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Blackmagic Design launches free Camera app for iPhone content creators

Sep 15, 2023

Blackmagic Design has revealed its new app Blackmagic Camera, which adds digital film camera controls to the Apple iPhone. Based on the same operating system as Blackmagic Design’s award-winning digital film cameras, these professional features give iPhone content creators the same tools used in feature films, television and documentaries. Support for Blackmagic Cloud allows creators to collaborate and share media with multiple editors and colourists around the world instantly. Blackmagic Camera is now available from the Apple App Store, free of charge.

Its features include:

Shoot in 16:9 or vertical aspect ratios.
Stealth mode for shooting 16:9 while holding phone vertically.
Capture in Apple ProRes, HEVC and H.264 with auto proxy generation.
Frame rate, shutter speed, exposure, white balance, tint and color space camera controls.
Focus assist, zebra, frame guides, histogram, 3D LUT monitoring.
Time of day or run time, timecode recording.
PCM, IEEE Float or AAC audio recording, 44.1 or 48 kHz sample rate.
VU or PPM audio meters.
Thumbnail view of all recorded clips in media tab.
Preview clips with scrubber, duration, timecode and file name display.
Fully integrated with Blackmagic Cloud and DaVinci Resolve.
Record to iPhone, select recorded clips to share via Blackmagic Cloud or sync automatically.