OnePlus 9 Pro Review - Will it replace my iPhone 12 Pro? By SMARTPHONE FILMMAKING PRO

In this video, we will review the OnePlus 9 pro that shoots in eight freaking k from a smartphone filmmaker's perspective: hey what's up guys Julian from smartphonefilmmakingpro. com here. The ultimate online course about smartphone filmmaking and today we'll take a closer look at the OnePlus 9 pro that shoots video in 8k. But okay, actually, let's take a step back and let's clarify what it actually means to shoot in 8k and what is 8k means that you shoot in a resolution of 7680 by 4320, and if you compare that to 4k this is actually four times bigger and if you compare this to full HD, which still is the standard these days, it is 16 times bigger. Okay, so just think about this, for one second, 8k is 16 times bigger than full HD, which still is the standard for most TV programs. These days- and yes, you get this on a phone.

Is it overkill? Well, yeah? Absolutely, but does it also have some benefits? Well, let's find out. So if you switch into the 8k mode on your OnePlus 9 pro, you get a time limit of five minutes, and you can only record it up to 30 frames per second and in the end, you get a video that has a h.265 codec. That is very, very taxing for your computer. Usually when you shoot on a normal smartphone, you get a video that is in a h.264 codec, which was and still is up to this day. The standard format for many years and computers and editing programs are optimized for that, and that's also the reason why it's generally speaking, easier to edit for your editing machine.

The benefit of h.265, on the other hand, is that you get better image quality in a smaller file size which theoretically sounds absolutely awesome. The only problem is that editing programs and computers cannot really cope with it easily, but let's get this technical and theoretical stuff out of the way, and let's talk about some real live user experiences, and I said it in my first impressions video when we first took the phone outdoors for a test shoot the lenses got steamy inside. So it's not on the outside, I could not just wipe it off. It was inside and in my opinion this is an absolute no-go for a smartphone that costs well over 900. On the positive side, though, I only had this problem once when we were first shooting with it, but still this is absolutely atrocious, but let's talk about the most important thing, and that is of course, the image quality and overall, the images that you get with this phone.

They look perfect. Colors are looking natural, they are not too over saturated like on Samsung phones, for example, and I really like the overall image quality. You get the best quality, of course, when you shoot in 8k, and it drops a little when you shoot in 4k and also in 1080p, of course, the benefit. On the other hand, if you drop your quality, you get the ability to shoot in higher frame rates in 4k, you can shoot up to 120 frames per second, which is very impressive, and in 1080p you can shoot up to 240 frames per second and in 720p you even get 480 frames, which is very impressive. Like I said before, when you drop the resolution, and you increase your frame rate, the quality is getting worse, but it's still very good.

In my opinion, the super slow motion in 480 frames per second well, it's not mind-bendingly bad. It of course looks worse compared to all the others, but it's still nice to having the option to shoot at those super high frame rates. When it comes to the image stabilization, I have to say well, it really depends on most of the time. It actually does a really great job, and it works no problem whatsoever. However, with some shots, especially when I was doing parallax shots on my gimbals, I found that the image stabilization was kind of like fighting against the stabilization of the gimbals and other phones do a better job here like, for example, the iPhone 12 Pro.

I never had any issues with this when you switch lenses when you switch from the white to the ultra-wide, you do lose some quality. It's not a night and day difference, but it's definitely noticeable, but I still like the quality of the ultra white and I love that you get the 8k in the ultrawide and also the standard camera. So all in all, I can actually recommend the OnePlus 9 pro from a smartphone filmmaking perspective. The 8k won't change the world and the quality, in my opinion, is not the best. There is on the market, but it does a really great job, and you can't go wrong with it and, like I said before, build quality is pretty decent, but also not mind-bendingly good for a phone in this price range.

So, in the end, you have to decide for yourself what's most important to you and by the way, battery life, and especially the charging times, are really, really good and definitely ahead of the curve, comparing it to apple and just one last thing before we're closing this video in case, you have not checked out smartphone filmmaking pro, you should definitely do so. We are the ultimate online course about smartphone filmmaking. We currently have over 65 videos and more videos are coming constantly in the course you'll learn all the things that you need to know when it comes to filming with your phone, you get all the technical stuff, you get some creative techniques, we have the entire editing part on a computer, but also directly on smartphones, and we also have several ways on how you can actually make money. Shooting videos with your smartphone so definitely check out the totally free webinar, where I share top 5 secrets to shooting videos with your smartphone, but, like I said, that's it for this video. I hope you enjoyed it, and I'll see you in the webinar.

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