Shooting 4K video is guaranteed to eat up your iPhone storage space in no time. MacX Video Converter Pro helps solve your storage headaches by letting you compress large-size videos, fast. But the app is more than that: you can also transform any unsupported video files to iOS-friendly formats that will work perfectly on all your Apple devices.
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Final Cut Pro X 10.4 launches with support for HDR, HEVC/HEIF, 360-degree VR editing & more
Ahead of releasing its new iMac Pro, Apple earlier this morning pushed a long-expected update to its Final Cut Pro X app on Mac App Store.
VLC for iOS gains full support for 4K H.265 video & iPhone X display
VLC, the popular cross-platform media player, was updated on App Store this morning with support for the native OLED display resolution on iPhone X and the ability to play 4K video encoded in the High Efficiency Video Coding standard (the H.265 codec).
Vimeo announces support for HDR video, up to 8K resolutions & HEVC/H.265 codec
Vimeo today announced it's rolling out support for high dynamic range video (HDR), playable on compatible devices like the new iPhone X, iPad Pro and Apple TV 4K.
Apple updates Workflow app with support for HEIF/HEVC, drag and drop, iPhone X & more
A popular automation tool for iPhone and iPad, Workflow, was updated on App Store this morning with several new iOS 11 and iPhone X features.
FiLMiC Pro can now shoot in iOS 11’s new HEVC format
FiLMiC Pro, the best video recording software on iOS used by filmmakers and pros, was updated on App Store with the ability to shoot in High Efficiency Video Coding (also known as H.265), a video compression standard supported in iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra.
How to make your iPhone shoot in JPEG instead of HEIF
Learn how to change the iPhone or iPad camera settings to make it shoot pictures in the universally compatible JPEG format instead of HEIF/HEIC.
iMovie gains support for importing HEVC videos on macOC High Sierra
Following today's release of the macOS High Sierra software update which, among other things, enables High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) on supported Macs, the company has issued an update to iMovie for Mac bringing the ability to import HEVC videos.
How and when to choose between HEIF/HEVC & JPEG/H.264 media formats
iOS 11 introduced support for modern HEIF and HEVC codecs developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (not Apple's proprietary formats) that keep high-resolution photos and videos taken with iPhone and iPad from eating up all your available storage. This post tells you more about it.
Google to demo 4K YouTube streaming at CES via its new royalty-free VP9 codec
Google's hasn't enjoyed much success with VP8, a video codec it developed back in 2010 as a H.264 replacement for efficient video streaming. The Chrome browser supports VP8 codec out-of-the-box (so no plug-in required), but Google's plans for VP8 domination were shattered by literally non-existent support from major industry players.
As a result, VP8 has never gained hardware-acceleration because chip makers opted to stand firmly behind H.264, an industry-standard video codec Apple's devices support natively and on the silicon level.
At next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the Internet giant will be showing off YouTube streaming in a 4K resolution of 3,840 pixels by 2,160 lines via its brand new royalty-free video codec, VP9.
This time around, Google has lined up an impressive list of industry players who will back the new format. Notably absent: a certain fruity company...