How to make Videos without syncing to Icloud

Hi,

Bought an iphone 14 pro - especially to use it as a backup video camera.

I want a very simple task that seems to be super complicated.

• I want to make videos which generate big files - and then download them to my macbook.

But of course I also want to

• Not sync the big file with icloud
• But sync all normal fotos and small little videos as usual with icloud in the photos app.

How to achieve this simple task?

Can I make a video so that it will not show up in photos app, just in the file system?

Or can I manually say in the photos app not sync this video to icloud please?

Or is there a setting in the photos app to not sync files bigger than a certain file size?

Thx for that...

And by the way, what is the best way to move big video files from iphone to the macbook FILE System (not to the photos APP). It seems it is only possible with Airdrop?!? With cable it seems you have to use the photos app and then export from there which is super slow...

Thx very much for your help. (I'm a little annoyed)

Michael