what's going on you guys today i'm going to be talking about
three new ways to shoot videos on the iphone so the iphone 13s which are the models from this year
so if you're wondering what these three modes are i'm talking about prores video format i'm
talking about the standard camera video mode and i'm talking about cinematic video modes two
of those ways to shoot are new this year on the iphone 13s but one of them you're already probably
familiar with the standard video camera but when i first got the iphone 13 pro max which is what i
have right here i decided to start shooting more videos with my iphone 13 because i make a lot of
videos for social media having something that's handy and easy to use faster to bring out and you
know still gives you good quality and you know it's been quite hard to find at least for me so
having this phone with these new modes are awesome when you first open the camera app
on the iphone 13 the first thing you see is the photo section and then you can swipe left to
see the video section so that video section the first one you come upon is the first video mode
we're talking about right now the standard video camera so this video mode gives you access to
the three upgraded cameras on the iphone 13s the wide ultra wide and the telephoto lens so
you can shoot with all three of them you can also shoot high dynamic range videos so hdr videos with
higher color fidelity and better brightness even better contrast so for the hdr videos you want to
make sure that you have it enabled in your camera settings so if that's not enabled you will not be
shooting hdr videos the videos will be standard definition so sdr instead okay so for pro res
what you need to know is it is not a video mode so this is not a video mode like cinematic or
standard video mode this is a video format prores is a high quality lossy video compression format
by apple used in post production it's already widely used as a final delivery format
for hd broadcast files like commercials blu-ray streaming etc it's essentially a low compression
format of the standard camera so whenever you open up the standard camera there's going to be
a prores icon at the top that you can turn on and turned off if you don't have that option on your
iphone then there's two reasons why one of them is you probably don't have one of the pro models
so if you have the iphone 13 mini or the regular iphone 13 you're not going to have access to
prores the second reason is if you haven't already turned it on or enabled it in the camera app
settings so go ahead and check your settings menu to do that and you're pretty much good to go from
there once you have that enabled all you have to do is open up the camera app and then switch to
the standard camera and toggle prores on or off so it's that simple and since this is a part of
the standard video camera you can also access the ultra wide wide and telephoto lens shooting
in prores and just like the standard video mode you can also shoot prores video format with hdr
prores was designed mainly for professionals anybody can use it i'm not saying it's for only
a specific set of people but professionals are the kind of people that would adjust color temperature
and do a lot of you know edits and post processing that affect quality of a video cinematic mode this
one's drawn a lot of hype a lot of people have been talking about this one since the
beginning all the way till now it's a very new mode on the iphone 13. the new cinematic mode
is essentially a video version of the portrait photo mode that's already on the iphones when
you're shooting in cinematic mode you're going to get a blurred background effect a bokeh effect
that allows you to draw focus to one subject and create that cinematic vibe cinematic look you've
already seen it you've seen this in movies you've seen this on youtube you've seen it in tv shows
it's all over the place it's not anything new but now it's come to the iphone in cinematic mode you
can also control the amount of blur effect that you get while shooting if you're already used
to shooting with a dslr or a mirrorless camera then the f-stop idea shouldn't be new to you so
the higher the f-stop the less the blur effect and the lower the f-stop the more the blur effect it
can also cause problems with you know going out of focus whatever subject that you you have on there
whenever you have your f stop at a low point say f 2.0 you will get a lot of blur effect in the
background but also note that even the character you're trying to draw focus to might also get some
blurring around the edges so it might not look the best if you're at f 2.0 so when you're shooting in
cinematic mode a good amount to start or to shoot at is about 2.3 to 2.5 i think the phone sets it
to 2.8 by default or 2.5 whichever one it is just make sure that you're starting at that point and
shooting with that whenever you want to shoot in this mode you can always go ahead and shoot f 2.0
there's nothing wrong with that but just be aware that the entire subject that you're trying to keep
the focus on might switch focus and then you know that might become blurred out while the background
is not blurred out anymore so just make sure you note that like i said it's got some drawbacks
to it this mode only has access to two of the upgraded cameras the telephoto camera and the
wide camera lens so with cinematic mode another thing you want to know is that it's useful to
anybody professionals or non-professionals just anybody that wants to shoot cinematic videos
this video mode is available on all the iphone models okay now let's talk about resolutions
so for the standard video mode you have access to five different resolutions you can shoot at
hd 30 hd 60 4k 24 4k 4k30 and 4k 60. so it has a lot of options for anyone that wants to shoot
next up the prores video format gives you access to some resolutions but not every single one so
if you have the 128 gigabyte version of any of the pro model iphones then you're only going
to be limited to 1080p at 30 frames per second you won't be able to shoot a 1080p hd at 60 frames per
