[Q] Where are Zoe temp files in 4.2.2? - One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I was curious about how Zoe worked under 4.2.2 and got surprised when I could not find the pictures, even under another folder as a temp picture.
Zoe under 4.1.2 took 20 pics and a short 3 sec video. All pics where sent then to Dropbox or any other instant upload like G+ and Picasa. It was a mess.
With 4.2.2 Zoe only takes the short video, a small preview and if you like a frame you can take it "from the video". The thing is, the video is a 1920x1088 resolution, but when you extract the picture it is a 4MP (like it was before the update).
Since this is tecnicaly impossible, unless you use upscale which would get you a bad picture compared to a full 4MP one, I would like to know where are the TEMP pictures taken with the short video in 4.2.2
Does anyone know about this? It is not a problem, just something that got me thinking.
Regards,
Santroph.

Zoe MP4 files missing first second of video
Further to your question above, I've noticed that the MP4 zoe videos seem to be missing the ~1s of video which is recorded from before the shutter button is pressed. This seems to be true of the videos sent using the share function as well as when I "explore" to the DCIM folders on the phone. My HTC One demonstrated this with the Android 4.3 and now with the 4.4 versions loaded. I would really like to be able to play the entire video on my PC. To me the ability to retrieve the video from before I pressed the button is one of the great features of the HTC One Camera.
-Mike-

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[Q] Zoe and 'event' creation in Gallery

Hi. I have a problem and was wondering if anyone else had encoutnered the same issue. Whenever I take more than one ZOE on a particular day - the 'event' that is created in the gallery duplicates the ZOE and some of the other photos. For example today I have taken 6 photos and two zoes. The 'event' has the highlight video at the top, then the two zoe's immediately underneath and then all the photos and ZOEs (again) in chronological order. Has anyone else experienced this? It only happens when more than one ZOE has been taken. its not much of a problem, but means on certain occassions the higlighht video is using the same picture/ZOE twice.When i try to delete one of teh ZOEs' both of them go. Confused!
Yes, I can confirm, same for me. It occurred within an event having a single zoe plus a few pictures too here. However seems to be working for picture-only event as you described.

Terrible Video Quality With Uploaded Videos

When I upload any video from the phone to sites like FB or Flickr they look awful. They look very choppy and low resolution with lots of artifacts. This never happened with my Galaxy Note or iPhone. What the video looked like in the phone when I played it back was what it looked like when uploaded, with minor quality degradation. With the One the videos look great when played back on the phone or saved and played on my computer. But as soon as they are uploaded to any website the quality looks really poor. Anyone else experience this?
Eric Diep said:
When I upload any video from the phone to sites like FB or Flickr they look awful. They look very choppy and low resolution with lots of artifacts. This never happened with my Galaxy Note or iPhone. What the video looked like in the phone when I played it back was what it looked like when uploaded, with minor quality degradation. With the One the videos look great when played back on the phone or saved and played on my computer. But as soon as they are uploaded to and website the quality looks really poor. Anyone else experience this?
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When you've uploaded HD video with your previous phones are you sure you weren't connected to WiFi? You may just have to copy the video file directly to your computer and upload it from there.
According to the article below, video is converted to standard definition when uploading to FB on an iphone. The article was written about a year ago though.
http://alliosnews.com/2012/04/how-to-record-hd-videos-in-the-iphone-facebook-app/
c0rrupt said:
When you've uploaded HD video with your previous phones are you sure you weren't connected to WiFi? You may just have to copy the video file directly to your computer and upload it from there.
According to the article below, video is converted to standard definition when uploading to FB on an iphone. The article was written about a year ago though.
http://alliosnews.com/2012/04/how-to-record-hd-videos-in-the-iphone-facebook-app/
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I've always uploaded video files through Wifi only. The video looks worst than standard definition, really choppy. I can understand FB compressing the files, but why even on Flickr is the video so choppy looking. Is there something in the settings I'm missing?
Eric Diep said:
I've always uploaded video files through Wifi only. The video looks worst than standard definition, really choppy. I can understand FB compressing the files, but why even on Flickr is the video so choppy looking. Is there something in the settings I'm missing?
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Well if you can upload that same video to youtube in HD and you find the quality to your liking, at least that would narrow it down as a problem with the app itself and not the phone's firmware. I've never really paid attention to the video quality when uploading to facebook. This is simply because every FB video I recall watching on my newsfeed has been poor quality.
I assume you have a Pro account on Flickr? http://www.flickr.com/help/video/
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Well if you can upload that same video to youtube in HD and you find the quality to your liking, at least that would narrow it down as a problem with the app itself and not the phone's firmware. I've never really paid attention to the video quality when uploading to facebook. This is simply because every FB video I recall watching on my newsfeed has been poor quality.
I assume you have a Pro account on Flickr? http://www.flickr.com/help/video/
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Yep have a Pro account. Problem partially solved. I tried to upload my video through my Mac, but Flickr upload wouldn't recognize the files. WTF! They are in .mp4 format after being directly transferred from the phone to my Mac. So I decided to just rename and save the file as .avi, bingo Flickr recognized. After uploading it through my Mac the video is finally being displayed in HD quality. Weird. So for some strange reason the phone is compressing the videos to SD quality when uploaded through the phone, gotta find a work around for this. Totally kills it that the phone records beautiful HD videos but I can't share them in HD with others.
Eric Diep said:
Yep have a Pro account. Problem partially solved. I tried to upload my video through my Mac, but Flickr upload wouldn't recognize the files. WTF! They are in .mp4 format after being directly transferred from the phone to my Mac. So I decided to just rename and save the file as .avi, bingo Flickr recognized. After uploading it through my Mac the video is finally being displayed in HD quality. Weird. So for some strange reason the phone is compressing the videos to SD quality when uploaded through the phone, gotta find a work around for this. Totally kills it that the phone records beautiful HD videos but I can't share them in HD with others.
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Ok did some experimenting. Same video uploaded to Flickr directly from the phone the quality is bad, but from my computer it's HD quality when it is uploaded to Flickr. Then I tried the same but this time uploaded the video using both methods to YouTube. Bang, both videos are in HD quality when they arrive on YouTube. So I guess the problem lies in the embedded Flickr uploader preloaded on the One. It is automatically compressing all videos to SD quality in the phone before uploading. Must be some kind of bug in the new firmware.
Also, it appears that you need to have a Pro account on Flickr to see videos in HD. Otherwise they show up in SD
I have this exact same problem with uploading videos to Facebook from my Nexus 4. The funny thing is the video on FB that I uploaded has an HD button on it but it doesn't change anything when it is lit. It looks like crap either way. Anyone find a solution? Waiting until I am at a desktop computer to transfer the files and them upload them from there is not the solution I am looking for.

