menu that might solve your issue. You can long hold the record button when the camera is off and it will turn on and start recording immediately. When you’re done press record again and it will save the file and turn off.
with all respect, being owner of insta360 one R for about 6 7 month i never faced any issue of what you claiming, the camera has fast boot in the new update and you dont have close it everytime u use it , you can just leave it in sleep mode , and i agree with you regaring the activation process it took me some time as well , but in the other hand video quality was good enough for action camera
IDK everything he said was what I experienced as well. Going from the GoPro to the Insta360 I was like, wtf!! But honestly after living with it I now love it and won't go back to the gopro. You have to follow the insta360 processing platform to not hate it. My suggestion is you need a high processing phone or tablet to get this camera and don't expect to use it like a gopro. My Samsung A20 and A32 could not edit the videos. To download them into my phone, one clip took all day and in the program after it downloaded kept freezing. Not downloading into my phone was unusable. I had an older Dell laptop and same thing, I could not edit any of the videos or download because it took so long and kept freezing. I ended up purchasing an Apple iPad Pro for other purposes and everything changed after I used it to process the insta360 files. I went from hating it to loving it. I got used to the slow booting and the slow processing after you stop a video. I start the download process into my iPad and walk away for a few hours and then start editing. I find it take a while to love this camera if you're not open to change
im using it now and starting from being unable to unlock the camera is true....i emailed them and they said i should get a friends phone to activate it.....its a great concept but needs lots of work
Lots of adrenaline, mate :-) Let me tell you I have several of these cameras, and I even had some more which i sent back or sold, and they ALL had one or more issues: The VIRB360 (otherwise nice) would overheat and shut down after 10 minutes, the Nikon Keysession had bad image quality, the GoPros cannot be connected to external BT-microphones, and so on. Of the 10 or more cameras I ordered I like the INSTA360 One R the best. Is it perfect? No, it is not. But it has great image quality, it is very flexible, I can connect a Bluetooth microphone and change the lens. I like it.
I own the insta360 rs, and the 4k boost lens has the same issue. I take a step, and the camara image warps. It is unusable. When I reached out to insta360 by email, the email was rejected. A second email said I was not allowed to criticize the company. So they blocked me. A$$Holes!
I had another model and returned it due to the same issues I had with the software. It just took forever to do anything. The technology is just immature. GoPro is.no better. They still have bugs in the hardware from version 8. The current one overheats and will just turn off at random times. I am still using an old Sony action cam. At least it works.
I'm sorry to hear you've had a bad experience. I can only imagine how frustrating it was. I think you got a dud, brother. I didn't encounter any of these issues. In my opinion, the ability to alter your video in every form or fashion after the fact is one of this platforms greatest strengths. The GoPro line requires you to set your settings before recording, and then you are locked into those settings. With the Insta360 One R, you can apply different color grading, stabilization, target focus, etc - all after the action of recording. I know most pphotogs really like the 1 inch sensor, but I tend to use the 360 mod. It records everythign around it. You don't have to worry about framing, getting the perfect shot, setting your color profile, etc. You can do ALL of it in post processing. No, it's not as simple as a GoPro... but it is infinitely more powerful.
@RecoilFreak I fully agree with you. I can under Robin's frustrating experience. That's probabaly because of the wrong expection of this camera. Actually, insta360 is very different from GoPro, it records everything around you, if you stick to the old mindset, you will think it is a trouble to process it before you can get real video files, but it enables you to reframe, move the angle, or even zoom in/zoom out in the post processing which is fantastic!
you didnt encounter registering? you didnt encounter having to process the videos throuh their application?. with gopro you can have everything done in camera, or you can record in flat and edit later. so the features gopro advertises actually works standalone, not with a catch. being able to reframe in post can easily be done to anyone video, its called editing. record 4:3 in gopro and edit it. thats basically what this is doing. nothing magical here. they should provide advertised features in camera.
@@truthseeker6804 I have to say that you probably don't understand the conception that a 360 brings to you yet. It's not simply 'reframe', you can let it go the opposite direction as you were shotting. That's the power of 360. But if you don't like this feature, 360 also provides a 'normal' video function can record mp4 as other action camera do. No need to be upset.
@@bowang179 yes in 360 you can frame the opposite direction, this insta360 one R 1 inch is only recording 1 direction not 360. so this 1 inch is not a 360 camera, therefore they shouldve provided an mp4 file with all the stabilization and features advertised. 1 inch users dont need the app. i hope you get it now. yes you can record mp4 but you dont get 5k and you dont get good stabilization with horizon level as advertised. you get like a gopro 5 level of stabilization, if you want mp4 file.
I have never had any of your issues with my insta360 one r. I own three of those cameras with a couple of all available lenses and even several backbone modules to use on mft or c-mount lenses. To me this is the most reliable camera right after my sony action cams. After the last updates i even managed to continously record 4k30 for hours. This can not be done with my dji osmo action, dji action 2, gopro 10, gopro 9, sony fdr3000x or sony az1... Also switching between several cams with a single android phone works perfectly fine. I hope you were able to solve your problems.
latest firmware definitely addressed stability issues, faster start/stop, etc. Obviously, the author was using it with older firmware, plus he said that he didn't have prior experience with other action cameras, which make his opinion somewhat less objective.
It's really a shame, i have a yi sport camera, and for me the sport cameras are a gimmick. yes can register a lot of fps, but the quality presentation is totally inferior to any mft. Another problem with the sport cameras and smarphones are the exposure corrections, the sky blown and the fast changes of exposure if you rotate the camera. Sorry for you buy Robin, you saved me, i really considered to buy the insta 360 this summer, thanks to you i dodged a bullet to buy this camera.
