In this video I'm going to share five top tips to help you get the best image quality from your Insta360 for when you go out in your next motor ride. But before we do, this video is sponsored by Insta360. Be sure to check out the link in the description below to see what Insta360 has to offer and potentially save yourself some sweet, sweet cage. Or at least pick yourself up a free gift when using my affiliate link. Tip number one, settings. Keep it simple. With Insta360, I shoot in full auto mode. 5.7K, 30 frames, vivid color profile, auto white balance with EV set to zero. Now if you really like to grade your footage, set your color profile to log. I used to shoot in a log color profile all the time but I've recently switched to the vivid color profile, especially when using the X3. A fun of the colors are just spot on. Not just dual-beda contrast in post and that's it. Also to capture even more detail on the shadows and highlights, switch over to active HDR. It works really well and looks amazing. Just avoid using active HDR in low light conditions. Tip number two, clean your damn lens. It may sound super obvious. This is probably the most important tip because without a clean lens, no matter which settings you punch in or how epic the content is that you're capturing. Having a dirty lens with so much as a thumbprint will ruin the epic shot that you've planned so long for. Always carry the lens cloth supplied with your Insta360 wherever you go. And get in the habit of cleaning the lens every time you remove the lens guard so that you'll capture your content dust, smudge or water droplet free. If it's raining out, just be mindful that it's hardly water drop on the lens takes up a lot of screen space when watching back. It can be used as an effect to show how wet it was on your ride, but don't expect to capture your wet ride clearly. If riding in the dirt, I found that one lens gets dirtier than the other which isn't ideal. Be mindful of this and increase your lens cleaning intervals. Tip number three. Shoot at the right time of day. Most of the time this is out of a control. But if you have the option, try heading out for golden hour. Golden hour is the time roughly one hour from when the sun rises and one hour before the sun sets. The sun shines through the dust on the horizon and gives us that beautiful golden hue. In addition to this, we also get really nice long shadows which adds to the dynamic contrast. But be warned, the sun waits for nobody. Don't go chasing the sun. Be prepared. Be at your location at least half an hour before the sun is going to hit golden hour. Because once it hits golden hour, time just... It goes, man. It disappears. I've been in that boat. I think, you know, many photographers have been in that boat. You don't want to be on the boat. You have to be off that boat. You're going to be on your bike there. Prepare, ready. Setting up your shot. Having your location sorted, you're mounting position sorted, record, do a couple of laps and then you know where the sun's going to be and what what's what's sort of happening. Be prepared. Tip number 4, 4, mounting positions. I love to experiment with different mounting positions all around my bike. A general rule of thumb is if you'd like to capture the feeling of going fast while we're not actually having to go fast, mount the camera as low to the road as possible. Of course, be mindful how far you're be leaning over and they get into 360 is out of harm's way. The last thing you want to do is be leaning. You just like, yeah, man, this is super, woohoo. And then you come back and you find that you've just like ground a whole part of your lens off or even the side. I think I've even done it. I've tapped it not me this one and another one and I just hit the corner of the camera. Thank goodness. It's very easy to do that. Get carried away. Get carried away. Mount your camera up higher to capture the stunning landscape around you or to capture your buddies riding alongside you. Now the stitch line is most visible when shooting subjects within 60 centimeters or 0.9 feet. Obviously, there, Insta360 has two lenses, so this one is shooting 180 degrees here. The other one is shooting 180 degrees here. The stitch line is that part right here. The zonk. So the close you are, the more you're going to just see that little little wobble and that's the stitch line. You move it back. That stitch line pretty much disappears. To avoid the stitch line when shooting up close, face one of the Insta360 lenses directly at your subject or the area of importance. In this case, the front tire. When shooting further than 60 centimeters, try not to exceed the first two extensions on your selfie stick, especially while riding bumpy or winding roads. This will help with the inevitable wobble factor. If you're riding down a straight, somewhat smooth road, then try taking it out on a notch and maybe a notch more. Just make sure the clamp is secure enough to handle the weight. There's been many times when I've had it out and I've just gone over a little bump and it just starts going, woo, it's pushing my handle bars and it starts sliding down. If you can, and you have something to mount it to, that's the opposite way like this and then you put your clamp on it like that. So it's not going to slide down or anything, you can only go left to right, then definitely mount it at that angle. But I don't know what that would be. Maybe a mirror. Maybe the triple clamp. No, that wouldn't be, that's not big enough. Handle bar riser, maybe. If your handle bar riser is a huge, then definitely try that out. If you have like engine bars or upper engine casing bar things and one's going vertical, don't go into that, that'll work. And finally, tip five. So once we've done all this, you've cleaned your lens, you've gone out for your ride and the shoot, gold now up, bomb, bomb, bomb, mounting, everything sweet, I don't think these are the editing tip. Tip five, editing. Sado tea in smooth motion help improve the viewers experience. If you'd like to change the camera angle using keyframes, experiment with different kinds of transitions that are available, this is using the studio. My favorite is fade in, fade out as this gives an almost seamless smooth transition between angles. Use static shots as standard angles. Just because the Insta360 captures everything in a 360 degree bubble doesn't mean you need to use it all in one go. Pick one angle, set your field of view and export. Then go back and find your next angle and export and so on. To lock your riding angle, make sure to toggle on direction lock. This makes the camera angle like in the direction that you want to do without moving when you're turning corners. This is the very first thing I toggle when I import a file for editing. For maximum export quality using a map of our device, choose custom export settings and choose the highest resolution and bitrate. The highest resolution using the mobile app is 1080p which is fine for social media. To export in 4K, use the desktop studio app. Hit the export button to bring up the export settings window. Then import 3840 by 2160 into resolution manually. That's your 4K resolution. Use pro res if you're using Final Cut Pro, I hage 265 with max bitrate for everything else. Then save these settings as a preset for future use. Super handy, super good, super fun. Enjoy the editing process baby. There we have it, 5 top tips that I use that I share with everybody that needs help with Insta360 cameras. Which one is your favourite? Leave it on the comments below and I'll see you guys in next big speed. 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