From the course: Photos for macOS Big Sur and iPhone Essential Training

Reviewing video settings for the iPhone - Apple Photos Tutorial

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Reviewing video settings for the iPhone

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- [Instructor] Before you record too much video, I want you to take a look at your settings just to make sure that you're balancing quality with capacity, which you're able to store either in the cloud or on your phone itself. So we're here in the camera settings. So settings app, camera, and you'll see that we have record video, and you see that I'm set at 1080p, at 30 frames a second. And I do that for a reason. First of all, it gives me very good video. So the moments of my life are captured very nicely, I can show my HDTV, all that good stuff. But the storage is reasonable in the world of video. What I mean by that, 65 megabytes per minute at this setting. And you can see that little list below there. Apple does us a favor by reminding us of how much storage we're going to use at these different settings. Now, if I'm going to record something that has more motion, I might go to 1080p at 60 frames a second. That will make that motion smoother, such as a skateboarder coming into the scene, something like that. I might want to up it and figure, okay, I'll pay the storage price to have a little better action video. Generally speaking, I'm not shooting at any of the 4Ks because they use so much storage. And at the moment, I don't need that much resolution. It's beautiful, it's wonderful, but in the world of trade-offs, I'm okay back here at 1080p, so that's where I leave it set. Now, we can change it on the fly, I'm going to show you that in a second. Slow mo, same thing, 120 frames a second is beautiful slow motion and it uses less than half the amount of storage of 1080p at 240 frames a second. And I think 240 frames a second's just too slow. Unless I'm analyzing a golf swing or something like that, I'm very happy with 120 frames per second, okay? So those are our basic settings, let's go to the camera itself because I want to show you one other thing. Let's go to video. So I'm going to slide over one there. Now, you notice in the upper right-hand corner, it says HD30, that is my default setting, that's what it's going to record at. So you can always check that, but if I need to change it on the fly, I can just tap it, and look at that, now I get HD60. Okay, so you can keep tapping it and go through those different settings. Now, I'm not always sure what's going to happen or which direction it's going. I have a feeling there is some sort of tapping technique there that I'm not clued in on. However, I do manage to get where I'm going. So I leave it here at HD30 because I think that is a good middle ground. But if I need to change it on the fly, not my default setting, but on the fly, I can tap in the upper right-hand corner and make a temporary change. Very handy. That way, you're in control of both your storage and the quality of your video.

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