Yes, I feel your pain. I have the insta360 one R too and yes it is more for casual use when I am out with the kids in the swimming pool and want to take a video or two. Everything needs to be planned ahead since it is not as responsive as we would like it to be. I find they the Diji osmo action more responsive to use. I think more work, it is probably not the best camera for this type of work.
for the part of noise reduction i think you are right , after facing some issues , the best solution is to leave camera to auto mode , surprisingly it works much better in that mode
I have the Insta360 One X2 and I dislike the app connection routine which is very hit and miss (though it has got better though updates since I bought it). As it's a 360 camera, I expect to have to use an app yo stitch the footage from two cameras, apply stabilisation etc. I would be livid if I had to do that with a single sensor action cam. I use my insta mostly for B-roll for my volgs, but it's far from my favourite camera and I find the software on the PC unnecessarily hard to use and it screws my workflow.
My insta 360 one r door or the rubber part area dismantled and insta360 charge me 200 dollars for this including shipping, marketing is good but the camera quality output is bad,
Well I must say I must be very lucky, I have had the 1X it worked out of the box with out any issues, I then brought the One R with 4K mod and 360 mod and it works well with no issues, I then brought the 1" Mod and it also works very well with no issues, I then then sold my 1X and brought the 1X mark II and it is amazing, I dome 360 edit on my iPad or laptop then send edited 360 to FCPX and finish the edit in there, and the issue with the 1" mod native files is an easy fix, I just changed the settings the Mpeg4 files and they can be dragged straight in to FCPX with out any issues.
Imagine you got a phone you can not install this Insta app - it got quite high specs requirements (like I do), then the activation part is really flustering ...
😂 In am late to the party here, but this was exactly my experience with the Insta360 OneR. So much unnecessary extra work if you edit on the PC. Really only ok, if you do your 60s video snippets using the phone app. One of my worst purchases so far... All the hype is in the app and the effects and they completely forgot to make it a good camera in the first place. I hope things have improved for the users of the follow up models. I might try DJI or the classic GoPro next.
the in camera stabilization still isnt as good as advertised. its basically an improvement on the previous basic in camera stabilization. not on gopro or dji level.
@@nyrubin cool. i have the action 1 and one x2. i think the x2 is probably the only worth insta360 camera. because 360 videos generally need reframing, so the app is necessary then.
omg. I have been considering buying this camera for a while but after this review and reading a couple of the comments .... no way Jose! Appreciate the candid review and several comments that endorse the findings.
Not with a GoPro, WiFi connect onto your Ipad/phone or use SD card, no processing, save in files, start editing. All the stabilising is done in camera. As to the 180 degree rule, you can’t use this format with action cameras, as they need a higher framerate (around 200 minimum) for the stabilising to work in camera. They are NOT anywhere near as good as a Proper camera. You need to accept this.
Personally I think Insta360 provided tons of fun through its AI editing and app features, through that lots of effects become feasible and the video is greatly optimized. I can see why they are doing the app activation thing so that they are encouraging amateurs to also maximize their use of this camera. I agree that the connecting and firmware updates could be annoying for some people (the process could be affected by various factors), but once you pass that I think the app is worth what it's offering.
worth it or not, some people just want to record and upload a simple mp4 video. not go through apps. go to the playstore and see many people have incompatibility issues with their phones. an advertised product should have all it functionality as advertised in the camera. not in an external software. thats deceptive.
@@truthseeker6804 What specific advertisement that you found is "deceptive", I definitely give you the benefit of the doubt, but the external app clearly expedites the editing workflow and brings more fun for the AMATEUR users. On the other hand, you can export the video pretty quickly by connecting the camera to the laptop (the classic way) Many find the app convenient for social posts actually. So if you are not up for this feature, it's pretty clear that this camera is not for you. haha. We can all enjoy different stuff.
@@britneyforever fun? more like pain. and an amateur should have it more easier to use, give them mp4, done. they already have editing to do. this makes the editing process twice in two apps, two exports. deceptive because the camera is advertised as 5k, yet the 5k is only if youre going to use their app, otherwise in basic mode you only get 4k with crappy stabilization, not the stabilization they advertised. also pray your phone is compatible with their app. i blame mostly paid reviewers who gloss over the extra process and registration to get a simple video. if they emphasized it more, he wouldnt have bought this garbage. whilst all other action cameras you record done, you have the video you can edit as you want later or just post as is.
@@britneyforever shouldnt NEED an app to record. If your on the ski hill, should be able to just hit a button and go. Its an ACTION camera. If I have to take out my 1k+ cellphone in -25c in 3 feet of powder then not interested.
Dude!!! I bought this camera a few weeks ago and it just sucks. It won't stay on for more than 5 minutes. I am so disappointed. why can't it just record videos without overheating and dying. I wish I had seen this before I bought mine.
I guess you didn't have a gopro that overheats=powers off=stops being a camera. So yeah, it's about perspective and which cameras you tried before. No matter the features, a camera that shuts down cannot be trusted and certainly not be called an action camera.
Insta's having to register the camera is a pain in the ass. I had the same issues with my Insta Go - And my phone was too old to activate the camera so I had to try 3 phones before one would work with it. Absolutely annoying as hell.
I've had 5 insta360 cameras and have had NONE of these issues. The app crashes from time to time, but it's not worth getting upset about. Seems like you just got a lemon. It's not a reason to trash the whole company.
Why you don't use stabilizer? If you use stabilizer, Feiyu Tech G6 for example, you csn turn off flowstate stabilization and image looks more clean, without noise.
