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#48 Is ProRes video recording coming to the next iPhone and is it a big deal? — 30. August 2021

#48 Is ProRes video recording coming to the next iPhone and is it a big deal?

ProRes logo and iPhone12 Pro Max image: Apple.

One of the things that always surprised me about Apple’s mobile operating system iOS (and now also iPadOS) was the fact that it wasn’t able to work with Apple’s very own professional video codec ProRes. ProRes is a high-quality video codec that gives a lot of flexibility for grading in post and is easy on the hardware while editing. Years ago I purchased the original Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera which can record in ProRes and I was really looking forward to having a very compact mobile video production combo with the BMPCC (that, unlike the later BMPCC 4K/6K was actually pocketable) and an iPad running LumaFusion for editing. But no, iOS/iPadOS didn’t support ProRes on a system level so LumaFusion couldn’t either. What a bummer.

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