Need some help with camera settings

[bcemail]

My daughter and I were using our phones to take some videos last night. I have 16 pro and she has a 16, both current iOS. We were both using the selfie camera and they were set up very close to each other aimed at her as she was speaking so basically the same lighting and angles.

Her videos came out with a much warmer tone than mine. She of course did not like my videos which made her look washed out and "chopped" (I'm down with the lingo). I'm guessing there is some kind of filter on one of our cameras but I couldn't find it in settings and she didn't remember what she did. Is there a setting that controls this? I can only find filters you set each time you open the camera app and we didn't change these while filming.

Also, when uploading to my PC to edit, my videos and photos needed a codec downloaded but hers didn't. Is this controlled by setting>camera>formats most compatible? I know I've run into a problem before using heic in certain programs, any real reason not to just use jpeg/h264? The videos seemed to be mpeg when saved to my PC, is that something done automatically? She uploaded to Google drive and then I pulled them from there so not sure where they might have been converted in the process.

Thanks!!

 

[Ruggy]

I think what might have happened is your daughter was shooting in SDR and you were shooting in HDR and that required a codec when you uploaded to a windows machine( HDR HEVC) and hers (SDR H.264) didn't.
The SDR contained the meta data which Windows can interpret the HDR contained metadata that Windows often either mishandles or ignores. This only happens uploading to Windows a Mac would deal with this.
The SD video images will appear much warmer than the HD images and you will see lots of complaints about this on the net. It is Windows at fault though.
Yes H-264 is the SD format as you stated and just change to SD as previously stated with most compatible
That's the simplest solution.
If you want to try to change your HD images to see what happens, it isn't a conversion of format that's needed it's 'tone mapping'. It'll probably take ages

So you would tone map to Rec.709 before sharing: Handbrake (free) will do it, DaVinci Resolve(free) will do it, Adobe Premiere Pro and Final cut pro will do it.
I'd give Handbrake a go.
Open Handbrake: load HDR video.
Video tab: Encoder H.264, Framerate -same as source
Filter tab; Enable HDR → SDR tone mapping, Color space: Rec.709, Tone mapping method: BT.2390 or Hable.
Export

 

[bcemail]

I think what might have happened is your daughter was shooting in SDR and you were shooting in HDR and that required a codec when you uploaded to a windows machine( HDR HEVC) and hers (SDR H.264) didn't.

Thanks, this sounds like what might have happened. Also I realized that she first looked at her videos on her MacBook before uploading to her Drive. Maybe that step encoded the video differently.

I realized I don't usually watch my videos on my PC so I probably just never noticed. I checked and I don't have HDR turned on in settings but I did just switch from High Efficiency to Most Compatible so maybe that will help? I'll transfer some videos to my PC soon to test it out and then I'll give handbrake a try to convert.

Thanks!