Adam Kos Apple is always trying to push the boundaries of the quality of capturing visual records of its iPhone, whether it is a photo or a video. Last year, i.e. with the iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max, it introduced the ProRes format, which has now also reached the M2 iPads. On the one hand, it's good, on the other hand, it's surprising how it offers some functions, while limiting them.
For iPhone 13 and 14 owners, ProRes is not important, as is shooting in Apple ProRAW. For basic users, there is no assumption that they need these options, because even then their device will provide them with the highest quality result, and that without work. But professional users are the ones who need the follow-up work, because they can get more from the raw format than the company's algorithms.
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With the iPhone 15, Apple already has to increase the basic storage
Even the iPhone 12 had only 64 GB of basic storage, when Apple gave the iPhone 13 128 GB right away in their basic variant. But even so, the basic models already lacked functionality, precisely with regard to the quality of recording in ProRes. Because such recording is extremely demanding on the amount of data it carries, the iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max cannot record ProRes in 4K quality.
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It was this that also gave the assumption that Apple will deploy 256GB of basic storage at least for the Pro series this year. In addition, there was speculation for a long time about the presence of a 48 MPx camera, which was finally confirmed. Since the size of the photo also increases with the number of pixels, even before the official announcement, this was also a significant addition to the given assumption. It did not happen. The resulting photo in ProRAW quality is at least 100 MB.
So if you buy the iPhone 14 Pro in the 128GB version and want to use its full potential, the ProRAW and ProRes functions will limit you a lot and it is advisable to consider whether to go for a higher version. But as it stands now, Apple has more controversies associated with ProRes. But the new ones are professional iPads.
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The iPad Pro situation
Apple introduced the M2 iPad Pro, where, apart from their updated chip, another novelty is that they can record videos in ProRes quality. So the "can" here means that they can do it, but Apple won't actually allow them to do it through their solution. When you go in the iPhone to Settings and bookmarks Camera, you will find under the option Formats the option to turn on ProRes recording, but this option is nowhere to be found in the new iPads.
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It could be intentional, it could just be a bug that will be fixed with the next iPadOS update, but it doesn't reflect Apple very well either way. Even in the new iPad Pro with an M2 chip, you will be able to record ProRes, just not with a native application, but you will have to look for a more sophisticated, and usually paid, solution. The best applications include FiLMiC Pro, which offers ProRes 709 and ProRes 2020.
However, the same limitations you find on the iPhone apply here – ProRes video on supported iPads is limited to 1080p resolution at 30fps for all 128GB of storage. ProRes shooting in 4K requires a model with at least 256GB of storage. Here, too, the question arises as to whether 128GB is not enough for professionals even in the case of iPad Pros.
