Something worth knowing: when shooting regular HDR on pixel phones, you should always go into manual controls and reduce exposure about 1-1.5 big ticks (-5 is the lowest you can go). This will massively improve the video by reducing highlight clipping and bringing both shadows and midtones down to their realistic appearance. This improves contrast significantly. Google seems to have a similar and unfortunate philosophy when it comes to video boost even in SDR, so you might be able to improve the output by lowering exposure a bit.
Oo that's really interesting! I've always turned off HDR in video on my Pixel 7 because of how noisy it is in the shadows. I will try this for sure. Any other tips to improve video on pixel?
Thanks for the tip. I use Motion Cam Pro because the quality is just outstanding but I've been having issues with it as files are being corrupted and there's nothing I can do except just lose the footage.
@@tanvir10029 Lowering exposure will definitely help with that, since shadows will be dark as they should be, and not show noise so easily. I don't shoot a lot of video but I think that HDR mode isn't *always* worth it, even with the exposure correction. For example when filming kids indoors, you might like the color pop that HDR provides, but the video will look a bit darker than a native-SDR equivalent once you send it over a messenger like whatsapp and the HDR is lost. To clarify, it will still look brighter than SDR on your device, even after lowering exposure by 1.5 ticks for HDR. Something else I noticed, though probably niche, - I filmed a concert recently where I went back and forth between 1x and 2x zoom and experienced occasional audio inconsistencies during the videos. This is likely caused by the audio zoom feature, enabled by default. Some might like what it does overall, but the jarring transitions I experienced made it less than ideal. The idea is that it blocks out noise around you and focuses on the sound coming from where the camera is pointed, but sometimes the surroundings would get muffled too much and then pop back to audible. It wasn't terrible, but if I had a second shot at it, I would film the entire thing without this feature.
I think the hardware is impressive but they need to change how they tweak things, for example tuning down the exposure at night to avoid blown out highlights in videos which is a very simple fix or take the subject isolation seriously because they can already provide a great subject isolation in Google photos but they don't care about doing the same in the camera app and so on, they are small things but they are not giving that much of a attention to them
@@IDTRcorrect , the hardware on the pixel 8 pro is very impressive , but unfortunately is the processing that Google comes up short with, I'm currently using the 8 pro and to be fair have no complaints about it , great video great content 👍👍
@@1m_megapixels i am using Pixel 8 pro from past few months. my brother is using iphone 12 pro max from past few years. iphone 12 max cpu is way faster than pixel 8 pro cpu. i still feel i should have bought iphone 15 pro or max, all processing is done locally. i don't need to video boost upload and wait for it to process. i feel, no phone can beat iphone videos. my personnel choice preference, i use iphone 12 pro max to take videos eventhough i have pixel 8 pro. i never had pixel, wanted to fell and use. but for sure, my next phone upgrade i will got with iphone. i am not a iphone person, in the past i have used oneplus, samsung and now pixel.
@@jagadeesham8535 this is what I meant by my original post. Better hardware on device trumps processing video in the cloud. Especially considering you don't know what the results will be from said online processing. I'd rather get the results right away on device.
I saw a video from another person which compares normal version and boosted version and it was a drastic improvement in low light but ofc he didn't compare with other phones but it did made huge difference with and without.
I saw some of these videos and I think they compare the temp file or the 1080p preview file to the processed video and that's why there's a big difference, but if you want to compare 4K30 to 4K30 you have to record twice.
@@IDTR Yeah,that could be the reason. A bit disappointed with the amount of difference they actually showed in the ads and now it's just not worth the time at all.
Appreciate the video as usual! Good to see you compare with a normal 4K recording. I have different results though. I was also shooting the same video twice (but indoor), both 4K 30fps, the boosted version was so much better! Way less noise, better colors. Also, comparing to 15 pro max and S23 ultra, going from the worst to best stabilization is huge to me. On the other hand, I am also disappointed that we can only boost the main sensor.
On 85" TV at 2160 the Pixel videos always have more defined frames and overall a more pleasant scene; the iPhone always offers a scene that is too warm for me; at night on the beach we can notice greater definition on the sand and on the building with the Pixel 8 Pro; overall iPhone is not an absolute benchmark; every smartphone has advantages in recording, just like the iPhone has defects. Personal preferences are ok, but the definition is an objective parameter, and it is not correct to say that the iPhone offers the most defined image at night. 😉
A little suggestion: when comparing photo and video quality between 3 different phones, always place the phone you're reviewing in the middle of the screen.
@@iagree7388 less distance for your eyes to travel & less time for your brain to interpret the data. It's common sense. You don't play find the difference game and then put something between the 2 photos
12:12 & 12:17 Pixel is doing great with shadow details. With a little bit of contrast, highlights etc tuning the P8pro would be as good as iphone if not better.
that Sony Ericsson K800 at the background brings so much memories!!! thank you so much for such well detailed video about Video boost for Pixel 8 Pro ❤❤
hmm interesting results, other people who tested it against the iPhone said the Pixel is better. I heard that the quality is widly different if the backup method to Google Photos is Original File instead of high quality. Which one do you have enabled? But I still gotta give credit to iPhone for it doing all the processing on device and still being (in this test) better imo.
Based on what we're seeing wirh the temp files, it looks like this new feature is shooting in LOG with high bit rate and then uploading to Google's servers for colour correction, stabilisation and noise reduction.
