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@@iphoneographers if Apple wants FCC to be in the "professional league", it should have differentiated it from the overly sharpened videos as the native camera app.
When you auto expose it tends to slightly over expose the highlights. In the native camera app I leave the exposure compensation permanently on -0.3 or -0.7 if I’m out in bright sun.
@@iphoneographers thanks! I shoot all my music videos with the phone and am learning as I go, any recommends for add on lenses that work well in low light?
I’ve played with this app. What this is, is exactly that, an in between app. For many people, including budding pros, the Blackmagic app is way too complex. Most do t. End all the features and the confusion they can generate. Typically with Apple, they try to come out with features many will want and need, and not supply those they don’t. Then there will be a smaller percentage that needs, or at least, think they need the extra features. But as always, Apple will add features to this app as time goes by and in a couple,e of years, people will just use it and not think about what it may have been missing in the beginning. With that in mind, this is really a beta more than anything else, so we’ll see what they do with it over the coming months after the new phones are released mid September.
At least the gave us something better than the stock app. I used the stock app when I first got the 15pro max. I was complaining about no mic indicator on it. Now it is there. I still use black magic as my goto though. Nice to have an upgraded stock app. That is the way I am looking at it.
For an actioin 4, if adappter is not an issue, what lav mic would you recommend for cycliing videos in city. Looking for clear vooise and some background nooise.
Might be best to go with a wireless mic for that. Maybe the RODE Wireless Pro or DJI mics. And in a perfect world you’d really want a more directional lav mic versus an omnidirectional which most are, but they should work fine.
Has anyone else used this lens with the Smallrig iPhone 15 Pro cage and the M-mount to 37mm adapter? For me, the corners are very very soft. Anyone else have this problem?
@@iphoneographers I appreciate the response. I ordered BeastGrips cage for my 15 Pro. I am hoping because its their lens and their cage, it will fix the issue. If not, i assume its a faulty lens. I will find out Wednesday! Thanks again
Is there any chance we can get a chart about all the information mentioned in the video? I mean the facts( weight, mounting options, accessories), not image quality etc.
Based on a lot of the comments mentioning this app lacks a lot of features they like in the photo app… Could you just clarify that the final cut app is primarily intended for video, not photos, right?
I have done any video work in a few years, do people actually use iPhones for professional use? It seems by the time you buy the cage and lenses and mic and everything, you would be better off with a dslr or whatever prosumer video camera people are using now? Thanks for the video.
iPhones have been and are used in professional video all the time. In my experience mostly not as the main camera, but as a B camera or as b-roll camera in combination with a traditional setup. I know corporate video producers use them as main cameras for interviews routinely though. Especially at events and such, and news stations use iPhone video all the time and have for years.
Yeah that’s a good point, same with that 48mm virtual lens. It’s missing several features from the native camera that I would hope they would bring over.
Cool setup. Do you know of a hub which will will work with an iPhone 15 Pro Max and output video of USB-C to a USB-C video monitor? I have a few USB-C hubs, none of them will allow video output through the USB-C ports (the monitor works fine if I plug it into the phone directly).
I haven’t tried that as I’ve only used HDMI output which works well. The one thing to check is that you’re using a data transfer port and not a charging port. You could also try an HDMI to USB-C adapter… amzn.to/4eXcWSb
They recommend telephoto, so really anything over 50mm and also an aperture of f/2.8 or faster. The nature of the DOF creates a focus vignette, but the longer lenses minimize being able to see that.
If you don't mind me asking sir, what cage is that and adapter for your phone sir, thank you for the video and sorry to bother you sir. Thank you for your video
The cage I’m shooting is from Beastgrip and that’s their DOF adapter. The cage I’m actually using is also from beastgrip and it’s their classic Beastgrip Pro universal cage. I’ve got links in the description if you want to learn more.
I haven’t tested that, but it’s possible in HEVC. However unfortunately you can’t adjust the bitrate in blackmagic it’s just auto set like the native camera. But ProRes is the same.
Lens/gear brands tell me that the overwhelming majority of their sales are for iPhone. But I do wish there was more of a universal mount. But I guess in a way it’s similar to traditional cameras where every manufacturer has their own (Sony, Canon, etc.) and then we have to use adapters.
I tend to agree. But Apple is known for using other companies apps like FiLMiC Pro and Blackmagic and then doing their own thing. Although again, this doesn’t compete with those apps.
Thank you so much for this review! Very well done! I'm with you. With all other more professional and feature-laden options out there, I really don't see myself using this. With all the work that goes into creating these apps, it makes me wonder what is the value they think they're providing consumers with this app. Thanks again!
