10 Best 360 Video and Photo Editors of 2026

Insta360 Studio ranks first because most people asking how to edit 360 video own an Insta360 camera, and Studio is the editor the company builds for those files. Insta360 describes it as a desktop 360 video editor with reframing tools for creating both flat videos and immersive 360/VR content. You add keyframes to aim the virtual camera and Studio animates between them, and its manual also covers Deep Track, Auto Frame, FOV adjustment, LUTs and Dolby Vision. The recent v6.0.7 and v6.0.8 updates added stickers, text tracks, one-click effects and full-resolution export of 360 snapshots, which also makes it a quick way to pull still 360 photos from video. Insta360 offers it as a direct download with no price on the page, so we left the price check pending. The limits are clear: it is designed for Insta360's own cameras, and Insta360 recommends 16GB of RAM plus a GTX 1660 or an Apple M1 chip or newer.

Final Cut Pro is the strongest pick for Mac owners who want 360 work to live inside a real editing timeline. Apple's user guide has a whole section on 360-degree video: importing clips, creating 360 projects, reorienting footage, adding 360 effects, titles and generators, the 360-degree Patch effect for hiding a tripod, a Tiny Planet effect and sharing finished 360 clips. You can also drop standard clips into a 360 project or place 360 clips in a normal project and pick the view, which covers the common reframing job. Apple's Final Cut Pro page lists Apple Creator Studio at $12.99 per month or $129 per year for new subscribers after a 30-day free trial. The downsides are that it runs only on the Mac, some features need Apple silicon, and camera-specific steps such as stitching .insv or .360 files still happen in the camera maker's app first.

DaVinci Resolve gives 360 shooters the deepest toolset for the money. Blackmagic's Fusion page includes PanoMap, a LatLong Patcher, a spherical stabilizer and a 3D VR camera, which together let you rotate the horizon, unwrap part of an equirectangular frame for cleanup and stabilize spherical footage. Blackmagic's release notes for Resolve Studio 21 add initial VR180 and VR360 immersive workflow support along with delivery presets for Meta Quest and YouTube. Insta360 also publishes a reframing plugin for Resolve 20.0.1 or later. The catch is resolution: Blackmagic says the free version works at up to Ultra HD 3840 x 2160, while 360 cameras usually record above that, so serious 360 work points to DaVinci Resolve Studio, which the Blackmagic page listed at $236, down from $295, as a one-time purchase when we checked. Expect a learning curve, since most spherical work is done with Fusion nodes rather than simple sliders.

PTGui is the specialist for 360 photos rather than video. It stitches overlapping shots into fully spherical 360 x 180 panoramas and supports equirectangular, rectilinear and stereographic projections, so the same source can become a VR image, an architectural view or a Little Planet. PTGui's site says its OpenCL GPU stitching handles a 1 gigapixel panorama in about 25 seconds on modest hardware, and the feature table lists multi-row stitching, fisheye support, a panorama editor for perspective, vignetting and exposure correction, layered Photoshop output and a batch stitcher. PTGui Pro adds HDR stitching, masking, viewpoint correction and a Patch Tool, which matter for removing a tripod or fixing parallax. The trial is fully functional with no time limit but watermarks output. Prices are set per customer currency on the order page, so the USD check is pending. For one-shot 360 cameras that stitch in camera, it is more than most owners need.

GoPro Player is the simplest starting point for anyone with a GoPro MAX and a Mac. GoPro's App Store listing describes Reframe, which turns 360 footage into flat shots with a click of a keyframe, plus horizon leveling, World Lock to set the orientation of MAX videos, Freeze Frame and frame-accurate trimming. Batch export converts footage to spherical or traditional .mp4 files at 5.6K, 4K or custom resolutions in HEVC, H.264 or Apple ProRes, ready for a bigger editor. The app is free on the Mac App Store. Read the footnotes, though: GoPro says HyperSmooth Pro, the paid stabilization upgrade, is not available for 360 content, and lens correction also depends on that purchase. It is also a player and converter rather than an editor, with no multitrack timeline, titles or color tools, so most people pair it with Final Cut Pro, Premiere or DaVinci Resolve once the reframe is done.

