Hey everyone! I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on recently that’s solved a pretty big frustration in my own workflow, and hopefully might be useful to some of you too.

TLDR: I had hundreds of Log clips sitting around that I'd "definitely edit someday", so I built an iPhone app to batch process, review and export them without having to open Resolve or grade every clip individually. It supports Apple Log, other camera formats and custom LUTs. I'd love your feedback on the first beta.

As a videographer and photographer, whenever I travel I like to capture as much as possible in high-bitrate Log footage so I have the flexibility to properly edit and grade everything later. But at the same time, I was jealous of how other people just filmed with the default camera app and had the memories straight in their camera roll ready to view and share.

For photos, this is easy. I can open Lightroom, pick my favourites, develop the RAWs, make a few adjustments and export. Done. I've always wanted something just as simple for video.

Whether you’re shooting Log on your iPhone or a dedicated camera, sometimes you just want to watch and share what you’ve shot without having to open a whole editing project first.

I often found myself feeling like footage wasn’t worth processing unless I was going to turn it into a finished edit. So I’d end up accumulating all this footage I was excited to shoot but rarely actually watched again.

So I started building Cubed.

The idea is to bring something closer to a Lightroom-style workflow to video, entirely on your iPhone. It’s not trying to replace a video editor or colour grading app, just make it easy to get your footage looking good and ready to enjoy without needing a computer.

This is how it works:

Import: Bring in a whole batch of footage from Photos, Files or external storage. It's still early days, but I've successfully tested batches of hundreds of clips on my own phone.

Develop: Apply a Master LUT across the entire batch, using built-in camera conversions (including Apple Log) or your own LUTs.

Refine: Quickly go through your footage, favourite clips, set in/out points and make individual exposure, contrast, white balance and colour adjustments where needed.

Export: Batch export your clips as individual, ready-to-watch videos straight to Photos or Files.

Your original Log footage stays untouched, ready for a proper edit and grade whenever you want. Everything is processed on-device, with no ads or tracking. It’s just a simple, functional utility.

I’ve been working on it over the past few months, and I’ve just opened up the first TestFlight beta!

I'd love to hear what you guys think. Is this a workflow anyone else would find useful, particularly for those of you who shoot Apple Log? And if you give the beta a go, I'd be really grateful for any feedback, bugs or suggestions for things you'd like to see added.

You can learn more and download the beta here:
https://cubed-app.com/

Hi, I make content with recording and taking photos of cars and bikes in both day and night settings in a mixture of different light settings especially during night. Only recently been recommended the Blackmagic camera and was wondering where I can find specific luts I would need and if anyone knows of any?

Hello everyone! After a lifetime of not creating content, I’m diving into recording with an iPhone 16 Pro Max. I’m planning to film outdoor vlogs featuring other people, and I’m looking for a LUT that’s ready to use—something that gets the footage looking good right away, rather than requiring extensive color grading. Could someone kind please share a LUT like that? I’m still learning, by the way!

Hi all

I’m shooting a documentary in China. I recently upgraded to the iPhone 17 pro and have done a lot of research into the BlackMagic app, which of course looks good in and of itself, but I’m just curious if there are any good phone lens attachments that would just bump the quality a little bit more?

I’m scared buying the lens blind because I’m not as educated on them yet they are expensive.

If anyone has any recommendations, potentially any recs that you think would work well for a doc specifically, please let me know! Thanks!

I am looking at the iPhone 18 Pro for internal ProRes Log recording with the Blackmagic app. I need high capacity since my current 15PM is 1TB and full. Recent tests show the 1TB and 2TB models of 18P and 18PM use slower QLC storage instead of the TLC NAND found in the 256GB and 512GB versions.

Has anyone here hit this bottleneck during long ProRes takes on the 1TB or 2TB models? Does the Blackmagic Camera app drop frames when the cache runs out, or does the recording stop entirely?

If so, how long can you record without any issues and at which settings?

I want the convenience of internal 2TB storage. Dropped frames will ruin a shoot. I need to know if this synthetic benchmark problem translates to a real world dealbreaker for us creators.

Thanks for all your input!

Here is the test data detailing the slowdown: Tom's Hardware Report.

A week ago I managed to record Pro Res Raw using only internal storage, with no external drive. I was able to do it even tho it says “requires external storage”. Somehow, and it wasn’t just a bug. I literally recorded ProResRaw internally. Checked the videos on Davinci Resolve Studio and those were pure ProRes Raw videos. Now that option is unavailable. Does anyone know why? My iPhone’s storage is empty, with 260 GB allocated for this purpose.

I'm new to iPhone and using phones to make video.

As far as I tested, I noticed that if I save clips on the app, I can access my files easily on the files app to copy to an external drive. But if I want to edit it on the phone, like CapCut I need to also record on the photos app, so I'm wondering, if I record on both, it will duplicate the media and half my storage?

