i have an iphone 15 (not pro) and tested this with the blackmagic mirror app for the external storage and a usb-c hub that i could connect my 256gb thumb drive and even the charging cable to and while it may not be the ideal setup for moving shots, it works perfectly fine for stationary ones!
thank you for introducing using to the blackmagic camera app! with that you can also film directly to a flash drive in the iphone 15, not just the pro version :D
you are literally the only person on youtube who explained how to find the external in media settings. i was going NUTS trying to figure this out thank you!!!
_The USB or SSD is way more convenient, more efficient, no need to keep popping things in and out, potentially losing your memory card, or it getting corrupted_
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 always like your videos really I learn a lot, but the video is about ssd external memory, but can you make a video how to use external microphone for a good audio. 🙏👍🏼
I have sandisk e81 2000mbps speed iphone recognize it.. USB C also showing in camera app.. but after hiting record button and 30 sec of recording.. the mobile get stuck the footage doesn't saved to ssd. ..
This is a great question. For example, the Rhode mic that works with older iPhone models via lightning to TRRS adapter, can we adapt that from USB C to TRRS?
Yes I know one company is making a grip case which contains batteries, a nvme ssd enclosure, two type c ports support data transfer, one cold shoe mount, and magsafe ring for those who use external SSD.
I would love to see if you can make a video about the differences between shooting in prores apple log and HEVC apple log. Is the prores worth the huge file sizes compared to HEVC video
seems like the day has finally come where your iPhone is your go to without external lenses. I'm interested in hearing more on your 5x tele love and the quality. I am a beast grip die hard supporter but the day I can do everything without all the do dads sounds like we have finally arrived. Can you shoot cinematic mode in apple pro res 4k 60?
Is there a way to connect an external camera to the USB-C port of an iPhone 15? From my understanding, Apple has disabled the ability to connect an external camera. For example, you cannot use an endoscopic camera on the iPhone 15. The camera simply does not work. Or is there maybe a way around?
Not that I know of. You can connect to your computer and use the phone as a camera - or you can go out HDMI to a monitor. But not to a camera that I’ve heard of.
I took your advice from this video. But I have one problem, Im trying to use my external monitor along side with my external HD. But every port hub I buy seems to not be fast enough to save my video. Any advice on a solid hub?
@@iphoneographersI have a current hub that has USBc charge, HDMI out and usb 3.0. What I’m trying to do is charge my iPhone (USBc) while using field monitor (HDMI) and attach my T5 SDD (USB 3.0) at the same time. What’s happening is that when recording in Blackmagic the record area will start to blink, then when saving it mentions it’s unable to record due to slow hub.
We need an iPhone 15 specific dongle that does PD, HDMI, Mic In, Headphone Out, and like 2x USB C. Most of what I find is Mac specific. Also, I think the hdmi out is only 1080p right?
It takes a long time to offload ProRes from the phone, 35min is about 170GB, have fun with moving that off the phone. The external SSD (tops at 1000Mb/sec) is faster but still too slow for me.
Want to get an external SSD and trying to decide between the Samsung T7 Shield SSD or the new Samsung T9 SSD and directly AppleProRes Log 4K 60fps files for the iPhone 15 Pro Any advice appreciated from anyone ! Using the BlackMagic App here as well Thanks in advance
One expandable storage, like external memory card slot, will solve all those problems, But Apple won’t let you doing that because they can’t make money from you by that.
Blackmagic camera app update last night now allows HDMI clean feed out. Use the apple AV Adapter initially for the iPad. Use it on the iphone 15 pro to get power pass though for charging, HDMI clean feed out, and a USB3 A port capable of fast enough speeds to USBC SSD for recording. Possible to clean feed to an external recorder if you wanted.
Yeah there are several apps that allow clean HDMI out, and we’ve been able to do that for a long time with Lightning too - but my initial testing shows it’s not an uncompressed 4K signal. Needs to be 10-bit 422. It seems currently it’s just for monitoring and not yet a high quality output to record. But it’s early days and need to experiment more.