Adobe Premiere suits editors who deliver 360 and VR video as part of a professional workflow. Adobe's documentation describes Immersive Video effects and transitions under their own categories, built for equirectangular footage so they avoid visible seams at the back of the sphere and at the top and bottom poles. VR Rotate Sphere rotates a clip on any axis to set the front view or level a horizon, VR Projection fixes clips with mismatched layouts or resolutions, and the immersive effects detect a clip's VR properties automatically. Insta360 also ships a Reframe plugin for Premiere 2021 and later that reframes .insv and MP4 360 files directly on the timeline. The trade-off is cost and complexity: Premiere is subscription only, and Adobe's plan page did not show a verifiable USD price from our location, so the price check is pending. Owners who only reframe clips for social media will move faster in Insta360 Studio or GoPro Player.

PowerDirector 365 is a budget all-rounder that happens to handle 360 video. CyberLink's spec sheet lists equirectangular MP4 import and export in H.264 and H.265, and states that PowerDirector supports editing up to 4K resolution in a 2:1 aspect ratio, with a DirectX 11 compatible GPU required for 360 video. That 4K ceiling is the main issue for owners of 5.7K and 8K cameras, who will lose resolution on export. In return, you get a broad consumer editor: the 365 plan includes 650+ transitions, 3,300+ effects, LUTs and stickers, 1,200 AI credits a year and 50GB of cloud storage. CyberLink's pricing page listed PowerDirector 365 at $69.99 per year, shown as $5.83 per month, and the Director Suite with PhotoDirector and AudioDirector at $125.99 per year. Stitch footage in your camera's app first, since PowerDirector takes equirectangular MP4 rather than raw dual-lens files.

Mistika VR is the professional tool on this list, built for stitching rather than editing. SGO calls it a VR-focused stitching solution for VR360 and VR180, using optical flow to blend overlapping lenses and reduce parallax problems. Every part of the stitch can be adjusted and animated with keyframes, and the toolset includes stereo 3D, edge points, color match, one-click stabilization and an Autocalibrate feature. It imports gyroscope metadata from cameras such as the Insta360 Pro 2 and Titan, Kandao Obsidian and QooCam 8K, and it can stream a live preview to the free DeoVR player so you can check work in a headset without rendering. SGO says Nvidia GPU encoding runs faster than real time for 4K VR, with Apple ProRes output on macOS and Windows. Pricing is listed in euros from 49 EUR per month on SGO's site, so the USD check is pending. Most consumer 360 cameras stitch well enough in their own apps, which makes Mistika VR overkill for casual owners.

Filmora is the easiest way here to turn a 360 clip into a flat video with motion presets. Wondershare's guide for Filmora on Mac explains that 360 clips are recognized from spherical or equirectangular metadata in standard MP4 files, then reframed in the Property Panel with FOV, horizontal angle, vertical angle and roll controls. A 360 Panorama Monitor lets you drag around the scene first, display presets switch between Wide Angle, Linear, Fisheye and Tiny Planet, and downloadable motion presets such as Orbit, Slow Push and Sky Flip add camera moves in one click. Keyframes cover custom moves. The limits are stated plainly: Filmora 16 exports the reframed result as a flat video, and exporting a complete interactive 360 video is not supported yet. Mac users also need macOS 11 or later and an M1 chip. Wondershare's store listed the Basic plan at $49.99 per year when we checked.

Pano2VR answers a different need from the video editors above: what to do with 360 photos once they are stitched. Garden Gnome describes it as virtual tour software that turns panoramic photos, 360 videos, gigapixel images, 3D models and Gaussian Splats into interactive experiences for browsers. For editing, its Patch mode extracts a section of the panorama without distortion so you can remove a tripod in your usual photo editor, then applies the change back non-destructively; Garden Gnome also mentions an AI option for the same job. Tours can link scenes with hotspots, maps, floor plans and directional sound, and output as HTML5, through a WordPress plugin or with WebXR for Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest. It also supports gigapixel multi-resolution images for deep zoom. Garden Gnome prices licenses in euros, so the USD check is pending. If you only want to post a single 360 photo, your camera's app is enough.