Wow RW that's the best review ever I saw 😂😂😂, luckily I didn't buy the 1". Thanks bro for your honest review. Im using GoPro10 and Insta360 One R I prefer GoPro unless I want 360 👏👏👏👏
Hi Robin, we met before in JB for Olympus Macro event. Understand your frustration . I am using DJI pocket 2 creator pack. Great stuff no need of another Software to “code”. Straight out of the footage. By the way, this is THE STANDARD workflow for most “action” cameras. GoPro, insta and DJI action. DJI action 2 launched today, is another similar to Insta360 action workflow and there are overheating issue as well, beware.
Thank you for this video. Iam considering getting a action camera gopro10. But the 360 module really is very attractive has i love the versatility of the insta 360 twin edition. But now i much rather get the gopro 10 and get a second hand gopro max.. Iam familiar with gopro including there app. So decision is made..But you are right about the you-tubers online. Claiming not to be affiliated. Money makes the world go round. All the youtube clips are swearing by the Insta 360. All. Thank god i came upon your video. Iam very inpatient and spending that kind of money and getting those kind of problems would not have been good.
If you want a 360 camera the gopro MAX is a point and shoot device with good video in auto. As all 360 cameras there is a double editing process. The Gopro has a excellent built in mic too.
I’m sorry you had all these issues with your Insta360 One R 1, I don’t own the R1 but I do have the Insta360 One X2 360 camera, so I do know about processing the files to add the stabilization in post, but I mostly use the app for this. And as far as getting motion blur on any of these action cameras, good luck with that. I think your only hope would to mount it on a tripod, and turn everything off in settings. The one inch helps out in lowlight, but the image stabilization doesn’t work well in the lowlight, so to really benefit from the larger sensor you need to mount the camera in lowlight situations. So I’m really sure the one inch sensor it worth the extra costs over other actions cameras, or even hand handle gimbal cameras such as the OSMO Mobile. Thanks for your honest experience with this camera, most reviews make it sound like the greatest camera everl
The update process on this garbage is a HUGE pain in the ass. Tried for HOURS (unsuccesfully), gave up, and sold it to someone willing to take he time to deal with it. INSTA360, NEVER AGAIN. Back to the (slightly less) buggy GoPro for me .
Wait until you take this camera on a trip, and somewhere in the middle of the mountains with no reception, it will suddenly refuse to work unless you update firmware, although this firmware worked just fine yesterday. Happened to me with my Insta360 One X. Insta360 products have a terrible user experience, essentially they make you feel small, and keep reminding you that you do not own what you paid for.
Wow! What junk. Glad you posted this, as I was looking into buying one. I'm going to pass on the whole action cam thing. They seem to be a waste of time in general. Think I'm going to get a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema & be careful with it. Thanks for the heads up! Regards!
When I started looking for a vlogging camera, I did look at the 360 One R but I discounted it as it was too new and there was a lack of 'real life' reviews/tests on TH-cam so I opted for the Osmo Pocket instead. It seems that I did well to avoid it. Good luck in getting your problems resolved.
These smaller and younger start-up-y Chinese companies don't have a lot of experience or day-to-day focus on optimizing the international users' experience.
This is truly absurd and had me laughing so much. This video is like a brilliant comedy sketch lol. Something like that should not happen in this age. It should be usable out if the box.
KUDOS! FINALLY! A TH-camr with over 30,000K SUBS who actually gives an HONEST (which could mean NEGATIVE) REVIEW! The insta360 One X2 was MY WORST PURCHASE OF A CAMERA EVER....Battery life is horrible, SO SLOW to startup constantly missed THE ACTION....App is horrible footage isnt that great, it takes FOREVER to import and handle...BUT WORST OF ALL....if you scratch one of those lenses doing "action cam" things like mounting the camera somewhere cool and it drops, or falling while snowbaroding.....once that lens is scratched the footage is ruined and the camera is ruined and you need to pay $200 and send it back to CHINA to get it fixed! I live in the US, that took over a month....so I paid $600 for this camera, didnt have it for a month, got it back, had it for a month and the lenses scratched again. Im done. All the other TH-camrs out there are SENT this camera for FREE, so they dont give a shit if it scratches....but if you have to pay $400 for this thing.....you are going to be pissed if you take it snowboarding and it scratches and your footage is and camera are ruined.
I,m sorry even the Pro cameras and camacorders like Sony Panasonic, JVC, Canon has a Firmware update i have Sony PMW 100 so i get update firmware twice and all this cameras and camacorders need update so if you don,t like to make this update or you don,t like to read the manual this tehnology is not for you. ALWAYS READ THE MANUAL.!!!!
Hi, When you said double up after the 1/50 shutter. Did you mean that you will do 25p and choose any shutter speed above 1/50 like 1/250 or 1/500 or do you stay on 1/50? or was the double up putting on the ND filter? Sorry i'm not used the technical details
Thanks for sharing..i do have a insta360 x3 now..yes..the software requires you to do the edit one by one before you can export it out for editing elsewhere. I find this extremely dumb as well.STupid to the max. If not u can do the merging and editing of different clips on your mobile. BUT that comes with a downside on the quality of the video. Alternatively I think you can also use their insta360 plugin for premier pro. Or what I found out now is that I can import it directly to davinci resolve using some 3rd party plugins as well. Video resolution isnt that great. I believe their insta line of camera suit best for people like me..causual shooting person. :D not a pro. I wasnt that happy with the quality of the video when I first got it. But I guess it still suits my use case so i still playing around with it. Anyhow it has only been with me for past 2-3 months ,still new to it Anyway at this point of writing u might already sold your insta...haha...cheers
Had Gopro 10 and bought this one with 1 inch and the 360 mode and never had a problem. It actually starts faster than the gopro. But lime in always you will have people that like and don t like.
thanks a lot for the advices sr Robin. Im going to buy a camera, but saw it and i dont be sure about buy it now, i have aprox 700usd$ for buy a camera, i just need a camera that lefme take video quick. thanks
Should have bought the 1st version of DJI Osmo Action camera. Much faster and easier for video/photo editing. And just think, I was almost tempted by Insta360 system. Thanks for posting this review.
