Antigravity Studio Beginners Tutorial 2026 | Zero to Pro in 20 Minutes

What's going on, guys? In this video, I'm going to show you how to edit your footage that you shot on the Anti-Gravity A1. First I'm going to be covering the desktop editor, and then I'm going to switch over to editing on your phone. And if you're new to 360 editing, it can feel so intimidating. Compared to normal video editing, at least when I first started doing it, it kind of felt like trying to solve a Rubik's Cube. But it doesn't have to be, and in this video I'm going to break the entire process down super simply from start to finish. So much is possible on Anti-Gravity Studio. I'm going to cover tracking, reframing, editing multiple clips, best export settings, and then like I said, touch on the mobile app editing at the end. Alright, let's do it. Odds are, if you're someone who's watching this video, you probably already own the A1. But if you don't already have it, there's a link down in the description below where you can get it for 15% off. Also before we hop in, if you could do me a huge favor and hit the like button, it genuinely helps out the channel a ton. And as a reward, if you hit the like button, I'll put a photo of a very adorable baby tiger at the end of this video. Alright, so the first thing that you're going to need to do is download Anti-Gravity Studio, and you can find that on their website for either Mac or PC. So now you just need to get your footage to the editor. You can either just plug your SD card and edit off of that SD card, but what I do and what I 100% recommend is getting an external storage device, like an SSD or a hard drive. Because if all your footage is on one SD card and you're taking it out for flights all the time, if you crash and lose it, that's a huge bummer. So after I go out on my shoot, I take the SD card, plug it into my computer, and put it on my Glyph SSD. SSDs are a little more secure than hard drives, so I'd recommend using that, but hard drives are a little bit cheaper and do work. Okay, so when you first open up Anti-Gravity Studios, you're going to get a panel like this. Basically, you're just going to want to hit new project. So when you're creating a new project, just pick a name. And then as far as the next thing, so path, that is just where the project is stored. You can change it. It automatically just stores to a movie folder. It doesn't take up a bunch of space. The actual footage is still stored on your hard drive or your SD card. So I just have mine in the Anti-Gravity Studio folder. Ratio is basically what it's going to display as. So do you want it vertically or horizontally, whether you want it for social media or something like YouTube? You can also do three, four, one over one, all these different ones. As far as frame rate, I usually do just auto match. Basically, if your shot is shot in 30 frames per second, if you put that into the timeline, it's just going to make the timeline 30 frames per second. So for now, that's going to stay auto. And then to explain proxies, basically, if your computer, if you start editing this footage and your computer just sounds like it wants to die, you can create a proxy file, which is a lot more low res than the actual file, but you can edit off of that proxy. And then when you export, you can export the full res. My computer's been totally fine, so I'm going to hit no proxy. Okay. And then this is where everything is. So the first thing that you're going to want to do is import your footage. So I'm going to import here. These five clips are just some cool ones that I've shot over the past few months. So I'm going to import those. So find them on your computer and then open them. And then I'll give you a brief walk around of how everything's set up. So right over here is called the player. So basically, when you're sorting through footage or looking at your actual video, this is where it's going to be played up here. You can even look around and drag and scroll. And then down here is your actual timeline. So you put your clips into the timeline to edit them. And so under the player, you have a few different options here. So this is your start point. So if you want to go start the clip there, let's say I want to end it right there. I can do that. But what you can also do is use I and O keys. So I for in. So you go in and then out there and then you can drag it down. I like that a little bit better down here. You can also change the ratio. So like I said, you can switch it to a social media clip or all these other ones as well. This one here is basically how good of quality the preview is going to be. So this is what I edit on because my computer can handle this. But again, if your computer is like overheating, you can go HD preview. Quality gets a little bit worse and then smooth preview. Quality gets even worse. But the playback is going to be really smooth. All right. Next up here, you can take a screenshot. So at any point, if you want to take a clip from a video and turn it into a photo, you can do that there. And then this is full screen. And then top left over here, you have all your clips. You can put music in, you can add text or you can do transitions. And then on this right side over here, this is where you do a lot of the controls for key framing and actually editing your footage. But it won't show up until we drag something into the timeline. OK, so let's pick a nice clip here. This one right here is pretty solid. I just kind of like how there's a bunch of different stuff the drone is flying through. So I'm going to hit I and then O and then I'm just going to drag this down to my timeline. And as you can see, this area here is changed now. So you basically have three tabs here. You have the video tab where you have all these controls that I'll get into in a second. You have your image so you can turn on and off stabilization. You're definitely going to want that on. If you put blade protectors on your drone, you can turn this feature on