I must be looking at different footage. The iPhone quality when lighting isn't perfect, still drops the framerate to compensate and then the EIS kicks in and makes the image quality even worse. Google needs to make it so the video isn't so cropped in though. The iPhone and Samsung are considerably more zoomed out.
I was hoping for a little more from video boost. The iPhone and Samsung are pushing those outputs into a video file that is pretty much ready for you as soon as you are done filming. Video boost looks to put the Pixel on a similar level, but removes many features and takes over an hour to process on Google servers...
All three of the phones in the comparison had times where they looked much better than the others. What I've gained from this video is that the S23 Ultra is still very competitive despite being older than the 15PM and Pixel 8 with video boost.
I think he can be the best judge of that since he is in the environment, especially because he uses the word “natural”. I can see how he comes to that conclusion, as it looks like video boost is trying to take too much details from the shadows which is giving its darker elements, a washed out appearance.
I am still confused on how it is processed. It must be shooting in 4K and 1080 simultaneously which leads me to believe that it may be using both files to process. I believe the main GNK sensor also has "three different ISO modes" so perhaps it is shooting the 1080 in a high ISO mode and the 4k in a lower ISO. I'm surprised the video did not outright slay the Samsung and iPhone. I do believe they should have also marketed it as Night Sight Video and mention that it can also improve Daytime videos as well rather than advertising it as better in all scenes. In my testing, it blew out the highlights several times in brighter scenes where the regular video mode would have been just fine.
I would say the method of execution so far is pretty bad. Each video you take, it needs to upload 1.7 GB per minute, and where I live all households have 5 to 10 mpbs upload speed, which means it would take 30 it 60 minutes of each minute of the video to upload. So a 5 minute video could easily take 5 hours to upload. I bet that would consume the phone's battery like crazy trying to upload a video for 5 hours straight. I wouldn't use it. Almost never because of the inconvenience. I would only use it if it worked for my already normally recorded and uploaded videos, which I don't think it does yet.
The night beach vid looks way better on the pixel. The noise and detail are way better. All around detail is better with video boost even in the daylight and dynamic range is better.
I like the way the colors pop on the Pixel. Especially the greens. The HDR will raise the shadows and highlights which can be adjusted by the sliders to your preference. Or record it without HDR. I noticed it had an exposure shift on the lights. They were good and then got brighter. Shot without exposure lock I assume.
Nice Side-by-Side. However, I don't see less-contrast issues from my Video Boost results (SDR) and they look great. Were these videos recorded with 10-bit HDR turned on or off?
Overall I'm not a fan of Video Boost. I don't like how it brightens up the shadows (and whole image actually) too much and also adds too much color saturation. I DO like however how it removes noise, adds sharpness and improves stabilization. Only in very dark scenerios it can result in a better useful video.
Would we even use the Video boost feature over time since it takes so long to upload the video and process it. And the size of the processed video also seems to be high!!
Great review as usual by the way! I have tried this feature and it is inconvenient. Not only does it take long to obtain the final copy, you need to set it up every time you open your camera app. If I was on a cruise or a location with no internet for days, i cannot utilize this feature. All this work and time just to have it just look brighter with better stabilization. I'd be annoyed to go through this process and finding out its not even that much better.
The feature seems to improve the smoothness, and that's what I like the most. Was the S23 Ultra set at high bitrate? I normally see much smoother videos from this phone.
I wonder if you can help me. I took a bunch of Video Boost-ed videos and now I'm trying to share them via Google Drive and they appear flat, with little color. Why is that? I also tried uploading directly to Twitter and UA-cam and same thing. I haven't published them because they appear flat in the preview.
When a boosted video is shared via Google Photos and subsequently downloaded or saved to another account, it is saved or downloaded in 1080p rather than the original 4K resolution, resulting in a downgraded version. Are you experiencing this issue on the Pixel 8 Pro? Essentially, the 4K version cannot be located on the device, and sharing it via Google Photos for download is not possible
doesn't make too much of a difference in camera, but the customization, fast-charging, consistent fps genshin gaming after several hours are very important for me so i prefer the s ultra series
Cumbersome (off by default, but I get that they are slowly testing it and rolling out), slow, energy consuming (upload/download, server side encoding) and the end result is a flat, washed out, overexposed, oversaturated video with clipped highlights and medium details. This looks like the overbrightened night sight photos we got for years (until they toned it down - at least with regards to the sky - months ago) plus a whole swath of other issues. Not a fan and don't think backend tweaks will help much.
Regardless if the Pixel is better, it still requires 'hours' to send a video through the Google processing servers. The worst part is if you waited all that time to receive a video like the one you showed us where the purple was turned blue. That would make the video unusable, and unfortunately you wasted all that time waiting when you could've been processing the video yourself. IMO, this feature is another gimmick that needs to be tailored still.
Going into the advanced settings for the Camera, you'll find "Store Videos Efficiently" and if you enable that, it'll use the much smaller H.265/HEVC format and help with large video files.
Two questions: 1. Which among is best for vlogging Pixel 8/ iPhone 15 / S23 Ultra?? 2. Which phone is PHONE of the YEAR for you? I really like watching your content. It’s true to life.
if u want video go for iphone,but if u want photo with best overall experience go with s23 ultra Note:if u want to choose s23 ultra i think you should wait for s24 ultra
No doubt the iphone...the quality is just something else. Just look at the ois. Plus camera leaning apps are much better optimized for iphones. But the stills on pixel and sammy are amazing.
