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First Look At The Video Quality =)

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arn said:
can anyone explain why the aspect ratios of the two videos are different?

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Yep, in iMovie it is very easy to crop clips down to the aspect ratio you want to use. The second movie has a sound track and has several clips stitched together so it's certainly been through some kind of video editing tool.
 
woah… the video quality is sooo much better than the Nokia N96. Apple dont care about the extra megapixels they just want good sensors in their camera with good colour and framerates and rightly so.
 
davidChief said:
Yep, in iMovie it is very easy to crop clips down to the aspect ratio you want to use. The second movie has a sound track and has several clips stitched together so it's certainly been through some kind of video editing tool.
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That's kind of a pointless crop, unless you're obsessed with the "look" of 16:9. My gut is unless the iPhone shoots 16:9 horizontally it's not an iPhone video.
 
If that video is shot on the 3GS, it is more impressive than I expected.
 
yup, says "Shoot video in widescreen," so that could be it. Not sure if the aspect really works out, but could be close. And certainly makes sense to have a landscape export fit YouTube widescreen. I'll be very happy if this is the quality.
 
Quality is pretty impressive. Could you maybe see how it does with fast-paced moving objects? Maybe throw a ball and record it, or record some cars whizzing by. Just like to see how smooth it is.

Also, how long does trimming take?
 
Great for a phone. A little shaky in the car but not bad at all. I'm happy I'll have a decent camera on me at all times now.
 
williamgallas10 said:
I hope not, that looks like crap.
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For a cell phone? Do you have examples you can link to of a cell phone that looks better? (And did you click the "HQ" button on Youtube?)

As for these videos, I'm not sure if they're real or not. They WERE taken with a CMOS chip, so that's correct, but certainly doesn't prove anything since they're pretty popular with video cameras now. But it's one detail that's right, anyway.

The 2 aspect ratios is curious, but I could imagine the phone havinga an option in settings that let you pick 4x3 or 16x9. That wouldn't surprise me at all, so maybe that's what's happening here. Actually, look at the icons on the box in each video. To me it does look like the widescreen one is anamorphic, so that WOULD support this theory.

So yes, I believe this was shot with a CMOS chip on a 640x480 camera that shoots 2 different aspect ratios.

I feel safe saying that much, but I have no idea if it's an iPhone or some other camera that does that.

EDIT: Looks like people are saying it does shoot both aspect ratios, so that's another point towards this being real.
 
So how big were those movie files on your iPhone once you were done taking them? I'm still torn between a 16gb and 32gb as I really don't know how much room I need to look at for extraneous movie and/or pictures.
 
borekk said:
So how big were those movie files on your iPhone once you were done taking them? I'm still torn between a 16gb and 32gb as I really don't know how much room I need to look at for extraneous movie and/or pictures.
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I really don't see why people don't just go with the 32g. For the amount we pay in service each month, what's another $100? Besides, when you sell the phone eventually you will get at least $100 more for having the 32gb. I currently just have a 16gb ipod touch and have 5 gb free, but I got the 32gb for all these reasons.

Back to this topic though...I really hope this video is real. I know not much is really going on, but the quality looks great. Assuming this is real, I'd also like to see how the video can handle fast movements.
 
STEVESKI07 said:
Assuming this is real, I'd also like to see how the video can handle fast movements.
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Watch the driving video when he points the camera out the side towards the houses.

That' a pretty fast shot! (The stretching you see on the houses in that part is how I know it's a CMOS chip, by the way.)
 
Phil A. said:
The fact that the point of the thread is to show the video quality of the 3GS doesn't automatically mean the video is shot on the 3GS. Call me cynical, but people have been known to mislead others on the internet - I'm not saying you fall into that classification but you can't be too careful... ;)

Don't get me wrong, I hope it is from the 3GS, and I do want to believe you, but until there is definite proof I'm going to keep the salt handy...
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what a good skeptic you are! now if only the rest of the world would use that same level of skepticality for things like the christian/muslim/jewish gods
 
Definitely better than the video from my 3G, but the quality still doesn't seem good enough where you would want to use it regularly.
 
VERY impressed. Looks about the same as my Canon Powershot's, which is the only thing I shoot video with. Two days...
 
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