and it'll basically adjust the stitching so you don't see those. I just keep that at normal. All this stuff is just preset really how you want it. Down here you can do some different color grading stuff. So you can do color plus, clarity plus, all this different stuff. One thing you do want to change in this section is motion ND. And basically what that does is kind of imitate an ND filter. What an ND filter does is it adjusts your shutter speed so you get that nice cinematic motion blur. I'll have a little example going right now. So you're going to want to have that on. And then adjust. You have to turn it on, but you can adjust the exposure and all this different stuff from your clip. So I'm going to turn that back off. Go back to video. All right. Now let's talk about these controls. So this first one, preset viewing direction. Basically this is where the camera is pointed because it's a 360 drone, you can pick wherever you want it. So that's forward. You got the rear view, left view, right view, top down view, and then free view, which is basically just wherever. So I'm going to go forwards. And then right here you have your view angle gear. I usually just like to use de-warp because if you do other stuff, there's kind of like a curve to the horizon. Mega is just zoomed out even more. There you can go to tiny planet. So I'm going to hit de-warp. You can do linear too, where it's just zoomed in a little bit more. And as you can see, when I'm changing all of these things, these properties are also changing. So all of the preset stuff up here, you can change manually down here. And that's kind of the magic of editing 360 footage. And then below that you have deep track. Here we go. Let's go to forward viewing angle. So this is just the drone going straight forward. And basically what I want to do here on this first shot and to show you guys key frames is basically do a rotating shot, which is some of the coolest stuff that I've seen shot on this drone. So basically I'm going to go to the beginning of my clip and I'm going to add a key frame. So if you come down here, you have similar controls as up here, down here. So I'm going to add a key frame, boom, right there. And then that's basically instructing the software that that is the first frame that you want. So I'm going to come further along in the video and I'm going to add another key frame. So hit plus there. Basically what I want to do is I want to adjust this key frame here because it's the rotation. So I'm going to take that all the way to 360 degrees. So right there. And then now, as you can see, basically the camera is just going to go from one point to the other and do whatever movement you programmed it to in between. In between key frames, you can also drag the clip if you want. You can see the numbers moving over on that side. But I prefer using the actual panel because you can just be a little bit more precise with it. And I know it's intimidating, but even just after like a couple of seconds, you have this really insane shot. So the next thing that I want to show you is just how to sort of move the clip. So let's go here, go up to reframe and clear all the reframe stuff. So all of my key frames are deleted. So basically, let's say I wanted to fly through this and then I wanted to rotate behind. So I'm going to add a key frame right here. Boom. Again, I'm going to just go a few frames past like that. I'm going to add another key frame and then I'm going to rotate the camera like that. Let's get it at 180 so we know we're directly behind. And then as you can see, the clip is going and then it rotates all the behind. And as you can see, so see that motion blur? It's just kind of blurring. It's basically just imitating what the human eye would see. If I had that ND filter thing turned off, it wouldn't do that. And it just looks more natural this way. You can also make it faster. So you can take the key frames down here and just kind of drag them around. So you can do that. You can also get pretty crazy with these key frames. So if I wanted to do that, let's say I also wanted it to flip upside down. I could do that. And then there you go. There's another super creative transition. So let's say here I want to do another key frame and I basically want this thing to just flip back forward. So here add another key frame and then I am just going to do this, tilt it back forward just like that. So there goes around and then flips back forward. You can also use these for transitions. This is one of the best ways to use these things. You can sort of move the camera left and then the beginning of the next clip, you could also move the camera left going into it, just making these really unique transitions. So as you can see, there is a lot of other things over here that you can do. So I'm basically going to again, clear all these key frames. And what I want to show you now is sort of a hyperlapse effect. If you don't know what that is, it's basically just when the footage is going super fast. In the past, I've done a lot of these on my camera and they've been so miserable because you have to take photos and just manually stabilize everything and stitch it. But with this, it's so easy. So I'm just going to hit command B, blade out the beginning. And this is what I want my hyperlapse to be just because I'm moving in a straight line. And there's a couple options here. You can either slow your clip down, you can speed it up. But for now, let's just go with fast. So I'm going to go 8x. So that speeds that clip up by eight times. So now when we play it back, it's this super fast clip. I'm actually going to slow that down a little bit. So if you drag this here, you can make it, let's say, five times. And now that you have this sped up clip, you can actually do the same thing with keyframes. So I'm scrolling through here. So if I want to do the same thing where I have it move backwards, I'm going to move the playhead here, add a keyframe, go forward a few frames, add another