Export Settings for iPhone Camera Roll

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Dan,

“iPhone Camera Roll” is not a lot of information to go on.

I suggest that you check what codecs your specific iPhone can handle?

But in Premiere Pro, you can either:

Under New Sequence select “Social” for various “Social Media” settings for the actual edit,

or,

In the Media Export Preset manager under “system presets” (“more presets” in “Preset” drop-down menu) you have 4 presets dedicated to “Mobile Device” in the alphabetic order of presets, up to 4K.

Hope that this helps?

Atb
Mads

[Dan Oster]

Thanks, Mads. H.264 should work no problem, but I actually found the solution for this. The issue seems to be with *vertical* video. For some reason, the way it exports naturally from Premier Pro, the iPhone doesn’t want to add it to the saved videos (i.e. the camera roll). The solution is to change the Profile in the export settings from “Main” to “High” and instead of “6.0” set it to “5.2.” Strange but it works!

Dan

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Dan,

Great that you found a solution.
Sounds like iPhone is intended to export video out, and less so to import it.

Out of interest, not that it should make a difference, but what happens if you “feed” the iPhone a ProRes format?

Atb

Mads

[Dan Oster]

No idea but considering how finicky the current iOS seems about importing video, I’d be skeptical that it’d work. H.264 is really the way to go. Even H.265 introduces weird ghosting issues!

Dan

[Geovannie Martinez]

I just created an account to stop by and say, this worked for me too! I spent an hour researching, couldn’t find any good advice on YouTube and a lot of stuff from google said to try H.265. I tried it but when the video i exported wasn’t supported by my own pc video player, I decided I wasn’t going to settle for that bandage. Your fix was perfect! Here’s a screenshot in case anyone can’t find where its at, seems like a common issue.

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Geovannie,

Great to hear that it worked for you, hopefully others with similar problem will find it too.

I am sure that you’ll find other goodies here on the COW, including a big section of training videos, made regurlarly by a small crowd of dedicated educators.

Since the original post, all the rave currently, is about vertical microdrama.
I am gearing up to replace my iPhone for better resolution, and making films.

Atb
Mads

[Brie Clayton]

Even though this was originally your own issue, thank you for solving this for others, Dan!