What I heard from it is that Google records some sort of Raw Video, a very compressed version of Raw (ProRes raw but it's Google's flavour of Raw) and then sends it to the cloud.. apply hdr+ on each frame.. since it is a raw still image.. more data to work on.. after all the processing.. sends it back to you. Google needs to make this on-device one day.
@@tuapuikiaSo by that reckoning you are happy paying money for a device with an inferior chipset?. For what you are paying your device should be capable of carrying out AI improvements and enhancements on the device itself.
@@neilmcguinness4422lol video boost obviously requires a ton of processing power, not even Apple silicon is efficient enough to do that much work with 5000mah
the boosted video is wayyy too washed out, i think they are trying to brighten the dark area which doesn't work well on videos, and the final processed videos are very flat and lack of contrast.
Honestly, I can't anything that pixel couldn't do directly on a phone. That night mode in this video doing same as xiaomi video night mode for about two years.
Is the clarity and quality changing much, if any, or is boosting it strictly a contrast thing? I tried taking some test footage on my phone but all I noticed was the brightness went up. Do I need to see it on a larger screen to get the full picture?
No you don't. You are seeing real life differences and not the misleading hyped up 'results'. Don't get me wrong though, Video Boost has great potential and can only get better.
@@neilmcguinness4422 so even on a bigger, better screen, the difference is just a bit brighter and slightly denoised video? I'm not really complaining, I actually really like the video from my Pixel but I'm just curious when I would want to use video boost specifically.
as a samsung fanboy and iphone hater, still i would say, iPhone is still the king of video,whether its daylight/night/cinematic video, its a clean sheet for iphone. ah come on, here google introduced the most ineefficient solution for improving video, and still falling behind iphone,which does the same result,but better, in real time.
I did one last night. Less than a minute long and took hours to get it back. I can only imagine how long u waited for all these samples lol they need to improve the time. Is ridiculous
I think the iPhone is the best as it's the most reliable. S23 is close. The Pixel is something I wouldn't daily as it's just too obsessed with tweaking footage in unrealistic ways, which is a big no-no. I want to capture what I see, not what Instagram will like better, there's filters for that.
It looks to me the only thing that video boost does is: - Turning off stabilization - Recording in RAW / LOG - Uploading to the cloud for stabilization and color grading?! Take the iPhone, record in ProRES with LOG and color grading it yourself to compare it? :)
The quality of the video one can get by manually grading log from an iphone is hugely dependant on their experience in this field, and there is basically no skill ceiling. Google chose to make processed log something all of their users with enabled devices can access, rather than it being something only a few ever try and the rest just marvel at by watching videos of it. Hopefully they address some key weaknesses in the future. It's even quite possible that they bring this feature down to some non-pro devices when they've polished it more, making it so limited now just to avoid getting criticism from quite as many users.
Like you said, iPhone's video is still better. Boosted video looks washed out with less contrast, especially in direct sunlight but better in the shade. Having said this, this is just the beginning. Google can improve it with time taking all user's feedback into consideration. Bdw, great video as always.
But in the last footage in extreme low light the pixels video boost has the highest amount of details and lowest amount of noise even comoared to the iohone but with the sacrifice of dynamic range
what a disappointment, but also totally expected of Google. They do a big song and dance to say how amazing something is going to be, but then reality hits and it's a miss. The fact that they have to upload the video, process it for hours, and then save it to the cloud and it STILL isn't better than what the iPhone can take and process in real time is just, kind sad. Especially when it comes to HDR, iPhone is over here doing a pretty good job with their Dolby Vision recording, meanwhile the Pixel blows out highlights and changes the colors of lights when in HDR AFTER processing it for hours.
11:40 - Pixels can't seem to be able to handle purple lights correctly. Whenever I take pictures of any light source that is purple, they come out looking like shown in the video.
wtf.. why in this video S23U so shaking???? It never happen to my phone on day light, even on night life the stabilization still work so good, just a bit worst compare to 14, 15 Pro Max.
I feel this feature, like the thermometer is just a gimmick. To me the "quality" of the presented video is no better. They just run the HDR+ through it and spit it back out and its denoised, still looks like crappy mobile video, and it takes ages to get back. You'd be better off getting an app like "Motion Cam" recording Raw video, and post processing it yourself in Resolve. You'd get better results. I have a feeling that all google is doing here is along with the main regular video, it records the raw dng frames straight from the sensor (pay attention to the video boost resolution in the info, its the full sensor resolution *binned*), puts them into package (video boost file aka ZIP file of raw dng frames*, hence the extra large file size) and then uploads that then runs their HDR+ algorithm then sends it back. I could be wrong but that sounds like what they're doing.
So 1080p preview is nearly the same size as 4K boosted video? My own short test have results all over the place and as I only have 1 phone couldn't compare 4K to 4K. I think major tech review sites like Verge are hyping the feature more than testing as they compared the 1080p COVER to boosted 4K
I don't know, whenever you said the iPhone was better, it looked bad to me. I guess it's all a matter of taste. I don't like videos which are too warm.
