Insta360 Pro Camera Movement Test at Castillo San Marcos, St. Augustine 360 3D VR (pre-lockdown)

This is a short walking clip shot on the Insta360 Pro at historic Castillo San Marcos in St. Augustine, Florida. It is meant to explore ways of improving the video quality once it is uploaded to Youtube. Normally, the video quality degrades sharply when I move the camera.
In this video I used the Moza Guru 360 gimbal to stabilize the camera. In the past, I was not able to do so for budgetary and practical reasons (it's a cumbersome arrangement in the most controlled situation.. but imagine trying to use it in the middle of the Amazon Rainforest).
I was blown away by how much easier it was to calibrate the footage in Mistika VR. Without the gimbal, I'd have spent days manually calibrating each of the 6 lenses almost frame-by-frame just to achieve an acceptable 3D result. I calibrated this footage once, and with 2 or 3 minor keyframe adjustments it was ready to render. I did it in under an hour. I have never worked with the Insta360 Pro 2, but I wonder if its built-in stabilization is as effective when it comes to locking in the calibration while the camera moves.
In After Effects, I used the VR Comp editor tools to further stabilize the Mistika VR output. I think it came out very smooth - and the technique is SO much faster than using Mocha's reorient! For a lark, I used Mocha Pro to remove myself from the Nadir. I don't normally have much success using Mocha for that, but in this case it worked pretty well.
Lastly, I upscaled the video to 8K, applied VR sharpening and exported in H265. The hope is that this will result in less compression artifacts when viewed on Youtube.
On a side node, the upscaled footage seemed to tolerate the sharpening much better than the native 6K footage. It might be worth the extra step in the future, even if only to export back out to 6k!

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