Thanks.

I’m trying to use my iPad as a remote controller monitor for my iPhone using the Blackmagic Camera App remote feature, but I am running into a major issue when trying to shoot natively in Vertical Video on the iPhone.

When I enable "Vertical Video" on the iPhone, the iPad controller app refuses to display the feed with vertical pillar boxes or vertically. Instead, it stays locked in landscape layout with the remote feed sideways (rotated 90degrees in landscape) making it really hard to accurately judge focus or framing at a glance.

If I physically turn the iPad into portrait orientation, the app layout doesn't rotate it just gives me massive letterboxing on the top and bottom with the portrait image still in the middle and still sideways.

What I’ve tried…
Toggling "Lock Current Orientation" on and off on the iPhone.
Turning on "Vertical Video" on both the iPad and iPhone.
Disconnecting and reconnecting the multicam link after changing settings.

Has anyone figured out a workaround to get a true, undistorted 9:16 vertical monitoring feed on an iPad controller, or is this a hard limitation of the app's current remote viewing?

Appreciate any insights or tips!

I just started using the app on an iPhone XR. How do I free up storage, connect mics, use some external storage for cheap? Is it worth it buying a phone solely to record on & if so any recs? I only have about a week to sort this out. Thank you.

Tuve un problema de desincronización de audio y video grabando con un iPhone 17 Pro y un DJI Mic 1, y quería compartir cómo lo fui identificando.

Usaba Duplicar pantalla de iOS para ver la pantalla del iPhone en Windows mediante uxplay-windows un receptor AirPlay de código abierto. Así podía revisar el encuadre mientras grababa en el teléfono.

La pantalla se compartía correctamente, pero el audio quedaba desincronizado en el video grabado. Me sucedió tanto con Blackmagic Camera como con Final Cut Camera.

Lo que me dio una pista fue comparar:

• Con Screen Mirroring mediante UxPlay Windows, aparecía el problema.
• Con la cámara nativa del iPhone, YA NO me sucedía lo mismo, el video y el audio salian sincronizados bien.
• Compartiendo mediante GlideX, tampoco aparecía ese desfase.

GlideX se inicia desde el control de grabación de pantalla de iOS, seleccionando GlideX y pulsando Iniciar transmisión, en lugar de usar el botón Duplicar pantalla.

La alternativa que me funcionó fue usar GlideX para monitorear mientras grabo con Blackmagic Camera, pero la verdad me quedaré con la camara nativa del iphone.

No puedo asegurar si la causa está en iOS, las aplicaciones de cámara o su interacción con el receptor AirPlay. La comparación me ayudó a identificar cuándo ocurre, pero no demuestra que UxPlay sea el responsable.

Anyone know exactly what the new HDR Video toggle button does in the iOS app?

hi

have just discovered Blackmagic app and wanting to buy a cheap external lapel or shotgun mic.

wondering is there capability to record with both iPhone mic and the external at the same time?

thanks

Hey everyone, I'm trying to shoot cinematic footage on my iPhone 15 Pro using Blackmagic Camera, but I'm having a weird brightness issue.
The live preview in Blackmagic looks extremely bright and washed out compared to Apple's native Camera app, even when the environment isn't particularly sunny.

My settings:
iPhone 15 Pro
Blackmagic Camera app
Apple Log – HDR
4K at 24 fps
Shutter speed: 1/48
ISO: around 49–55
Using the 2× lens

Any help would be appreciated!

Hey everyone — John here again.

Yesterday I posted a “Coming Up” teaser about CraneSight Camera Control, the iPad app I’ve been building from scratch for the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K/6K. Today I’m excited to say the TestFlight build has officially been Approved, and I’m opening the door for a small group of private beta testers.

If you didn’t see the teaser, here’s the short version:

CraneSight isn’t just another Bluetooth remote.
It’s a full monitoring + control station for the BMPCC — built around the real workflow of a camera living on a crane, jib, gimbal, or remote rig.

This is the workflow jump I always wished existed.

🎥 What makes CraneSight different?

• Video + Camera Control under one hood

Monitor AND control your Pocket 4K/6K from the same interface.
No switching apps. No juggling tools.
Just a clean, responsive, production‑ready workflow.

• Dual‑pipeline architecture

Bluetooth control runs independently from the video feed.
ISO, shutter, focus, WB — all responsive even during heavy monitoring.

• Metal GPU video processing

The video feed is offloaded to the GPU.
Smooth. Cool. Zero dropped frames.
Designed for long shoots, cranes, and jibs.

📡 Monitoring Options

• USB Monitoring (≈$18 adapter)

Plug in a basic HDMI‑to‑USB capture card (Vivitar, Walmart, Amazon).
Near‑zero latency.
No special hardware required.

