Pixel 3 vs iPhone XS - Which shoots better video? By Scott McKenna

So pixel 3 verse, iPhone XS, which one shoots better video, because this channel is all about video production. I wanted to just take these both out shoot video, a non-biased review straight to the point, which is what we all love, and you can decide for yourself, which one you like better one quick note is both of these were shot in fully automatic mode on both the iPhone and the pixel. You could obviously get much more in depth with your settings with something like film Pro on the iPhone, which will let you adjust aperture and shutter speed and ISO, since most of us naturally just go right to the camera, app and start recording videos or take photos I. Let the camera do the work for me and I just simply tapped on what I wanted to focus and I. Let it do the rest if the exposure was really off, I adjusted slightly just to make sure they stayed consistent, but that's it. The camera is doing the job.

One thing to note is the iPhone shoots in 24 frames a second at 4k. The pixel cannot shoot in 24 frames a second. It can only shoot in 30 frames a second, so both of these tests were shot in just what they can shoot in 24 frames. A second here, 30 frames a second here. So here we go.

Here's some side-by-side shots of the iPhone first 2 pixels, 3 24 frames per second, the camera doing all the work, but when it comes to slow motion, they both have great capabilities. The iPhone shoots it in 240 frames a second and so does the pixel. But the way the pixel kind of lays it out is quarter speed, eight times speed because they don't lay it out in actual frames per second, so here's some slo-mo mode, here's 240 frames a second on the iPhone XS and here's that same exact, shot on the pixel 3. Alright, stabilization tests we're just going to walk. This is iPhone XS I'm going to walk as I would normally I'm not trying to overthink my walking just walking stabilization tests of the pixel three just walking, not overthinking.

My walking I think this one's way better. Here's a few tests, letting some cars go through the frame and also just testing rolling shutter, whether that's actually at a problem on both these phones. Both of them seem to handle this pretty well, I, don't really notice much rolling, shutter and, of course, because my channels for some reason talks a lot about autofocus. Let's do it all the focus test between the pixel three and the iPhone. One thing you probably noticed is just how much smoother the iPhones autofocus was.

You can see, as my hand, comes up and then leaves the frame. How smooth that transition is from foreground to background something that I think is super important and autofocus. If you wanted to look natural, the pixel three did the speed. Fine, but it just is a very unnatural shift from forward to back. So that's one thing to keep in mind: if that's big important to you, it's not super important for the most part when you're shooting on your phone, but if you are looking for some sort of natural transition between the two I think the iPhone definitely wins there.

One important thing to note when it comes to video on the iPhone is, unlike the artificial portrait mode that they pixel can pull off with photos, because there's only one lens on this and there's two lenses on the iPhone, when you zoom in video mode you're, actually zooming in when you do the two times zoom and the iPhone to a different lens, which is naturally gonna. Give you not just a different look, but it's also going to give you just a better overall image, because it's not digitally zooming in. So if you do shoot a lot of stuff that you zoom in on your phone, just know that when you zoom in on video on the pixel, it's digitally zooming in I'm, going to zoom in on the iPhone, it's going to be done more of a natural zoom, because it has that extra lens to jump through. So this is standard mode from the iPhone. If I zoom in to two x mode there, you can see that naturally you're going to get a little compression.

Now when the background is gonna, be a little bit out of focus, and it's just gonna. Be a nice looking bitch on the pixel 3 there, that's the default mode and if I zoom in and want some more zoom doesn't look bad, but you can see how it obviously is digitally zooming, and it's not actually zooming in on the lens, which plays a role now. A huge part to me about the front-facing camera is actually more for Instagram stories and more for, like selfie mode type of video, so I took it to Instagram and I. Just directly did a comparison in the Instagram video platform, and then I just saved that file directly to the phone to see which one looks better. This one was actually astounding me just how much better the iPhone looks from Instagram.

Now, obviously, you can record these videos even front-facing camera as a file and then upload it, and it will still look a little better, but it is interesting to see just how much better quality the iPhone gets. Then they pixel three. So now this is Instagram story directly in the iPhone XS. What does it look like? Instagram is going to do their own sort of compression and their own sort of changes to it. So it's just to see what it looks like straight from the XS, and this is the iPhone XS front-facing camera just similar style.

Maybe we were vlogging, maybe we're doing some sort of just talking to the camera and how does the audio sound we got some cars driving by here we got leaves we got some wind. How does it sound? How does it look facing pixel 3 video test? This would be just if I was actually using my phone, maybe the vlog, something like that, where I'm kind of just looking at the camera, nothing crazy definitely feels like it's a pretty tight shot, but not bad. How does the audio sound? We want to see how audio sounds, because if you are obviously talking to the camera, it's important to be able to see how good you can hear, so definitely a big difference in terms of video quality, but also sound quality. The microphone without question on the iPhone is significantly better and just quality sake, which I never really realized a lot because I never compared them, except for this video, definitely a big difference in audio quality. Okay.

So, hopefully you found this review helpful and not that I think any of us really pick our phones based on video quality, but if you're, someone that is starting to get into YouTube we're starting to get into something where the phone may be the best option, you have maybe that's a big factor to you and at the end of the day, it's nice, knowing that the video quality continues to improving it better and better from our phones. Just it's crazy. Five years ago we didn't even have this kind of quality of a camera. Now we have it on phones, it's just incredible. So for any of you that are thinking about getting started with YouTube we're getting started, creating any of your own videos.

The cameras that you have in your pocket are mind-blowing LY good for the fact that it's on your phone so comment below, tell me which one you like better, and thanks for watching. Hopefully this was exactly what you were looking for when you clicked this video I'll talk to you guys real soon.

Source : Scott McKenna