Disable selfie video smoothing

[chawke]

The front-facing camera on my Pixel 4a applies a noticeable smoothing effect in video. Even more obvious when the first few frames look normal before smoothing kicks in. Smoothing in PHOTOS can be disabled in the camera settings, but I haven't found a setting for video. Possible?

 

[B. Diddy]

Are you talking about something that looks like Beauty Mode? Just to be sure, the glass overlying the camera is clean, right?

 

[chawke]

Are you talking about something that looks like Beauty Mode? Just to be sure, the glass overlying the camera is clean, right?

It's like the blur effect that is applied to photos on the front-facing camera when the "Face retouching" option is on, but applied to video. Yes the glass is clean.

 

[B. Diddy]

Hmm, this is interesting, because Google purposely avoids the whole idea of "beauty mode": https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/01/g...RJuGTFRVNnxz2RrypLws7Lq56PVxy5-A1rpqVBF5k8BmQ

I just tested on my Pixel 6 Pro, and didn't see what you're describing. Could you share a video so we can see how it looks on your phone?

 

[chawke]

On further testing on inanimate objects it looks like it's probably just due to blurriness. The Pixel 4a front-facing camera quality is not great unfortunately.