Atomos Ninja Phone (using iPhone 15 Pro)

No, Atomos didn’t announce new smartphone, (RIP RED Hydrogen One) but an accessory/adapter that utilizes the iPhone 15 Pro’s XDR display to act as a camera monitor. Smart!

Beyond making an iPhone 15 Pro function as a camera monitor + recorder, it enables cloud workflows and live streaming-hello Frame.io 4. The possibility for this accessory is as great as the iPhone capabilities that are growing/updated every year. With the rumored iPhone 16 Pro screen size getting better and bigger, it’s increasingly difficult for other portable screen manufacturers to compete against Apple-the biggest company in the world. Atomos made a smart bet to be a part of much larger ecosystem & customer base. I hope Atomos expands this accessory line to work with iPad Pro as well.

With any new production gear, my next thought process is always What Would BlackMagic Design Do?

Like what people say about a camera, the best camera monitor is the one you have with you all the time. And you’ll find no better options than iPhone Pro screens at its size/class.

Extra: I read the comments on the video, and found out about Accsoon SeeMo Pro

This is the first time I heard about this product/company, but it’s less expensive with more options to use iPad as well as iPhone, and SDI ports.

Source: https://www.atomos.com/explore/ninja-phone/

AI Color Matching (using AtomX Cast from ATOMOS)

With all the hype around AI for post production, AI for color correction is evolving slower than expected because, as we all know, Shot Match to This Clip in DaVinci Resolve rarely works, if ever for example. For all the latest AI capabilities added to recent DaVinci Resolve, this function is hardly improved upon, or mentioned at all. (I try it time to time though, just for kicks.)

So I was pleasantly surprised when AtomX Cast from ATOMOS unveiled its color matching by AI capability. Although I’m just taking theirs words from the demo videos below, this feature is desperately needed/required for DaVinci Resolve.

I wonder if working with raw camera signals make AI understand colors more better than video data wrapped in various media codecs?

Have you found this app working as their videos claim? Please share your thoughts if you have used it.