The Insta360 Ace Pro Could Be The New Champ

So we got the brand new Insta360 Ace Pro co-engineered with Leica

It is the latest action camera from Insta360 featuring, look at that, 1.3 inch sensor

That's almost a one inch sensor. That is a big sensor for an action camera and hopefully it makes a difference in low light as bigger sensors tend to do

You have something called Pure Video. I don't even know how that feature is going to operate, but it seems to have some sort of HDR effect

4k 120 slow-mo you've also got flow state stabilization free frame video which is going

to make adjustments for the different formats in which we post these days ai highlights assistant

so this is for editing after the fact 2.4 inch flip screen moving display not just all the way

up and facing you but every point in between waterproof up to 33 feet and magnetic mounting

systems plus you do have some gestures in order to start and stop recording lots of smarts built

into the new Insta360 product, the Ace Pro. And then the most exciting for me

is obviously that brand new large sensor. There's also a huge number of accessories

expanding world of accessories for Insta360 product, selfie sticks and tripods and sticky mounts

and floating hand grips and even a bicycle mount that they're showcasing here

Inside this package, quite a nice little setup of different goods, different options on their website

depending on which series of accessories you want to go with your Insta360 product

in this case the ace pro so there it is still has that black and red aesthetic going on check out the

leica logo on the lens and what does it say super sumerit a one over two six sixteen a spherical

we remove one over one third inch sensor f 2.6 16 millimeter equivalent so that gives you an idea

magnetic attachment down at the bottom a little door over here 1650 milliamp hour battery easily

removable and replaceable however you'll be able to charge it inside the housing rotating flippy

display can stop at any angle to help you frame your shot including if you're shooting yourself

look how comfortable that is record button up top power button on the other side and another door

houses your type c connector as well as your micro sd card slot oh so here is our magnetic

mount but you can also see it has some physical clips as well wow that's all it takes and off

on off so there's a little pinch the magnet sort of lines it up and then

those clips really lock in there and then you have to pinch to remove it Ooh sticky suction style mount Obviously there a huge variety and world of mounting options USB type C cable So now that

we've got that larger sensor, one of the areas that this thing is supposedly improved in is low

light. So that's going to be one of our tests. We're going to see how this does compared to a

GoPro when you have less light to work with. Like how about doing some night skiing or snowboarding

This initial footage I'm going to watch is the pure video mode 4K30

And this is actually Will on the ski hill doing some snowboarding

And it's at night. The GoPro 12 black on the left and the Insta360 on the right

And obviously, you can tell that the stabilization is quite different. This is sort of a huge emphasis for Insta360 is the low light performance

You've got a bigger sensor, but then they've also got stuff going on in the pure video mode in order to denoise the frame

And in order to also help with image stabilization, because it's obviously tough to stabilize a dimly lit video

So you look at the Insta360 and it's very surprising how well it's able to stabilize such a low lit image

The snow is far more white on the Insta360 clip. Now it's important to note, Will just busted these out of the box

Both cameras brand new, essentially started running. The only thing he did on the Insta360 was just flip it over to pure video mode

I'm pretty sure the reason the GoPro is struggling on stabilization is because of how low light the frame is

If I pause it right here, you just look down to the lights here in the village area

and you can see a lot more detail and sort of the light that's being cast over those village areas

I mean, the snow is obviously more vibrant as well. It's just a more usable image

I think what most people around here noticed right away was just how much more appealing the stabilization was

in this difficult action camera scenario. So the AI in pure video mode is yzing the footage

applying a variety of denoising techniques, making improvements to exposure, and then saving that directly in the camera

This is you skiing here, Mo? Well, I mean, in daytime, it's even nicer, obviously, like..

