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I have an iPad Air with iPadOS 16.5. I wish to take videos in MP4 format. Going to settings/camera/formats and setting Camera Capture to “most compatible” should set MP4. However, nothing I do will change the format from the default MOV. Can anyone help?
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iPad Air, iPadOS 16
The MOV files that modern Apple devices create, are MP4 compatible. You can safely rename .mov to .mp4 once transferred.
MOV and MP4 can have .H264 video. MOV and MP4 can have .H265 video. It depends on the playback software and hardware if .H265 is compatible. iPad will store its own recordings in MOV format either way (.H.264/.H265).
The MOV files that modern Apple devices create, are MP4 compatible. You can safely rename .mov to .mp4 once transferred.
MOV and MP4 can have .H264 video. MOV and MP4 can have .H265 video. It depends on the playback software and hardware if .H265 is compatible. iPad will store its own recordings in MOV format either way (.H.264/.H265).
Many thanks for taking the time to reply with a detailed answer to my question. This explains exactly the effects I was getting which didn’t seen entirely logical at the time and has now solved my problem. Apple even more clever than I thought!
Thanks - Alec-46
How to change video format on iPad
