Sorry if I don’t use the correct terms here, I knw enough about video codecs and terminology to make myself look dumb but here goes.
I have an outdoor oriented YouTube channel that I have started and used my iPhone for the first couple of vids, bought a camera and used it for some other vids, but sold the camera and am now back to using my iPhone 14 Pro Max. Generally happy with video quality, although I do tend to find some jittery-ness or smeary-ness. Sort of hard to describe, but when I see other people’s videos that are shot on iPhone and likely transferred from their iPhone to their Mac based computer, I don’t see the same thing. I have wondered if this is due to HEVC and the uncompression or processing of HEVC files natively on Mac is much better than having to transcode them to MOV or MP4 files to play on PC using VLC.
I just shot my first video using the new Black Magic Camera app and really like the features, mainly the better stabilization that has helped on some shots that I would normally see the smeary-ness I’m referring to. But would shooting natively on my phone using H264 keep from seeing that smearyness as I’m not having to transcode separately? Or is the smearyness I’m seeing due to H264 being a slightly older standard for video compression and it’s just losing detail? I will post some examples of my videos in the comments so others can see what I mean and see if they are seeing the same thing or if I’m just nitpicking.