Blackmagic Design has introduced a brand new accent that provides skilled digital camera connections to the iPhone 17 Professional and iPhone 17 Professional Max. The Blackmagic Design Digital camera ProDock transforms your iPhone into a strong manufacturing device, including options equivalent to exterior timecode and Genlock.
Compatibility
Blackmagic Design is promoting the Digital camera ProDock as being for the latest iPhone 17 Professional and Professional Max. Nonetheless, it’s solely the genlock characteristic that requires the latest fashions of Apple’s smartphones. All the different options of the Digital camera ProDock can be found on iPhone 15 Professional, iPhone 15 Professional Max, iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max fashions. The ProDock additionally helps the Blackmagic Digital camera app on iPhone.
Blackmagic Digital camera app
The Blackmagic Digital camera app provides your iPhone the identical intuitive and user-friendly interface as Blackmagic Design’s award-winning cameras. You may modify body fee, shutter angle, white stability, and ISO all in a single faucet. With the app, you’ll be able to shoot at as much as 4K decision in industry-standard file codecs, together with ProRes and, within the close to future, ProRes RAW. As well as, you’ll be able to document on to Blackmagic Cloud. Blackmagic Cloud storage lets clients collaborate on DaVinci Resolve initiatives with editors wherever on the planet, all on the similar time.
Design
The Blackmagic Digital camera ProDock has a compact field design, weighing simply 9.5 ounces (270g). It measures 6.4 inches (163 mm) in width by 2.6 inches (66 mm) in depth by 1 inch (25.4 mm) in peak. There’s additionally an 11.8-inch (300 mm) non-removable cable with a USB-C plug to connect to your iPhone.
The Digital camera ProDock has ¼-inch pin-lock mounting factors on the highest and backside. There’s a tally mild on the entrance as effectively. Blackmagic Design’s promotional photos present an iPhone in a cage with the Digital camera ProDock connected beneath.
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Inputs and outputs
The Blackmagic Digital camera ProDock has a full-size HDMI 2.1 output. This outputs video with the decision and body fee you set in Blackmagic Digital camera for iOS. There are additionally 3.5 mm stereo mini jacks for audio out and in. You should use these so as to add an exterior microphone in addition to headphones to observe your audio. The Digital camera ProDock options three USB-C ports, two USB 3.2 high-speed ports for recording to exterior media, and one USB 2.0 port for equipment.
Additionally, there’s a +12V to +15V DC energy enter with a locking 5.5 mm barrel connector.
Timecode and genlock
The Blackmagic Digital camera ProDock has a BNC connector for timecode enter. The three.5 mm audio enter additionally helps timecode in. You should use the timecode for syncing video shot on a number of iPhones when you’re modifying. The Digital camera ProDock has one other BNC connector for Tri-Sync or Black Burst genlock. Nonetheless, the genlock characteristic is simply supported on the iPhone 17 Professional and iPhone 17 Professional Max. Utilizing genlock, you’ll be able to synchronize a number of cameras for multi-cam manufacturing. Moreover, you synchronize cameras and LED partitions for flicker-free digital manufacturing with an iPhone.
“iPhone has turn out to be an extremely highly effective device for filmmaking, and with new options like genlock, the chances proceed to increase,” stated Grant Petty, Blackmagic Design CEO. “The brand new Blackmagic Digital camera ProDock brings much more flexibility by including the skilled connections filmmakers anticipate from a cinema digital camera to an iPhone. When used with Blackmagic Digital camera, clients additionally get digital movie digital camera controls, making it the right system for multicam and digital productions. We will’t wait to see how clients at the moment are ready to make use of iPhone of their productions!”
What we expect
The Blackmagic Digital camera ProDock is a great tool for anybody who must combine their iPhone into an expert manufacturing setup. The flexibility to make use of timecode and genlock additionally makes it straightforward to run a number of cameras or work with a video wall. It’s a disgrace that the genlock characteristic is restricted to this yr’s iPhone fashions, however that’s most probably a {hardware} problem. For solo shooters, the Digital camera ProDock could defeat the advantages of agile taking pictures on a smartphone. Nonetheless, this new accent can be proof of an more and more optimistic working relationship between Blackmagic Design and Apple. It might probably’t be a coincidence that DaVinci Resolve lastly gained help for ProRes RAW this week as effectively. Hopefully, this can be a signal of better issues to come back from Blackmagic Design and Apple.
Pricing and availability
The Blackmagic ProDock is obtainable now from the Apple Retailer on-line and Blackmagic Design resellers worldwide. It retails at $295.