We've had a Pocket Osmo for quite a while and my daughters even took it to London for a student exchange program. Zero issues and certainly nothing on par with everything you've had happen with this camera. Thank you for sharing such direct and honest thoughts. I'm sorry for the money wasted on this product though!
@@truthseeker6804 I've had two pockets but both of them broke in less than 2 years. The first one I dropped. The second one just got old and packed up. The gimbal head is weak. So I'm looking for a more rugged camera now.
i am suffering these same connection issues now i have recently bought the insta 360 rs silly me and i can not for the life of me connect this camera to the app so its useless when it gets to connecting to wifi all i get is connection error please restart camera and try again or go to wifi setting and connect to camera from there well the wifi signal doesnt come up . so maybe a firmware issue i plugged it into my pc and it says it an unrecognizable device and there is no option on the device to upgrade firmware i bought this directly from the insta 360 website no support no idea of how to return this piece of junk
What is disappointing about the Insta and GoPro is that most retailers do not have demonstration cameras for would be buyers to touch, feel and see whether they meet the requirements of the buyers. Only DJI offers demonstration cameras in their outlets to try out before buying. It's a lot of money to buy something based just on reviews particularly on TH-cam. Come on Insta and GoPro, you can do better. Perhaps it's better to buy from Amazon that allows return and refund if the buyer is not satisfied.
I thought long and hard before buying the one RS. Started out things were good than for no reason it stopped connecting to my phone. Now i regret ever buying it.
As rude as it may sound it seems, looks and sounds like it's a piece of s"%$, I double-checked your zoo video and I still get a headache from that shimmering. Maybe consider Sony action cams, they seem to be better built and functional (though they are underdeveloped and underupgraded compared to their other cameras, not sure why Sony is so lazy with them). Sony also has a 1-inch action camera as well. I shall endeavor to keep this product and brand in mind if it ever comes up in any conversation, advise people to save their money and not touch them at all). (If you can't return it maybe you can use it indoors on a tripod for video).
your expectations are too high for an action camera. It will never be what you want it to be so its really pointless to create all the negatives you believe. I myself have not any issues for the uses I used it for and ys Im a 20 year pro at video and photo.
I wish i had seen this review before I bought it a year a go
How so ? Its that bad? I mean they released the new one , RS . Seems better , atleast on yt :D
Why? This is probably the worst action cam review of all time, check the " Slow camera response" OMG it takes 3secs before it starts.... how about let it on sleep mode?! I wonder if Gopro can start recording in 1sec or less.....
@@sileniu The Rs is a beast. Don't let one bad reviewer prevent you from purchasing it.
@@jcap8391 its a trash camera. i recommended it to my buddy and he had similar problems. ontop of that, the lens tends to get foggy in warm weathers. its not a straight up action camera. also the 1 inch is a gimmick, its a slow f stop which makes it still bad in low light and the full sensor is not being utilized.
@@truthseeker6804 I have the Rs don't know what ur talking about. Haven't had any of those problems. And why would you recommend it if it's trash lol wtf makes no sense.
30 seconds in, and I must say, I have never seen anyone so excited to tell their disappointment over some product 🤣
I respect your opinions and totally agree that in your workflow, it might not work for you. I bought mine with my own money and I love my 1-inch edition because it solved a very specific problem I had. Which was the need to have great quality in low light from an action-camera form factor. I don’t know any other product that can do that for me. At 2000 ISO, the noise is very low, sharpness is very good, and colors look amazing. Not to mention, there’s no hideous giant highlighted lens flares that GoPros are notorious for. I film in low light very often from nightclubs to outdoor lightsaber videos. Compared to all options, this camera has been the best solution for those specific work environments. I look forward to seeing improvements. To everyone reading this, take every opinion with a grain of salt, including mine. What can be a terrible camera for one person can be a perfect camera for another.
that's good to know. Thanks
I wish all reviews were critical like this.
Knowing the shortcomings of a camera is *always* more informative than anything else.
6:37 there is an option in the menu that might solve your issue.
You can long hold the record button when the camera is off and it will turn on and start recording immediately.
When you’re done press record again and it will save the file and turn off.
with all respect, being owner of insta360 one R for about 6 7 month i never faced any issue of what you claiming, the camera has fast boot in the new update and you dont have close it everytime u use it , you can just leave it in sleep mode , and i agree with you regaring the activation process it took me some time as well , but in the other hand video quality was good enough for action camera
IDK everything he said was what I experienced as well. Going from the GoPro to the Insta360 I was like, wtf!! But honestly after living with it I now love it and won't go back to the gopro. You have to follow the insta360 processing platform to not hate it. My suggestion is you need a high processing phone or tablet to get this camera and don't expect to use it like a gopro. My Samsung A20 and A32 could not edit the videos. To download them into my phone, one clip took all day and in the program after it downloaded kept freezing. Not downloading into my phone was unusable. I had an older Dell laptop and same thing, I could not edit any of the videos or download because it took so long and kept freezing. I ended up purchasing an Apple iPad Pro for other purposes and everything changed after I used it to process the insta360 files. I went from hating it to loving it. I got used to the slow booting and the slow processing after you stop a video. I start the download process into my iPad and walk away for a few hours and then start editing. I find it take a while to love this camera if you're not open to change
im using it now and starting from being unable to unlock the camera is true....i emailed them and they said i should get a friends phone to activate it.....its a great concept but needs lots of work
@@r1sabotage thanks for the encouragement i own an A20
@@Kamikaze_godcast 🤣🤣😂
Yes i have insta 360 one r too and its perfect gopro is trash
Good timing. You helped me dodge a bullet as I'm shopping for an action camera.
