
The preview file does not include any 360 meta information and will not play as a 360 video when watched in the free VLC media player. This allows you to stitch only the relevant segments rather than the whole video, and can save a lot of time for longer recordings. We recommend that you watch the preview file and write down any interesting segments that you would like to stitch. The Insta360 Pro series cameras save a pre-stitched preview file onto the SD card. Step 1: Review the preview file for relevant segments A complete project folder will be typically named something like “VID_20160212_004459” and includes a total of 14 files. Remove the 6 micro-SD cards from the base, as well as the SD card from the battery compartment, and copy all files onto a SSD drive. But internal or external “old-school” hard drives will slow the stitching process down - unless it is a fast video production RAID array. The storage/editing medium does not have to be an internal SSD, even inexpensive external USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt SSDs are more than fast enough for the data rates involved in stitching 360/VR video from the Insta360 Pro2.

A 6-port USB 3.0 hub with microSD-card readers is highly recommended. The very first step is to copy the recordings and project files from the camera’s memory cards to a suitable storage medium for editing. If you have a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30xx series GPUs or Radeon Pro series GPUs on macOS and experience crashes of the Insta360 Stitcher software, please contact Insta360 technical support or head to our support page and download a special compatibility version.

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It can be downloaded from the Insta360 website after entering your camera’s serial number and is a great tool for high quality virtual reality video stitching. Insta360Stitcher is a free software from Insta360 to stitch footage recorded by their Pro, Pro2 and Titan cameras into an equirectangular 2:1 format suitable for uploading to various video platforms and VR goggles.
