Vimeo provides help for Apple’s iPhone 12 Dolby Vision HDR movies

The iPhone 12 and 12 Pro launched final 12 months with the flexibility to shoot video in Dolby Vision HDR — however for essentially the most half, there hasn’t been wherever to really publish or share these recordsdata.

But now, virtually a 12 months after they have been first introduced (and simply in time for Apple’s subsequent iPhone announcement on Tuesday), Apple, Dolby, and Vimeo are teaming as much as enable iPhone 12 homeowners to publish Dolby Vision HDR movies.

Starting now, you’ll be capable to add Dolby Vision movies shot with iPhone 12 gadgets (both straight from an iPhone or out of your pc after modifying in a program like Final Cut Pro) to Vimeo, the place anybody will be capable to stream them. Dolby Vision movies on Vimeo can have a badge highlighting that they characteristic HDR content material, so that you’ll simply be capable to inform (and to indicate off) the improved video high quality.

Of course, you’ll nonetheless want a Dolby Vision-compatible system to watch your iPhone 12-shot movies on, which (as Nilay famous in his evaluate) generally is a difficult little bit of enterprise. Furthermore, Vimeo is solely supporting Apple gadgets to start out: an iPhone 8 or newer or second-gen iPad Pro. Alternatively, the corporate says that you should use an HDR-compatible Mac (see Apple’s list here) or an Apple TV 4K when you’ve obtained a Dolby Vision TV or show to attach them to.

On the flip aspect, when you’ve got one other Dolby Vision streaming system (or a Windows pc), you continue to received’t be capable to view Dolby Vision movies on Vimeo. For now, the characteristic is simply accessible on iOS, tvOS, and macOS gadgets.

But even when you’re nonetheless largely caught watching movies on Apple gadgets, the newly added Vimeo help signifies that it’ll at the very least be simpler to share and look at these Dolby Vision HDR movies, as a substitute of requiring that you just share recordsdata to a buddy to view on their iPhone or iPad.