keyframe. And then I want this to switch backwards. So let's go 180 degrees. And then it's kind of the same deal, where it's going to go there and then it's going to go back. So let's spread that out a little bit just because it was very quick, just like that. The video on here is stuttering a little bit, but when you actually export it, it's going to be super smooth. And those shots are just incredibly, incredibly hard to do with any other drone. All right, so next I want to show you guys how to do tracking. So I'm going to delete this clip here. And then I have another clip. So it is a clip that I shot in Hawaii. I'm going to go in, out, pull it down here, and then I'm going to do some further adjustments. So right there is about where I want it to end. So I'm going to hit command B, blade that. And now basically what I want to do is I want this to track a palm tree to get kind of like a rightward pan. So I'm going to come down here and wherever you want the tracking to start, you just have to put the playhead there and then basically just click this icon here. The palm tree that I want to track is right here. It's incredibly small, so we will see how good the tracking does on that. And then you just hit start deep track. It's actually doing a really good job. Again, these shots are incredibly hard on any other drone, but the deep track works super, super well, switched palm trees, but it still looks good. So I'm going to replay that. And now we have this really smooth, nice looking clip. Yeah. And you can just get so creative with this. Yeah. And I'm honestly just super impressed how good the tracking actually is. So I'm going to show you guys another clip. It's part of the same clip, but it is tracking a subject, which is something that usually is quite difficult. Like if you're manually piloting the drone yourself. So I just have to find that area. All right. So this clip here is a surfer and I wanted to track him. So I'm just going to press I think he starts paddling in here. So he goes out of frame, but I know that's where I want my clip. So I'm going to hit O for out. All right. So I'm going to drag my clip down here. Let's pick the exact moment where the surfer is. Okay. So right here, I'm going to blade that. Cut that. All right. So this is the beginning of my clip. I'm going to put the footage directly on him and select deep track. I'm going to select him. So I'm going to start deep track and it's got a pretty good lock on him. We'll see how long it holds. Boom. It stopped. So if it ever stops in the middle of a track, you can just hit continue tracking. Just select him again. Continue deep track and it'll just keep going. Boom. Gets nailed by the waves. All right. So I'm going to hit done and then let's play this back and you can kind of adjust the key frames afterwards to make them a little bit more smooth. But that right there is already a really cool shot. And this is just so helpful for shooting action clips like this, because again, manually flying the drone is very challenging. All right. So now let's talk about multi clip editing, which is actually what I'm already doing right here. And then music, text and transitions. So as far as multi clip editing, basically just drag all your clips down in here. You can either export the entire project and it'll export everything as individual clips or you can export it as a project. So if you want to do transitions and stuff in between clips, that's a really good way to use it. So up here you have music and there's some songs that are preset in here that you can use. There's actually some good music. I was kind of surprised. You can kind of pick what type of music you want on there. And then text. Basically you just have all these different text options and you can just basically drag them down. So let's say I want this one right here. So again, you're just kind of layering stuff so you can put text there. You can change what it says in the text just by coming over to the right panel. So let's say Hawaii, boom, there's your text. And then as far as transitions go, there's a few preset ones. Typically, I usually just keyframe my transitions, but if you do want to use these, you can. Let's say I want a film reel, just put that in between the two clips. And then basically it's just going to do that in between the two clips. So those there's some there is some cool ones. A lot of them honestly are kind of like gimmicky, but some of them are actually pretty cool. All right. So let's get into export settings to export. You basically just come up here to the top right, hit export so you can name it whatever you want. You can pick the path. So wherever you want the clip to export to. And this is again, like I talked about when you're editing with multiple clips, you can either export all the clips separately by hitting multiple clips or the single clip here. So I have a preset that I have made that's called 4K, but let's say I said none. Basically your resolution. You definitely want to export in 4K and then frame rate again match the product frame rate bit rate. I've messed around with upping it and basically that just theoretically gives it a little bit more information into the video, but I haven't seen a huge jump. So I would just go with what they recommend encoding format. I would do H.265 and then the remove grain feature is really nice just because this is kind of a small sensor drone. Sometimes there is a little bit of grain, but if you hit remove grain, it helps a ton. Like I have done before, you can just turn this into a preset. So these settings here are exactly what I use and that's my 4K preset. And that's pretty much the basics of the entire software. You can get really crazy with it. I kind of just got into the basics here, but you can do so many different things. There's so many possibilities when you have a 360 file and the last little section here for this video is actually editing on your phone. So I'm going to hop into my phone right now. So I definitely wanted