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| Monument Taken with iPhone 4 - Unmodified |
First off I have to say the iPhone 4 takes EXCELLENT video and pictures. In many cases with adequate light and distance to target these pictures were on par or even better then using my Canon 30D and a kit lens. Yes the Canon can definitely take better pictures, but from a daylight, snapshot perspective, the iPhone is incredible.
So I wanted to upload all of my vacation pictures and video into a single location. I really like the Picasa interface so I started there. Pictures are easy enough, they can be edited, rearranged and then uploaded. But video is a whole different story. First off I had some video from my Canon HD Video Camera and the iPhone video. The iPhone video was easy, load it into Picasa and up to the web in no problem.
The canon on the other had stores it's files in .mts format. Picasa could read an play this (at least on my computer) but it was very choppy, huge files to upload and then once upload the audio was questionable at best.
So i needed to convert the video down to a more reasonable format. I have the Nero 10 suite of tools and while capable the interface is horrid. Regardless, here are the steps I took:
- I started a new video project in Nero Vision.
- I then imported the video clip (copy paste) and cropped it down to size
- I tested multiple export formats and the best size/compatibility/quality I could find is
: Format : AVC
: Profile : iPod/ iPhone VAC
Honestly this worked great! I could then save it into a Picasa folder and then sync up to the web. The best size/quality overall was straight MP4 but that had playback problems. The AVI's were huge and low quality and the WMV's were actually very good size and quality but I had concerns over compatibility. For giggles I also tried creating the files in HandBrake and the quality was questionable and too large.
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