Insta360 X5 unusable on AMD

[BikeGremlin]

There is a saying that a fool and his money are soon parted.
As the title says, my recently purchased Insta360 X5 camera videos can not be edited in Insta360 Studio with my quite powerful AMD Ryzen 9 CPU and AMD RX 6800 video card.
It's a stutter-fest, like watching slides.

On one end I feel angry with myself for not having googled more.
On the other hand I feel cheated by the manufacturer.

Shame.

Unboxing video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n-LEmajNbo

 

[BikeGremlin]

The "5.7K" recording resolution seems not completely useless - though not the image quality one would expect from an "8K camera", but working with what I can.

Will make a review after some experience.

 

[jelicicm]

Interesting, but why would a camera manufacturer/model play a big role? Considering the frame rate and the resolution of the video is obviously important, but many cameras in today's day and age work with similar quality shots. Then, we're left with encoding codecs, but even so, is Insta 360 something special in that regard?

Not trying to slam your PC configuration, just curious why you point to the camera's brand and model as a reference?

 

[BikeGremlin]

Interesting, but why would a camera manufacturer/model play a big role? Considering the frame rate and the resolution of the video is obviously important, but many cameras in today's day and age work with similar quality shots. Then, we're left with encoding codecs, but even so, is Insta 360 something special in that regard?

Not trying to slam your PC configuration, just curious why you point to the camera's brand and model as a reference?

Good questions. I will write (or record) a more thorough review after further testing.

Briefly:
It records 360 degree videos, and its software (Insta360 Studio) is incapable of previewing the 8K footage for making even raw export edits (for fine-mounting in DaVinci Resolve Studio or similar software).

Even with lowest preview resolution settings, the Insta360 Studio makes it look like a slideshow, literally. Marketing does not mention it being useless on AMD hardware.

It may be codec-related, but even raw footage editing on fast NVMe drive is a slide show - useless in practice.

"Fortunately," the action camera is limited to 30fps in 8K, and it gets very hot with a high battery drain at that resolution, so I would probably not use it anyway - in practice that is a 5.7K camera for the whole 360-degree sphere - which means that for 16:9 export it can not do better than 1080p at best.

It will work OK for action videos, but not very sharp image for any workshop or bushcraft in detail videos with my AMD hardware apparently. It is how it is.

Edit:
Here is a practical example with decent lighting (I used that same lighting for all my other videos which were recorded with an old iPhone SE2 so it can be compared):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4k5uMsK620

Yes, I think I have figured out how to slightly improve that via available camera recording settings (and the same goes for audio - that was my misconfiguration of the Hollyland Lark M2 microphone gain). But far from excellent IMO.

 

[jelicicm]

Ah ok, considering the system is probably doing sphere stitching on the go, it's likely that that process is not optimized for AMD GPUs. Makes sense, and it's obviously a terrible engineering from the software makers.

Now go fight with OpenAI for NVidia graphic cards

 

[BikeGremlin]

Ah ok, considering the system is probably doing sphere stitching on the go, it's likely that that process is not optimized for AMD GPUs. Makes sense, and it's obviously a terrible engineering from the software makers.

Now go fight with OpenAI for NVidia graphic cards

Yes - though my main gripe is the marketing (even local Svet Kompjutera magazine didn't mention this in their review!).

My PC configuration - not new, but far from cheap or underpowered for general video editing work:

https://www.bikegremlin.net/threads/my-2022-2024-pc-build-overview.411/