Chapter 10
Starring in a Blockbuster: Video on Your iPhone
IN THIS CHAPTER
Finding videos
Playing videos on your iPhone
Shooting video
Editing footage
Picture this scene: The smell of popcorn permeates the room as you and your family congregate to watch the latest Hollywood blockbuster. A motion picture soundtrack swells up. The images on the screen are stunning. And all eyes are fixed on the iPhone.
Okay, here’s the reality check. The iPhone is not going to replace a wall-sized 4K television as the centerpiece of your home theater. But when you’re not on the couch, we want to emphasize that watching movies and other videos on the iPhone can be a cinematic delight. And if you’re banking on the larger screen, you can always use your iPhone to pump video to an Apple TV via AirPlay.
As you discover later in this chapter, you can even shoot your own blockbuster footage and shoot in stunning 4K. As a measure of sharpness, 4K boasts more than 8 million pixels and four times the resolution of what was the top-of-line 1080p high-definition video standard. If you have an older device and ...
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