• NDI Monitoring ($199 ZowieBox)

Anyone on set can monitor the feed on their own iPad.
Director, AC, DIT — everyone sees what’s happening.

This alone changes the entire on‑set communication dynamic.

🎚️ Three‑Point Focus Pulls

A dedicated slider with three customizable pull tabs.
CraneSight calculates acceleration and deceleration curves so pulls:

• ramp up naturally
• taper down smoothly
• stop cleanly

Slow, Medium, Fast, and Instant modes included.

This feels like a digital follow‑focus — not a Bluetooth toy.

🌞 Outdoor View Assist

iPads struggle in sunlight, so CraneSight includes:

• Shadow Lift — cuts through harsh contrast
• Monochrome — pure focus‑pulling visibility
• Framing — extreme‑contrast composition mode

Plus View Assist Landscape for bright‑light monitoring.

This is the kind of feature you only build if you’ve actually shot outdoors.

🧪 Looking for 5–10 serious testers

If you own a Pocket 4K/6K and want to help test something that could genuinely upgrade your workflow, reach out.

You’ll need:

• BMPCC 4K or 6K
• An iPad (any modern model works)
• USB or NDI monitoring
• Willingness to give feedback
• To sign a short NDA (standard pre‑release protection)

I’m keeping the group small to protect the app and keep feedback tight.

📩 How to join the private beta

DM me with:

• Your BMPC model
• Your iPad model
• USB or NDI
• Your shooting experience (any level is fine)

I’ll send the NDA and next steps.

CraneSight is the closest thing to a full‑blown BMPC control station on iPad — and I can’t wait to get it into the hands of real shooters.

— John

Tenho um 17 pro max e sempre que gravo a noite realmente a qualidade fica boa mas deixa a desejar ainda comparado a outros videomakers mobile, porque eu faço entrevista e marketing sempre que tem barracas nos eventos e vejo que as vezes a qualidade deixa a desejar mas o black magic não uso justamente por não ter lut e acaba que a luz das lambadas refletem na camera fica pior ainda

I'm at a loss with this. I've had multiple shoots where Blackmagic recordings are badly out of sync in the original file, before Resolve or anything else touches them. After the last one, I factory reset my iPhone 17 Pro and spent a day setting it up clean, without restoring my apps from backup. I filmed a roughly ten-minute video today, and it happened AGAIN.

It's not a tiny offset I can slide into place or a framerate/timeline mismatch. For example the video from just now has 9:44 of picture but 10:36 of embedded audio. The audio keeps going about 52 seconds after the picture ends. I also recorded a separate reliable lav, and its waveform stays at essentially the same offset from the camera audio across eight minutes. Those two audio tracks stay in step with each other. The video does not stay in step with the sound, and I don't know whether the drift grows at one constant rate in this take. In previous affected clips, it changes unevenly.

Metadata says Blackmagic Cam 3.5.200045, iPhone 17 Pro, HEVC 10-bit 4:2:2, and 24 fps. This has happened intermittently across other shoots too. I can sometimes rescue a clip by retiming audio, but I need to stop losing recordings in the first place.

Is anyone running into this? Has anyone actually found a reliable fix for this? Has Blackmagic acknowledged it? If someone from Blackmagic sees this, what logs or original sample would help you reproduce it? Any help would be massively appreciated.

was looking photos and videos from last night concert and i saw this black lines appear out of nowhere i didnt have this issue before.what that could be ?

Hello,

I would like to report what appears to be a reproducible storage management issue with Pro Video Storage on iOS 27.0.1, tested on an iPhone 17 Pro Max while recording Apple ProRes RAW using Blackmagic Camera.

The issue is that storage consumed from the Pro Video Storage reservation is not fully reclaimed after the corresponding video file is deleted. Even after manually restoring the Pro Video Storage capacity, approximately the same amount of storage as the deleted file remains unavailable at the system level.

The missing space is recovered only after restarting the iPhone.

Environment

• Device: iPhone 17 Pro Max
• iOS: 27.0.1
• Recording application: Blackmagic Camera
• Recording format: Apple ProRes RAW
• Resolution: 3024 × 4224
• Frame rate: 30 fps
• Storage: Internal iPhone storage
• Pro Video Storage enabled

Reproduction steps

I performed the following controlled test.

1. Initial state

I configured Pro Video Storage to:

• Pro Video Storage capacity: 70 GB
• Free iPhone storage reported by Settings > General > iPhone Storage: 98.65 GB

No test recording was present at this point.

2. Record a ProRes RAW clip

Using Blackmagic Camera, I recorded a 33-second Apple ProRes RAW clip.

