Blackmagic BlueConnect

BlueConnect is simple yet powerful app to control Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K, 6K or 6K Pro from iPhone or iPad.

BlueConnect allows you to control all the features of camera that Blackmagic offers, including :

– Colour Corrector :
• Built-in colour correction tools that reflects in camera and HDMI Output
• Davinci Resolve-like control
• RGB Bars for Lift, Gamma, Gain and Offset
• Pulling sliders for Contrast, Pivot, Saturation and Hue
• Ability to reset to default camera colour correction settings
• Similar settings that can be controlled from Atem Mini Pro switchers

– Other devices support :
• Control from Tilta Nucleus-N handwheel – Start / Stop recording
• Control from Tilta Nucleus-M FIZ Unit – Start / Stop recording

– General controls :
• Trigger Start/Stop recording ( Ability to use Volume buttons )
• Trigger stills
• Battery indicator
• Active card indicator
• Remaining recording time
• Timecode
• Settings indicators
• Lock-while-recording mode

– Playback control :
• Switch from recording mode into playback and back ( displayed are only clips with same resolution )
• Play / Pause, navigate forward, navigate backward through clips

– White Balance controls :
• White Balance
• Tint
• WB Presets

– Exposure and Frame rate controls :
• Project frame rate
• Frame rate
• Off-speed frame rate toggle
• Iris
• Shutter speed / angle
• ISO
• Auto Exposure modes

– Focus control
• Slide-to-adjust control
• Multiple focus points (Rack focus using focus sensitivity and duration)
• Multiple focus points (Rack focus using focus-movement teaching)
• Auto-focus toggle

– Monitor overlays
• Zebra Level
• Frame guides
• Safe Area
• Grids
• Exposure and focus tools (zebra, focus assist and false color toggles)

– Codecs and Quality
• Codec option
• Bitrate option
• Resolution

– Audio controls
• Channel 1 / 2 gain
• Headphones volume
• Speaker volume

We continue to work on another exciting features to be released in the near future including but not limited to :
– MultiCam mode with an option to trigger recording on multiple cameras
– Control of TILTA products

Requirements:
– Minimum Camera Firmware version 6.2
– Bluetooth Enabled on your Camera
– Bluetooth Enabled on your Phone
– Location Enabled on your Phone

Tested on:
– BMPCC 4K
– BMPCC 6K
– BMPCC 6K Pro

Getting started :
https://bmblueconnect.com/getting-started

Issues we know about :
https://bmblueconnect.com/known-issues

Troubleshooting :
https://bmblueconnect.com/troubleshooting

In the update 1.0.11 we implemented colour correction tools present in Atem Mini Pro switchers, added full 6K Pro support and we also fixed reported bugs :

– Bug fix where audio gain / speaker volume are offsetted by 1% after crossing 40% gain.
– General stability improvements