There is at least 1 use case for it: some of the newer iPhones can shoot raw format video. Apple calls this ProRes. It is also possible to take those videos as large as 4K. This comes out to about 6GB per minute of video taken.
Imagine someone like a YouTuber decided to take a couple of 20-30 minute clips. Yeah, I wouldn’t want to wait for wireless transfer on that. Especially not if that is a regular thing someone does.
ProRes =/= raw. ProRes is apple’s proprietary lossless video codec. They shoot raw photos. AFAIK Apple has not made a raw codec, that’s mostly the purview of canon, black magic, red, etc
Alright, fair. Noted. Just because their marketing calls it ProRes RAW doesn’t mean it is true RAW. I didn’t look into it that much.
What I do know though and what my point was about is that it makes big files fast. Files of a type and scale you can’t effectively do anything useful with on an iPhone itself. So if you want to edit them (and why else would you shoot in that format?) then step 1 is that you want them off the phone and on a platform that can deal with them. And for that transfer speed matters.
Yes actually and that’s the upper limit of the iPhone’s data rate. You can do 1080 or even swap to ProRes proxy and it’s substantially less.
As for raw, let’s use red (4K @24fps) for example: you’d have to be shooting at 5:1 compression to get down to apple’s highest ProRes data rate. If you go with black magic’s raw codec, you’d have to go 4:1 on a bmpcc4k.
If you make money on YouTube you can afford iPhone Pro probably. You probably already have one for shooting quality video because what else is there at this budget?
There is at least 1 use case for it: some of the newer iPhones can shoot raw format video. Apple calls this ProRes. It is also possible to take those videos as large as 4K. This comes out to about 6GB per minute of video taken.
Imagine someone like a YouTuber decided to take a couple of 20-30 minute clips. Yeah, I wouldn’t want to wait for wireless transfer on that. Especially not if that is a regular thing someone does.
ProRes =/= raw. ProRes is apple’s proprietary lossless video codec. They shoot raw photos. AFAIK Apple has not made a raw codec, that’s mostly the purview of canon, black magic, red, etc
Alright, fair. Noted. Just because their marketing calls it ProRes RAW doesn’t mean it is true RAW. I didn’t look into it that much.
What I do know though and what my point was about is that it makes big files fast. Files of a type and scale you can’t effectively do anything useful with on an iPhone itself. So if you want to edit them (and why else would you shoot in that format?) then step 1 is that you want them off the phone and on a platform that can deal with them. And for that transfer speed matters.
It’s all good I just point it out because raw codecs exist and eat a lot more space/have a lot more capability.
More than 6GB per minute in 4K? Because that already seemed like a lot.
Yes actually and that’s the upper limit of the iPhone’s data rate. You can do 1080 or even swap to ProRes proxy and it’s substantially less.
As for raw, let’s use red (4K @24fps) for example: you’d have to be shooting at 5:1 compression to get down to apple’s highest ProRes data rate. If you go with black magic’s raw codec, you’d have to go 4:1 on a bmpcc4k.
If you make money on YouTube you can afford iPhone Pro probably. You probably already have one for shooting quality video because what else is there at this budget?