Same
Beware of overheating in DJI action 2.
Lol me too
Lots of adrenaline, mate :-) Let me tell you I have several of these cameras, and I even had some more which i sent back or sold, and they ALL had one or more issues: The VIRB360 (otherwise nice) would overheat and shut down after 10 minutes, the Nikon Keysession had bad image quality, the GoPros cannot be connected to external BT-microphones, and so on. Of the 10 or more cameras I ordered I like the INSTA360 One R the best. Is it perfect? No, it is not. But it has great image quality, it is very flexible, I can connect a Bluetooth microphone and change the lens. I like it.
Caveat emptor: 'let the buyer beware': you made the purchasing mistake so we don't have to...thanks for the review.
Maybe we owe Robin more than just a coffee for this one? How about a steak dinner. :D
thank you for sharing, now i will go to go pro hero 10 now.
I hit like on your video because you are the happiest complainer I've ever seen!
Insta is over priced crap
Insta get u to register it to activate it to sell your details
I own the insta360 rs, and the 4k boost lens has the same issue. I take a step, and the camara image warps. It is unusable.
When I reached out to insta360 by email, the email was rejected. A second email said I was not allowed to criticize the company. So they blocked me.
A$$Holes!
I had another model and returned it due to the same issues I had with the software. It just took forever to do anything. The technology is just immature. GoPro is.no better. They still have bugs in the hardware from version 8. The current one overheats and will just turn off at random times.
I am still using an old Sony action cam. At least it works.
Ouch-that was certainly a full house of hair-tearing problems. Thank you for the brave and honest review.
Thanks for the heads-up Robin. Sounds like you had a inaction camera. That video output reminds me of my first smartphone from 2009!
I'm sorry to hear you've had a bad experience. I can only imagine how frustrating it was. I think you got a dud, brother. I didn't encounter any of these issues. In my opinion, the ability to alter your video in every form or fashion after the fact is one of this platforms greatest strengths. The GoPro line requires you to set your settings before recording, and then you are locked into those settings. With the Insta360 One R, you can apply different color grading, stabilization, target focus, etc - all after the action of recording. I know most pphotogs really like the 1 inch sensor, but I tend to use the 360 mod. It records everythign around it. You don't have to worry about framing, getting the perfect shot, setting your color profile, etc. You can do ALL of it in post processing. No, it's not as simple as a GoPro... but it is infinitely more powerful.
You should try x2. Not bad. No complains on the quality.
@RecoilFreak I fully agree with you. I can under Robin's frustrating experience. That's probabaly because of the wrong expection of this camera. Actually, insta360 is very different from GoPro, it records everything around you, if you stick to the old mindset, you will think it is a trouble to process it before you can get real video files, but it enables you to reframe, move the angle, or even zoom in/zoom out in the post processing which is fantastic!
you didnt encounter registering? you didnt encounter having to process the videos throuh their application?. with gopro you can have everything done in camera, or you can record in flat and edit later. so the features gopro advertises actually works standalone, not with a catch. being able to reframe in post can easily be done to anyone video, its called editing. record 4:3 in gopro and edit it. thats basically what this is doing. nothing magical here. they should provide advertised features in camera.
@@truthseeker6804 I have to say that you probably don't understand the conception that a 360 brings to you yet. It's not simply 'reframe', you can let it go the opposite direction as you were shotting. That's the power of 360. But if you don't like this feature, 360 also provides a 'normal' video function can record mp4 as other action camera do. No need to be upset.
@@bowang179 yes in 360 you can frame the opposite direction, this insta360 one R 1 inch is only recording 1 direction not 360. so this 1 inch is not a 360 camera, therefore they shouldve provided an mp4 file with all the stabilization and features advertised. 1 inch users dont need the app. i hope you get it now. yes you can record mp4 but you dont get 5k and you dont get good stabilization with horizon level as advertised. you get like a gopro 5 level of stabilization, if you want mp4 file.
I have never had any of your issues with my insta360 one r. I own three of those cameras with a couple of all available lenses and even several backbone modules to use on mft or c-mount lenses. To me this is the most reliable camera right after my sony action cams. After the last updates i even managed to continously record 4k30 for hours. This can not be done with my dji osmo action, dji action 2, gopro 10, gopro 9, sony fdr3000x or sony az1...
Also switching between several cams with a single android phone works perfectly fine.
I hope you were able to solve your problems.
latest firmware definitely addressed stability issues, faster start/stop, etc. Obviously, the author was using it with older firmware, plus he said that he didn't have prior experience with other action cameras, which make his opinion somewhat less objective.
You didn’t answer any of his issues.
It's really a shame, i have a yi sport camera, and for me the sport cameras are a gimmick. yes can register a lot of fps, but the quality presentation is totally inferior to any mft. Another problem with the sport cameras and smarphones are the exposure corrections, the sky blown and the fast changes of exposure if you rotate the camera. Sorry for you buy Robin, you saved me, i really considered to buy the insta 360 this summer, thanks to you i dodged a bullet to buy this camera.
