Blackmagic Camera App Update Adds Multi-Cam Control and Monitoring
Blackmagic Design released a new update for its Blackmagic Camera app, bringing new remote control and monitoring features to iPhone filmmakers.
The Blackmagic Camera app, a free camera app that unlocks a lot of professional-orientated video features on iPhone, received a version 2.0 update that continues to expand the functionality and versatility of mobile video and cinema production.
This follows the recent release of Blackmagic Camera for Android last month, which has been very popular among video professionals, especially those already working within the Blackmagic ecosystem.
The new update adds support for remote control and monitoring of multiple iPhones at the same time, similar to Apple’s Final Cut Camera app that PetaPixel recently reviewed. This means that a shooter can use one iPhone as a controller, and securely connect other iPhones running the Blackmagic Camera app via WiFi, effectively creating a fully-functional multi-cam setup.
According to Blackmagic Design, users can use a multi-view monitoring view to control various functions — settings like zoom, shutter, focus, frame rate, white balance, and lens choice — on individual iPhones on the network or for all of them at once. Anyone who has used similar iPhone-controlled networked systems will immediately recognize how handy adjusting individual settings, or group settings, in real-time could be during live multi-camera video capture.
The update also adds native support for iPad Pro tablets running Apple Silicon chips, making a larger iPad screen the logical choice for multi-camera monitoring. The larger display will also allow users to either monitor all camera angles at once or scroll through individual feeds for full-screen monitoring of a single camera.
Additionally, iPhone 15 Pro users can capture Full HD footage at 100 frames per second.
The update also adds extra file management tools for playback and post-production. Users can select multiple clips in the media menu at once for faster copying, deleting, and offloading clips to an external drive.
The Blackmagic Camera app continues to make mobile cinema production a viable option. As PetaPixel readers might note, Apple is now using the app for iPhone video capture during its product events.
The free Blackmagic Camera app is available to download for free from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. While the iOS version is now at version 2.0, the Android app remains at version 1.1 and was last updated on July 20. Blackmagic has not said when version 2.0 will arrive on Android.
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