[Q] 4.2.2 Old Zoe format?

Hi.
I have recently applied the 4.2.2 android upgrade, and it said that there's a new format for saving Zoe captures. I must say I'm quite disappointed, as it only saves the first image and the 3 second video, with the claim that you can extract the other images from the video. So now, instead of having 20 4 MP images to choose from, I have the first frame at 4 MP, and am able to extract 1920x1080 images for the rest.
Having an unrooted phone, is it possible to get the old Zoe behavior back? I know they take up more space, but it's far easier to choose the best image on my desktop from 20 pictures than to extract stills from a video file.
Thank you.
I've just checked the resolution of the frames I can save and they are 2688x1520.
Sent from my HTC One using xda premium
I asked the same thing as the OP, and saw the same thing as you (in another thread).
What I ask then is this:
Are the frames upscaled or are the pics in another folder, a temp folder?
Is they are upscaled... Were them like that before?
this is so strange.

[Q] Photos + Gallery Help

Hello guys,
With a little help from my friend i believe i will solve this issue.
When i take some photos and use the video feature, to compile all the photos and make a beautiful video with some effects with all the photos i've taken, some of the photos (in the video) appear to be doubled (in the same image) during the video.
Some photos split in 2, other in 3.
What is this? Any help, would be appreciated.
Thanks
andre32065 said:
Hello guys,
With a little help from my friend i believe i will solve this issue.
When i take some photos and use the video feature, to compile all the photos and make a beautiful video with some effects with all the photos i've taken, some of the photos (in the video) appear to be doubled (in the same image) during the video.
Some photos split in 2, other in 3.
What is this? Any help, would be appreciated.
Thanks
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If you are talking about the ''video highlight'' feature in the gallery app, this is normal, its a built-in effect to compensate for pictures taken in portrait mode(1080*1920) when the video plays in landscape mode (1920*1080). If picture were not duplicated/cropped that way, there will be 2 black bars each sides for every pictures clicked in portrait.
alray said:
If you are talking about the ''video highlight'' feature in the gallery app, this is normal, its a built-in effect to compensate for pictures taken in portrait mode(1080*1920) when the video plays in landscape mode (1920*1080). If picture were not duplicated/cropped that way, there will be 2 black bars each sides for every pictures clicked in portrait.
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Hello,
Thanks for your kind answer.
Let me explain better:
Today i take some photos. I select the photos and with video highlight feature, some of the photos i selected appear in the video doubled or tripled (in the same image). Like same picture: left side no zoom, right side with zoom.
Did i make myself clear? Do you understand?
Only in the video some photos appear with the image divided. Same picture both sides (sometimes with zoom, other times no zoom at all).
Thanks for your help
Cheers
andre32065 said:
Did i make myself clear? Do you understand?
Only in the video some photos appear with the image divided. Same picture both sides (sometimes with zoom, other times no zoom at all).
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Yes that was already clear, the issue you are talking about is not, its a built-in effect from the ''video highlight'' feature of the gallery app.
All HTC One do exactly the same thing.

Anyway of shooting slow motion video?

It would be really cool if this phone can shoot slow-mo video. So I've read about people editing media_profiles.xml and tried to edit it myself but there's no difference. (There is a 738p60 option in Moto Camera but that doesn't work) Any ideas?
Older versions of the Moto camera for the Quark phones had slow-mo. I shot a slow-mo video back in spring of 2015 with my phone, when my wife got another degree.
You can try to find an older Moto camera APK, or you can search for newer custom camera APKs with that functionality.
However, I used it that one time, and never found the need again. For one thing, the AUDIO was also slow mo which sounded bad.
Any decent video editing software can slow-mo your video, so you don't need to actually record it that way -- live. You can make it slow-mo later. One less thing you have to mess with when recording an event. Plus, the video editing software can slow-mo EXACTLY how much you want.
Here's a video editor that's usually $20 but is free if you get it before April 3rd: http://www.videosoftdev.com/cnet

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