Apple presented last week the new generation of its famous smartphone. The iPhone was renewed, but it did not rain to everyone’s taste. The device was updated in its different versions as fair and necessary. However, there is a feature of iPhone 14Pro which has not been talked about too much, and that you will only be able to use if you get, at least, the 256 GB storage version.
The 128GB iPhone 14 Pro misses out on an interesting feature
The iPhone is always one of the most anticipated technology products of the year. A few days ago, Apple presented the iPhone 14 and the iPhone 14 Pro, two fairly continuous phones, but which follow the philosophy of the Cupertino brand to the letter. On this occasion, only the Pro model has the privilege of equipping a new processor, but that has not been enough to avoid one of the limitations that were already present in its predecessor.
Just like the iPhone 13 Pro, the iPhone 14 Pro supports 4K video with ProRes encoding. This Apple codec has become very popular thanks to the great performance it provides, as well as the easy decoding and ease it offers when it comes to editing on Apple-brand equipment with programs like Final Cut Pro.
If you dedicate yourself to the production of audiovisual content, surely you already know that the purchase of a Pro model compensates with respect to the standard model, not only because of the cameras, but also because of the versatility that the video clips recorded with this terminal offer you. Nevertheless, Not all iPhone 14 Pros get the most out of ProRes.
ProRes limitations on iPhone 14 Pro
Although it is sold as a feature associated with the iPhone 14 Pro, the truth is that video recording in ProRes at full resolution It is only available on the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max terminals. 256, 512 and 1,024GB. Drives with the stock 128GB capacity can only record ProRes in 1080p resolution at 30 frames per second. The rest of the terminals can scale up to 4K resolution and 30 frames per second.
At this point, many might think that this is some kind of software trick to force us to buy a more expensive model. But, taking into account that it has already happened in previous models, the most logical thing is to think that it is a hardware limitation. One minute of video in 10-bit ProRes and 4K resolution takes up about 6 gigabytes of space. This means that, in a matter of minutes, we could completely fill the memory of the basic iPhone 14 Pro. But that’s not the thing. It is possible that the transfer is limited not only by space, but also by the writing capacity of the terminal chip itself, as is the case with the MacBook Air M2 and the writing rate in the standard model.
Therefore, if you want to record ProRes content with your new iPhone, you should know that you have to add a few more dollars to the budget and scale to at least the 256 GB storage model.
