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One of the big new trends in cameras is those that can booty 360-degree videos or pictures.
But Rylo, a San Francisco startup that's afresh arise its own such camera, thinks what's added important than actuality able to booty images and video in a abounding amphitheater is what you can do with them afterward.
In bike with its camera, the aggregation has developed a smartphone app that's advised to let users bound booty the 360-degree videos they shoot and about-face them into polished, professional-looking clips.
The software automatically steadies all-a-quiver video and allows users to clue a accurate actuality or article in a arena alike as that actuality — or the camera itself — is moving. The software is additionally advised to let users calmly actualize both split-screen videos and tracking shots that calmly pan from one bend point to another.
Designed by a aggregation of engineers that came from Instagram and Apple, Rylo's camera and software accept a lot of potential. Unfortunately, they don't absolutely alive up to their promise.
Here's a attending at the new Rylo camera:
At 2.85 inches by 1.45 inches by 1.7 inches, it's about the admeasurement of two axle drives aback to back.
Its anodized aluminum case and high-impact artificial abandon accord it a athletic feel. But at alone 3.8 ounces, it's lightweight.
The Rylo 360-degree camera alone has three buttons. You use the one on top to about-face it on or off, alpha and stop recording video, and booty photos. You use the one on the back, which is abutting to its screen, to about-face amid video recording and annual demography modes.
By acute its third button, which is on the basal of the device, you can admission its disposable array and microSD card.
The accessory has a camera on its advanced ancillary and accession on its back, and both cameras accept a greater than 180-degree bend of view. Together, they acquiesce the camera to abduction videos and images in a abounding apple about it, both ancillary to ancillary and up and down.
Such videos are acceptable added popular. Both Facebook and YouTube can comedy 360-degree videos and you can appearance them central virtual-reality headsets. That said, the videos you accomplish with Rylo won't arise in 3D if you appearance them in a VR headset, as these videos aren't stereoscopic. You'll still be able to watch the videos, though.
This is a video of me walking bottomward a artery in San Francisco on an clouded morning.
Here's a video I captured at night, walking out of a dimly-lit bar in San Francisco out assimilate the street. As you can see, the Rylo camera could almost abduction annihilation central the bar. It did bigger outside, but the images were absolutely chapped and the colors were off.
The Rylo accessory shoots 4K video (3840 x 2160 pixels) and 6K (6000 x 3000 pixel) photographs. Nominally, those are ultra-high resolution.
But the 4K videos and 6K images accommodate the entire, accumulated 360-degree all-around appearance of the device's two lenses. What that agency is that if you focus on any accurate allotment of a video or picture, the images aural it are acceptable to be pixelated or blurry, because there aloof aren't actual abounding pixels accoutrement those accurate areas.
The photo aloft is a circumscribed out allocation of a 360-degree angel of my appointment during the day. As you can see, annihilation in the photo is decidedly sharp. By adverse to Rylo's camera, aback you booty a approved photo or a 4K video with your smartphone camera, its acreage of appearance is abundant narrower. Each pixel covers a abundant abate breadth than with Rylo's camera, acceptance it to crop bluff images.
The Rylo camera has two 7mm agnate lenses — the abate the number, the added the acreage of view.
By contrast, the approved camera on the latest iPhones has a 28mm agnate lens, and the telephoto lens on those phones is a 56mm equivalent.
The lenses' advanced acreage of appearance allows the Rylo camera to see a abounding 360 degrees with alone two of them. The check of that access is that altar that are almost abutting can arise distant. The table in this photo, for example, was absolutely alone about 15 to 20 anxiety away.
The case makes it abundant easier to handle and use the Rylo camera — and it's versatile, too. You can alleviate the bulge on the basal of the handle to attach the anchor to a accepted camera mount, such as that on a tripod. You can additionally abstracted the handle from the case to a arise you adeptness accept on your bicycle, say.
In accession to this "everyday" case, Rylo is alms a waterproof "adventure" case. It sells that case alone for $69.
Rylo ships its camera with a 16GB microSD card. The aggregation says that will authority about 35 annual account of 360-degree videos.
Rylo supplied reviewers with a 64GB card, and the accessory will abutment cards that authority as abundant as 256GB of data. But you'll accept to acquirement one a aloft anamnesis agenda separately.
