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Beware of iPhone 6s in 16GB | 4K = 1GB a minute

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So there is going to be a huge problem for people choosing iPhone 6s in 16GB. That problem is 4K video recording.

Apple announced this amazing new feature for the 6s. The inherent problem with this upgrade is that the video size is going to increase dramatically. Currently with my iPhone 6, one hour of 1080p video takes up 10.1GB. Luckily most of us are not taking 1hour of video at a time, but all the little video clips add up quickly. This already means that the 16GB model did not leave much space for anything else when your taking video.

Now lets talk 4k Video. 4K is four times the resolution of 1080p. This means that file size is going to be gigantic even with the h.265 compression. For example Tears of the Sun, a 4K short filmed at 23 FPS (7 less that what the iPhone will shoot) is only 12minutes. The file size 11.9GB. That's about 1GB per minute. So after the 16GB format and ISO install you left with about 14GB giving you only 14min of Video space if you install nothing else on the phone.

Please take this into consideration if you are getting the 6s.
 
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As seen in MKBHD's video:

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If this is correct, and I'm not saying it isn't, it sounds like 128GB will be used up in a hurry as well. Sounds like we're going to need to transfer videos off of our phones if we want to keep space freed up.
 
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My concern is for those on low-data contracts using iCloud Photo Library. Dragging 4k videos down from the cloud is going to be the biggest problem. Remember that your Library takes up a fraction of its actual size when IPL is activated but requires the download of the full res images and videos every time.
 
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terraphantm said:
Video from the iPhone will be more compressed than a short film.
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You could be right. I was mainly going off of that it was already compressed with h.265. If I use the example someone else posted with 375MB per min its 22GB per hour.
 
skwood said:
As seen in MKBHD's video:

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Interesting they are finally allowing some user control of video size and quality. I wonder if they'll update the camera app to allow different resolutions and aspect ratios for photos as well. And if so, I wonder if the people who staunchly poopooed the need for it will herald it as "magical"?
 
I'm pretty sure 4K video shot on a tiny phone sensor and lens is going to look AMAZING!
 
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Cuniac said:
Now lets talk 4k Video. 4K is four times the resolution of 1080p. This means that file size is going to be gigantic even with the h.265 compression.
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Does anyone know whether iPhone 6s even support H.265 (HEVC) compression? I heard from various sources that FaceTime uses H.265, but iPhone 6s spec mentions only H.265 for video.
 
Cuniac said:
So there is going to be a huge problem for people choosing iPhone 6s in 16GB. That problem is 4K video recording.

Apple announced this amazing new feature for the 6s. The inherent problem with this upgrade is that the video size is going to increase dramatically. Currently with my iPhone 6, one hour of 1080p video takes up 10.1GB. Luckily most of us are not taking 1hour of video at a time, but all the little video clips add up quickly. This already means that the 16GB model did not leave much space for anything else when your taking video.

Now lets talk 4k Video. 4K is four times the resolution of 1080p. This means that file size is going to be gigantic even with the h.265 compression. For example Tears of the Sun, a 4K short filmed at 23 FPS (7 less that what the iPhone will shoot) is only 12minutes. The file size 11.9GB. That's about 1GB per minute. So after the 16GB format and ISO install you left with about 14GB giving you only 14min of Video space if you install nothing else on the phone.

Please take this into consideration if you are getting the 6s.
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No.

Data is wrong.

Predicaments are unlike how it works.
 
Please get facts right before stating your estimate as facts. We already know space needed for 4k video is 375mb/minute. See the picture above!
 
As mentioned above, 4K video does not take up 1 GB per minute.

The precise bitrate is 50 megabits / sec, which translates to 6.25 megabytes / sec or 375 megabytes / minute. This is barely more than 1/3 of the figure you are plucking out of thin air.

As to whether it is utilizing the HEVC codec... this is debatable. h.265 is supposed to provide the same quality at half the bitrate, and most 4k consumer digital cameras now record at 100Mbps. If we read the given bitrate of 50Mbps as an implication that the codec is h.265, that would be good, but I wouldn't put too much stock on that speculation.

Cuniac said:
So there is going to be a huge problem for people choosing iPhone 6s in 16GB. That problem is 4K video recording.

Apple announced this amazing new feature for the 6s. The inherent problem with this upgrade is that the video size is going to increase dramatically. Currently with my iPhone 6, one hour of 1080p video takes up 10.1GB. Luckily most of us are not taking 1hour of video at a time, but all the little video clips add up quickly. This already means that the 16GB model did not leave much space for anything else when your taking video.

Now lets talk 4k Video. 4K is four times the resolution of 1080p. This means that file size is going to be gigantic even with the h.265 compression. For example Tears of the Sun, a 4K short filmed at 23 FPS (7 less that what the iPhone will shoot) is only 12minutes. The file size 11.9GB. That's about 1GB per minute. So after the 16GB format and ISO install you left with about 14GB giving you only 14min of Video space if you install nothing else on the phone.

Please take this into consideration if you are getting the 6s.
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