So I am currently sharing my first video shot with cinematic video and thought I would share some thoughts and maybe spur some conversation.
This was the absolute one feature I was looking forward to, and that with the "97%" more light back wide camera were enough to upgrade from my 12PM that I only got last December 26th.
Just a few thoughts though.
1. Getting video off the phone is going to be a chore.
In order to actually keep the depth effect, apple says you need to Airdrop or use the photos app, you cannot use iMazing or third party apps, the video just comes out as 1080p video with no depth effects.
I have to wonder what people on Windows will have happen. Maybe I am missing something but the first file I used iMazing with was NOT in cinematic mode, and after using AirDrop and enabling everything as per the apple doc said, I was fine.
2. The video is just 1080p. It is only 30fps
This is either a grand conspiracy to get me to buy a new phone, or a legitimate limitation on hardware. The phone chews a lot of battery life using this mode, and gets warm. I would imagine that it is hardware related.
The 30fps problem exists. That is a shame. You can always setup a sequence or project as 24p and then drop the file, it should be fine but will add time to workflow.
This video I am sharing now I set at 60 and used optical flow to boost it. I wanted to see how it would hold up. That is NOT the proper thing to do, but I wanted to try it.
3. The video is always in HDR. This is a bit of a problem.
I hate working with HDR video. I thought with the iPhone 12 Pro Max I would make everything in HDR 10 Bit. I stopped doing that.
The files are huge when you export them, you have to create a new project or sequence to deal with wide gamut color, and the output files are literally 4x larger than if you had the same video with regular 8bit color.
Uploading this to youtube then takes you 4x as long, and youtube does not really deal with HDR well right now. I upload videos almost every day, and I am convinced that YT is putting HDR videos in the last part of the queue for video processing, it can take an HOUR or even more for the video to be ready to show anyone.
4. It works surprisingly well
I does work well. Even at a higher aperture there is a little bokeh (toneh... lol) and does not look like what my old Samsung s20 had, which looked like vasoline.
5. The colors are... nice but...
I still had to color grade the heck out of mine. It just looked a tad muted out of the box.
6. Do not expect to use the front camera in low light for this
The camera will give you a message telling you to get into a better lit place. You can still use it, but the resolution is horrid and the video is not usable really.
So there are some thoughts I thought I would share.
Thanks for reading and please do share yours as well.
This was the absolute one feature I was looking forward to, and that with the "97%" more light back wide camera were enough to upgrade from my 12PM that I only got last December 26th.
Just a few thoughts though.
1. Getting video off the phone is going to be a chore.
In order to actually keep the depth effect, apple says you need to Airdrop or use the photos app, you cannot use iMazing or third party apps, the video just comes out as 1080p video with no depth effects.
I have to wonder what people on Windows will have happen. Maybe I am missing something but the first file I used iMazing with was NOT in cinematic mode, and after using AirDrop and enabling everything as per the apple doc said, I was fine.
2. The video is just 1080p. It is only 30fps
This is either a grand conspiracy to get me to buy a new phone, or a legitimate limitation on hardware. The phone chews a lot of battery life using this mode, and gets warm. I would imagine that it is hardware related.
The 30fps problem exists. That is a shame. You can always setup a sequence or project as 24p and then drop the file, it should be fine but will add time to workflow.
This video I am sharing now I set at 60 and used optical flow to boost it. I wanted to see how it would hold up. That is NOT the proper thing to do, but I wanted to try it.
3. The video is always in HDR. This is a bit of a problem.
I hate working with HDR video. I thought with the iPhone 12 Pro Max I would make everything in HDR 10 Bit. I stopped doing that.
The files are huge when you export them, you have to create a new project or sequence to deal with wide gamut color, and the output files are literally 4x larger than if you had the same video with regular 8bit color.
Uploading this to youtube then takes you 4x as long, and youtube does not really deal with HDR well right now. I upload videos almost every day, and I am convinced that YT is putting HDR videos in the last part of the queue for video processing, it can take an HOUR or even more for the video to be ready to show anyone.
4. It works surprisingly well
I does work well. Even at a higher aperture there is a little bokeh (toneh... lol) and does not look like what my old Samsung s20 had, which looked like vasoline.
5. The colors are... nice but...
I still had to color grade the heck out of mine. It just looked a tad muted out of the box.
6. Do not expect to use the front camera in low light for this
The camera will give you a message telling you to get into a better lit place. You can still use it, but the resolution is horrid and the video is not usable really.
So there are some thoughts I thought I would share.
Thanks for reading and please do share yours as well.