Rylo says the array will acquiesce you to shoot continuously for about 60 minutes. However, you may not get it to aftermost that long.
After about a minute on non-use, the camera will go into a standby mode. It adeptness attending like it's angry off, but it abominably still drains power. It won't about-face off absolutely until it's gone 10 annual afterwards actuality used.
In my tests, the standby time seemed to decidedly cut into the bulk of time I could almanac video.
Rylo's camera has a baby screen. But it alone displays basal information, such as what allotment allegation you accept larboard on your array and whether you are in video recording or picture-taking mode. You can't use the awning to see what you are recording or accept recorded.
You additionally can't examination videos on your smartphone. The Rylo camera doesn't accept a WiFi or added wireless radio, so it can't axle videos from it to accession device.
The Rylo camera doesn't accommodate a WiFi or some added wireless radio, so to alteration videos from the accessory to your phone, you'll charge to use a cable. Rylo includes one that allows you to affix the micro-USB anchorage on the camera to the Lightning anchorage on an iPhone.
When you affix the camera to your phone, your buzz will barrage Rylo's app, bold you've already installed it. Afterwards you alteration videos to the app, you can watch them, adapt them, save them to your phone's camera roll, or allotment them anon to Facebook or Instagram. The advantage of this access is its convenience: You about accept your buzz with you at all times.
Right now, the app is alone accessible for iPhones. Rylo affairs to action an Android-compatible camera and app aboriginal abutting year.
Rylo's arrangement automatically takes all the afraid out of your videos. Alike if you took them while benumbed a abundance bike bottomward a bouldered trail, they will assume ultra-smooth. If you choose, though, you can about-face off the stabilization feature, as in the video above.
By default, the arrangement additionally ensures your videos arise right-side up and akin with the ground, no amount how you authority the camera. In fact, the aggregation says videos will arise to accept been attempt with the camera in one position alike if it was absolutely spinning in the air while filming.
The defining affection of 360-degree videos — that they accord you a all-around appearance — can be both a absolution and a curse. It can appearance things added videos artlessly can't, but the affection can additionally accomplish it difficult for creators to absolute viewers' absorption to accurate areas of a arena and for admirers to amount out what they should be watching.
Rylo's software was advised to break these problems by acceptance you to focus a video on a accurate actuality or object. For example, if you took a video while benumbed a abundance bike and afterward a acquaintance bottomward a trail, you could absolute the video to aloof chase your friend. Alike as the aisle askance and turned, the viewer's absorption would be directed at your friend.
Rylo's software additionally lets you point admirers to assorted things in a video, so if you booty a video of yourself walking bottomward a street, the video could alpha off administering admirers to the sidewalk advanced of you, again could about-face their absorption to the storefront aloft the street, and again pan aback to absolute them to the appearance abaft you. Creating those focal credibility is as accessible as acute on the awning while reviewing a video: The software will present these options to accept the eyewitness "look here" or accept the video "follow this." If you add assorted "look here" credibility in a video, the software will automatically accept the video calmly pan from one to another.
When I acclimated "follow this," the video would frequently lose clue of the actuality aback that actuality confused and alpha afterward accession article or person. Aback I acclimated "look here," the video would gradually alluvion abroad from the article or actuality I tagged. In some videos I edited, I concluded up accepting to absolute the app to "look here" at the aforementioned abode assorted times aloof to accumulate the videos focused on a accurate spot.
In the Rylo app, you can calmly actualize a split-screen appearance breadth you can see two things accident at the aforementioned time. For example, you could accept a split-screen video assuming your acquaintance activity bottomward a aisle on his abundance bike and your own face as you followed abaft him.
The app additionally lets you bound actualize time-lapse videos, so instead of accepting to about-face on some time-lapse access in the camera, you aloof acclimatize the 360-degree videos in the app afterwards you've already attempt them. You can calmly acclimatize the acceleration of the videos from 2-16 times real-time speed.
The app additionally allows you to trim the videos or crop the images. You can additionally manually angle your videos so that the arena is a diagonal, say, or they're upside down.
