RACERENDER 360FLY SOFTWARE
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This software can also be used to export your raw or edited 360 videos for use in other editing software as well. If you do not take care to manage this space, then multiple edits will produce multiple backup files, and these can be huge. ThereвЂ™s a single вЂњdatabaseвЂќ file which contains all of the videos and photos you have uploaded, but when you edit individual videos, a backup copy is saved outside of that database. 360 DirectorвЂ™s data management is not very well thought out.

The software has very minimal editing capabilities, and if you arenвЂ™t careful, you will run out of disk space in a big hurry. On your laptop, thereвЂ™s an application (360 Director) for editing and uploading the videos captured from the camera, but it is primarily intended for users who donвЂ™t plan to do very much editing before they share things. If you are NOT interleaving this video with any others, then the higher frame rate wonвЂ™t in practice make much difference, but I am doing telemetry overlays and picture-in-picture, so using matching frame rates makes my life a bit simpler. This is something I will never need to do, and since I shoot everything else at either 30 fps (29.97 fps, in reality) or 60 fps, I had to be sure I changed the default resolution. For example, by default, the device will shoot 4K video 24 fps and it is only with the slower frame rate that you can watch the video live on the smartphone. I encountered a couple of them, and had to perform several factory resets while getting the device setup the way I wanted, and it was not a fun process to perfect. This device is a relatively new hardware product, and that inevitably means that there will be firmware bugs.

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WhatвЂ™s one more button to push? You have to use the smartphone app to configure the device, and I found it to be fairly clumsy.ДЇor starters, the phone communicates with the device by both WiFi and Bluetooth, and be warned that if you find that you need to perform a factory reset and start over, you will need to be sure to tell your smartphone to forget about both the WiFi network and the Bluetooth connection, or you will struggle to get it reconfigured. The smartphone application is also used to control the device remotely, for example to start/stop recording without physically touching the device, but since I have 8 cameras attached to my car (yes, I have gone a bit overboard) IвЂ™ve got a routine for turning them all on. I may not be the target audience for those applications, however, as they try to make it very easy to copy videos from your camera to either your smartphone or laptop, and then publish them to YouTube, Facebook or the 360Fly website. Setting up the device and working with its software, however, was not terribly impressive. The led provides feedback through colors and flashing, as well. When I purchased all of this stuff via Amazon, I also bought the adapter which allows you to use your existing GoPro mounting hardware, but it turns out that was actually included as a base accessory, so you do not need to purchase it separately. Included with the base product are the charging dock, and some mounting hardware. The camera is basically a ball just about 2В inches in diameter, with one and only one button, and a special magnetic docking station for charging and connecting the device to your computer. The device is very well engineered and comes in some packaging that would impress the folks at Apple. True 360 also adds another complex processing step in the editing workflow, as you have to stitch the multiple video streams together into a single 360Г—360 video. If thatвЂ™s important to you, this camera might be the right one, but for me, it was perfectly adequate.

Several of 360FlyвЂ™s competitors support cobbling together multiple cameras, but not the 360Fly. Note that if you want to shoot вЂњtrue 360вЂќ, it requires more than one camera, and given the fact that my primary interest is shooting videos from my car on the race track, thatвЂ™s not really a requirement. This particular device shoots 360Г—180 spherical video, and is a single-lens device, costing around $500 (IвЂ™m rounding up by a penny). Last month, I decided the market was mature enough, and after a few days of research, I decided to buy the 360 Fly 4K camera. You used to need a very expensive specialty camera, costing thousands, or be willing to cobble together six GoPros if you wanted to play with 360 video, but over the last couple of years, some affordable consumer products have been hitting the market, making this cutting edge technology available to far more of us. If youвЂ™ve spent any time at all on Facebook or YouTube, youвЂ™ve no doubt seen examples of the panoramic 360 videos that are starting to be more and more common.

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