Am i blind or something? Samsung looks much sharper than apple. Colour wise it looks better in terms of dynamic range. White balance idk i feel like its doesnt really affect the comparison.
looks like the boosted process is over exposing a bit. might be worth trying reducing the ev by a third of a stop when actually shooting the video you want boosted.
A lot of key aspects were not explained in this video. For eg: What size is used on your google photos account? is the temporary Huge file? or is it the processed video? or both? Also, I use a pixel 1 to upload everything (Free unlimited storage forever) Will this boosted feature work? I Have the upload turned off on pixel 8 pro. I click to manually upload the video to use this feature and it uploads it on storage saver. I enabled original quality and then turned off backup and its always uploading in storage saver. So this means that the video ends up looking like absolute useless footage. Also theres no comparison with HDR video on. its only 4k30 fps. From what i tested HDR video looks almost the same as the boosted. So i dont actually feel its worth all this trouble. If anyone has more info on this or know a video reviewing this to every detail let me know.
1st point clearly answered in the video, this temp file doesn't take anything from your storage only the processed video will take from your storage if u decide to back it up. The problem is you're mixing unrelated things to the feature, storage saver doesn't impact this feature, 2ndly the video has to be recorded and uploaded from the 8 Pro as mentioned in the video so, using the Pixel 1 doesn't allow this to happen but may be after you get your hands on the final video then you can send it over to the Pixel 1 and back it up from there
Still . I want to have back up off and manually upload boosted videos and it only chooses storage saver . I want it to be original when clicking on the cloud and ask backup this one . Them I'll try to backup the processed video .
Thanks a lot!... A very good review. I tried it and it looks better on the phone but it still takes huge space after boosting and when I look at the file on the computer - it looks like sh*t. I also never get a notification that it finished processing. Am I doing something wrong?
It takes 2/3hours to improve the videos (short ones too).. and without a proper edition options onboard like imovie or any samsung/xiaomi/clip from huawey Im thinking i will sell the Pixel8pro.. it has great photos and a lot of online gimmics ..
what a waste of feature, waste of data, and waste of time. they better improve the hardware from sensors to processors rather than all these A.I nonsense
Am i the only one doesnt like the flat display? Accidental taps are super rare for me even though my hands are fattttt. I really like the 3d look of it. Flat ones just look cheap??
All 3 are great lmao just choose what you want my m51 has taken 4k 30 fps for youtube and pepole hardly notice reason most phones are not at level of above averge atleast in day light
Something worth knowing: when shooting regular HDR on pixel phones, you should always go into manual controls and reduce exposure about 1-1.5 big ticks (-5 is the lowest you can go). This will massively improve the video by reducing highlight clipping and bringing both shadows and midtones down to their realistic appearance. This improves contrast significantly.
Google seems to have a similar and unfortunate philosophy when it comes to video boost even in SDR, so you might be able to improve the output by lowering exposure a bit.
Oo that's really interesting! I've always turned off HDR in video on my Pixel 7 because of how noisy it is in the shadows. I will try this for sure. Any other tips to improve video on pixel?
Yes. I've tried that and it works wonderfully and the highlights are much more well balanced than in this video on my Pixel 8 Pro:)
Thanks for the tip. I use Motion Cam Pro because the quality is just outstanding but I've been having issues with it as files are being corrupted and there's nothing I can do except just lose the footage.
@@tanvir10029 Lowering exposure will definitely help with that, since shadows will be dark as they should be, and not show noise so easily.
I don't shoot a lot of video but I think that HDR mode isn't *always* worth it, even with the exposure correction. For example when filming kids indoors, you might like the color pop that HDR provides, but the video will look a bit darker than a native-SDR equivalent once you send it over a messenger like whatsapp and the HDR is lost. To clarify, it will still look brighter than SDR on your device, even after lowering exposure by 1.5 ticks for HDR.
Something else I noticed, though probably niche, - I filmed a concert recently where I went back and forth between 1x and 2x zoom and experienced occasional audio inconsistencies during the videos. This is likely caused by the audio zoom feature, enabled by default. Some might like what it does overall, but the jarring transitions I experienced made it less than ideal. The idea is that it blocks out noise around you and focuses on the sound coming from where the camera is pointed, but sometimes the surroundings would get muffled too much and then pop back to audible. It wasn't terrible, but if I had a second shot at it, I would film the entire thing without this feature.
It drops the video , DONT try
Video Boost does seem like a cool features but I think Google needs to just make better hardware when it comes to video.
I think the hardware is impressive but they need to change how they tweak things, for example tuning down the exposure at night to avoid blown out highlights in videos which is a very simple fix or take the subject isolation seriously because they can already provide a great subject isolation in Google photos but they don't care about doing the same in the camera app and so on, they are small things but they are not giving that much of a attention to them
@@IDTRcorrect , the hardware on the pixel 8 pro is very impressive , but unfortunately is the processing that Google comes up short with, I'm currently using the 8 pro and to be fair have no complaints about it , great video great content 👍👍
@@1m_megapixels i am using Pixel 8 pro from past few months. my brother is using iphone 12 pro max from past few years. iphone 12 max cpu is way faster than pixel 8 pro cpu. i still feel i should have bought iphone 15 pro or max, all processing is done locally. i don't need to video boost upload and wait for it to process. i feel, no phone can beat iphone videos. my personnel choice preference, i use iphone 12 pro max to take videos eventhough i have pixel 8 pro. i never had pixel, wanted to fell and use. but for sure, my next phone upgrade i will got with iphone. i am not a iphone person, in the past i have used oneplus, samsung and now pixel.
