I took the Burgman 200 out today, with a plan: test the DJI Mic 2 connecting wirelessly to the Insta360 X4 camera. I had read that this connection would work. I also read one review that said it wasn't great audio. That is an exaggeration: the audio is awful; unintelligible. The fault doesn't lay on the DJI microphone - having used it with other cameras (DJI and Sony), it does a fine job. But, with this Insta360 X4, the audio is completely unusable. Even though the VU line on the camera was good, there is major clipping with the audio.
Just like when a SpaceX rocket blows up (and the engineers say they "gathered good data"), I learned something valuable with this outing: the wireless connection to the Insta360 X4 camera is crap.
How bad is it? Thanks for asking - it is this bad:
If a video has mediocre video, but good audio, it is watchable. If it has great video, but bad audio, most people will click off of it right away. If you didn't click on this video, I understand, because this has some pretty sucky audio.
But, it is a learning experience. The smart way to get video with usable audio is with a different camera... but I will still be using the X4 for those fun panning shots - no way to get that with anything but a 360 camera.
Lesson learned.
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