With the announcement of the iPhone 13 (we hope) fast approaching, you’d be forgiven for thinking every major rumour and leak about the upcoming smartphone was already well and truly out. But a tantalising new tidbit has just emerged, and it could be brilliant news for creatives – especially filmmakers.
We’ve already heard that the iPhone 13 will see improvements to the camera (hardly surprising, let’s be honest), but a new report suggests a huge new feature could be coming to video: Portrait mode. There are already plenty of iPhones among our best camera phones, but this could be a game-changer for videographers.
According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman (a seasoned Apple leaker), Apple is readying new iPhones with a “video version of the phone’s Portrait mode feature”. The company is also said to have implemented the ability to record video in a higher-quality format called ProRes.
Portrait mode was first introduced with 2016’s iPhone 7 Plus, and adds a bokeh blur effect to the background of photographs, mimicking the effect of much larger cameras such as DSLRs. “For the new iPhones,” Gurman claims, “Apple plans to add this same technique to video with a feature internally dubbed Cinematic Video.”
It’s not surprising that Apple has apparently gone with the word ‘Cinematic’ – that’s exactly how videos filmed in Portrait mode ought to look. While bokeh-infused photos have been achievable for a while now on iPhone, video has somewhat lagged behind, leaving users to rely on tools such as Filmic Pro to achieve a software-based version of the effect (check out our guide to Filmic Pro if you fancy getting to grips with the filmmaking app). But new hardware-based capabilities, along with brilliant apps like this, could mean better-looking video than ever.
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