One of the advantages of computational photography on iPhone video is the Auto HDR feature, which stacks exposures to increase dynamic range and stop windows blowing out etc - but sadly, this doesn't seem to be available on the Final Cut Camera app. Did I miss something?
This is a watered down version, but none of the photography stuff has been brought over to my knowledge. It does have HDR but I’m not sure how it’s captured in regards to any computational stuff.
@@iphoneographers Auto HDR works on video as well as photography. The HDR setting it has is simply the format, meaning it will play back with higher tonal values. People get confused between these things - they should've called Auto HDR what it is - exposure stacking. Thanks for the video anyway!
@@rosskinghorn I don't think they are the same "HDR". 15's photos has Smart HDR 5 which is the computational photography stacking. The default app video format on the other hand is 10 bit in HDR(HLG) Rec 2020. LOG is also 10 bit that you can convert into HDR or SDR rec 709. There isn't any video computational stacking.
@@T-pj8sr Sure is. Annoyingly I can't post images here to demonstrate, but next time you're pointing your camera towards a window or the sky and it's blown-out/overexposed, tap on the screen in that area and you'll see the exposure adjust, but the areas that aren't blown out will stay the same. That's stacking.
@@closeben What? - LOG allows you to have around 13 stops of dynamic range and more like 7 without LOG. So you can lower those highlights or push those shadows. H.265 10bit compression gives you 95% of the ProRes quality but instead of saving each frame as is, it calculates the difference between frames, if part of the image didn't change, the encoder knows to repeat it from the previous frame with an offset say. So you get either a minimal or often indistinguishable difference in quality at 10% of the file size. The only downside is your editing machine must be powerful enough to decode the H.265.
@@OfficialDJTazer that’s right and modern Apple silicon and good GPUs can actually deal with h265 directly, but if you’re working with a film studio and everyone is already using ProRes, you may need to use it too. But are they filming with phones? In most cases you are still better off shooting in h265 and converting to ProRes after.
capcut on pc is reeeaaallly underrated!!!! but: you need to know what your doing + if you know how to cut, blend in music, use simple effects, you dont need capcut really... i especially love the zoom in and outs (the non linear ones, you can do it in advanced settings)... alot of stuff really benefits from 60 fps and looks ULTRA SMOOTH on video and gives this "premium youtube video" feeling... i would always export capcut to 60 fps if you upload to youtube
Great video. Question though: If shooting RAW with Halide application for example on iPhone 15 pro: wide lens 24mm x 1 will become a 40mm. Still gonna be a 48MP raw photo or way less? I need 48MP for shooting a painting but the original 24mm on iPhone 15pro and need 48MP RAW image for decent printing definition (300DPI) Thanks your great work!
As long as you use the main 24mm 1X lens you’ll get the 48MP. Regardless of what conversion lens you put on it. That’s really the beauty of it. It also makes it more useful in low light (for different looks) and also for creating more shallow depth of field.
You mentioned only the ProRes was available via USB. But I have the iPhone 11 and using the apple card reader (via lightening port), I'm able to record H264 to a mico SD card directly. I'll have to test this again and see if they changed it.
That hasn’t been an option until USB-C and the 15 Pro, so I’m not sure how you were doing that unless maybe there’s a hack of some kind. Now you could send a 1080 video signal out that was highly compressed and you could see it on an external monitor, but it wasn’t for recording. And you had to use an HDMI adapter to get to the monitor. And it was only available in certain apps like Filmic Pro or LumaFusion, though you could also do a screen recording for a tutorial to an Atomos recorder.
I don’t have that phone, but the one I’m using in this video is universal the Beastgrip Pro and I like it a lot for a variety of different phones. amzn.to/3xpdkYG
Definitely, use them all the time. They’re probably my favorite “affordable“ filters. Those and Moment are also good. Polar Pro are probably the best but they’re also the most expensive.
i'm on an iphone 13 pro. why does the blackmagic camera app does support 1080p 240fps like the native camera app does? or do i have to find a setting to do that?
They don’t support it on the 15 Pro either. Not sure why. Total guess maybe it dropped frames or potentially it got a lot of artifacts. The 120 doesn’t look very good. I would personally stick to 4K 60.
@@iphoneographers yeah I know the quality won’t be great. I just need an app to have a fixed lens, fixed iso and fixed shutter angle at high frame rates. I don’t really want to pay for filmic pro just for that hahaha
