360° Video Recorder (Insta360 / GoPro MAX)

$15–25/hr

rate as listed

Workload: ~15h/week
Engagement: Project-based
Location: Worldwide
Field: Generalist

Capture third-person 360° video — walking, driving, and other everyday movement — using your own Insta360, GoPro MAX, or comparable camera on a harness or vehicle mount. Pay is observed at $20 per hour of footage that passes quality review, not per hour worked.

What the work involves

You record continuous third-person video of yourself moving through real environments: walking through streets, indoor spaces, changing terrain, driving with the camera mounted to the vehicle, and in some task sets animal-mounted POV footage. The defining constraint is the camera position — mounted above and behind you on a rigid backpack, harness, or extension pole, angled slightly downward, far enough back that your entire body stays in frame alongside the surrounding scene. Selfie sticks, chest mounts, shoulder clips, and tripods are explicitly rejected. Each clip must run at least 60 seconds unbroken at 720p or better, and the batch should span varied activities and settings rather than repeating one route.

The footage trains embodied and navigation-oriented AI models, which is why framing consistency matters more than cinematic quality. A clip where you drift out of frame, or where the rig wobbles enough to lose the environment, is a clip that fails review — and unapproved footage is unpaid.

What the screen looks for

micro1's screening is AI-led and short. It checks concrete things: which camera you actually own and its FOV and resolution, whether you already have a compatible backpack rig or vehicle mount, whether you can describe a stable third-person setup rather than a handheld one, and how much footage per week you can realistically produce. Expect follow-ups on file handling — resolution settings, stitched vs. dual-lens output, storage and upload of large 360° files. Vague answers about "having a GoPro somewhere" tend to end the conversation.

Logistics

Remote contractor work, fully self-scheduled; you record when weather, daylight, and your routes allow.
Rate is observed at $20 per approved video hour (PPT), based on footage accepted after quality review.
You must already own or have access to a qualifying camera. Mounting hardware is not required to apply, and reasonable equipment costs may be reimbursed.
Start date depends on shipping time for any equipment sent to you; existing rig owners can typically begin sooner.
Expect meaningful unpaid time around each paid hour: setup, travel, transfers, and reshoots of rejected clips.

Before you apply

Would you pass this screen?

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Do you currently own or have direct access to a 360° or action camera with at least a 170° field of view and 720p recording?
Qualifying camera · required
Are you willing to record with the camera mounted above and behind you on a harness, backpack, or extension pole rather than handheld or chest-mounted?
Third-person mounting · required
Do you already own a third-person backpack or harness mount, or a secure vehicle camera mount?
Existing rig · preferred
Do you have access to a vehicle you can drive for vehicle-navigation recordings?
Vehicle access · preferred
Do you have internet and storage capable of uploading multiple hours of high-resolution 360° video per week?
File upload capacity · required
Can you begin collecting footage within two weeks of receiving any shipped mounting equipment?
Immediate availability · preferred

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Interview prep — 10 questions

Matched to what this platform's screening actually measures. Answer each out loud in 60–90 seconds: claim → concrete example → implication.

What it tests: Whether you have hands-on access to qualifying hardware right now, rather than intending to buy or borrow it.
A strong answer: Name the exact model and firmware-era (e.g. Insta360 X4), state the FOV and the resolution mode you'd record in, and say whether you own it outright or have reliable access to it.
Where people lose it: Saying you 'can get access to' a camera through a friend or rental — the screen treats that as not owning one, and models below 170° FOV or 720p are filtered out immediately regardless of brand.

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