Blackmagic Camera 4+

Blackmagic Design Inc

    • Free

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Description

Introducing Digital Film for iPhone and iPad!
Blackmagic Camera unlocks the power of your iPhone and iPad 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!

Get the "Hollywood Look" with Digital Film!
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.

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! The HUD shows status and record parameters, histogram, focus peaking indicators, levels, frame guides and more. Show or hide the HUD by swiping up or down. You can auto focus by tapping the screen in the area you want to focus. You can shoot in 16:9 or vertical aspect ratios, plus you can shoot 16:9 while holding your phone vertically if you want to shoot unobtrusively.

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. You can adjust settings such as exposure by touching the ISO indicator, or you can change the audio levels simply by touching the audio meters. Everything is interactive, so if you tap any item you can instantaneously change its settings without having to search through complex menus!

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! The record tab gives you total control over video resolution and recording format including industry standard Apple ProRes or space efficient H.264 and H.265. Plus, you can set anamorphic de-squeeze and lens correction settings. Professional audio options include AAC and PCM format and VU or PPM audio metering. You can even add external microphones! Or add 3D LUTs to recreate film looks!

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. Access your media from Blackmagic Camera’s all clips folder by choosing the Media button to see the thumbnails for each clip you have stored. Plus, you can save to the files folder on the phone, send it to Blackmagic Cloud Storage via Blackmagic Cloud or manually choose which clips to upload to a project library. You can even sync media from Blackmagic Camera directly into the DaVinci Resolve project so you’re ready to edit!

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. This means you can start editing quickly using your proxies, speeding up your workflow.

What’s New

Version 2.0

- Supports controlling multiple phones with Blackmagic Camera.
- Monitor multiple phone captures remotely.
- Blackmagic Camera app is now available for iPad.
- HD captures are now possible at 100fps on iPhone 15 Pro.
- New select all option when selecting multiple clips.
- General performance and stability improvements.

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5
39 Ratings

39 Ratings

Gur3nn ,

Best video camera app

This app is all you need to film any video project. I own Filmic app, but this app is way better and it’s completely free, like common, don’t even bother downloading Filmic, get this app instead. I’m totally in love with this app.

EdgyKris ,

Great app with just a few things missing

Main reason I think this app is great is that this app lets you do what the regular iPhone app doesnt let you do - shoot in log in 60fps, in other codecs (h265, prores LT etc.) than the really heavy Prores422HQ. There should be an option in the iPhone Camera App for this but there just isn't. Also this app allows to use correction LUT so you can see how your footage will look like after converting to rec709.

There are a few things that the main iPhone camera app does better though, or that could simply be improved in this app.

1. The switch between lenses is a sharp, glitchy cut, rather than the smooth zoom in/ out throughout all the lenses. If youre a filmmaker, this might not matter to you as much, but this does look worse if you plan in switching lenses mid recording.
2. Big one for me - The way auto exposure works could be improved. At the moment it is impossible to lock the shutter speed but have the ISO still work on auto. Auto exposure works ONLY if you allow both the shutter and ISO to be automatic. For example if youre shooting at 25fps, want the shutter to always be 1/50, but want the ISO to adjust automatically based on the lighting conditions, it is currently impossible. You either have everything on auto, or nothing on auto. At least changing the ISO manually while recording has been made quite handy with the slider, but I wish I could set it to auto with my shutter speed locked at the same time.
3. If you are interested in shooting in other video modes like Cinematic Mode, Timelapse mode, or Action mode it will be either more difficult or impossible alltogether, although this isn't a huge deal for me personally.
4. I do wish it was possible to also shoot in a lower frame rate than 24 and a lower shutter speed than 1/24 to have more options for "artistic" clips, for example, with slow shutter light streaks in low light.

Other than these points, it is the best, well equipped app for shooting pro video on iPhone. I do wish, however, that it continues improving, and I will change my rating to 5 stars if it does.

Vadim Tyupalov ,

Throw Filmic Pro to bin

That app is really cool and enhance the possibilities of your original iPhone camera. You can lock color temperature, manually adjust all important settings during shooting and (what is really handy) upload media directly in project of editor. Perhaps there is still some room for improvements:

I wish this app can have blackmagic color science options (if this is possible somehow). Or at least it will perform correct interpretation of Rec.2020 mode (more known as HDR IPhone mode), because when you use RCM in Davinci resolve - colours become a little bit overburned and I use custom povergrade to interpret colours correctly. Or Davinci resolve RCM can be update to show hdr from IPhone correctly (like CapCut)

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