The Mavis Camera iPhone app now supports the Atomos Ninja Phone, allowing users to connect professional cameras and lenses via HDMI to many more iPhones and iPads.
You can record high-resolution video on the camera while the phone records and sends the proxy file. Alternatively, the combo can be used to stream from just about any mirrorless hybrid directly to all popular social media platforms or, for professional live productions, to custom RTMP or SRT.
This new integration also brings the much-requested external record trigger feature. This allows the recorder in the app to be triggered by the external camera to create an H.265 or H.264 file that can be used for social media or uploading to the cloud.
Mavis recently launched its v7 update of its Camera app, providing content creators with more functionality over the standard stock iPhone camera. The app provides control of recording formats, frame rates, color balance, and focus, with a wide range of expert monitoring tools, including focus peaking, false color, zebras, waveform, and vectorscope.
The Ninja Phone is a 10-bit video encoder from Atomos that provides an HDMI bridge between an iPhone or iPad and professional DSLR and mirrorless cameras. Combined with the Mavis app, it allows creators to choose the format that suits them best: ProRes, H.265, or H.264, depending on the capability of their device and whether they are recording or streaming.
Mavis Camera also offers in-app purchases like Adobe Frame.io connectivity, advanced audio mixing including pan and gain, and multitrack ISO audio recording.
The Mavis Camera app is a free download available from the App Store. Ninja Phone is priced at $199 USD / EUR €199.
Matthew Allard is a multi-award-winning, ACS accredited freelance Director of Photography with over 35 years’ of experience working in more than 50 countries around the world.
He is the Editor of Newsshooter.com and has been writing on the site since 2010.
Matthew has won 51 ACS Awards, including six prestigious Golden Tripods. In 2016 he won the Award for Best Cinematography at the 21st Asian Television Awards.
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