@@jagadeesham8535 this is what I meant by my original post. Better hardware on device trumps processing video in the cloud. Especially considering you don't know what the results will be from said online processing. I'd rather get the results right away on device.
I saw a video from another person which compares normal version and boosted version and it was a drastic improvement in low light but ofc he didn't compare with other phones but it did made huge difference with and without.
I saw some of these videos and I think they compare the temp file or the 1080p preview file to the processed video and that's why there's a big difference, but if you want to compare 4K30 to 4K30 you have to record twice.
@@IDTR Yeah,that could be the reason.
A bit disappointed with the amount of difference they actually showed in the ads and now it's just not worth the time at all.
Or to record with two Pixel 8 pro at the same time.
Many people get dragged in by all the misleading hype surrounding Google's video boost. It shows good potential, but game changing it certainly isn't.
Am expecting it.to improve over time but not bad for the first trial
Appreciate the video as usual! Good to see you compare with a normal 4K recording. I have different results though. I was also shooting the same video twice (but indoor), both 4K 30fps, the boosted version was so much better! Way less noise, better colors. Also, comparing to 15 pro max and S23 ultra, going from the worst to best stabilization is huge to me. On the other hand, I am also disappointed that we can only boost the main sensor.
Thanks for sharing your experience, I also really like the stabilization of video boost, I will test it even further in more scenarios later
On 85" TV at 2160 the Pixel videos always have more defined frames and overall a more pleasant scene; the iPhone always offers a scene that is too warm for me; at night on the beach we can notice greater definition on the sand and on the building with the Pixel 8 Pro; overall iPhone is not an absolute benchmark; every smartphone has advantages in recording, just like the iPhone has defects.
Personal preferences are ok, but the definition is an objective parameter, and it is not correct to say that the iPhone offers the most defined image at night. 😉
iPhone videography anyday. Photos from android anyday.
yup agree for that✨
Definitely. But pixel has improved a lot this year. Video from it is definitely in top 5 now.
Yes I agree. iPhone top in video! Pixel 8 pro is the next best
Android means? You should tell the name of pixel here instead of Android
Don’t agree. Everything is better on the iPhone.
Impressive how the S23 is holding up despite being old already! Im sure the S24 will take over next month!
A little suggestion: when comparing photo and video quality between 3 different phones, always place the phone you're reviewing in the middle of the screen.
Lol, what difference does it make?
@@iagree7388 less distance for your eyes to travel & less time for your brain to interpret the data. It's common sense. You don't play find the difference game and then put something between the 2 photos
12:12 & 12:17 Pixel is doing great with shadow details. With a little bit of contrast, highlights etc tuning the P8pro would be as good as iphone if not better.
Don't think so, unfortunately.
@@megamastahBro it looks awesome up close, just zoom in you'll see it clean even though the sign is blown out
that Sony Ericsson K800 at the background brings so much memories!!! thank you so much for such well detailed video about Video boost for Pixel 8 Pro ❤❤
hmm interesting results, other people who tested it against the iPhone said the Pixel is better. I heard that the quality is widly different if the backup method to Google Photos is Original File instead of high quality. Which one do you have enabled?
But I still gotta give credit to iPhone for it doing all the processing on device and still being (in this test) better imo.
Haven't seen anyone comparing it to iphones till now
Am using original quality backup
@@IDTRfair enough, Thanks for the video. The iPhone remains the King in Smartphones when it comes to video.
@@eulehund99king of those ugly warm colours
@@dinkoist🤝🏽
Based on what we're seeing wirh the temp files, it looks like this new feature is shooting in LOG with high bit rate and then uploading to Google's servers for colour correction, stabilisation and noise reduction.
I must be looking at different footage. The iPhone quality when lighting isn't perfect, still drops the framerate to compensate and then the EIS kicks in and makes the image quality even worse. Google needs to make it so the video isn't so cropped in though. The iPhone and Samsung are considerably more zoomed out.
I was hoping for a little more from video boost. The iPhone and Samsung are pushing those outputs into a video file that is pretty much ready for you as soon as you are done filming. Video boost looks to put the Pixel on a similar level, but removes many features and takes over an hour to process on Google servers...
All three of the phones in the comparison had times where they looked much better than the others. What I've gained from this video is that the S23 Ultra is still very competitive despite being older than the 15PM and Pixel 8 with video boost.
12:02 - to my eyes the Pixel has more details than the iPhone
I share the same opinion.
Exactly ,I felt the same and I felt 15 is almost struggling to focus
I think he can be the best judge of that since he is in the environment, especially because he uses the word “natural”. I can see how he comes to that conclusion, as it looks like video boost is trying to take too much details from the shadows which is giving its darker elements, a washed out appearance.
I am still confused on how it is processed. It must be shooting in 4K and 1080 simultaneously which leads me to believe that it may be using both files to process. I believe the main GNK sensor also has "three different ISO modes" so perhaps it is shooting the 1080 in a high ISO mode and the 4k in a lower ISO. I'm surprised the video did not outright slay the Samsung and iPhone. I do believe they should have also marketed it as Night Sight Video and mention that it can also improve Daytime videos as well rather than advertising it as better in all scenes. In my testing, it blew out the highlights several times in brighter scenes where the regular video mode would have been just fine.
