
Once in ‘Capture’ mode you can see more options become live and various text becomes unghosted. To enter editing mode to actually work on the clip and export new content to upload to social media sites or other video editing platforms, click on the ‘Capture’ button located above the video clip view, centered on the screen. Insta360 Studio calls its editing mode ‘Capture’. Insta360 Studio has both a viewing and an editing mode. You can see at the bottom of the screen the clip timeline and above that the player controls. One may choose from Flat, Rectilinear, Fisheye, Little Planet and Crystal ball views.

By default, clips load in ‘Fisheye’ projection. You can now view your clip in various projections by clicking on the projection icon and choosing how you wish to view your clip. When the video file names have loaded into the left hand bar, click on one to load it into the viewer. To load the video, one may either select all the clips from a folder window and drop them onto the left hand bar or you may open up the file navigation dialogue by clicking the plus symbol, navigating to your files and selecting them. Insta 360 Studios main window looks like this:Īnd when video is loaded to edit, the window looks like this: All modern multi lens systems output in this projection, so you can just use a video outputted by whatever stitching software was used to stitch your footage together.

An equirectangular projection is a cylindrical equidistant projection, and can also be termed a rectangular projection, plane chart, plate carre, or unprojected map. You can use content sourced from anywhere with this editing software, the only requirements being that the footage is in an equirectangular projected format.


You can download the editing software directly from the links below for either windows or mac os: The program was created by Insta360, makers of the Insta 360 Air, Nano, Nano S, One, 4K and Pro cameras. Insta360 Studio is a very powerful and capable, free, editor for your spherical format video.
