iPhone 4s owners, can you choose between 720p/1080p video recording?

[henrikrox]

After seeing this test

the 1080p lags crazy and has weird artifacts on the iPhone 4. And looses to the galaxy s2.

Anyone know if you can choose to record in 720p instead?

 

[iBreatheApple]

Nope, sorry. Maybe in a future update, I don't know if that's something technically possible. I don't see why not, though, as "normal" cameras can do it.

 

[henrikrox]

thats just weird, oh well

from what i have seen of 1080p recording, it looks messy

 

[iBreatheApple]

For what it's worth, my 1080P looks nothing like that. It looks great.

 

[JonoX]

Those are YouTube/encoding problems and not indicative of issues with the iPhone 4S.

 

[BadMoon]

Couldn't you record it in 1080p and then downgrade it through iMovie if you wanted to? I think that would work.

 

[iBreatheApple]

Couldn't you record it in 1080p and then downgrade it through iMovie if you wanted to? I think that would work.

Yes, in fact, iMovie downgrades it to 720p automatically because it says the frame-rate is 24fps and not 30...

 

[Metal Dice]

I have had a discussion running with some people about this video.
In the end we all agreed that this is far from what the iPhone 4S video quality actually looks like.

Take a look at this video instead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubrOG1N_jcw
As you can see there is a huge difference, the OP's video is somehow edited for the worse. Don't believe everything you see on the internet.

 

[groovyf]

There was a thread on here comparing the 4S and a 5D Mark II...
There's nothing wrong at all with the 4S video. That one in the OP here isn't reflective of its quality.

 

[ShionoyaTamaki]

uploading video to youtube isn't the best way to compare quality. Youtube re-encodes or transcode. Maybe upload the raw 1080p to a file sharing site and let others download to view/compare?

 

[tivoboy]

other apps

The filmic app (great app, allows for selective exposure and focus areas! allows one to throttle the video to 720p

 

[henrikrox]

thanks guys

of course you can export the movie with imovie to 720p later, but the 1080p raw size is bigger then the 720p one. Guess I'm going 64gb when it comes to norway.

anyways, thanks for the video metal dice, i did notice some square artifacts in the video. but maybe thats youtube's fault. much more impressive their anyways

 

[Jimbo47]

I had no problems with video. Took just a few random videos, plugged in my phone, opened up the video, hooked laptop up to the big screen, and it looked amazing.

I did notice though, it doesn't do very well at all with artificial light. I know nature light is obviously going to make it look so much better, but it didn't look all to good filming inside than it did outside.

 

[Frenchjay]

This is definitely YouTube fault. Check out these macro shots from the 4s. They are very impressive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE4-c6CKGBQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Depth of field test

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAXuhbEfhY4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Here's someone that can use the camera properly!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp92v6JP43Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Remember to turn 1080p on