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Apr 19, 2013 2:47 PM in response to NateDerrby iinami,What do you mean some are clear and some aren't? Are these videos from the same source?
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Apr 19, 2013 4:39 PM in response to NateDerrby diesel vdub,The quality of the video is determined at the time the video is made.
Sending via iMessage has no affect on quality.
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Aug 29, 2013 6:22 AM in response to NateDerrby msod,With iMessage you can send file attachments like photos, screenshots and videos. When using WiFi videos are compressed to 360 x 480 pixels and cannot exceed 100 MB. If you use the Cellular 3G connection the quality of videos is strongly reduced. A video should not be longer than 90 sec.
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Oct 17, 2013 4:24 AM in response to NateDerrby antz1210,Send via whatsapp and it comes through crystal no matter if on 3G or wifi. iMessage is cack.
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Mar 18, 2014 9:57 PM in response to NateDerrby BiomolecularLee,I think I might have a solution. This was happening to me and I found out there is a difference depending on whether the video is recorded in the camera app or inside Messages using the "Take Photo or Video" option. Videos made in iMessage send at 480 x 360 4:3 ratio while videos recorded with the camera app send at 720p 16:9 aspect ratio.
So make sure your buddy is using the camera app to record the videos first!
Also make sure both sender and receiver are on Wi-Fi, otherwise the video quality is degraded if it goes over cellular.
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Mar 28, 2016 3:45 PM in response to NateDerrby Jay Blongz,I can confirm that iMessage degrades some videos. I'm using iOS 9.3 with iPhone 6. When sending video from my mac to iphone via iMessage (basically messaging myself), the video quality is drastically reduced. I got around this by using AirDrop from Mac to Phone.
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May 2, 2016 3:57 AM in response to NateDerrby pinboll,Sometimes the same quality video goes through imessage with better quality and sometimes with worse. And Apple doesn't feel it needs to explain how this works. Maybe not knowing what quality a message should have is a big deal for Apple.