For GoPro, it depends on the editor you use. Adobe Premiere Pro can use that format. I use a PC that I built with a dedicated 4TB graphics card and 32GB RAM. My work drive is a .5TB SSD and I publish to my little 16TB external. But, back to the time to stitching… it turned out it only stitched one of the clips… about 25 minutes of video. It took almost 5 hours to do that. I shoot motorcycle rides and sometimes have over 10 hours to process. This would take days at this pace and this is only my first step in editing!

I am recommending the camera for beginners, though. It ends up with good video and a very attractive entry level price. I wish it handle larger cards, but for a beginner 256GB should be good enough. They just have to have patience on processing through Studio. I don’t do heavy lifting on a phone and can’t understand the fascination with taking a 360-video down to a 2D format. But that’s just me. I like to give my viewers an interactive experience.

Hi Lee. GoPro stitches photos in the camera, but videos are not stitched in a format that can be edited or shared. Insta360 is not stitched either. Change your extension form .insv to .mp4 and you’ll see that they’re actually circular fisheyes. As for being slow, are you using Mac or PC? Does your PC have a dedicated graphics card?

I want to update my comments above. The raw 360 data in MP4 format is terrible, but once you run it through the Studio and stitch it, it comes out pretty good. The problem is, why isn’t this stitched in the camera? GoPro is. Insta360 is. Even the old Garmin VIRB 360 did that. I shot about 40 minutes on this camera. I started the stitching process about 10:00 this morning. It’s almost 4:00 and it’s about 90% done. This is a crazy slow process. I’ll keep testing elements of this camera and add to the thread here.

There is an issue with the lens rotating, especially when trying to remove the very tight lens caps. This makes stitching near on impossible. I sent them a sample and they are sending a replacement, but said not to twist the lens caps when taking them off.

I had the same experience. Far inferior video, actually the worst I’ve seen in the past decade. Stitching is nonexistent and there are large gaps between nodes. Sometimes I’m not impressed with a new camera, but this time I’m depressed. I was hoping to recommend this to people due to the price and the marketing files. I wanted to get it and test it first. I’m glad I did. Not in my list of buying recommendations. BTW, everything is up to date. I also have the QooCam 8K. I’m leaving the GoPro Max at the top of my list for now… but I’m not saying I’m happy with the world.

Hi Andreev. I’m glad you can order it from Russia. Yes, physical buttons are more comfortable.

Thanks Jon! I have yet to see it overheat in ordinary use, so if you want to avoid overheating, this would be my best suggestion.