Yes, I feel your pain. I have the insta360 one R too and yes it is more for casual use when I am out with the kids in the swimming pool and want to take a video or two. Everything needs to be planned ahead since it is not as responsive as we would like it to be. I find they the Diji osmo action more responsive to use. I think more work, it is probably not the best camera for this type of work.
for the part of noise reduction i think you are right , after facing some issues , the best solution is to leave camera to auto mode , surprisingly it works much better in that mode
I have the Insta360 One X2 and I dislike the app connection routine which is very hit and miss (though it has got better though updates since I bought it). As it's a 360 camera, I expect to have to use an app yo stitch the footage from two cameras, apply stabilisation etc. I would be livid if I had to do that with a single sensor action cam. I use my insta mostly for B-roll for my volgs, but it's far from my favourite camera and I find the software on the PC unnecessarily hard to use and it screws my workflow.
My insta 360 one r door or the rubber part area dismantled and insta360 charge me 200 dollars for this including shipping, marketing is good but the camera quality output is bad,
Well I must say I must be very lucky, I have had the 1X it worked out of the box with out any issues, I then brought the One R with 4K mod and 360 mod and it works well with no issues, I then brought the 1" Mod and it also works very well with no issues, I then then sold my 1X and brought the 1X mark II and it is amazing, I dome 360 edit on my iPad or laptop then send edited 360 to FCPX and finish the edit in there, and the issue with the 1" mod native files is an easy fix, I just changed the settings the Mpeg4 files and they can be dragged straight in to FCPX with out any issues.
I love this camera. I never had any of these problems.
Imagine you got a phone you can not install this Insta app - it got quite high specs requirements (like I do), then the activation part is really flustering ...
😂 In am late to the party here, but this was exactly my experience with the Insta360 OneR. So much unnecessary extra work if you edit on the PC. Really only ok, if you do your 60s video snippets using the phone app. One of my worst purchases so far... All the hype is in the app and the effects and they completely forgot to make it a good camera in the first place.
I hope things have improved for the users of the follow up models.
I might try DJI or the classic GoPro next.
Thanks, Robin, I have been contemplating buying this camera. Perhaps I put that out of my consideration now.
Great Review, and Great Information!! Thank You Robin!!
“This video is not sponsored. Insta360 did not pay me to say how terrible their cameras is” 😂
New software update has in body flow state stabilization now. But! The video quality will more than likely be same lol
the in camera stabilization still isnt as good as advertised. its basically an improvement on the previous basic in camera stabilization. not on gopro or dji level.
@@truthseeker6804 I sold mine after only having it for two weeks smh. Love the action 2 though
@@nyrubin cool. i have the action 1 and one x2. i think the x2 is probably the only worth insta360 camera. because 360 videos generally need reframing, so the app is necessary then.
you don't like it then?
GoPro10 much better
omg. I have been considering buying this camera for a while but after this review and reading a couple of the comments .... no way Jose! Appreciate the candid review and several comments that endorse the findings.
Wanna sell it?
Not with a GoPro, WiFi connect onto your Ipad/phone or use SD card, no processing, save in files, start editing. All the stabilising is done in camera.
As to the 180 degree rule, you can’t use this format with action cameras, as they need a higher framerate (around 200 minimum) for the stabilising to work in camera. They are NOT anywhere near as good as a Proper camera. You need to accept this.
Personally I think Insta360 provided tons of fun through its AI editing and app features, through that lots of effects become feasible and the video is greatly optimized. I can see why they are doing the app activation thing so that they are encouraging amateurs to also maximize their use of this camera. I agree that the connecting and firmware updates could be annoying for some people (the process could be affected by various factors), but once you pass that I think the app is worth what it's offering.
worth it or not, some people just want to record and upload a simple mp4 video. not go through apps. go to the playstore and see many people have incompatibility issues with their phones. an advertised product should have all it functionality as advertised in the camera. not in an external software. thats deceptive.
@@truthseeker6804 What specific advertisement that you found is "deceptive", I definitely give you the benefit of the doubt, but the external app clearly expedites the editing workflow and brings more fun for the AMATEUR users. On the other hand, you can export the video pretty quickly by connecting the camera to the laptop (the classic way) Many find the app convenient for social posts actually. So if you are not up for this feature, it's pretty clear that this camera is not for you. haha. We can all enjoy different stuff.
@@britneyforever fun? more like pain. and an amateur should have it more easier to use, give them mp4, done. they already have editing to do. this makes the editing process twice in two apps, two exports. deceptive because the camera is advertised as 5k, yet the 5k is only if youre going to use their app, otherwise in basic mode you only get 4k with crappy stabilization, not the stabilization they advertised. also pray your phone is compatible with their app.
i blame mostly paid reviewers who gloss over the extra process and registration to get a simple video. if they emphasized it more, he wouldnt have bought this garbage. whilst all other action cameras you record done, you have the video you can edit as you want later or just post as is.
@@britneyforever shouldnt NEED an app to record. If your on the ski hill, should be able to just hit a button and go. Its an ACTION camera. If I have to take out my 1k+ cellphone in -25c in 3 feet of powder then not interested.
Dude!!! I bought this camera a few weeks ago and it just sucks. It won't stay on for more than 5 minutes. I am so disappointed. why can't it just record videos without overheating and dying. I wish I had seen this before I bought mine.
I guess you didn't have a gopro that overheats=powers off=stops being a camera. So yeah, it's about perspective and which cameras you tried before.
No matter the features, a camera that shuts down cannot be trusted and certainly not be called an action camera.
thanks enjoyed, why i research first, decide last
Insta's having to register the camera is a pain in the ass. I had the same issues with my Insta Go - And my phone was too old to activate the camera so I had to try 3 phones before one would work with it. Absolutely annoying as hell.
I've had 5 insta360 cameras and have had NONE of these issues. The app crashes from time to time, but it's not worth getting upset about. Seems like you just got a lemon. It's not a reason to trash the whole company.
the export is for sure another step , but exporting is really very fast ( few seconds) , unless you activated the color plus option
Why you don't use stabilizer? If you use stabilizer, Feiyu Tech G6 for example, you csn turn off flowstate stabilization and image looks more clean, without noise.