to make sure I included this section because I think there's going to be a lot of people that want to edit on their phones. It's so convenient. You can just connect your phone to the drone and the goggles and just get footage directly off of it. And especially when you're out like shooting and you get a really good shot, you want to share it right away. So let's hop into that now. All right. So I have the anti-gravity app open right now. You can download it on the app store. Basically you're going to want to go to this tab, which is the editing tab. So I've already downloaded a couple of clips to the app already, but all you have to do is just connect your phone to your drone and then you can import stuff from there. So I'm going to hit start creating. So these are two clips that I recently shot. Let's go with this one and this one. Select that. Next. And then the editor is pretty similar to the desktop version, which is good. Basically at the top you have your aspect ratio. So if you're editing this for Instagram, you just switch that to nine by 16. You can play through, kind of scroll, scrub all the footage that you want. And then down here you have all the editing controls. So at the very bottom you have 360 reframe, you have edit, you have music, text, effects, Dolby vision, which is sort of like a color grade and then snapshot. Snapshot is just to take a screenshot. So I'm going to go into the 360 reframe and you're going to have a couple options right here. So you can either have right here, which is the views just like you saw on desktop, or you can hit the goggles, which basically just does exactly what your goggles saw. So if you were looking around in the goggles, you can do that. Or you can AI edit it, which basically just picks the framing for you. So I'm just going to have a front view for now. All right. So let's come into the clip. Here is the little Canyon that I went through. And basically what I want to do is just rotate backwards. So again, I'm just going to add a key frame. So right around here, I'm going to hit the orange key frame button. And this seems like it's tilted a little bit to the right, so I'm going to recenter it and then I'm going to scroll ahead to the end of the Canyon, add another key frame. On this side, I just want it to turn backwards. So let's go all the way backwards and then update key frame. Cool. And so already in just a couple seconds, I have this cool shot right here. So that is key frames. You can also do tracking. So it's the same thing as on the app. Then right next to it is movement. Movement is just sort of like preset movements. So you can do 360 right. So this is just going to do a big 360 throughout the whole thing. Left to right. So it goes left. Fixed is just a interesting perspective. Skies. It kind of looks up at the skies and then back down. You kind of get the picture. You can just mess around with it and pick one that you like. So I'm going to confirm. And then another really cool feature of this is actually sick. You guys are going to be stoked. So basically, you can record like this and save them as key frames. So it's going to look really funny, but basically I'm just going to scroll around. I'm going to start the recording here. So let's go start recording and I can move around so I can follow this little rock here and come down. And if I want to do this transition, I could go like that straight up to the back. And then when you're done, you just hit stop recording and all of those are good. So if I hit play, it is exactly what I did with my phone. This feature is something that I'm definitely going to use because I honestly would rather do something like that than do like the tedious key frame version. So we are back at the homepage. So I just want to kind of show you some of this other stuff. So here, if you select the clip, you can do speed, which basically like you can pick the entire clip, speed it up, slow it down, everything like that. Or you can pick a little segment to do that with. You can kind of just do like speed ramping. And then you can add the motion ND, which is something that I would definitely recommend doing. It does the same thing as the desktop version. You can also add things like stats. You can kind of like control this panel here, which is something that's kind of cool to see. So I'm going to discard that. OK, so again, like I mentioned, you can add text, you can do effects. This Dolby Vision is essentially like a color grade. I prefer to color grade stuff on my own. I just have a pack of four LUTs that you can actually find out in the description if you're interested in color grading like how I do. So I'm going to turn that off for now, but that is a really quick and easy way to do it. All right. So now you're at the point where you need to export. So just click in the top right and then you can change your export settings here. So I would definitely recommend, again, exporting in 4K frame rate. Keep that the same bit rate. Keep that the same watermark setting. I would not do that, but you can do that if you want to just show off what you shot the clip on. So I'm going to turn that off and then remove grain again. That's just another really nice effect that will just kind of take out some of that grain that sometimes happens. Save to album and boom, it'll export to your phone. So as you can see, the possibilities are just absolutely unlimited with the A1. I'm so stoked about this drone and honestly, the editing, once you know how to do it, becomes really fun. But that is it for this video. I know it's a bit of a long and in-depth one, but if you do have any extra questions, make sure to leave them in the comments down below and I'll get back to you. And again, if you haven't already bought the drone, you can use the link down in the description below for 15% off. Thank you so much for watching and make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss any of my A1 content going forward. All right. See you in the next one. Peace.