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iPhone 15 Pro Supports Recording ProRes Video Directly to External Storage

This is great as I recently switched to high speed external NVME storage due to 2021 16” (base) MBP being out of space for editing!! This is a HUGE DEAL for workflow!!! (and utilizing AV1/ProRes)
 
Macalicious2011 said:
It will be cheaper to buy an ssd with a usb3 cable then apples official cable. However, the cables that are provided with USB drives tend to be very short.
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True... but a short cable will probably be a benefit if you have the phone and the SSD in a handheld rig.

Otherwise you'll have to coil up all the excess cable.

😋
 
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Michael Scrip said:
True... but a short cable will probably be a benefit if you have the phone and the SSD in a handheld rig.

Otherwise you'll have to coil up all the excess cable.

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Indeed. There will be multipacks with different cable lengths for little money. USB C accessory industry is about to blow up! Good time ahead :D.

I purchased a Samsung T7 for my MacBook two weeks ago. It’s been brilliant as an editing drive with my M1 MacBook. Rending files are written Almost as quickly as on the native storage. Looking forward to using it with an iPhone 15 pro.
 
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Macalicious2011 said:
Indeed. There will be multipacks with different cable lengths for little money. USB C accessory industry is about to blow up! Good time ahead :D.

I purchased a Samsung T7 for my MacBook two weeks ago. It’s been brilliant as an editing drive with my M1 MacBook. Rending files are written Almost as quickly as on the native storage. Looking forward to using it with an iPhone 15 pro.
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Exactly.

I have a few Samsung T5 and T7 drives... and I think the cables they came with were about 12 inches.

But I recently bought some little 6-inch USB-C cables. They're great for connecting SSDs to my M1 Macbook Air.

And I can also use those same cables on my next iPhone!

The "universal" in Universal Serial Bus has a whole new meaning!

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Will It be able to record non-ProRes to an external drive? I don’t work with ProRes as HEVC is just as good for me and PR takes up a ton of space.
 
lazyrighteye said:
Sorry. While iPhone Pros' cameras are impressive, Oppenheimer was shot entirely on IMAX 65mm and Panavision 65mm film using some of the highest-resolution film cameras available. Barbie was shot on an Ari Alexa 65 (kind of the iPhone of the filmmaking world). 😉
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65mm, Alexa, iPhone... it's all just hair splitting at this point (heavy sarcasm).
 
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I’m curious… no mentions of MFi on the cables for the new iPhones… will regular TB3 or TB4 cables work? We all know the huge mess USB C is so it would be great to have a guide on that
 
fs454 said:
I work in production and we get asked all the time to shoot on iPhone. Organic-looking content / ads / etc performs better than pro high end looking content in many cases. We shoot large arena concerts for top 40 artists and lately we've been asked to have someone roaming with an iPhone capturing moments in that format also. All the local equipment rental houses in LA have iPhone 14 Pro Max units you can rent, and that's usually what we do so we don't have to think about dealing with managing our own iPhone's storage. Now we can just plug in an SSD and go for it.
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We were actually asked to spec out how to use a bunch of iPhone 12 Pro Max to stream a golf tournament a few years ago. On-course bandwidth and limited zoom were the two main problems we ran into. We specced standard cameras for the greens and 12 pro max for the fairway/following shots.. It would have saved them tens of thousands of dollars. In the end they didn't do it, but it would have been plenty viable.
 
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falkon-engine said:
Already we see the power of USB at work, enabling better outcomes for certain use cases, in this case, recording ProRes to external storage. Apple had no business being stuck on USB2 speeds on ”Pro” iPhones for so long. The Samsung T7 is one of many devices that will be good for external media… it reads/writes at 1000 MB/sec, and it has declined dramatically in price. Also many thunderbolt NVME enclosures have a USB3 10 Gbps fallback, so they could be used for external USB storage as well.

What I’m curious about is the display port aspect of the USB-c solution. Will the new phones support the native resolution and aspect ratio of external monitors? Because if so, I could foresee gaming on iphone. Connect a mouse/controller via Bluetooth and game on the external monitor/display. Or connect everything via a thunderbolt / usb-c dock.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out, now that iPhone has a faster GPU with ray tracing and other features. I like that Apple is dedicating time, money, engineering resources, and silicon to AAA gaming… that is exciting.
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i see the Samsung t7 shield as the gold standard so I will pick that one up. The base t7 might work but there are some vendors that call our the t7 shield by name.
 
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Now that Samsung t7 4tb ssd is gonna get a workout. Samsung needs to make a clip to put that on the back of the phone to snap on. Leaves 5tb with on board and external
 
People are saying this is because Apple doesn't want users storage to fill up too quick, but they had no problem limiting features to the higher storage model the previous years. I honestly think it's an overheating issue to not allow it to record 4k60 on device.
 
lazyrighteye said:
Sorry. While iPhone Pros' cameras are impressive, Oppenheimer was shot entirely on IMAX 65mm and Panavision 65mm film using some of the highest-resolution film cameras available. Barbie was shot on an Ari Alexa 65 (kind of the iPhone of the filmmaking world). 😉
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If the iPhone 16 Ultra doesn’t shoot iMax 65mm video I’m not buying one.
 
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fdrizzo88 said:
Does anyone know what flavor of ProRes the 15 Pro will use or what the 14 is using? Proxy/LT/422/422HQ? Probably safe to assume 4:4:4:4 will not be a thing🤣. I’m still running an older iPhone that can‘t shoot it. Might be time to give Filmic Pro another look after the upgrade.
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ProRes 422
 
Log is the bigger deal here. None of these sites and YouTubers ever ask the real questions. Is dynamic tone mapping bypassed when we shoot log?

are we getting shutter speed control? Is VFR going away?
 
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lazyrighteye said:
Nailed it for 99.9% of iPhone 15 Pro owners.

I was just messaging with a killer videographer friend the same thing: that a phone is capable of shooting ProRes 4K at 60 fps, direct to external, is insane. Just knowing that is possible it 1/2 the deal. Joked about having that capacity as 12-yos when were were running around with VHS camera on our shoulders trying to be the next Spielberg. That no one will do this is so far beside the point. People could. Kids will. It's ridiculous. I can't stop grinning.
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I also think indie filmmakers and film students will make great use of this.
Oh and probably wedding videographers.
 
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henkie said:
Again, those defending the lightning port are getting awfully quiet….”Can not innovate anymore, my ass”, this time thanks to a big nudge/kick in the behind from the EU.
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The Lightning port is better than the USB-C especially for the most important thing: How does it feel to insert a cable into the port. And in the dark there is no competition.
 
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