Atomos Announces Ninja Phone: Transform Your Phone into a Ninja - YMCinema Magazine

Atomos announces the Ninja Phone, a silent 10-bit video coprocessor for smartphones and tablets that lets you record from professional HDMI cameras. The first release of Ninja Phone is designed for iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max and their OLED display. It’s a powerful combination that uses Atomos’ worldwide knowledge of Apple’s ProRes encoding and Apple’s cutting-edge screen and silicon technology to create the “world’s most beautiful, portable and connected professional monitor recorder”.

The Ninja phone encodes the HDMI signal from the camera ProRes or H.265, both formats with the excellent 10-bit quality for HDR. Encoded video is sent via the Ninja Phones USB-C output to the USB-C port on the iPhone 15 Pro or Pro Maxs. The iPhone’s advanced A17 system-on-a-chip then decodes the pristine image from the camera sensor to display on the high-resolution iPhone display. The screen is a massive improvement over the typical built-in screens that come with most cameras, with a 2,000,000:1 contrast ratio and support for Dolby Vision, HDR10 and HLG. It can display 11 stops of dynamic range with a maximum brightness of 1600 nits, perfect for HDR and outdoor viewing.

The Ninja Phone iPhone app, which can be downloaded from the App Store, controls and coordinates the operation of both the Ninja Phone and the iPhone, making them feel like a single responsive device. The Ninja Phone app adjusts to landscape or portrait video modes for social media creators who need to shoot in 9:16 portrait mode. The Ninja Phone app will run on iOS and iPadOS and will be available for download at the time of shipping.

We’ve added professional video and cinematic intelligence to the world’s most advanced phone. Ninja Phone is for the thousands of content creators who capture, store and share video from their iPhone 15 Pro but aspire to work with professional cameras, lenses and microphones. At the same time, the Ninja Phone is a perfect tool for longer-educated professionals who want to adopt a cloud workflow without a complex and expensive technology footprint.

Jeromy Young, CEO and co-founder of Atomos

The output from the cameras appears on the iPhone screen with zero latency thanks to atoms efficient ProRes pipeline: encoding on the Ninja phone and decoding using Apple’s latest generation iPhone. We’ve added professional video and cinematic intelligence to the world’s most advanced phone, says Atomos CEO and co-founder Jeromy Young. Ninja Phone is for the thousands of content creators who capture, store and share video from their iPhone 15 Pro, but aspire to work with professional cameras, lenses and microphones. At the same time, the Ninja phone is a perfect tool for longer-educated professionals who want to adopt a cloud workflow without a complex and expensive technology footprint.

ProRes-encoded video can be stored on the phone as a .mov file and/or simultaneously transcoded by the iPhone to 10-bit H.265 for workflows such as cloud camera or live streaming via iPhones 5G and integrated 5G. Wi-Fi 6E connectivity. In addition, the Ninja Phone supports external iPhone accessories by integrating a separate USB-C hub to enable the necessary professional add-ons, such as wireless USB-C microphones, to seamlessly sync video and audio. Third-party accessories are supported on the Ninja phone and more will be added over time.

Powered by standard NP series batteries, a battery eliminator, or a 5V/3A USB-C input, the Ninja phone charges the iPhone while in use with either of these power sources, ensuring that the long run of the telephone may coincide with professional sessions. Besides, Atomos has developed a unique and robust locking ecosystem to maintain a secure grip on connected HDMI and USB-C cables. Featuring Atomos locking cables, it’s the most robust capture cable system available today, while being fully compatible with standard non-locking cables.

I’m very proud that Atomos is once again teaming up with Apple to unlock video creativity through ProRes, and this time it’s on Apple’s most advanced device, the iPhone 15 Pro. I am especially pleased that this product is fanless and quiet.

Jeromy Young, CEO and co-founder of Atomos

Enhanced connectivity on the iPhone 15 Pros opens a door for Ninja phone users to make full use of Atomos Cloud Services (ACS). These include super-efficient cloud camera workflows, remote live production and cloud editing. With ACS, content creators can post videos to social media within minutes, and filmmakers can send their footage to their post-production team via the cloud for the fastest possible production workflow. I’m very proud that Atomos is once again teaming up with Apple to unlock video creativity through ProRes, and this time it’s on Apple’s most advanced device, the iPhone 15 Pro. I am especially pleased that this product is fanless and quiet. Atomos has also had an incredible relationship with Japanese camera makers, and now the Ninja phone connects those incredible cameras directly to the iPhone’s storage, display and amazing wireless and cellular network, Young added.

Atomos Announces Ninja Phone: Transform your phone into a Ninja

Thanks to the iPhone 15 Pro, this is a first ninja Users will have access to an OLED monitor screen, which, at 446 PPI, is by far the highest resolution and HDR capable monitor ever available, Young added. It is the perfect partner for many of the smaller format mirrorless cameras coming out of Japan, for example Fujifilm’s X100 and G series, Canons R5 series, Sony Alpha series, Nikon Z cameras and Panasonic series GH and S.

The Ninja phone weighs just 95 grams and 335 grams when paired with an iPhone 15 Pro. The Ninja phone will cost 399 USD/EUR excluding local sales tax, and is expected to begin shipping in June 2024. Customers will also have to choose the iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max case, not just for protect the phone in normal use, but to ensure that the cable system lock can be deployed. Cases will be available separately at USD/EUR 59 each, also excluding local sales taxes.