H.265 in High Sierra

[maverick786us]

High Sierra and iOS 11 introduced H.265 video format where the size of the video is compressed to 1/10 without compromising the quality. I upgraded my Mac Book Pro 15 to High Sierra, is there a way in the settings, through which any video that i synchronized with my iPhone automatically converts the video into H.265 format?

 

[Gordo74]

Yes and no. You can convert the video with handbrake and then sync it to the iPhone, or the iPhone now has the ability to capture in H265.

https://www.macworld.com/article/32...-about-these-new-video-and-photo-formats.html

 

[maverick786us]

Yes and no. You can convert the video with handbrake and then sync it to the iPhone, or the iPhone now has the ability to capture in H265.

https://www.macworld.com/article/32...-about-these-new-video-and-photo-formats.html

my iPhone 6s Plus has iOS 11. So i presume it should by default record the videos to H.265.

 

[Gordo74]

Per the article:

"If you’re not using an iPhone 7 or later, or the latest generation of iPad Pro models, your devices won’t capture photos or videos using this new format. If you do have a new model, you can choose how to handle these formats via different settings in the Settings app. (And iOS 11 doesn’t dig back through your archive and re-encode your old files in these new formats.)"

 

[maverick786us]

Per the article:

"If you’re not using an iPhone 7 or later, or the latest generation of iPad Pro models, your devices won’t capture photos or videos using this new format. If you do have a new model, you can choose how to handle these formats via different settings in the Settings app. (And iOS 11 doesn’t dig back through your archive and re-encode your old files in these new formats.)"

Sad that, this whole thing is so much process dependent.

 

[Gordo74]

Not really - it's hardware dependent. If the device supports hardware decoding of 265, you can encode/capture in 265. Seems rather intuitive if you ask me.