Am not sure if they also use the 1080p
The way how google stabilized the footage on that night video is quite amazing.
Yes
I would say the method of execution so far is pretty bad. Each video you take, it needs to upload 1.7 GB per minute, and
where I live all households have 5 to 10 mpbs upload speed, which means it would take 30 it 60 minutes of each minute of the video to upload.
So a 5 minute video could easily take 5 hours to upload. I bet that would consume the phone's battery like crazy trying to upload a video for 5 hours straight.
I wouldn't use it. Almost never because of the inconvenience.
I would only use it if it worked for my already normally recorded and uploaded videos, which I don't think it does yet.
The night beach vid looks way better on the pixel. The noise and detail are way better. All around detail is better with video boost even in the daylight and dynamic range is better.
Google will no doubt improve the processing since they can control it better on their end.. a year from now this feature will be much better
I like the way the colors pop on the Pixel. Especially the greens. The HDR will raise the shadows and highlights which can be adjusted by the sliders to your preference. Or record it without HDR. I noticed it had an exposure shift on the lights. They were good and then got brighter. Shot without exposure lock I assume.
Pixel tried so hard , but iPhone still wins in videos
1. iPhone 15 Pro Max
2. Pixel 8 Pro
3. Galaxy S23 Ultra
Nice Side-by-Side. However, I don't see less-contrast issues from my Video Boost results (SDR) and they look great. Were these videos recorded with 10-bit HDR turned on or off?
Overall I'm not a fan of Video Boost. I don't like how it brightens up the shadows (and whole image actually) too much and also adds too much color saturation. I DO like however how it removes noise, adds sharpness and improves stabilization. Only in very dark scenerios it can result in a better useful video.
I think adding more contrast to morning videos will make it so much better
What's that beat? So soothing and calm. Really went with the vibe of the video. Lol
Would we even use the Video boost feature over time since it takes so long to upload the video and process it. And the size of the processed video also seems to be high!!
Great review as usual by the way! I have tried this feature and it is inconvenient. Not only does it take long to obtain the final copy, you need to set it up every time you open your camera app. If I was on a cruise or a location with no internet for days, i cannot utilize this feature. All this work and time just to have it just look brighter with better stabilization. I'd be annoyed to go through this process and finding out its not even that much better.
The feature seems to improve the smoothness, and that's what I like the most. Was the S23 Ultra set at high bitrate? I normally see much smoother videos from this phone.
9:04 FYI: it appears like video stabilization is OFF with s23 ultra.
I'm kinda confused as to why the unprocessed video's dimensions are 2268 x 4032 for 4K. Is it different where you live? Normally it's 3840 x 2160...
This seems like a feature that will be really useful in a few years once the hardware is more powerful/software is more refined
I wonder if you can help me. I took a bunch of Video Boost-ed videos and now I'm trying to share them via Google Drive and they appear flat, with little color. Why is that? I also tried uploading directly to Twitter and UA-cam and same thing. I haven't published them because they appear flat in the preview.
When a boosted video is shared via Google Photos and subsequently downloaded or saved to another account, it is saved or downloaded in 1080p rather than the original 4K resolution, resulting in a downgraded version. Are you experiencing this issue on the Pixel 8 Pro? Essentially, the 4K version cannot be located on the device, and sharing it via Google Photos for download is not possible
doesn't make too much of a difference in camera, but the customization, fast-charging, consistent fps genshin gaming after several hours are very important for me so i prefer the s ultra series
Best video boost comparison on UA-cam! Thank you
the camera quality on all the 3 phones looks great to me, pixel looked realistic but iphone's warm footage looks more apealing
Cumbersome (off by default, but I get that they are slowly testing it and rolling out), slow, energy consuming (upload/download, server side encoding) and the end result is a flat, washed out, overexposed, oversaturated video with clipped highlights and medium details.
This looks like the overbrightened night sight photos we got for years (until they toned it down - at least with regards to the sky - months ago) plus a whole swath of other issues. Not a fan and don't think backend tweaks will help much.
Regardless if the Pixel is better, it still requires 'hours' to send a video through the Google processing servers. The worst part is if you waited all that time to receive a video like the one you showed us where the purple was turned blue. That would make the video unusable, and unfortunately you wasted all that time waiting when you could've been processing the video yourself. IMO, this feature is another gimmick that needs to be tailored still.
Going into the advanced settings for the Camera, you'll find "Store Videos Efficiently" and if you enable that, it'll use the much smaller H.265/HEVC format and help with large video files.
Two questions:
1. Which among is best for vlogging Pixel 8/ iPhone 15 / S23 Ultra??
2. Which phone is PHONE of the YEAR for you?
I really like watching your content. It’s true to life.
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if u want video go for iphone,but if u want photo with best overall experience go with s23 ultra
Note:if u want to choose s23 ultra i think you should wait for s24 ultra
Go for the iPhone no brainer
@@Short_N_Simplewhat about pixel 8 pro video ?
No doubt the iphone...the quality is just something else. Just look at the ois. Plus camera leaning apps are much better optimized for iphones. But the stills on pixel and sammy are amazing.