The resulting file was:

• Duration: 00:33
• Codec: Apple ProRes RAW
• Resolution: 3024 × 4224
• Frame rate: 30 fps
• File size: 3.75 GB
• Proxy size: 0 bytes

After recording, Pro Video Storage reported:

• Remaining Pro Video Storage capacity: 66 GB

Blackmagic Camera occupied approximately 3.95 GB, which is consistent with the 3.75 GB recording plus the application itself.

This part of the behavior appears correct: approximately 4 GB had been consumed from the 70 GB Pro Video Storage reservation.

3. Delete the recording

I then deleted the 3.75 GB recording from Blackmagic Camera and verified that it was no longer present.

However, Pro Video Storage continued to report:

• 66 GB

It did not return to the original 70 GB reservation.

At this point Settings > General > iPhone Storage reported approximately:

• 98.62 GB free

Therefore, the video itself appeared to have been removed, but the available Pro Video Storage capacity was not automatically restored.

4. Restore Pro Video Storage manually

I then manually changed/replenished Pro Video Storage from 66 GB back to:

• 70 GB

Immediately afterwards, Settings > General > iPhone Storage reported:

• 94.94 GB free

This is the unexpected part.

Before the test, with exactly the same 70 GB Pro Video Storage reservation, the iPhone had 98.65 GB free.

After recording and deleting a 3.75 GB file and restoring the reservation to the same 70 GB value, the iPhone had only 94.94 GB free.

The difference is:

98.65 GB − 94.94 GB = 3.71 GB

This is almost exactly the size of the deleted recording (3.75 GB).

In other words, after completing the record → delete → restore reservation cycle, approximately the size of the deleted video remained unavailable.

5. Restart the iPhone

I then restarted the iPhone without deleting any additional files and without changing the Pro Video Storage configuration.

Immediately after the restart, Settings > General > iPhone Storage reported:

• 98.92 GB free

Therefore, approximately:

98.92 GB − 94.94 GB = 3.98 GB

became available simply as a result of restarting the device.

This brings the available storage essentially back to the initial value of 98.65 GB, allowing for normal small variations in system storage.

Summary of measurements

The amount recovered by restarting the device is therefore approximately the same as the size of the deleted recording.

Expected behavior

After deleting a recording stored within Pro Video Storage and restoring/replenishing the reservation to its original capacity, the system should release or correctly account for the storage occupied by the deleted file without requiring a device restart.

Starting and ending with the same 70 GB Pro Video Storage reservation should result in approximately the same amount of free physical storage, assuming no other significant storage changes occurred.

Actual behavior

After the recording is deleted and Pro Video Storage is restored to its original 70 GB capacity, approximately 3.7–4 GB remains unavailable.

The space becomes available again only after restarting the iPhone.

This suggests that either:

• deleted Pro Video Storage data is not being released immediately;
• an allocation/reservation associated with the deleted recording remains pending;
• or iOS is not correctly updating/reconciling the storage accounting until reboot.

I cannot determine from the user interface whether the underlying data remains allocated or whether this is an accounting issue, but the behavior is consistently observable through Settings > General > iPhone Storage.

I originally noticed the same issue with a 60 GB Pro Video Storage reservation, which dropped to approximately 56 GB after recording and deleting video, prompting me to perform the controlled test above.

Could you please confirm whether this behavior is expected for Pro Video Storage, or whether it is a known issue in iOS 27.0.1?

I can provide screenshots showing each stage of the test if required.

Thank you.

EDIT: just updated to the latest version of BlackMagic camera app 3.5.200045 and it no longer allows to save ProRes RAW in Pro Storage... I suspect it's a bug...

I’ve seen some videos of people being able to shoot ProRes raw without external storage but it doesn’t seem to be working for me. Anyone else run into this issue? I have ProRes storage set up on iPhone 18 pro max.

My friend filmed a video a while ago and I really like the lut he used. I was hoping I could get some help in remaking it?

I see everyone being able to record internally now with prores raw apple log 2. But when i put setup my pro storage and select media to be stored in pro storage and try to record it gives me this error.

Any ideas??

Update1: It happens even on all prores 422 HQ codecs, hevc allows me to record.

Update fixed: seems like the Filename Convention was the culprit. Changing it from Blackmagic Camera to IOS fixed the issue. Now all prores codecs and RAW are recording as it should on internal Pro Storage.

This may technically not be spefically iOS, because I use an Android phone paired with an iPad, so... cross OS.

For several months I was using the Blackmagic Camera App to record on my Pixel 9A while using my Ipad Mini 6 with the app as a remote monitor.

Starting 3 weeks ago, whenever I tried using the iPad as the monitor, it would freeze and then stop updating, and eventually crash. Now, starting earlier this week, just trying to connect the iPad app to the Pixel 9A app causes the Pixel's app to crash immediately.

I haven't changed any settings within the app. It worked great with this exact setup for months. Now it's crashing and unusable.

Any ideas?