Michelle DeLateur at ProVideo Coalition has an excellent article, “How to Troubleshoot HDR iPhone Footage in Premiere, According to Adobe“
It is a problem with tone mapping, which is currently handled best by the beta.
This isn’t necessary until you run into it, and go wait, it doesn’t look like this on my iPhone, but that has an HDR screen, so…
Jorge Grueul has a great article To protect consumers, Congress should secure the app store supply chain.
I so agree. The bills currently proposed do nothing to protect consumers from malware, congress people have so little tech knowledge. If we have unfettered access to an iphone with apps installing off a link, all cell phones will be compromised in a single day. If they just get rid of the walled garden and allow easy unfettered install, every iPhone will be compromised so quickly it is a joke.
And of course the App stores need more regulation, as how could Apple let through so many bogus apps?
We need security standards on new app stores that apply to all app stores.
PVC again for the win, damn this is a great site.
Nick Lear has an awesome article on using an iPhone 13 as a B Cam and the pitfalls it entails and how he got it to work. And the things you don’t realize, like yes you can and should shoot with ProRES, but if you do you can’t shoot in LOG in Filmic Pro and the possibility of using Cinematch to help with balancing.
Now I saw this twitter thread thanks to Scott Simmons at ProVideoCoalition and this post.
And here is Jan Kaiser’s eskocz channel on YouTube.
Now you need to look at the thread and see more than just the first post.
Wow, I am blown away that the depth map is only 320×180, and only works so close up.
I was also wondering why the Pro didn’t use Lidar to enhance the depth map, but while it shows allot more depth than the cinematic mode, it is also fluttery and noisy, so I can see that it would cause some serious issues in a depth map.
And the true depth on the front camera would be useless for a depth map.
Between the 1080 30p and low resolution depth map I think I am OK with skipping the iPhone 13 and seeing what the 14 will offer. The technology is impressive, but I want to see future generations.
This is so disappointing as to really use this footage you will need to decompress it to a constant frame rate. especially disappointing since the footage already takes up much more space and need to re compress it to really use it properly to get it constant frame rate. And you will be losing a generation in compression (I know ProRes can handle it better than HEVC but still).
So with the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro, Apple added a cinemtatic mode to video that is basically Portrait Mode for video, which does a post processed Depth of field using the different lenses to create a depth map. It is not going to be perfect, but certainly will look more cinematic than the deep depth of field you normally get with an iPhone lens, and you can re-focus after the fact in Final Cut Pro, iMovie and in the Photos app. It even has HDR color depth, but then why is it only at 30 Frames Per second?
I just don’t get what Apple was thinking here, especially since it should be easier to process 23.976 than 30 frames a second. And films in movie theaters are in 23.976, and our eyes are used to that amount of motion blur to be cinematic, and not 30 frames, which is much more TV looking, as everything is sharper.
I think eventually will add 23.976 to cinematic mode, but likely not till IOS 16 or the next iPhone with better Cinematic mode.
Honestly I have an iPhone 11 Pro and Cinematic Mode would possibly tip me to getting a new iPhone, but it is the 30 FPS thing that really screws it up for me.
Now I do have a weird relationship with 23.976 vs 29.97, as when I am cutting commercials I would prefer 29.97 because Motion graphics looks less stuttery at 29.97, but we are talking “CINEMATIC” here and for “CINEMATIC” that is 23.976!
I think Apple made a mistep here, and hope they will fix it sooner rather than later.
Of course I also think that they should have figured out a way to use the LIDAR on the Pro model which is used for low light photos to make a better depth map. I know it would split cinematic mode for the 12 and the 13 pro models, but a better depth map would be welcome.
Adobe has updated it’s awesome drawing app for tablets, Adobe Fresco to it’s October 2021 release, version 3.0.
It’s new features are:
â˘Apply Motion (ipad and windows) which I am interested in checking out.
â˘Perspective Grids (ipad and windows) to help do proper perspective
â˘Send to Illustrator on iPad
â˘Vector jitter brushes to give a more organic feel to vector brushes
Awesome, I need to spend more time in Fresco as it really is such an impressive and powerful painting program, and am certainly interested in seeing what the motion does, and see if will be useful for any video projects in the future.
Appleâs new iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro both feature a new Cinematic Mode, which is basically iphoneâs portrait mode for video. So the video also has a depth map, and with AI can track faces and even switch faces or do manual rack focus. It is not true depth of field, but fake depth like portrait mode, and it only works in 1080 30p. According to the video you should also be able to focus after the fact, which would be incredible!
This will be a very impressive feature, and will enhance video, though wonât be perfect just like portrait mode which enhances but not like a real lens with real depth of fieldh. And hopefully someone will make a plug-in for NLEâs that allows focus after the fact much like the awesome focos app. And letâs hope it can be integrated into Filmic Pro as well, as I find it unlikely to record at non-variable speeds
And the extra GPU core of the iPhone Pro and at least 256gb of hard drive space will eventually be getting ProRes recording. Now I am sure that it wonât be ProRes RAW or even ProRes HQ, but instead lite or proxy, but that will beat H.264 or H.265. Of course ProRes is going to wreak havoc on icloud photo storage, and really show how slow lightning cables are.
The Pro can also capture in dolby vision hdr up to 4k 60 fps. I think this means that cinematic mode doesnât include Dolby Vision HDR, but then what computer monitor can play that back for adjusting color?
I also wonder if the LiDAR scanner in the Pro will enhance the cinematic mode? I guess they would have said so if it did, though itâs depth map would be better you would think, though maybe it is only for night mode.
I have been reading a lot of articles on Apple’s recent move to add CSAM or Child Sexual Abuse Materials in any photos you sync with iCloud (which is all of them if you have iCloud backup on). I really like the depth that Jason Snell at Macworld has taken on the issue, and why it is an issue.
Appleâs approach here calls all of that into question, and I suspect thatâs the source of some of the greatest criticism of this announcement. Apple is making decisions that it thinks will enhance privacy. Nobody at Apple is scanning your photos, and nobody at Apple can even look at the potential CSAM images until a threshold has passed that reduces the chance of false positives. Only your device sees your data. Which is great, because our devices are sacred and they belong to us.
Appleâs approach here calls all of that into question, and I suspect thatâs the source of some of the greatest criticism of this announcement. Apple is making decisions that it thinks will enhance privacy. Nobody at Apple is scanning your photos, and nobody at Apple can even look at the potential CSAM images until a threshold has passed that reduces the chance of false positives. Only your device sees your data. Which is great, because our devices are sacred and they belong to us.
The risk for Apple here is huge. It has invested an awful lot of time in equating on-device actions with privacy, and it risks poisoning all of that work with the perception that our phones are no longer our castles.
And while it is noble to try and do something about Child Sex Abuse, it also does fly in the face of Apple and them being the arbiter of privacy. And that isn’t even talking about false positives. And then there is where does this lead, because if they are scanning your photos won’t they soon be scanning everything, and where is the privacy there.
This awesome little plug in for Apple Mail, MailTrackerBlocker hosted at Github is a must install. If you don’t know, companies install something called a tracker pixel into the html of an e-mail they send you, and when it loads the image off their server they can track your location and often more information. These spy pixels should be illegal, but they aren’t so do what you can to stop them!
Honestly I would think Apple would do something about them, and especially on the iPhone and iPad. They are so into not letting companies track, then they should stop this insidious behavior. At least you can do something about it on the desktop.
It is scary how many e-mails have these built in trackers, which you can see once you install this app. Basically every e-mail with html formatting has one.