What I heard from it is that Google records some sort of Raw Video, a very compressed version of Raw (ProRes raw but it's Google's flavour of Raw) and then sends it to the cloud.. apply hdr+ on each frame.. since it is a raw still image.. more data to work on.. after all the processing.. sends it back to you. Google needs to make this on-device one day.
I don't want Google do this post processing on mobile device. It defeat the purpose of cloud processing technology and waste mobile phone battery.
@@tuapuikiaSo by that reckoning you are happy paying money for a device with an inferior chipset?. For what you are paying your device should be capable of carrying out AI improvements and enhancements on the device itself.
@@neilmcguinness4422 I have 1tb google one subscription with unlimited 5g internet.
@@neilmcguinness4422 finally someone who gets it.
@@neilmcguinness4422lol video boost obviously requires a ton of processing power, not even Apple silicon is efficient enough to do that much work with 5000mah
Loving your review! I have a question though, where did you shoot the samples in the end? The place looks beautiful!
Al Seef Heritage Souq in Dubai
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samsung needs to make their videos brighter, i hope my s24 u im gonna buy will improve on the video and photo
Pixel boosted is best in day light
S23 best at Night ❤❤❤❤
Iphones balanced both modes❤❤❤
the boosted video is wayyy too washed out, i think they are trying to brighten the dark area which doesn't work well on videos, and the final processed videos are very flat and lack of contrast.
Thanks Emad.
Do you see improvements on the horizon?
JaneLee - in Suburban Philadelphia
12/14/23
Honestly, I can't anything that pixel couldn't do directly on a phone. That night mode in this video doing same as xiaomi video night mode for about two years.
Boost is for night movies
Is the clarity and quality changing much, if any, or is boosting it strictly a contrast thing? I tried taking some test footage on my phone but all I noticed was the brightness went up. Do I need to see it on a larger screen to get the full picture?
No you don't. You are seeing real life differences and not the misleading hyped up 'results'. Don't get me wrong though, Video Boost has great potential and can only get better.
@@neilmcguinness4422 so even on a bigger, better screen, the difference is just a bit brighter and slightly denoised video? I'm not really complaining, I actually really like the video from my Pixel but I'm just curious when I would want to use video boost specifically.
as a samsung fanboy and iphone hater, still i would say, iPhone is still the king of video,whether its daylight/night/cinematic video, its a clean sheet for iphone. ah come on, here google introduced the most ineefficient solution for improving video, and still falling behind iphone,which does the same result,but better, in real time.
I did one last night. Less than a minute long and took hours to get it back. I can only imagine how long u waited for all these samples lol they need to improve the time. Is ridiculous
God!! Taking 2hrs for video boost processing is a lot. And 180mb for a 1min 14seconds video is also very high isnt it??
I think the iPhone is the best as it's the most reliable. S23 is close. The Pixel is something I wouldn't daily as it's just too obsessed with tweaking footage in unrealistic ways, which is a big no-no. I want to capture what I see, not what Instagram will like better, there's filters for that.
It looks to me the only thing that video boost does is:
- Turning off stabilization
- Recording in RAW / LOG
- Uploading to the cloud for stabilization and color grading?!
Take the iPhone, record in ProRES with LOG and color grading it yourself to compare it? :)
The quality of the video one can get by manually grading log from an iphone is hugely dependant on their experience in this field, and there is basically no skill ceiling.
Google chose to make processed log something all of their users with enabled devices can access, rather than it being something only a few ever try and the rest just marvel at by watching videos of it. Hopefully they address some key weaknesses in the future. It's even quite possible that they bring this feature down to some non-pro devices when they've polished it more, making it so limited now just to avoid getting criticism from quite as many users.
@@Maxoverpower Dafuq? There are plenty of apps that let every noob color grade footage without any knowledge. 🤷🏻♂️
Like you said, iPhone's video is still better. Boosted video looks washed out with less contrast, especially in direct sunlight but better in the shade.
Having said this, this is just the beginning. Google can improve it with time taking all user's feedback into consideration.
Bdw, great video as always.
Glad you liked it, yes I am expecting future improvements too and it's not bad for the first trial
@@IDTR yes there is chance of improvement. With each update it ll get better.
Most of the time the S23 had the best clarity
The stabilisation on boosted video are great😮
Which smartphone has more and more comprehensive features ❤
This is definitely a phase 1. They want this to work on all phones especially low end
Trong khi phát trực tiếp hay video dài thì phần cứng tốt có lợi thế hơn nhiều phần mềm
But in the last footage in extreme low light the pixels video boost has the highest amount of details and lowest amount of noise even comoared to the iohone but with the sacrifice of dynamic range
what a disappointment, but also totally expected of Google. They do a big song and dance to say how amazing something is going to be, but then reality hits and it's a miss. The fact that they have to upload the video, process it for hours, and then save it to the cloud and it STILL isn't better than what the iPhone can take and process in real time is just, kind sad.
Especially when it comes to HDR, iPhone is over here doing a pretty good job with their Dolby Vision recording, meanwhile the Pixel blows out highlights and changes the colors of lights when in HDR AFTER processing it for hours.
11:40 - Pixels can't seem to be able to handle purple lights correctly. Whenever I take pictures of any light source that is purple, they come out looking like shown in the video.
wtf.. why in this video S23U so shaking???? It never happen to my phone on day light, even on night life the stabilization still work so good, just a bit worst compare to 14, 15 Pro Max.
