Has anyone already had experience with the insta 360 X5 and would like to share it with us? it makes a good impression on me, the new, larger sensor should also deliver better image results than all other previous cameras in the class.
I’d also be interested to hear and see raw videos from the camera if anyone can share. Typically the insta360 x3/x4 is not particularly easy to work with because it requires a some manual/time consuming steps to use with Mapillary (compared to say GoPro Max), but the image quality and ubiquity of the camera is attractive.
I recently did a upload with my Insta360 X5. I did use the hyper-lapse mode and needed to manually export the GPX track with third party tools (exiftool). For the example track see: Mapillary
If some developer want to fix the Mapillary desktop uploader i can provide the original video file. The automatic extraction of the GPX track like described by the link of @boris did not work for me.
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Still external GPS needed? That’s the biggest holdback to switch to insta360 for me.
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Yes. I used my Smartphone connected to the app to get the GPS track into the recording. But I think about record the GPS track separate on my Phone and sync them afterwards. The recording interval of GPS in hyper-lapse mode was quite coarse. I hope they fix that in a firmware/app update. But using a independed recording app on the phone should be a quick fix.
Currently i am planing to set up a little pipeline tool to automate the required rendering, GPS extracting, fixing time stamps, etc steps. I already got access to the SDK of insta360 so that i can do the rendering of the insv files without Insta360 Studio.
Nice, that’s exciting about the pipeline tool to automate the insta360 work, keep us updated on how it’s coming!
In terms of your capture, what camera settings were you using exactly? It’s a bit hard to understand the transition between one image and the next in your capture. The recommended setting for capturing on foot is “timelapse 360 video at 2s interval” (from the documentation)
When you say the automatic extraction of the GPX track did not work, are you sure you saved the exported 360 .mp4 file in the same file path as the original 00 “.insv” files with the same name as the .insv file? If not, it won’t work. If you’re certain that you did, then yes, please provide a link to the .insv files and your converted .mp4 and we’ll take a look. Cheers!
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I will update you (the community) if i have something ready to test!
Regards the automatic extraction:
The mp4 and the 00 insv file are in the same folder. I open the MP4 file with the desktop uploader and get the message that there is no GPS data found in the given sources. If I extract the GPS with exiftool and inject it into the MP4 file the desktop uploader works fine. Boris I will DM you the insv file and the resulting mp4 file. You can share it internally but i would not like to have footage of my face unblurred unblurred on the internet. If you need something for a public bug tracker DM me and I will record something for you! The insv file is that one I used to created the track that i have posted yesterday. The MP4 you will get is a fresh render directly from Insta360 studio without me patching the file.
Excellent, thanks so much. Don’t worry, we don’t share these originals publicly. Appreciate the DM!
Hi @senden9 - I received your DM, and looked at the videos, thank you!
It looks like Insta360 changed some things about the GPS format, and exiftool just fixed it in version 13.28 (Released 3 weeks ago on April 25). We will update to the latest exiftool version with every desktop uploader release, and then it should start working again. For now, the workaround is to use exiftool or the insta360 studio to extract the .gpx file and attach it to the video in the desktop uploader via the overflow menu.
Thanks for spotting this! cc: @nikola
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The funny thing is that even Insta360 Studio is wrong with this specific file. The track is way to short. I opened a bug report at Insta360 and they working on that. Only exiftool generates the right track for me. But many thanks for the quick response. Looking forward to the next release of the desktop uploader then!
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