Transfering phone video to social media at full fidelity

[ColinGreaves]

Is there a way when you take a video at 4k30, 1080p60 etc etc that you can transfer the video you took at full fidelity to social media?

I ask this because I can download the full file to my PC and then upload it and, if under the MB limit of where I am sending it to, it will be as I recorded it.

However if I send to social media direct from my Android phone I find my 1920x1080 is reduced down to 1280x720 and and a far lower bit rate. This can be glossed over on phones if you are watching it but for larger monitors you get pixilation and blurring. My friends with Apple phones are even worse off with 960x540 with lower bit rate.

I'm guessing this is something originally put in place to allow phones on 3G to send video files at all so reduce the file size down from 70MB to 7MB for instance. However with wifi and 5g coming on stream this seems to be the old days. Your modern phone can take 4k60 and 8k30 but the operating system for Android or IOS seems to be dumbing it down.

I might have missed something obvious, so I thought I would post here. Any advice ?

Edited by ColinGreaves on Thursday 2nd March 22:55

[Kenny68]

ColinGreaves said:

Is there a way when you take a video at 4k30, 1080p60 etc etc that you can transfer the video you took at full fidelity to social media?

I ask this because I can download the full file to my PC and then upload it and, if under the MB limit of where I am sending it to, it will be as I recorded it.

However if I send to social media direct from my Android phone I find my 1920x1080 is reduced down to 1280x720 and and a far lower bit rate. This can be glossed over on phones if you are watching it but for larger monitors you get pixilation and blurring. My friends with Apple phones are even worse off with 960x540 with lower bit rate.

I'm guessing this is something originally put in place to allow phones on 3G to send video files at all so reduce the file size down from 70MB to 7MB for instance. However with wifi and 5g coming on stream this seems to be the old days. Your modern phone can take 4k60 and 8k30 but the operating system for Android or IOS seems to be dumbing it down.

I might have missed something obvious, so I thought I would post here. Any advice ?

Edited by ColinGreaves on Thursday 2nd March 22:55

Its not the phones downgrading the video, its the social media sites doing it to save space on their servers and reduce bandwidth requirements.

I've seen clips on YouTube where the poster has put links in the comments to where you can download the full HD version of the video. You would need to host the videos elsewhere and create links to them for others to access.

[geeks]

Social media platforms are doing the compression not the device. We have the same with images in Astrophotography, a 40mb png file becomes a 280kb jpeg. But you can see why, just one of the FB groups I am in for this has 2000 members, you can see how quickly we would create a storage problem and thats just a minor use case, imagine storing all the photos of peoples dinner at 5mb a pic rather than at 50kb or whatever.

There are services you can use without compression and then link share into social media (flikr, astrobin, vimeo etc)

[HotJambalaya]

on instagram at least:

settings--> account--> data usage toggle on "upload at highest quality"