It would be great if it were possible to capture 4K/60fps instead of only ProRes to capturing externally. The gain of course would be increased shooting time. But if one absolutely needs ProRes for whatever, well, so be it. Regard your cable issue and dangling external capture devices, if on the road or even on tripod in a studio, use a longer cable, carry the exteral in a shirt pocket or shoulder bag. Simple! Done! Also, I'd use external M.2 2280 (or 2238 shorter) SSDs in an external case. They are more compact, more of less similar to a pack of chewing gum, greater capacities 2TB, 4TB, etc.
Great stuff as always! I upgraded to the 15 Pro Max 1 TB as well after rocking the 11 Pro and X for the last few years. it does act as my phone as well. The X has been my phone all this time and will now be a C camera for me with the 11 Pro becoming my B camera. While I don't need Pro Res, or even Log for that matter, for my talking head stuff, I plan to use it at some point in the future. The USB C port was one of the main reasons for the upgrade along with the X not being able to run iOS 17. I have noticed something however regarding the USB C port. In my tests it doesn't get anywhere near the 10 Gbps speed. I know this is a theoretical maximum, but I'm getting somewhere between 70 MB/s to 190 MB/s data transfer speeds from the phone to different computers and different internal and external drives. I have a Late 2015 iMac 27" and a 2017 13" MBP. I also have access to the M1 Mac mini. The last two have TB3/4 ports capable of defaulting to 10 Gb/s speeds. And System Report shows they recognize the connections as such. The iMac has USB A ports that support 5 Gb/s. I've gotten the 190 MB/s speed, or close to it, on all 3 computers, but it's usually the MBP, surprisingly, that consistently shows the fastest speed. I also have a Samsung 2 TB T7 SSD. I've gotten about 300 MB/s speeds when I plug it directly into the phone. So I can definitely get much faster transfers that way and then plug that into my iMac. But I'll still end up moving those files to an external HD anyway. In the field it makes sense to use the SSD, but at home it's probably better to just transfer directly to my external HD. The SSDs are just for my Library. I'm just wondering if the speeds I'm getting is normal? I've not had the ability to do this, nor have I needed to look at my speeds on these in the past. I do have a Genius Bar appointment in a couple days to have them test my port, but I suspect they'll just tell me the speeds I'm getting are the real world expectations. Have you experienced anything similar, or do I possibly have a defective port? Cables are definitely rated either TB 4 or USB 3.1 or whatever flavor 10 Gb/s is so I don't think that's the issue. And I'm using a 14.85 GB video file for my tests. The computer speeds are pretty much the sustained speeds over the entire transfer. They vary a little bit, but not much. For the phone to SSD tests I just run a stopwatch to get the average speed. The Samsung USB C cable was pretty slow actually so I got new cables.
Are you using the USB-C cable that came with the phone? Evidently that one won’t produce the USB 3 speeds and you have to use a different one, which I’ve been doing - however, I’m not seeing super fast transfer speeds yet either. I did one test of approximately 45GB via USB-C to an iMac and it took about 15 minutes. I need to do more tests though. I’ve actually still been using Airdrop a lot for smaller offloads. :) But recording to an SSD or CFast and then connecting that to a computer to transfer I’ve found is the fastest method.
No one seems to talk about battery life when you have any of your solutions attached. Surely it must affect it considerably as the phone also has to power the SSD.
It really doesn't consume more battery at all - I was shooting 4K 24fps ProRes Log Video direct to SanDisk Extreme Pro SD Card via some cheap USB-C card reader. My iPhone 15 Pro doesn't even heat up lesser than directly shooting into my phone storage.
It’s still early days in testing & using this stuff, but so far it appears not to be a big issue. Though shooting lots of video period has always has affected the battery life. The SD card solution doesn’t seem to affect it at all, but SSD pulls power for the drive, so you are losing some battery life there. I’ll test it on a proper shoot in the near future.
