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iPhone 5 video looks like crap when uploaded to FB

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Matt8045

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Mar 2, 2012
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Had same issue with previous iPhone. Is it impossible for a video to get uploaded to FB and come out with the same quality that I have on my phone? Seems like so much quality gets lost with compression on the upload, what's the point of a high quality camera if all quality is lost when you want to share the video?!
 
Me thinks you're blaming the phone when you should be blaming Facebook.

Anyway, I don't upload videos to Facebook but it's probably one of those deals where if you're not on wifi it compresses it. I think YouTube does the same thing
 
Ah. Will try shortly when I'm on wifi hopefully I get different results. I'm not blaming the phone it just seems redundant to build in a top knotch camera if quality is gonna be lost on FB/YouTube uploads, but it could be cause I'm on lte at the moment.
 
I've noticed this before with other devices that upload directly to Facebook. You might be better off uploading to Youtube then posting that to Facebook.
 
You should really google compression rates, you might learn something new.
 
I noticed in the Facebook settings in the Settings menu there was an option for "Record HD Video" that was defaulted to off. Could this help any? Haven't tried it myself yet.
 
There's an option in Settings > Facebook to upload HD quality. Choose "on".

BJ
 
uploading from the phone, no matter if you are on LTE 4g 2g wifi whatever, it is going to compress it going to facebook. nothing to do about the phone or camera , just the facebook app. you can upload to youtube using HD , there is an option when you go to share the video.
 
In addition, while watchin over facebook, make sure the facebook video player has "HD" set to on. Even after setting once, you will have to set it again after some time, it keeps going back to off
 
boltjames said:
There's an option in Settings > Facebook to upload HD quality. Choose "on".

BJ
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it's "record HD" doesn't change the upload or compression of the video once it's already recorded, haven't tested recording video directly in the app because i doubt anyone uses facebook to record video.
 
komiothebeat said:
it's "record HD" doesn't change the upload or compression of the video once it's already recorded, haven't tested recording video directly in the app because i doubt anyone uses facebook to record video.
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I'm uploading videos from my library not directly off the FB app. I'm going to try uploading to YouTube then sharing onto FB.
 
I uploaded to YouTube, quality looks terrible, BUT I'm uploading on lte my wifi is down. I'll upload again later when it's up and keep my fingers crossed for quality that resembles how it looks on my phone.

http://youtu.be/_PR5nB1yg14
 
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