Video Quality and Text (MMS) Messaging

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Video files are much, much larger in file size than photos, so your iPhone has to greatly compress and shrink your video clip’s physical size, so it’s small enough to be delivered as an MMS message. Because of that, the quality of the video you’re sending isn’t quite as good as the original video you shot. It will probably look a little pixelated and generally a bit lower in quality than how it looked after you viewed it on your own iPhone. So, if keeping the original video quality intact is really important to you, then instead of sending the video as a text message, email it, and it will look a lot better. ...

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