The Blackmagic Camera app for iOS got a pretty significant boost today as Blackmagic Design has added new support for both the upcoming URSA Cine 17K 65 cinema camera, as well as full remote controlling support for Blackmagic URSA Cine cameras.This Blackmagic Camera update 9.3 is also set to add user pixel recalibration for URSA Cine models, plus some other helpful improvements for proxy clip playback for off-speed recordings, updated 8K and 4K Constant Quality record settings, and your usual mix of general performance and stability improvements.Let’s go over everything new to Blackmagic Camera with this 9.3 update and explore how you can start remotely controlling your URSA Cine cameras from your favorite Blackmagic iOS app.Blackmagic Camera 9.3 UpdateSo, the first bit of big news here is simply the added support for the upcoming Blackmagic URSA Cine 17K 65. Blackmagic Design has shared some new clips of what the URSA Cine 17K 65 can capture and the footage is impressive, to say the least. The fact that you can remotely control and work with a camera as powerful as the URSA Cine 17K 65 from an iPhone is kind of nuts too, so excited for this update for sure. The other bigger news perhaps is the remote control of all Blackmagic URSA Cine cameras. This will cover the URSA Cine 12K, 17K/65, and the URSA Cine Immersive camera (which we got to check out for the first time at SXSW last week). Blackmagic Camera users will receive new support for...
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Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 21 March
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