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November 22, 2019
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iPhone 11 Pro Max video specs for export

  • November 22, 2019
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I apologize if this has been answered before - I tried some searches to no avail.

 

I have an iPhone 11 Pro Max. I have shot video and imported into Adobe Premiere 2020. It shows up with a .mov extension (I'm on a MacBook Pro). 

 

I'm trying to replace the audio track with a recording I made on a Zoom h6. After syncing the audio and video I would like to export the raw video file, with the new audio and then begin editing from the new file.

 

I want to export/render the new video file without loss of quality - just having changed the audio track.

 

I can't figure out the export specs to maintain the same general file size and quality. 

 

Any assistance is greatly appreciated. 

 

 -- Blue

 

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Conrad_C
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November 24, 2019

To try and approximate the file size and quality of the original, with the intention of editing it further, you could use Adobe Media Encoder to transcode the video and new audio track to one of those high-quality intermediate file formats that's used for editing (not final distribution), such as a form of Apple ProRes. I'm not sure exactly what the right numbers would be, partly because I think the format, bit rate, etc. that the iPhone saves might vary depending on the pixel dimensions (720p/1080p/4K) and type of video (normal, HDR, slo-mo...) the iPhone was set to capture. The fact that the filename ends in .mov is not necessarily helpful, because .mov is a container that can hold many video formats.

 

Another approach to this is to try a conversion utility that has a "pass through" option, which means to leave a track unchanged. For example, you could set up a video file so that the audio is replaced with a new file, but the video is "passed through" without alteration. I don't think that's possible in Adobe software, though I could be wrong about that. Below is an example of setting this up in the ffWorks utility. ffWorks is paid software, but you get a number of free renders before you have to pay. I've tried to set up pass-through in other free utilities such as HandBrake and VLC, but it either isn't as straightforward or doesn't work as well.