Blackmagic Design is releasing its Blackmagic Camera for Android 1.3 update, which adds support for recording timecode and adds anamorphic lens de-squeeze functionality and lens correction settings as well as support for off-speed and time lapse recording. Available at Google Play free of charge, it supports Google’s latest OS, Android 14, which means it should offer some interesting creative possibilities with Gemini, the new Pixel 9 series’ native AI. Some features are backward compatible. Customers with Pixel 6, 7, 8 and 9 phones can record at frames rates of 120fps and 240fps at 720p, and 120fps at 1080p.

Additionally, Blackmagic Camera now supports Xiaomi 13T, Samsung Flip 5/6 and Fold 5/6 phones. The company announced the Android update at IBC in Amsterdam.

The ability to record timecode with clips “allows customers to synchronize video and audio in post-production quickly and to use recordings from multiple cameras in a multi-cam edit with timecode sync,” writes Y.M.Cinema.

Blackmagic Camera 1.3 adds “digital film camera controls and operating systems” to facilitate the “cinematic look” of Hollywood features using an Android smartphone, the company explains, calling the profile “the same intuitive and user friendly interface as Blackmagic Design’s award winning cameras.”

Settings such as frame rate, shutter angle, white balance and ISO can be adjusted “all in a single tap.” Android users can also now record directly to Blackmagic Cloud in industry standard files up to 8K.

“Recording to Blackmagic Cloud Storage lets customers collaborate on DaVinci Resolve projects with editors anywhere in the world, all at the same time,” according to the company.

Blackmagic Design CEO Grant Petty says “Camera for Android has been incredibly popular since it was launched in June this year.” The new features add more control. “With the addition of timecode, customers can use the Cut page sync bin to create a multi-cam edit faster than ever before,” Petty explains.

Another tool added with Camera 1.3, anamorphic de-squeeze, lets users capture the much wider field of view, adjusting the camera preview so it “displays your video clip in the correct aspect ratio,” 9to5Google writes.

Another new feature, support for timelapse recordings, accommodates off-speed recording, allowing shooters to capture “at a different frame rate than the project frame rate,” adds 9to5Google, noting, “you’re able to adjust the audio gain in-app too.”