Just got my 15 pro max. I am very happy so far, but I have to admit I am a bit confused by the settings for photo/video. More exactly I’m talking the formatting. I use “high efficiency” under camera capture. I use “24mp” under photo mode. And I turned on pro raw and “HIEFE” or whatever it’s called under the photo part and I turned on Apple pro res and “HDR” under the video part. It seemed like a waste of file size to do the “LOG” setting instead of the “HDR” under the Apple ProRes video setting, unless you are a professional video person.

Now I do have to say that I plan on filming some videos with this phone for my daughter that she may not watch for 20 years or more. See, I have terminal cancer and I’m trying to make videos for her so she can get to know me when she is older and also videos of advice for her. So I have been a little worried about going down the “high efficiency” formatting road rather than the “compatible” road. But, at this point, is this “high efficiency” formatting is the default for most Apple users I should be pretty safe with it right? Even though I wanna make sure that the formatting is good for the next 50 plus years, I am not made of unlimited money and I do need to kinda keep my file sizes to reasonable levels, because hard drives cost money that we don’t have a lot to throw around right now. Although I did see that you can plug a flash drive into your phone and record 4K 60fps video to it! That is pretty neat! If there is a way to do this but also ensure that that video uploads to our iCloud too, that would be the best solution for me I think!

Any advice is appreciated.

As for all other video settings in the camera tab, I pretty much have them all the highest they can go or turned on. Like “4K 60fps” for video and “4K 30fps” for cinematic. If that’s gives y’all any idea of my settings.

I know that recording video in 4K and at 30 or 60 fps uses a lot of space. But my thoughts where that in 20 years 1080p is going to look like 480p does now, so the best way for me to future proof my videos for my daughter is to record at the highest reasonable resolution. I may be wrong but it is just my thoughts.

Hey everyone. Just got a new 15 Pro Max! I take pictures and videos all the time so I would like to get some advice on the best camera settings for this phone (those that are found under Settings > Camera). I heard a lot about Pro Raw, HDR, etc and honestly I don’t understand much so I would appreciate some guidance. Thank you!