Hi with BlackMagic on iPhone 15 pro, can I shoot in 1080p H264 in the same time storing in the SSD drive ? because on iPhone 15 pro apps It is limited to Pro Res only.
Question - I own 256GB version of IPhone 15 Pro Max and in black magic app when I choose the resolution at 4K, codec as - Apple Pro res 422 and color space as Apple Log I don't know why I can record for 3 hours at (4K24), 2 and half at (4K30) and 1hr 15 mins at (4K60) whereas in the native camera app the Max time at (4K24) is 35mins and (4K30) is 30mins. Why is there such a big difference in how much time you can record? Is the native camera app using some special codec for LOG or its just limiting the record time to save space on your phone for other things?
The native camera app only records in ProRes HQ. So the files are much bigger. But I also think the media indicators aren’t super accurate in third-party app especially.
@@iphoneographers With ProRes HQ I a getting 59 Mins of recording. SO not sure if there is like an extra limit on the native camera app that's caps it to 30mins or the black magic app is showing inaccurate. Only one way to find out though lol have to record and see if it goes above 30 mins.
Great videos, keep it up! Do you prefer a phone cage or a gimbal for filming? I am looking to add some iPhone shots to compliment my drone footage so it's not always arial footage but I can't decide which would be best for what I want to do? Majority of the shots would likely be pans or tracking or just static footage, so nothing thats going to be too shaky/bouncy. Look forward to hearing your opinion and if you've got the time a recommendation. Ideally I'd have a lens and a SSD attached to the phone so the cage/gimbal would hopefully accommodate both.
If you’re not moving the phone much then I think a cage is a great way to go. The universal beastgrip pro is really a great option, or their custom cages. And you could mount an SSD with an accessory onto either. And if you wanted a gimbal I would suggest getting one that’s heavier duty so you could use a phone with the cage. Like the Crane M3 or similar. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S304iLKg0kE.htmlsi=abVjnLhSWMaX-9uL Lots of options to consider. Search my channel for other gimbals or rigs.
I connected my Zoom H6 recorder and Samsung T7 SSD via a usb c hub to 15 pro max. All you need to do is set up the audio interface of Zoom H6 to Mac, then whether you use built-in camera app or black magic camera, it always record video with audio from Zoom H6 at the same time. BTW, once you set audio interface from Zoom, there is a “Zoom” option in Audio menu from black magic camera.
Would you happen to know a gimbal set up that would work for this and allows you to have the room to connect via usbc? Also would you recommend a tripod or a gimbal? I’m trying to learn how to shoot short film scenes from my phone
There are quite a few gimbals for phone, but most of them has limited pay load and clamp width which means if you shot with a small sized SSD mounted on the back of your phone, it will never maintain balance, and by adding SSD on the back requires more clamp width to hold you phone and provides space for SSD. If you looking at an approach like mount SSD on a cage of grip then that will be a different story in terms of portability. My two cents are wait before invest your hard earned money on this under developed accessories for iPhone. Apple log, ProRes, and USB C are big things to Apple, I’m pretty sure there are third parties still developing a better all-in-one gears for these type of demands. For example, a vertical battery grip with case that has an enclosure for Nvme SSD, and usb c ports, cold shoe mount that all in one grip case might be out soon. So just wait for better solution.
My go to gimbal is still the Zhyiun Crane M3. Best of the bunch in that category and will hold this setup no problem…. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S304iLKg0kE.htmlsi=-aImABobamOC2kNJ
Not for recording. You can for file transfers and such using an adapter and a powered drive (the Lightning port doesn’t provide enough power like the USB-C port).
These might help… ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8iHc1mc5SJE.htmlsi=EUBUGuktYoS9sUAM Or ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-d4JzydJy7Y0.htmlsi=W0RLCTHTkwKScZu8
