Apple today updated its Final Cut Pro, Motion, Compressor, and iMovie apps for the Mac with support for log-encoded video shot on iPhone 15 Pro models.
On the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, you can choose between HDR, SDR, or Log color encoding when recording ProRes video. Log footage typically has a higher dynamic range and more color grading flexibility than linear footage.
Apple also updated Final Cut Pro for the iPad with the same support.
No. LOG is basically an recording profile that looks extremely washed out and flat (more than any raw photo) but captures maximum highlight and shadow detail. It's quite different from raw since it's actually already compressed, but it records on a logarithmic curve. It's sort of a way to give raw photo benefits to compressed video.
I do photography - is LOG a fancy word for RAW, uncompressed video?
...but... you can. That's been one of the big features discussed, and you literally cannot record in ProRes internally on a 128GB model. And a review posted today showed you can even record externally to a CFexpress card reader... doesn't even have to be a full-on SSD.
This is really neat, and truly worthy of the "Pro" name. It would be even cooler if there was a way to record directly to external storage, like a USB-C SSD or an internal micro SD card, because with video you will run out of space quite fast no matter what size storage you got.
I’ve always thought that the impressive ISP in an iPhone combined with an actual good sensor (one that’s fairly accurate to start with) would open up the DSLR market to people that have a lot of money and not as much patience.
Would I be the only person interested in such a product?
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