Wow RW that's the best review ever I saw 😂😂😂, luckily I didn't buy the 1". Thanks bro for your honest review.
Im using GoPro10 and Insta360 One R I prefer GoPro unless I want 360 👏👏👏👏
Hi Robin, we met before in JB for Olympus Macro event. Understand your frustration . I am using DJI pocket 2 creator pack. Great stuff no need of another Software to “code”. Straight out of the footage.
By the way, this is THE STANDARD workflow for most “action” cameras.
GoPro, insta and DJI action.
DJI action 2 launched today, is another similar to Insta360 action workflow and there are overheating issue as well, beware.
Thank you for this video. Iam considering getting a action camera gopro10. But the 360 module really is very attractive has i love the versatility of the insta 360 twin edition. But now i much rather get the gopro 10 and get a second hand gopro max.. Iam familiar with gopro including there app. So decision is made..But you are right about the you-tubers online. Claiming not to be affiliated. Money makes the world go round. All the youtube clips are swearing by the Insta 360. All. Thank god i came upon your video. Iam very inpatient and spending that kind of money and getting those kind of problems would not have been good.
If you want a 360 camera the gopro MAX is a point and shoot device with good video in auto. As all 360 cameras there is a double editing process. The Gopro has a excellent built in mic too.
I’m sorry you had all these issues with your Insta360 One R 1, I don’t own the R1 but I do have the Insta360 One X2 360 camera, so I do know about processing the files to add the stabilization in post, but I mostly use the app for this. And as far as getting motion blur on any of these action cameras, good luck with that. I think your only hope would to mount it on a tripod, and turn everything off in settings. The one inch helps out in lowlight, but the image stabilization doesn’t work well in the lowlight, so to really benefit from the larger sensor you need to mount the camera in lowlight situations. So I’m really sure the one inch sensor it worth the extra costs over other actions cameras, or even hand handle gimbal cameras such as the OSMO Mobile. Thanks for your honest experience with this camera, most reviews make it sound like the greatest camera everl
Makes me happy about my GoPro Hero10 choice. Although, it's far from perfect, it doesn't sound as bad as the Insta360.
Wow...What a controlling mindset with Insta360. Very disrespectful towards a paying customer.. thanks for your review.!!!
Damn, you just saved my a lot of Japanese Yens... No, the question is should I go with DJI or GoPro...
The update process on this garbage is a HUGE pain in the ass. Tried for HOURS (unsuccesfully), gave up, and sold it to someone willing to take he time to deal with it. INSTA360, NEVER AGAIN. Back to the (slightly less) buggy GoPro for me .
I was considering then, this video. WTF with the camera lock thing, I can´t belive this is true.
Wait until you take this camera on a trip, and somewhere in the middle of the mountains with no reception, it will suddenly refuse to work unless you update firmware, although this firmware worked just fine yesterday. Happened to me with my Insta360 One X. Insta360 products have a terrible user experience, essentially they make you feel small, and keep reminding you that you do not own what you paid for.
Wow! What junk. Glad you posted this, as I was looking into buying one. I'm going to pass on the whole action cam thing. They seem to be a waste of time in general. Think I'm going to get a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema & be careful with it. Thanks for the heads up! Regards!
Thank goodness I saw this before making any purchase.
When I started looking for a vlogging camera, I did look at the 360 One R but I discounted it as it was too new and there was a lack of 'real life' reviews/tests on TH-cam so I opted for the Osmo Pocket instead. It seems that I did well to avoid it. Good luck in getting your problems resolved.
it's a great camera.
1” sensor but f3.2 lens what is the point!? Not real advantage in dark 😢
These smaller and younger start-up-y Chinese companies don't have a lot of experience or day-to-day focus on optimizing the international users' experience.
I whanted to upgrade my virb ultra 30 but the video artifacts here left me frozen.
This is truly absurd and had me laughing so much. This video is like a brilliant comedy sketch lol.
Something like that should not happen in this age. It should be usable out if the box.
KUDOS! FINALLY! A TH-camr with over 30,000K SUBS who actually gives an HONEST (which could mean NEGATIVE) REVIEW! The insta360 One X2 was MY WORST PURCHASE OF A CAMERA EVER....Battery life is horrible, SO SLOW to startup constantly missed THE ACTION....App is horrible footage isnt that great, it takes FOREVER to import and handle...BUT WORST OF ALL....if you scratch one of those lenses doing "action cam" things like mounting the camera somewhere cool and it drops, or falling while snowbaroding.....once that lens is scratched the footage is ruined and the camera is ruined and you need to pay $200 and send it back to CHINA to get it fixed! I live in the US, that took over a month....so I paid $600 for this camera, didnt have it for a month, got it back, had it for a month and the lenses scratched again. Im done. All the other TH-camrs out there are SENT this camera for FREE, so they dont give a shit if it scratches....but if you have to pay $400 for this thing.....you are going to be pissed if you take it snowboarding and it scratches and your footage is and camera are ruined.
I,m sorry even the Pro cameras and camacorders like Sony Panasonic, JVC, Canon has a Firmware update i have Sony PMW 100 so i get update firmware twice and all this cameras and camacorders need update so if you don,t like to make this update or you don,t like to read the manual this tehnology is not for you. ALWAYS READ THE MANUAL.!!!!
I wonder how many of theese quircks where fixed in the RX version...