But the app has some austere shortcomings:
• It doesn't let you actualize assorted versions of the aforementioned video central the app. So, if you appetite to actualize altered cuts of the aforementioned video, you'll accept to abolish all the antecedent tweaks you've fabricated to it first. Fortunately, you can do that adequately easily, with a brace of taps.
• What's more, the app doesn't action abundant aloft basal alteration features. You can't acclimatize the complete levels aural your videos, add in altered complete tracks, or achromatize from one video into accession central the app. Nor can you use it acclimatize the acknowledgment of your images or to add titles to your videos.
• Additionally, Rylo alone offers a smartphone app. It doesn't action any affectionate of PC program. So, if you appetite to do any affectionate of all-embracing editing, you'll acceptable acquisition yourself activity through a multi-stage process, adjusting your videos aboriginal in Rylo's app and again appointment them to accession app to do added accomplished affability there.
Rylo's app lets you save your videos to your camera cycle and to bound column them to Facebook and Instagram. You can additionally save them to Dropbox and added cloud-storage services, accelerate them to accompany via email, or axle them to your computer application Apple's AirDrop feature.
But Rylo doesn't action the advantage to instantly allotment your videos to YouTube. That's unfortunate, because forth with Facebook, YouTube is one of the best arresting places to allotment and watch 360-degree videos.
Indeed, announcement 360 videos fabricated on Rylo to YouTube was absolutely affectionate of a bulky process. I aboriginal uploaded them to my Mac. Again I had to use an app I downloaded from Google to tag them as "spherical videos." Finally, I had to log into my YouTube annual in my web browser and upload the videos there. It again took a acceptable 30 annual or so for YouTube to admit them as all-around videos and affectation them as such.
In the app's administration feature, you accept the advantage to save your assignment not alone as all-around videos but as standard, flat, high-definition ones, like the ones you'd watch on your approved TV. Accumulated with the alteration appearance begin in the app, that advantage opens up some absolutely air-conditioned possibilities for Rylo's camera.
Budding filmmakers could potentially use the Rylo camera and software to actualize movies with furnishings that ahead would accept appropriate assorted cameras, circuitous camera rigs, or big-ticket alteration equipment. Booty the split-screen view, for example. In the past, creating that affectionate of attempt would accept appropriate syncing up videos on two altered cameras. With Rylo, you can do it all with video from aloof one camera, and a brace of curtains in an app.
Similarly, creating a video that calmly panned from one bend point to accession while the camera was in motion would accept appropriate a cher bombinate camera arrangement or a able camera equipment. But Rylo allows you to accomplish a agnate attempt with a few curtains in its app.
In the video above, I acclimated the "look here" affection several times to accept the video pan from one appearance to another. It's not Oscar-worthy material, to be sure, but it took all of about bristles annual to do and gives a faculty of the possibilities. And if I capital to, I could re-edit the video to accept it pan a altered way or to actualize a split-screen appearance instead.
Much about the Rylo arrangement is impressive. The camera is failing and appears to be well-made. The automated stabilization affection works great. That it's able to actualize all-around videos with few apparent seams with aloof two cameras is appealing amazing.
Additionally, Rylo's app offers some agitative possibilities for video makers. The adeptness to calmly actualize split-screen videos and pan from one bend point to accession are absolutely cool.
Unfortunately, the "follow this" and "look here" appearance don't assignment as able-bodied as promised. And because the app's added alteration functions are adequately basic, the action of demography and administration videos generally isn't as accessible as the aggregation suggests. You'll acceptable charge to brightness them or do added tweaking elsewhere.
The affection of the video you shoot with the Rylo accessory is additionally disappointing. It doesn't accomplish will in dim light, and alike ablaze scenes can arise pixelated or chapped if you focus on any accurate breadth of them. I adeptness be able to discount such shortcomings if Rylo's accessory were an bargain device. But it's priced at $500. It's $200 beneath than GoPro's commensurable Fusion camera, but it's not absolutely an actuation buy.
Here's acquisitive Rylo bound upgrades its app and offers a second-generation, higher-resolution camera that performs bigger in low light, because I anticipate the company's got a acceptable abstraction here. It aloof hasn't yet angry it into a abundant product.
Rylo's camera is accessible on its own armpit and through Amazon.
