Smart Features & System Settings

AI Director

AI Director is an intelligent auto-editing feature built into the camera. Once enabled, the camera utilizes local algorithms to automatically identify and filter the highlight moments within the captured footage, selecting the best combination of shots and editing them together. Once finished, you can open the Insta360 app and check the "Memories" tab to view your generated exclusive video.

• Enable Feature: Swipe down on the screen to enter the Shortcut Menu, then tap the "AI Director" icon. After powering off and connecting to a power supply, it will automatically identify recent highlight moments, speeding up subsequent editing and processing tasks within the App. While charging, the camera edits recent footage, generates exclusive videos, and pushes them to the mobile App.
• Core Analysis Modes: You can freely choose between two analysis modes in the "AI Director" settings menu based on your needs:

1. Battery Life Optimized: The camera will primarily utilize idle processing power in the background to analyze and extract highlight moments from videos when it is powered off and charging. Suitable for high-intensity outdoor continuous shooting, multi-day high-frequency creation, or scenarios where power replenishment is tight. This mode ensures the camera maintains optimal battery runtime and a lower body temperature when powered on for composition and recording.
2. Efficiency Mode: The camera simultaneously performs highlight moment identification and intelligent analysis during video recording as well as when powered off and charging. Suitable for users who wish to quickly output and instantly share content (e.g., needing to post or deliver footage immediately after a day of shooting). This mode allows you to view the finished videos earlier and faster in the App, but it will have a minor impact on the camera's battery life and body heat dissipation.

• Privacy and Data Security Note: All highlight moment identification and composition analysis by "AI Director" are completed locally on the camera body or the mobile client, without relying on cloud computing power. Raw footage, audio, and biological characteristics data such as faces are strictly never uploaded, comprehensively safeguarding your content and privacy security.
• Tip: Once this feature is enabled, the camera starts identifying videos as soon as the battery charges to 80%, generating extra power consumption. The overall charging time will be prolonged, so it is recommended that users reserve sufficient charging time.

Suggested Timelapse Parameters

• Traffic/Crowds: Interval 1s - 2s, Adaptive Shutter, showcasing smooth motion blur.
• Sunrise/Sunset: Interval 3s - 5s, enable balanced exposure for natural lighting transitions.
• Rolling Clouds: Interval 10s, record continuously for at least 30 minutes.
• Day-to-Night Transitions: Interval 30s, record continuously for at least 1 hour.
• Blooming Flowers: Set interval from 5s to 60s depending on the flower species, record continuously from 2 hours up to several days.
• Starry Skies/Milky Way: Interval 15s - 30s, manual shutter set to 10s - 20s, ISO 800 - 1600.

Audio Modes

The camera captures audio via built-in microphones, allowing users to select different audio modes based on the shooting environment:

• Auto Wind Noise Reduction: Automatically identifies and powerfully filters ambient wind noise while maintaining a natural balance of background ambient sound. Suitable scenarios: High wind-noise environments such as outdoor cycling, skiing, outdoor hiking, and street travel photography.
• Vocal Enhancement: Intelligently reduces background noise within human speech to make vocals clearer and purer. Suitable scenarios: Vlog recording, talking-head commentaries.
• Stereo: No wind noise reduction processing is applied, delivering a more natural audio effect that highly reproduces the actual scene. Suitable scenarios: Capturing live concerts, musical performances, stage shows, and natural environment audio (such as birdsong, streams).
• 360 Audio: Captures audio from all directions, providing a more authentic sense of space. Suitable scenarios: Life recording scenarios with immersive VR perspectives, or multiple people gathered around a party.

To enhance the sense of presence, the camera supports automatically matching appropriate a sound profile based on the environment:

• Intelligent Audio Mode: Automatically provides corresponding sound profiles based on the current environment. Suitable for: Vlogs, travel, outdoor hiking, concerts, and other vocal or music scenes. Users can achieve a clear, balanced listening experience without manually adjusting complex audio parameters.
• Engine Sound Enhancement: Enhances motorcycle engine sounds to make them more prominent and aggressive, restoring a true sense of presence. Suitable for: Motorcycling.
• Note: Once "Intelligent Audio Mode" is enabled, the algorithm will autonomously select and apply the appropriate audio algorithm based on the scene.

Image Color & Dolby Vision Description

This camera supports Ultra High Dynamic Range (UHDR) photo capture and Dolby Vision video processing. The relevant display and export standards are as follows:

• P3 Wide Color Gamut & UHDR Photos: Base photos captured by the camera (including single wide-angle and 360 modes) are stored using P3 wide color gamut and UHDR technology.
• Display Requirements: To achieve accurate color and highlight/shadow dynamic range rendering, it is recommended to use devices supporting a wide color gamut for playback or editing (such as iPhone 6s and subsequent models, mainstream Android flagships released after late 2015, MacBooks after 2016, and Windows 11 systems with Auto Color Management enabled).
• Multi-Material Mixed Editing:
• In-Camera and App Editing: When multi-segment mixed editing is performed within the Insta360 app or Studio using P3 photos together with regular SDR video or Dolby Vision video, the system will automatically map and align the color spaces.
• Export Standards: To preserve high dynamic range visuals, please select wide color gamut video or Dolby Vision video formats when exporting. If exported as a regular video, the system will convert it into the standard BT.709 format to ensure normal playback compatibility on traditional devices.

Sharing Footage

• Via Quick Transfer: Primarily for iOS users. Instantly transfers camera footage to the mobile app via high-speed Wi-Fi channels.
• Via Mutual Share: Primarily for Android users. Supports data-free, lossless, and high-speed sharing of raw footage directly to the phone's system gallery.