- Blackmagic Camera for iOS 3.3 is now available from the App Store
- The update adds Apple Watch camera control and monitoring of iPhone footage
- New features also include support for ATEM camera controls
Blackmagic Design, the company behind the popular DaVinci Resolve editing software, has launched a major update to its Blackmagic Camera for iOS app.
Blackmagic Camera for iOS 3.3 brings a ton of new features and functionality – but the highlight for me is the ability to monitor and control the camera using your Apple Watch.
It also brings ATEM camera control to anyone using their Apple device as a live studio camera.
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What’s new?
The Blackmagic Camera app adds camera control and image processing, effectively allowing iPhones and iPads to recreate the cinematic style of a high-end film camera using mobile devices.
The newly updated companion app lets you control and monitor what iPhone is recording directly from your Apple Watch.
Blackmagic Design says this lets users “monitor frame and audio levels, start and stop recording, and adjust key settings including exposure, focus and LUTs.” You can also change the lens and control the zoom.
All useful stuff, which the company said is “perfect for situations where an iPhone is mounted out of reach or in a position where physically touching it would cause camera shake.”
In a press release, Blackmagic Design CEO Grant Petty said: “We really want to help everyone use their iPhones in professional productions and to come up with new ways to use the iPhone. The Apple Watch companion app does that because it means you can mount an iPhone anywhere and still have full control of it from your wrist.
On top of that, the app now also adds support for ATEM camera control, which lets you “use iPhone as a live studio camera.”
Plug the phone into the company’s ProDock and it also offers Blackmagic Focus and Zoom Demands.
Calling this “the most exciting feature,” Petty added that ATEM camera control support “means you can use the iPhone as a studio camera while holding onto the tripod handle to focus and zoom. It’s a real studio camera, and it’s a lot of fun.”
You can download the free Blackmagic Camera for iOS 3.3 from the App Store by clicking here.
All features added to version 3.3 – Patch notes via Blackmagic Design
- Camera control and monitoring with companion app for Apple Watch.
- Support for ATEM camera control with Blackmagic Camera ProDock.
- Support for Blackmagic Focus and Zoom requirements with Blackmagic Camera ProDock.
- Full screen portrait mode support HDMI output.
- Front camera now supports portrait and landscape without rotation for iPhone 17.
- Support for ProRes RAW stabilization in iOS 26.1 and later.
- General performance and stability improvements.
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