I feel this feature, like the thermometer is just a gimmick. To me the "quality" of the presented video is no better. They just run the HDR+ through it and spit it back out and its denoised, still looks like crappy mobile video, and it takes ages to get back. You'd be better off getting an app like "Motion Cam" recording Raw video, and post processing it yourself in Resolve. You'd get better results. I have a feeling that all google is doing here is along with the main regular video, it records the raw dng frames straight from the sensor (pay attention to the video boost resolution in the info, its the full sensor resolution *binned*), puts them into package (video boost file aka ZIP file of raw dng frames*, hence the extra large file size) and then uploads that then runs their HDR+ algorithm then sends it back. I could be wrong but that sounds like what they're doing.
So 1080p preview is nearly the same size as 4K boosted video? My own short test have results all over the place and as I only have 1 phone couldn't compare 4K to 4K. I think major tech review sites like Verge are hyping the feature more than testing as they compared the 1080p COVER to boosted 4K
I don't know, whenever you said the iPhone was better, it looked bad to me. I guess it's all a matter of taste. I don't like videos which are too warm.
It's funny your results. Personally I liked the pixel's results. I'm thinking the results are really down to personal taste no?
Am i blind or something? Samsung looks much sharper than apple. Colour wise it looks better in terms of dynamic range. White balance idk i feel like its doesnt really affect the comparison.
looks like the boosted process is over exposing a bit. might be worth trying reducing the ev by a third of a stop when actually shooting the video you want boosted.
I want a 8 pro so badly
A lot of key aspects were not explained in this video.
For eg: What size is used on your google photos account? is the temporary Huge file? or is it the processed video? or both?
Also, I use a pixel 1 to upload everything (Free unlimited storage forever) Will this boosted feature work?
I Have the upload turned off on pixel 8 pro. I click to manually upload the video to use this feature and it uploads it on storage saver.
I enabled original quality and then turned off backup and its always uploading in storage saver. So this means that the video ends up looking like absolute useless footage.
Also theres no comparison with HDR video on. its only 4k30 fps.
From what i tested HDR video looks almost the same as the boosted. So i dont actually feel its worth all this trouble.
If anyone has more info on this or know a video reviewing this to every detail let me know.
1st point clearly answered in the video, this temp file doesn't take anything from your storage only the processed video will take from your storage if u decide to back it up.
The problem is you're mixing unrelated things to the feature, storage saver doesn't impact this feature, 2ndly the video has to be recorded and uploaded from the 8 Pro as mentioned in the video so, using the Pixel 1 doesn't allow this to happen but may be after you get your hands on the final video then you can send it over to the Pixel 1 and back it up from there
Still . I want to have back up off and manually upload boosted videos and it only chooses storage saver . I want it to be original when clicking on the cloud and ask backup this one . Them I'll try to backup the processed video .
Thanks a lot!... A very good review.
I tried it and it looks better on the phone but it still takes huge space after boosting and when I look at the file on the computer - it looks like sh*t. I also never get a notification that it finished processing. Am I doing something wrong?
It's pointless showing the Samsung and iPhone at 30 FPS because you are not going to use that mode you will use 4K 60fps
It takes 2/3hours to improve the videos (short ones too).. and without a proper edition options onboard like imovie or any samsung/xiaomi/clip from huawey Im thinking i will sell the Pixel8pro.. it has great photos and a lot of online gimmics ..
After boost, the night video doesn't look like night anymore. I hate over-processed fake images.
It's fine but I think it was over marketed. So far for me at night like cities is where it really shines.
Wait for s24 ultra ❤
2:55 -3:54 and 3:55 - ... same clips twice? Am I missing something?
This location is Abra, Bur Dubai. I stay near that area.
Judging from this comparison, I don't like it.
Imagine have to go through all that hassle just to get something close to the iPhone 💀🤣🤣🤣
Is that a sony cybershot setup as a prop to the side? K790/k800
K800
ur kinda blind, in low light the iphone is very noisy and lacks detail
IS THAT A SONY K800i??? I LOVED THAT PHONE!!!!
It takes 30+hours minimum to process a 19sw ond video. Absolutely ridiculous
I think the video boost version is nearly similar to what your eyes can see. The consistency of exposure is just a chef's kiss
what a waste of feature, waste of data, and waste of time. they better improve the hardware from sensors to processors rather than all these A.I nonsense
Agree.
how can you say that night video is better on iPhone if the pixel crushes the iphone with much better details, brighter and less noise videos.
Why video from iPhone have yellow filter? Looks like color had been "enhanced" and look weird.
great final conclusion. A lot of time and normal result.
I was expecting more from google :(
Hello, why the Boost video takes 15 days to save a 5 second video!!!! It's abused!
i think there is no need of Boosted option in Day time or in a Good light .
Am i the only one doesnt like the flat display? Accidental taps are super rare for me even though my hands are fattttt. I really like the 3d look of it. Flat ones just look cheap??
All 3 are great lmao just choose what you want my m51 has taken 4k 30 fps for youtube and pepole hardly notice reason most phones are not at level of above averge atleast in day light
2 hours of processing and they came up with slightly less contrast version of the video? 😂 is this a troll feature or what
Would like to see a review of the Sony K800i in the backdrop.
I did it a long time ago, the video is still available to watch
imagine that google went through all the trouble to run the video through server to produce such result is pathetic