When I first discovered this feature—the quick-start guide that comes with the Insta360 One R doesn't mention it: I found it while the camera was linked to my smartphone via WiFi—I tried it when a severe thunderstorm warning was issued for my area and rain was imminent. I clamped the camera onto my car's roof rack, pressed the record button, and let the camera run for about a half an hour.
Sadly, the storm seemed to fizzle just at it reached Barrhaven, and all we got was some light rain.
When I retrieved my camera and downloaded the footage to my phone, I discovered that the video was only 11 seconds long. It showed raindrops hitting the lens cover and the road in front of my house becoming soaked. You can see it here.
I wanted to try it again, so I headed to Westboro Beach, last Sunday, to capture the sunset. I placed the camera on the Insta360 invisible selfie stick and tripod (weighting down the base to ensure it didn't tip over), pointed it at the sun, and hit the Record button.
It took 75 minutes to create 30 seconds of video, but the results were worth it. It was a great sunset.
In post-processing, I enabled the enhanced video setting, which applies what looks like an HDR effect, which eliminated the shadows to the right half of the frame. In the future, I don't think I'll enable it again for this type of capture: as the sky gets darker and the shadows become stronger, the editor seems to try to keep the light going, which pixelates the shadow areas and creates noise.
I further edited the video, in Pinnacle, to add Brown Knowser titles and copyrights, and I added a fade to black at the end to compensate for the noise. I've added the video to my YouTube channel but you can also see it, below.
What do you think?
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