Insta360 X4
Also known as: X4, Insta360 X series
A spherical camera from the Insta360 X line, recording every direction so the shot can be aimed afterwards instead of while filming.
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What it means
The X line is the maker spherical camera. Two opposing lenses cover the whole sphere, and the finished shot is an ordinary flat window carved out of that recording during editing.
It is also the camera most associated with the invisible pole trick, where the mount itself falls on the Stitch line and disappears from the stitched result entirely.
The trade is the one every spherical camera makes. A large capture number describes the whole sphere, and the 360 footage window actually delivered is drawn from a fraction of those pixels.
How it works in practice
Reframing is a required step rather than an optional one, and exporting a conventional flat file through Insta360 Studio is what makes the footage usable in anything else.
Deciding the aim once per shot keeps the work tractable, since a window that moves continuously through a clip is closer to animation than to editing and takes correspondingly longer.
Keeping the subject away from the lens join is the one framing rule that still applies while filming, because distortion there survives whatever reframing decision follows it. 360 stitching blends the seam without removing it.
What to watch out for
File sizes and processing demands are both far higher than conventional footage, and the reframing pass has to finish before anything can analyse or cut the material. A Transcoding step therefore sits in front of everything else.
Mixed cards are the practical headache. Spherical and flat clips look identical in a file browser and need entirely different handling, which tends to be discovered at the wrong moment. Sorting them means opening files rather than reading names.
Resolution expectations also mislead. The delivered window is noticeably softer than a conventional camera quoting the same figure, which matters most on anything watched on a large screen rather than a phone. The number on the box and the number in the finished shot are not the same thing.
How RawClip handles it
Spherical files are converted to conventional flat exports before analysis, because the reframing decision belongs to a person rather than to a guess. Once exported they are treated exactly like any other clip in the upload.