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I am new to this forum and very new to the hobby so please be gentile with me.  :)

Have owned a A6300 for a few years and been a casual user mostly taking pictures and videos of kids sporting events.  Currently I am using the a6300 for taking video's of football camps and games.  These vids are short clips usually no longer than 15seconds, however there would be lots per event.  

So here is my problem...when I used this camera pre pandemic I was taking videos of and transferring them directly to my iphone with the Sony Play App.  Camera sat in a bag for a few years and now I am using it weekly.  However now I am unable to transfer the 4k video's and get this error on the camera "Cannot perform this operation with XAVC S files".  MP4 works fine but quality is not as good.  

I realize there are other transfer options and I just ordered a lighting port card reader so I can transfer to my ipad.  But it was soooo much easier to just go from the camera to the iphone via WiFi.  

This seems to have become a problem when the app was upgraded from Sony Play to Imaging Edge.  I didn't change any setting from when this used to work fine.  

Whole point here is so I can get photos and videos to my kid Air Dropped as quickly as possible so he can edit on his phone and post to social media.  

 

Can anyone please assist?  Thank You

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    • XKAES
      JPEG options?

      By XKAES · Posted

      I'd suggest you start by running a simple test.  Take pictures of a typical scene/subject and each of the JPEG settings your camera offers.  Then compare them in the output that you normally produce.  You may or may not see a difference.  I normally shoot at the highest JPEG level and save that file -- but make a smaller file (lower resolution) for normal/typical use. There's plenty of editing that you can do with JPEGs on your computer -- depending on your software -- and there are features in your camera that can help out, as well.  That depends on your camera.  Put them together, and it might meet your needs.  For example, your camera probably has several bracketing features that will take the same shot with different settings with one press of the button.  Then you can select the best JPEG to work with on your computer.  I frequently use this feature to control contrast.
    • Cameratose
      JPEG options?

      By Cameratose · Posted

      If you set up some basic presets in your processing software and use batch processing, you don't need jpeg at all. I shoot RAW only, use (free) Faststone Image Viewer which will view any type of image file to cull my shots, and batch process in Darktable. I can start with 2000-3000 shots and in a matter of a few hours have them culled, processed, and posted. A handful of shots, say a couple hundred from a photo walk, are done in minutes.  This saves card space, computer space, and upload time.  The results are very good for posting online. When someone wants to buy one or I decide to print it, I can then return to the RAW file and process it individually for optimum results.  I never delete a RAW file. Sometimes I'll return to an old shot I processed several years ago and reprocess it. I have been very surprised how much better they look as my processing skills improved.  
    • Pieter
      JPEG options?

      By Pieter · Posted

      If you're only publishing small-sized photo's or viewing on a phone / computer screen, 12-ish MP should be more than enough for your needs. Since with JPEG, the ability to 'fix' stuff on the computer is very limited anyway, you're not giving up much except the ability to crop/recompose after taking the shot. If you tend to crop often or might print large, shoot fine quality instead as JPEGs don't take up a lot of space anyway. I tend to shoot RAW+JPEG. After a trip/shoot, I download my photos to my computer and quickly scan through my JPEGs to select my keepers. The JPEGs are fine for 90% of my needs but at times there are one or two 'WOW'-shots that I might one day print large. I'll edit the RAW of these photos to my hearts content, generate a JPEG, then delete all RAWs to clear up space.

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