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iPhone 12 Pro iPhone 12 pro max HDR video recording is amazing give it a go. WOW!!!
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I went with 512 for this reason!
Will see this time next year to see how much it will take and i may review geating 512GB next year
Some of videos shot have been amazing. Someone posted a cinematic video documentary of Oakland, CA and it could’ve been a movie. I may have to exchange for a 512GB myself.
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1080p HDR:
65 MB @ 30 fps
100 MB @ 60 fps
4K HDR:
150 MB @ 24fps
190 MB @ 30fps
440 MB @ 60 fps
thanks and wow! better back those on my NAS but on the other hand I am not actually sure what device I own can play them.
I agree! My first video with the 12 pro was amazing. My grandson was crawling around on a rug in a decently lit room. I was totally blown away when I looked at the vid. Looks so real and vibrant. Best videos I've ever seen come out of a phone or anything for that matter.
Watching it on the phone, don't think you can watch it on a tv, not supported, doesn't even work on a 4K Apple TV at the moment.You mean watching it on the phone after or thru a tv?
To much work 😂 rather air play, maybe the new rumoured Apple TV that is being released soon will support it. 😊
You can actually watch this on your Apple TV. If you turn on photo syncing on your Apple TV and play the video through your photo app, it will trigger HDR. It does on my LG C9. Dolby Vision however does not trigger yet. I have a normal Pro but I also uploaded this short test video to YouTube directly from my phone and it looks phenomenal. It might take a couple refreshes in the YouTube app to trigger HDR on the phone but it should work.
I just googled and found that video. It is damn good. I'm not from Oakland specifically, but I am from the bay area. My Company is moving its headquarters to Oakland.
How do we get the video into our photo app from YouTube though?
There is been issues, for me and a lot of people getting HDR to play from the phone to Apple TV. I can't get it to work by AirPlaying from my 12 to my ATV 4k. It wont trigger HDR, let alone Dolby Vision. Even using the footage I have on my icloud account I know is HDR, if I play it back via the photos app on my Apple TV 4K, it doesn't play in any kind of HDR.
I have an LG C8.
I was hoping 14.3 would fix these issues but so far not yet. That is interesting you got something to play from your apple TV, even if it's just HDR and not Dolby Vision.
For those who considered more storage because of HDR footage, just an FYI that when you turn on HDR it forces you to use the High Efficiency codec. So if you shoot at 4K30, it actually takes up LESS space (By almost half) that it did if you used the standard codec for SDR at 4K60. Even using HDR 4K60 takes up about 440 mB per minute. I had originally bought a 512 thinking I would for sure need the space for HDR video, but after seeing the space it would use up and it not being really any worse than Most Compatible 4K60 which is even more than I shot in before.
My phone is our families main camera on trips and for video of our kids, but I decided to just stay with 256 GB. My phone is always more than half empty and when we do go on trips, I offload the video anyway after the trip so 256 GB is still plenty for us, even with me shooting in HDR in now.
My phone is our families main camera on trips and for video of our kids, but I decided to just stay with 256 GB. My phone is always more than half empty and when we do go on trips, I offload the video anyway after the trip so 256 GB is still plenty for us, even with me shooting in HDR in now.
Let me explain, my first post may not have been clear, my bad. I uploaded my video directly from my phone into my YouTube app just to see if it would play in HDR on YouTube, But that has nothing to do with the photos app, totally separate. Although You could upload to YouTube then open YouTube on your LG C8 and watch it in HDR if you really wanted too.
Airplay right now doesn’t work with HDR or DV, so What I meant by that was if you go onto your Apple TV and go into the photos app and turn on iCloud sync so that whatever photos are on your phone are synced to your Apple TV 4K “natively”. This includes video. So when you go into the photos app directly on the Apple TV and play from there, it will play in HDR as long as you have match frame rate and dynamic range set to on
You can see in the top right of this pic it shows the HDR symbol.
Thank you for the clarification. You actually did do a pretty good job explaining it originally.
So I do have my photos app synced to my Apple TV and my Apple TV has Match Frame and Range and all that enabled. But when I play a video in the photos.app I know for a fact is HDR, it does not trigger my TV into HDR. What is weird though is when I go to play a video, the screen blanks out like it's changing...something. I know it's not changing resolution as it outputs everything in 4k.
It blanks out the same way it does when it's triggering HDR, except in this case it doesn't trigger anything. You just have the raw video you shot synced to your icloud photos right? It's the original DV footage and your TV plays it as HDR?
I keep my Apple TV 4K on 4K SDR and it only triggers HDR or DV as needed. I wonder if that's a factor at all.
That’s very odd that it blanks out like it’s trying to match the range and then doesn’t. Dumb question but have you rebooted it at all? Can’t hurt to try I guess. I also only use 4K SDR and have it adjust itself as needed.Thank you for the clarification. You actually did do a pretty good job explaining it originally.
So I do have my photos app synced to my Apple TV and my Apple TV has Match Frame and Range and all that enabled. But when I play a video in the photos.app I know for a fact is HDR, it does not trigger my TV into HDR. What is weird though is when I go to play a video, the screen blanks out like it's changing...something. I know it's not changing resolution as it outputs everything in 4k.
It blanks out the same way it does when it's triggering HDR, except in this case it doesn't trigger anything. You just have the raw video you shot synced to your icloud photos right? It's the original DV footage and your TV plays it as HDR?
I keep my Apple TV 4K on 4K SDR and it only triggers HDR or DV as needed. I wonder if that's a factor at all.
That is correct, it’s the raw video no edits at all that pops up as HDR. I hope it starts to work for you soon, I’m sure once Apple updates the Apple TV, it should work. I really don’t think they will keep that as a feature exclusive to next Apple TV.
Yeah I did reboot today as well as messed with Some settings. I actually have the new beta for 14.3 installed. I was hoping it would fix this issue but nope.
I’ve been hoping they can update the Apple TV to support this functionality. I wouldn’t think it would require a new Apple TV. If you look at the website for the iPhone 12 it clearly says in the section about Dolby Vision how you can share you Dolby Vision clips directly to an AirPlay 2 compatible TV OR Apple TV. So this functionality has gotta be coming.
Of course you can at least see HDR videos via the photos app and I don’t even have that. (For the record my TV switches to HDR/DV) just fine for movie content.)
I hear that the iPhones Dolby Vision recording using a very new Dolby vision profile. I’m beginning to worry that maybe my TV isn’t compatible or something. Though I was hoping if I just go through the Apple TV it would negate the profile.
I just hope they fix this so we can AirPlay like it says we should be able to do.
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This is what I’m thinking too. I hate to dot but I’m already with 80 GB left on the 265