Changing iPhone 4s video resolution???

[tlgerdes]

Hi All,

Does anyone know how to change the iPhone 4S recording resolution to something lower than 1080P for the rear camera? Like 1280x720 or even 960x640 (native resolution of iPhone 4S)

18 secs of video consumes 50Mb of space on the device.

Since the iPhone itself cant display that resolution and my TV cant display that resolution, i find it useless to record at that resolution. SD TV is only 576 lines and looks perfectly fine for home videos, so doubling the resolution only benefits Seagate and Western Digital as I need more storage.

[kustard]

As far as I know there is no way to change the resolution. You could use the front camera but it's not very useful as you can't see what you are recording...

There may be a way to do it with a jailbroken iPhone though?

[Barrykgerdes]

I can't tell you how to change the Iphone but I get a lot of clips 2D and 3d at up to 1920 x 1080 mono (960 +960 X 1080 3D) and I use AVSVideo converter to rewrite them as 720 x 480 MPG. This allows display on lower speed computers.

I also get hundreds (well 150 so far) of clips from the family overseas from an Iphone sent as emails *.MOV . These are of varying resolution but I put them together in AVSeditor and output a 720 x 480 MPG movies. I have used a number of editors but this one is the simplest and most reliable for mono

Barry

[tlgerdes]

The issue is storage consumed on the iPhone itself.

At 160MB/min approx, on an 16G iPhone 4s with average amount of apps and music install (say 6G of 13.2G free), it only takes 43min of video to fill all the available storage. Realistically you will have less than that as photos consume space as well.

The upshot is, 7days on the Gold Coast and my wife wonder why her fantastic phone ran out space, where my inferior Android a barely broke a sweat.

The difference was in video, I could tune mine down mine to use 25MB/min of video for a decent wide screen video (960x540), to her 160MB/min for ultra resolution video (1920x1080)

[Omaroo]

Trevor - it really isn't a biggie. Google it like everyone else.

Use FiLMiC Pro: http://www.filmicpro.com/

Resolutions: 1920x1080, 1280x720, 640x480 & 480x360 and 30fps right down to 1fps.

I'm not even going to react to the rest of your post. ;)

[tlgerdes]

Thanks Chris, I had seen comments about it, but also comments that said it didnt work with the 4S. Hence my question to the crowd.

I wasnt soliciting for a reaction, i was trying to explain my issue to my father. Yes, I could download and convert, but that is not what we want to do, my wife like to keep a selection on her phone.

[Omaroo]

It should work fine on the 4s Trevor, as that is was it was designed for. On the 4, which is what I have, the 1080p option is greyed out. I also run it on my iPad 3. It's a verrrry naaaaace.

[Poita]

There is also an app to run at 720P at double the frame rate for slomo work.