Bluetooth+ for Blackmagic

Control your Blackmagic camera right from your phone.

Download on the App Store

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Bluetooth+ on three iPhones: exposure controls for a Pocket 4K, Multi-Cam white balance for three cameras, and the launch screen

Works with

  • Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
  • Pocket Cinema Camera 6K and 6K Pro
  • URSA Mini Pro G1, G2 and 12K
  • Cinema Camera 6K

Your camera’s controls, on your phone

Change settings between takes, roll from across the set and keep the slate up to date, all over Bluetooth.

Exposure

Iris, shutter angle or speed, ISO, frame rate and auto exposure. Off-speed frame rates included.

Bluetooth+ screens for frame rate, iris, shutter, codec, ISO and zebras

White balance and tint

Dial in any temperature, pick one of five presets or let the camera set it.

Focus and zoom

Pull focus wirelessly, zoom on electronic lenses and trigger autofocus.

Codec and resolution

Change recording format without reaching for the camera’s menus.

Digital slate

Scene, shot and take metadata, with your phone’s location if you allow it.

Control Lock and Slate-Only mode

Lock critical settings during a take, or hand an assistant the slate and nothing else.

And the rest

Everything else you’d otherwise walk over to the camera for.

  • Record start and stop
  • Stills
  • Audio
  • Monitor overlays
  • Playback
  • Active card
  • Power on and off

Roll from anywhere on set

Start and stop recording with timecode and remaining card time in view, from wherever you’re standing.

Bluetooth+ on an iPhone lying flat, showing white balance, the record button and timecode
Multi-Cam in Bluetooth+: three cameras in Group 2 set to 5600K and tint 10

Bluetooth+ Pro

Up to 12 cameras, one phone

Multi-Cam puts every camera on set in one place, in up to three control groups. Change a setting on one camera and the rest of its group follows, or adjust each camera on its own.

  • Synced across a group: recording, white balance and tint, project frame rate, shutter, ISO, overlays, slate and autofocus.
  • Per camera: stills, iris, focus and zoom, codec and resolution, and playback.
  • Nicknames for every camera, so you know which is which.

Tilta Nucleus Nano and Nucleus-M

Use a real hand wheel for focus, iris and zoom, and to start and stop recording. Focus and zoom work with the Pocket Cinema Camera 4K.

Connected in a minute

Pair once and Bluetooth+ remembers the camera.

  1. 1

    Turn on Bluetooth

    On the camera, open the Setup menu and switch Bluetooth on.

  2. 2

    Choose your camera

    Bluetooth+ lists every camera in range by model and ID.

  3. 3

    Enter the code

    Type the pairing code shown on the camera’s screen. That’s it.

Questions

Can’t find the answer? Email support@bluetoothplus.app and we’ll help.

Blackmagic cameras with Bluetooth control: Pocket Cinema Camera 4K, 6K and 6K Pro, URSA Mini Pro G1, G2 and 12K, and Cinema Camera 6K. Bluetooth+ runs on iPhone and iPad with iOS 13 or later.

First, forget the camera on your iPhone or iPad. Open Settings, then Bluetooth, and find it by its hardware ID (something like A:123ABC4D, also shown in the camera’s Setup menu).

Then clear known devices on the camera: in the Setup menu, scroll to Bluetooth and tap Clear All. Now connect again from Bluetooth+.

No. Blackmagic’s Bluetooth connection doesn’t have the bandwidth for video, and the camera has no way to send it.

Focus marks work on the Pocket Cinema Camera 4K. On EF-mount cameras (Pocket 6K, 6K Pro and URSA Mini Pro) the camera doesn’t report where the lens is focused, so Bluetooth+ can only move focus from wherever it is now. Without a known position, there’s nothing for a mark to return to.

Slow, deliberate pulls work well. Fast pulls can feel stepped, because Bluetooth sends changes in small increments, and on EF-mount cameras smoothness depends on the lens.

If you turn the focus ring by hand, the app won’t show it, because the camera doesn’t report the change.

Play a clip forwards or backwards, and skip between clips. The camera doesn’t allow pausing, changing speed or looping over Bluetooth.

Get Bluetooth+ for Blackmagic

Control your Blackmagic camera right from your phone.

Download on the App Store

For iPhone and iPad with iOS 13 or later.