Blackmagic Design has released its Blackmagic Camera for iOS 2.1 Update which adds support for using new iPhone 16 camera control features with Blackmagic Camera, improved Blackmagic Cloud organization syncing, and new recording bit rate options for H.264 and H.265 codecs.
It is also nice that you can now record audio when shooting off-speed clips, as well as improved timecode accuracy for Tentacle sync devices.
Key New Features
- Support for launching and recording using the Camera Control on iPhone 16.
- Ability to control zoom, exposure bias, focus, ISO and other settings using Camera Control on iPhone 16.
- Ability to launch the app from Control Center, the Lock Screen, or the Camera Control button.
- Support for logging in to Blackmagic Cloud organization accounts.
- Display time-lapse frequency and duration timecode on the overlay during recording.
- Off-speed recording now includes audio.
- Improved overlays to indicate when off-speed mode is active.
- Option to limit HDMI monitoring to HD resolution.
- HDMI monitoring preview now remains active on all pages.
- Bit rate options when recording to H.264 and H.265 codecs.
- Support for DockKit compatible iPhone accessories.
- Improved timecode accuracy for Tentacle sync devices.
- Improved performance for recording high speed ProRes 4K clips on iPhone 16 Pro models.
- Improved remote monitoring performance when recording with proxies.
- Switching to front facing camera when recording now captures with the correct orientation.
- General performance and stability improvements.
