
The camera can rotate upside down to right-side up, around and around, and you'd never know from looking at the horizon. It also has six mics that enable shotgun-mic audio performance, and an insane horizon-leveling feature that keeps your picture level no matter what. However, the Max improves on that camera's SuperView, motion time-lapse called TimeWarp and image stabilization. The Max is waterproof to 5 meters (16 feet), which is half the depth of the Hero 8 Black. The Max SuperView is GoPro's most immersive lens ever. A tap on the screen lets you flip back and forth between the two cameras as well as switch from a single camera to 360, though you can't do these switches while recording. This is why GoPro bills the Max as three cameras in one: a 360 camera, a Hero camera and a vlogging camera. That means you can use it just as you would a GoPro Hero camera or as a vlogging camera. But you can also shoot just through the front camera or through the rear camera that's above the built-in touchscreen. So that's one use for the front and back cameras. There is desktop software for Mac and Windows if you do want to work on a computer instead. And this is all done in GoPro's updated app, so I don't have to pull it into anything else to create clips. With that single clip, I can pan from myself to the people in front of me, up to the buildings above or to the ground below with little more than swiping to the subject I want to reframe on and marking it with a tap on the timeline.

The only missing piece, which is important, is Windows GoPro software to reflow.For example, I shot some 360 video walking in New York City holding the Max out in front of me. GoPro supplies a Windows program that stitches the. So I'm still trying to get my head around the post-processing workflow here. 360 files which cannot be opened in regular video editorsĢ) the native GoPro app to stitch + reflow is currently available only on Mac and smartphone, Windows is upcoming at a later dateģ) besides the native app, there are third party apps to do the stitching, and once that is done we can reflow in any standard video editor that supports 360 video (Premiere, Resolve, Powerdirector, etc)? correct me if I'm wrong:ġ) the GoPro Max by default outputs. So I'm still trying to get my head around the post-processing workflow here.

But you must find another Windows program to "reflow". There is Windows software that just stitches the video and exports the stitched video - this gives the highest quality 360 video. And the phone cannot produce the quality that a computer does.

But it turns out the software (GoPro Player) is not available for Windows, just the MAC. There are now lots of videos demonstrating how easy this is to do using GoPro MAX footage, on the phone app and on a computer. A major use of 360 cameras is to produce flowing video, where you choose in post using keyframes what view to show.