Hi, When you said double up after the 1/50 shutter. Did you mean that you will do 25p and choose any shutter speed above 1/50 like 1/250 or 1/500 or do you stay on 1/50? or was the double up putting on the ND filter? Sorry i'm not used the technical details
Thanks for sharing..i do have a insta360 x3 now..yes..the software requires you to do the edit one by one before you can export it out for editing elsewhere. I find this extremely dumb as well.STupid to the max. If not u can do the merging and editing of different clips on your mobile. BUT that comes with a downside on the quality of the video.
Alternatively I think you can also use their insta360 plugin for premier pro. Or what I found out now is that I can import it directly to davinci resolve using some 3rd party plugins as well.
Video resolution isnt that great.
I believe their insta line of camera suit best for people like me..causual shooting person. :D not a pro.
I wasnt that happy with the quality of the video when I first got it. But I guess it still suits my use case so i still playing around with it. Anyhow it has only been with me for past 2-3 months ,still new to it
Anyway at this point of writing u might already sold your insta...haha...cheers
Experienced absolutely NONE of those issues you had 🐵😊. Maybe "bad workman quarrels with his tools"... Click bait title more like 😐?
I agree with this review, this model its a junk … made me missing GOPRO. DONT WAST YOUR TIME AND MONEY on this trash equipment.
Had Gopro 10 and bought this one with 1 inch and the 360 mode and never had a problem. It actually starts faster than the gopro. But lime in always you will have people that like and don t like.
thanks a lot for the advices sr Robin. Im going to buy a camera, but saw it and i dont be sure about buy it now, i have aprox 700usd$ for buy a camera, i just need a camera that lefme take video quick. thanks
Should have bought the 1st version of DJI Osmo Action camera. Much faster and easier for video/photo editing. And just think, I was almost tempted by Insta360 system. Thanks for posting this review.
Planning to get the ace pro and your video is helpful in giving me an idea if the insta360 ecosystem is for me.
I hate the video quality of ALL action cams, excluding the Sony Rx0
After he said its the worse, so I immediately skip the video
Excited because of Leica lens
And saw this video..
And Rethink
We've had a Pocket Osmo for quite a while and my daughters even took it to London for a student exchange program. Zero issues and certainly nothing on par with everything you've had happen with this camera. Thank you for sharing such direct and honest thoughts. I'm sorry for the money wasted on this product though!
pocket also needs activation. ive got it btw. so dji needs to also stop that. aside that pocket is a good camera.
@@truthseeker6804 I've had two pockets but both of them broke in less than 2 years. The first one I dropped. The second one just got old and packed up. The gimbal head is weak. So I'm looking for a more rugged camera now.
@@Astrobiscuit pocket is for vlogging, its not a rugged camera.
If they need beta testers like us they shouldn't ask for such a high price. WTF. So many problems to that much money. I would sue them if I were you.
I think they shipped you the #Chillout version. It slows your pace of life down and you live longer. embrace it.
Agreed Robin. From The Hindu Republic of India 🇮🇳
Thanks. Almost chose this camera over the gopro hero 10.
i am suffering these same connection issues now i have recently bought the insta 360 rs silly me and i can not for the life of me connect this camera to the app so its useless when it gets to connecting to wifi all i get is connection error please restart camera and try again or go to wifi setting and connect to camera from there well the wifi signal doesnt come up . so maybe a firmware issue i plugged it into my pc and it says it an unrecognizable device and there is no option on the device to upgrade firmware i bought this directly from the insta 360 website no support no idea of how to return this piece of junk
What is disappointing about the Insta and GoPro is that most retailers do not have demonstration cameras for would be buyers to touch, feel and see whether they meet the requirements of the buyers. Only DJI offers demonstration cameras in their outlets to try out before buying. It's a lot of money to buy something based just on reviews particularly on TH-cam. Come on Insta and GoPro, you can do better. Perhaps it's better to buy from Amazon that allows return and refund if the buyer is not satisfied.
I thought long and hard before buying the one RS. Started out things were good than for no reason it stopped connecting to my phone. Now i regret ever buying it.
As rude as it may sound it seems, looks and sounds like it's a piece of s"%$, I double-checked your zoo video and I still get a headache from that shimmering. Maybe consider Sony action cams, they seem to be better built and functional (though they are underdeveloped and underupgraded compared to their other cameras, not sure why Sony is so lazy with them). Sony also has a 1-inch action camera as well. I shall endeavor to keep this product and brand in mind if it ever comes up in any conversation, advise people to save their money and not touch them at all). (If you can't return it maybe you can use it indoors on a tripod for video).
Tnx i dont buy this one. Im waiting of the GoPro 13
your expectations are too high for an action camera. It will never be what you want it to be so its really pointless to create all the negatives you believe. I myself have not any issues for the uses I used it for and ys Im a 20 year pro at video and photo.
No hard feelings. You are wrong , this insta360 is very very good!
Seems buggy but all the action cams have bugs. I have the dji 2 and it's a little buggy but I love it.
My GoPro Hero 4 Black sounded a million times better.
Wake me up when 360 cameras are 8k or greater. The footage looks horrible once framed due to lack of resolution.
How much other brans pay for this review ?
I already have third return 😁 it's really terrible device 👎 many issues ...
ooo wow thank you.... thats why in facebook marketplace people selling this camera so cheap
камеру 360 стоит покупать только ради обзора 360 остальные модули полное дерьмо
Has this guy ever used technology before? Never have I heard of any issues before and this guy clearly doesn’t read instructions
my problem on my 1inch insta360 one R is taking slow on taking photos it takes 5 to 8 seconds 😢😢😢
I have to give a thumbup to this super honest review. Good job!
just from his expression i knew it was really bad impression about insta 360 one r
wow, want some cheese with all that wine?
Weird that you said you have to connect to phone before activate the camera, it never happen to me at all