Oh, and here's me. So the camera does 4K 60, which is awesome

obviously for action clips you're not watching this video in 60 frames obviously you're just

getting far faster action and more frames to work with i was wearing it on on my head as well and i

found the flippy display to be just more versatile as far as framing i would like flip it around and

then show other people on the ice and be like like how does that look is that the right angle for the

stick handling you can actually purchase the ace pro in a couple of different configurations like

as far as the bundles concerned and there going to be a couple different probos actually which you can access via the description of this video which include a couple of extras but there also pre like creator kit cycling kit a majority of what going to happen here is it going to alter

the included accessories the flip-up screen is going to give you versatility when it comes to

mounting options and that's one of the things with action cameras is you want to be able to place them

in a number of different environments situations angles here we have some 4k 120 fps wham

and this is literally like fairly low light as well is this like a basement it's not like outdoors

or something and this is typically an area as well just where action cameras in general have

struggled right but like that's totally usable 4k 120. uh here we have a car mount and this is in

the cold too and i was like are we gonna have enough stick here i was like absolutely stick

it to your helmet stick it to the car this is 8k beautiful stuff now in 8k we're at 24 frames

oh tons of resolution you know the drill now another feature to mention is something called

clarity zoom so this will give you a two-time zoom without compromising image quality i was

skeptical of this at first because you're always curious how the camera is achieving this zoom. Is

it strictly digital? Since you have such a big sensor to begin with, they're actually using pixel

binning in this case, and you're still ending up with a 4K image even when cropping in to achieve

that zoom. So this has been a weakness for action cameras. Obviously, the lens is fixed. You're not

going to have optical zoom, but when you start with a bigger sensor or more resolution to begin

with and then you move into the frame you still end up with enough resolution or the same resolution

to match the remainder of the uncropped footage now you've also got ai powered gesture control

this is going to let you start and stop recordings while hands-free recording huge red light on the

front which is kind of nice too letting you know that you're recording i can also see the runtime

and I can go ahead and stop it. Boom. Saving. I mean, it's like the vibration and the sound

You're like, okay, I'm recording. And then I can also take a photo

Very seamless. Easy. And you can also use voice control. They're calling it voice control 2.0

in order to initiate a number of activities on the camera as well. Start recording

Mark that clip. Boom, I saw the flag. Did you see the flag on your side

Yeah. Stop recording The responsiveness is kind of nice Take a photo It quick man

That's quick. The other thing we've got is AI Highlight Assistant. This is actually like a full-fledged editing component right inside the camera to alleviate some of the post-production, like needing to do stuff after

It helps you not just save time, but it's also going to save space on your SD card

Because you're kind of highlighting and editing as you go, it's looking for the best moments in a single video

then showing you the highlights to review in camera, and right from there you decide what to keep and not keep

So this is going to make the whole process of eventually posting something easier. You're not sifting through nearly as much footage

You have the option of maintaining each clip individually, saving each clip as a new file

So if you want to like tweak those things later or you're not completely convinced that you've got a perfect edit, you can do that

But if you want to be super streamlined, you can actually merge these clips into one file immediately

There's another feature that I kind of like, which is this ability to resume a recording instead of ending a clip

It really feels like there's a big emphasis here on the software side. Basically, to make it more in line with how people actually use cameras now and where people post these videos now

You can just use the record button and the resume function to shoot and edit as you go

clip by clip. So many enhancements happening to a variety of products via AI

In this case, they're calling it AI Warp. And this is using generative AI as like a sort of overlay, like a digital graphical overlay

on the footage that you've already shot. This can transform an entire clip or a portion of a clip

And it can just make it obviously far more special in the sense that you just don't see

a lot like it. merging my video. Sick. Yeah

Yo, post it. Yo, post it. So there you have it. That is the Insta360 Ace Pro

Lots of capability here. Low light, bigger sensor than I've seen in an action camera

Can shoot up to 8K. It's got high frame rate. Obviously, smooth video with the stabilization

the low light performance which was pretty wild and a ton of different accessories so you can

maneuver it for your variety of action scenarios they've got some special deals right now exclusively

for you guys so go click the link in the description to find out about those deals

check out the variety of bundles so you can get a setup that's suitable for your

different activities and things you do with action cameras answer 360 ace pro