second or even any 4k footage at any frame rate so you're only limited to one resolution at one frame
rate with the 128 gigabyte version so if you have the 256 gigabyte version which i've got right here
or anything above from that point then your options grow a little bit more so
you gain access to shoot in prores at 1080p 60 as well as 4k at 24 and 30 frames per second so
no 60 frames per second on any of the pro models or any of the iphones so we're all limited to
shooting at 4k 30 frames per second and for all professionals shooting prores video format for
the iphone 13 pros this is a huge limitation finally for cinematic mode there's literally
only one frame rate and resolution you can shoot at so 1080p at 30 frames per second and that's it
and this applies to every single iphone 13 model it doesn't matter which one
and that's a huge limitation to that mode at least for me i'm not going to be using that mode a lot
because i already don't shoot a lot of videos in 1080p formats so shooting 1080p format for
me just to use a cinematic mode camera is not worth it to me as for the file formats
quality and sizes for all three different ways to shoot the first of them the standard video mode
uses compressed video formats so this is what differentiates from the prores video formats with
its larger file sizes the compressed video format does not offer flexibility to edit in post process
there's also two versions of the compressed file formats that you have access to you can switch
between the both of them in the camera settings so file formats within your camera app settings
the thing is with the first one the hevc or atif format you get even smaller compressed
file sizes which are great for the most efficient use of storage space on the iphone 13 or any of
the iphones hevc or atif also has limited compatibility across different applications
platforms and all of that if you're not going to be using it with other apple devices or softwares
then you might want to go ahead and use the one with more compatibility so there is a second
compressed format which is known as h.264 or jpeg so that one is still a compressed file format
but not as small as the first one we just talked about but it's more compatible so you can use it
across multiple different editing platforms and you know all that kind of stuff and since prores
is a new format that you can shoot in it's similar to the last two we've just talked about except
it's not compressed so it's a lossy video format so prores videos take up a lot of storage
i'll be honest with you guys it's a lot and that's why the 128 gigabyte version of the iphone 13 pros
does not have access to anything above 1080p at 30 frames per second for shooting prores because
one minute of prores at 4k 30 frames per second takes up six gigabytes of data and that's huge one
minute of the same prores video shot at 1080p will take up 1.7 gigabytes of storage space so in order
to really enjoy prores this year or at least get the best out of it you're gonna want to opt for
one of the higher uh memory adoration so storage iterations for the iphone 13 so i'm talking 256
and above as for the new cinematic video mode it uses the same compressed file formats as the
standard video camera so i think this new video mode was designed for just about everybody as well
like i said no post processing means pretty much shoot and you're done you want to do more then you
should with pro res maybe they're going to make it so we can shoot cinematic video mode in prores
format at some point all right so in summary the standard video mode will be best suited for the
average user so anyone that has no experience you know doing post-processing and has no idea what
prores is about or cares at all about it standard video also offers the most options for frame rates
and resolutions and nobody can complain about more options it's also available on every single iphone
13 model so you don't have to think twice about which model you have to use this mode just know
that it's already there it's the default mode in general as for the all-new cinematic mode we're
limited to shooting at only 1080p at 30 frames per second so only one resolution at one frame rate
and for me that's not gonna cut it and i know that applies to most of you guys out there
we all want to shoot 4k videos using the cinematic mode camera but unfortunately that's not going to
happen on this year's iteration of the iphones and i hope that comes to future versions of the iphone
it's still fairly new and it's only available on all models of the iphone 13 so prior models do not
have access to cinematic mode finally the prores video format is very new and the thing is it's
only available on the pro model iphone so if you don't have one of those forget about this video
format completely just just ignore it just like forget it it's not for you at that point unless
you want to go ahead and upgrade your iphone 13 to an iphone 13 pro or pro max but only do that
if you intend to do a lot of post processing if not it's going to be a waste of money
for that phone you're not going to use the prores video format i only shoot short clips in prores
video format gym workouts stuff like that so when i shoot those i can edit them and post processing
you know because i like to do that for my videos that i shoot with my dslr camera or my mirrorless
camera so doing it with the iphone i've always hated that i can't do anything you know in
post-processing prores video format can also see some improvement in resolution so i'm hopeful
that we get something above 4k at 30 frames per second especially for slow motion videos that's
huge for me right there man if we can get 4k at 60 or 4k at 120 frames per second it's going to
be awesome okay so that's basically it between all three of these modes i'd like you guys to let me
know down in the comment section after listening to what you've heard what you think about these
three modes and whichever ones you prefer to use the most which ones do you currently use
the most on your iphone 13 or 13 pro i hope you guys have found it useful or enjoyable to watch
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