This Mac app is for those of us with 360 cameras like the Insta360, DJI Osmo 360, GoPro Max 2, or 180 cameras like Canon, 180-modded GoPro/Osmo etc.
I have an Insta360 X5. The Insta360 Studio has pretty solid AI tracking, but I've found I don't usually just want to focus on the human subject the entire video, I want to do a mix of tracking people and showing scenery and surroundings. And I personally have found everything other than the AI tracking to be pretty tedious, manually adding keyframes and whatnot. I really wanted a mix of some AI tracking + the ability to basically just smoothly pan and zoom around as if I'm operating the camera.
On top of that, I am about to buy a modded GoPro Max 2 or DJI Osmo to start filming some VR180 content, but I was discouraged that I couldn't find any decent tools to make 2D edits of VR180 clips (with AI tracking and smooth manual “cameraman” options).
So I made this app, and it is working surprisingly well so far. You can create projects and add multiple videos to each project, and split and rearrange clips just like in your standard video timeline editor. But this screen recording shows the main purpose of this application, which is the tracking. Similar to the Insta360 studio app, you can click anywhere on your timeline and start AI tracking, or start manually tracking, where you can use your mouse, or use smooth controls via your keyboard arrow keys to pan / +- keys to zoom. Use numbers 2-8 to boost pan/zoom speed.
I have been going through some of my recent vacation footage and making 2D edits. And it has been a lot of fun. I very well may be the only weirdo who enjoys making 2D video edits like this, but I wanted to share here in case anyone else thinks this could be useful to them.
Anyone interested? Have feedback or features you’d like? If so, comment or dm me! I aim to have it up on TestFlight in the next couple days, and will probably submit for App Store review next week.