Overview
- Final Cut Camera 2.3, released Wednesday, adds a Clean HDMI Out that removes on-screen overlays and Apple limits that feed to iPhone 17 Pro models.
- The update also lets users connect an iPhone to a Mac over USB and import footage directly into Final Cut Pro, shortening the transfer steps previously required through an iPad.
- Final Cut Camera now offers selectable ProRes 422 formats (422 LT, 422, 422 HQ) for higher-quality captures but Apple requires an iPhone 13 Pro or later to use those ProRes options.
- Users can disable digital zoom in the app to ensure recordings stay at full optical resolution, and Blackmagic’s recent Camera app plus its ProDock add HDMI output, genlock and timecode support for older Pro iPhone models.
- Both Apple’s and Blackmagic’s updated camera apps are free, which lowers the cost of adding monitoring and pro codecs to shoots and could push more independent creators to use iPhones in professional pipelines.