About the App
Blackmagic Camera unlocks the power of your iPhone by adding digital film camera controls and operating systems! Now you can create the same cinematic ‘look’ as Hollywood feature films. You get the same intuitive and user-friendly interface as Blackmagic Design’s award-winning cameras.
So it’s just like using a professional digital film camera! This means you can adjust settings such as frame rate, shutter angle, white balance, and ISO all in a single tap. Or record directly to Blackmagic Cloud in industry-standard 10-bit Apple ProRes files up to 4K! Recording to Blackmagic Cloud Storage lets you collaborate on DaVinci Resolve projects with editors anywhere in the world, all at the same time.
Features of the App
- The Blackmagic Camera app can enhance the capabilities of the iPhone 15 Pro, potentially improving the quality of photos and videos.
- The Blackmagic Camera App offers advanced features for free, with the only potential cost being a $5 monthly fee for the cloud workflow and storage.
- Unlike the native app, the Blackmagic Camera App allows users to choose their desired lens and ensures that the selected lens is used for capturing the image, avoiding the issue of digital cropping.
- The app supports various flavors of ProRes, including ProRes 444, providing high-quality recording options for professional videographers.
- It’s interesting that the Blackmagic Camera app now supports log on the iPhone 15, even on the front-facing camera, allowing for log recording on a selfie camera.
- The Blackmagic Camera App allows users to record videos directly to their iPhone’s hard drive, bypassing the need to transfer files to an external drive.
- The low light capabilities of the iPhone 15 Pro’s camera have been significantly improved, as proven by many videos.
- The previous limitations of shooting and transferring files on iPhones have been overcome with the iPhone 15 Pro, providing a more efficient workflow and eliminating the need to constantly clear phone storage.
Blackmagic Camera puts the professional features you need for feature film, television and documentaries in your pocket. Now you can create YouTube and TikTok content with a cinematic look, and broadcast quality ENG! Imagine having a run and gun camera on hand to capture breaking news whenever it happens! Or use Blackmagic Camera as a B Cam to capture angles that are difficult to reach with traditional cameras, while still retaining control of important settings.
Best of all, recording to Blackmagic Cloud allows you to get your footage to the newsroom or post production studio in minutes.
Key Features of the App
- Interactive Controls for Fast Setup: Blackmagic Camera has all the controls you need to quickly setup and start shooting! Everything is interactive, so you can tap any item and instantly change settings without searching through confusing menus
- On Screen Heads Up Display: The heads up display, or HUD, controls have the most important camera controls such as lens selection, frame rate, shutter angle, timecode, ISO, white balance, gain and audio levels.
- Camera Setup Menus: The settings tab unlocks the full power of your phone’s camera, with quick access to advanced settings such as monitoring, audio, camera setup, recording and more!
- Media: The Blackmagic Camera media tab has all the controls you need to browse or scrub clips for quick review, search and sort and view the upload status of your media.
- Live Sync to Blackmagic Cloud Storage: When shooting with Blackmagic Camera, the video you capture can be instantly uploaded as a proxy file, followed by the camera originals, and saved to Blackmagic Cloud Storage.
