2020-11-24, 00:56
Returned my iPhone 12 Pro Max after many attempts to get HDR to look decent on my Vizio DV/HDR-capable TV & standard HDR-capable Epson 5050UB projector. Raw files & once edited with iMovie look too bright & washed out. Ones edited with LumaFusion look too dim & under saturated. With Luma, I tried exporting as DV, HDR10 & HLG (of which it gives two options) to no avail. Switching to SDR, iPhone 12 Pro Max's video quality is only marginally better than iPhone 11 Pro Max's. The DV clips look fantastic on the iPhone itself, for the most part, but where I need them to work (my TV, projector), at present, results aren't good. One thing that is worse on 12 are light flares when shooting at night, like city lights.