iPhone 13's stunning cinematic mode has a big drawback

iPhone 13'due south stunning cinematic style has a big drawback

An image of the apple 13 pro max showing the camera module. The top half of the phone is pictured, against a yellow background

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Apple'southward new 'cinematic way' is one of the big new features on the iPhone 13 range, simply it has an abrasive drawback that could limit its usefulness.

Every bit highlighted in a tweet by YouTuber Erfon Elijah, the iPhone thirteen'due south cinematic mode only works in 1080p resolution, and at 30fps to boot. There's no option for 4K, or the 24fps frame rate, both of which the iPhone 13's photographic camera tin can handle in other modes.

The official iPhone 13 tech specs and iPhone 13 Pro tech specs pages call this out also, so it's not as if Apple is hiding this info. But this limitation is still a bummer.

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Just found out iPhone thirteen'southward cinematic manner Merely works in 1080 and ONLY at 30FPS. So you gotta cull between cinematic mode or time to come proofing vids with 4k resolution.And no 24FPS!IMO this is a devastating blow to iPhone 13 and it'due south marquee feature.September 19, 2021

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Cinematic fashion is available on all iv iPhone 13 models, and is designed for people who want to take make their videos expect more immersive and professional. The thought is that people can capture "cinema-style moments in video with a beautiful depth-of-field effect."

In simple terms, the camera mode will automatically track the field of study, making movie-fashion focus changes on the fly. It's substantially Portrait Manner for video, with a few extra features added for proficient mensurate, like the ability to switch focus to various subjects based on what'south going on in the frame. Information technology'south also not to exist dislocated with ProRes fashion, which is merely available on the iPhone thirteen Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max.

ProRes is an "an advanced video codec used widely as the final commitment format for commercials, feature films, and broadcasts, to offering higher colour fidelity and less compression." In other words Cinematic Way is an event, while ProRes is a format.

ProRes is bachelor in 4K and 30fps, provided y'all have a phone with at least 256GB of storage, and then it'south not clear why Cinematic Mode is express to 1080p. This is disappointing for anyone who had hoped to exist able to tape 4K video with that bokeh effect Cinematic Mode tin can add together.

So that's another thing we can add to the list of upgrades nosotros desire to run into for the iPhone 14. Let's just hope Apple can arrive happen by this fourth dimension next year.

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