Auto Dim Display
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera has an option to automatically turn down the brightness of
the LCD touchscreen during periods of inactivity to conserve battery power. Select an option
for 'dim display after' to set how long to wait before dimming the display. Next time you touch
the LCD touchscreen, it will return to its normal brightness level.
Hardware ID
The 'Hardware ID' indicator displays an 8 character identifier for your Blackmagic Pocket
Cinema Camera. This is unique to each camera. A longer, 32 character version of this ID is also
included in the metadata for Blackmagic RAW and ProRes video. This can be useful for
identifying which footage came from a particular camera.
Software
Displays the version number of currently installed software. See the 'Blackmagic Camera Setup
Utility' section for more information on updating software.
Playback
This setting allows you to select whether to play back a 'single clip' or 'all clips' on the
LCD touchscreen from SD card, CFast card or USB-C flash disk. 'All clips' plays back through all
matching media sequentially, and 'single clip' plays one clip at a time. This also applies for the
loop function. Selecting loop on 'all clips' plays through all of the clips on the recording media
and then loop. Selecting 'single clip' loops one clip at a time.
Setup Settings 4
The fourth page of your camera's 'setup' tab contains these Bluetooth® settings.
The camera Bluetooth name will be the letter of your camera as selected in the
slate, followed by the 8 character hardware ID for your camera
Bluetooth
®
Bluetooth control lets you control your camera wirelessly from portable devices. Using the
'Blackmagic Camera Control App' you can change settings, adjust metadata and trigger record
remotely from an iPad. Enable or disable Bluetooth by tapping the 'Bluetooth' switch icon in the
'setup' menu. When Bluetooth is enabled, the camera can be detected by Bluetooth devices up
to 30 feet away. Your camera uses the same set of commands for Bluetooth control as it does
for 'Blackmagic SDI Camera Control Protocol', so you can write your own applications to control
almost every setting in the camera remotely. For example, monitoring options and audio
settings, to the camera's inbuilt DaVinci Resolve color corrector or even lens control.
For more information see the 'Blackmagic Camera Control' document available at
www.blackmagicdesign.com/au/developer/
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