do you need to use prores on the iphone 13 pro let's compare it to the high efficiency video
codec let's look at the pros the prores and the cons is it that much better easier to edit how
much storage does it take up and is it worth it to use at all i'm rafael and welcome to the channel
prores is apple's professional video codec it is a joe to work with in
post production especially if you are mac based and working in final cut pro
it has become an industry standard for high quality video but do you need to use it on
your iphone well simple answer no and i'll show you why prores retains way more information
but it's still a compressed format just not as highly compressed as hevc both codecs are visually
lossless meaning that the viewer looking at it won't be able to tell a significant difference
here is a side-by-side comparison of prores and hevc see if you can tell which is which
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these side by sides are hard for me to distinguish which is which and they actually edit nicely
together honestly thought that shooting low light would be the place where prores would really
shine and be really noticeable but from what i saw both formats performed very well if the image was
exposed properly both codecs were really clean and both retain sharpness and visual color fidelity
when looking at the scopes though i can see that the prores file does retain more color information
but looking at the image they are both visually lossless getting the prores footage off the phones
was really slow it's gigs and gigs of files that have to be transferred and in this test
it was roughly 10 gigabytes i found for my setup that airdrop was actually faster and easier than
plugging directly in and i recommend turning off icloud photos because you don't want to be
transferring that much data to the cloud and you can't just drag it in from the finder you'll have
to import it to either the photos app on the mac or directly into the final cut pro library but
i'm not a fan of that and i did a whole video on how i prefer to set up my final cut pro workflow
working with both formats was really easy to edit in final cut pro and davinci resolve even
on a 2017 macbook pro and it was even smoother on the m1 mac mini and when working on a standard
definition timeline you do need to convert the color space of both formats you can color correct
or a simpler way is to override the color space by going into the clip info inspector changing
it to settings and setting it to rec 709 or 2020 and adjust the color with minor tweaks so when
would you need to record in prores well for 99 of recordings i would say that it's not necessary
but if you are doing paid work and you need the highest quality to push and pull the color grade
it's worth it but it's storage hungry like super hungry i have a 256 gigabyte iphone and after
system resources and regular apps and photos and videos i only had about 16 minutes of 4k pro res
at 24 frames a second when setting it up it does give you an option to free up some resources to
give you a few more minutes so shooting prores would be a great choice if i needed to do some
insert shots macros or wide for client work but i feel that the hevc would pass just as well in
most cases especially if you know the final product will end up on youtube or instagram
which will end up compressing it heavily anyway and the end user won't even notice
a difference just as i've shown in this video also prores does not work in slow-mo or cinematic
mode so keep that in mind i'll definitely continue to test over the next little bit
but i would say that in my initial testing save the space and leave the prores for those
special ultra important videos like shooting low light or when the color grade will be xp
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