{"id":49254,"date":"2025-09-11T15:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=49254"},"modified":"2025-10-07T11:17:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:17:35","slug":"final-cut-camera-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/11\/final-cut-camera-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Cut Camera 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2025\/09\/apple-announces-final-cut-camera-2-0\/\">Apple<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2025\/09\/apple-announces-final-cut-camera-2-0\/\">\n<p>Final Cut Camera 2.0 unlocks unprecedented recording capabilities on iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max, the first smartphones capable of capturing ProRes RAW. This allows users to record pristine RAW data directly from the camera sensor for maximum creative freedom in post-production. The update also introduces open gate recording, which uses the full camera sensor to capture a wider field of view at resolutions greater than DCI 4K. This gives editors ultimate flexibility to reframe shots, stabilize footage, and set final aspect ratios, all without compromising image quality or performance.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Final Cut Camera 2.0 also supports genlock, allowing creators to precisely synchronize iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max with other recording devices to the same reference signal, ensuring each frame is perfectly in sync. This technique lets creatives achieve professional, frame-accurate edits without hours of manual frame-by-frame alignment. Genlock API support is available to third parties and is already being used with the new Blackmagic Design Camera ProDock.<\/p>\n<p>Leveraging the all-new Center Stage front camera available on iPhone 17, iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max, Final Cut Camera 2.0 also allows users to capture horizontal or vertical orientation without rotating their iPhone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/09\/iphone-17-pro-and-iphone-17-pro-max\/\">iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/07\/final-cut-pro-2-and-logic-pro-2-for-ipad\/\">Final Cut Pro 2 and Logic Pro 2 for iPad<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"final-cut-camera-2-0-update-2025-10-07\">Update (<a href=\"#final-cut-camera-2-0-update-2025-10-07\">2025-10-07<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2025\/10\/two-iphones-an-ipad-and-a-podcast-adventures-with-final-cut-camera\/\">Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2025\/10\/two-iphones-an-ipad-and-a-podcast-adventures-with-final-cut-camera\/\">\n<p>So, in the interest of reminding you: the Final Cut Pro for iPad\/Final Cut Camera thing (note to Apple: you couldn&rsquo;t give <em>this<\/em> system a clever brand name?) is pretty amazing. You can connect up to four iPhones to an iPad running Final Cut Pro and use the iPhones as remote cameras to record a live event, adjusting settings on the fly and ending up with a full-resolution multicam project ready to be edited.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>After moving around a lot of hotel furniture to try and get proper angles for a shot of me, a shot of Myke, and a two-shot of us both, we connected the iPhones to my iPad. While two of them connected immediately, the third iPhone wouldn&rsquo;t connect no matter what we tried. We rebooted things, we disconnected and reconnected from both sides&#8230; nothing worked.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, we decided to just use the iPad itself as a third camera.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The edit went so smoothly that the entire 107-minute-long podcast was edited before I was halfway to Dallas. 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