BMC App - iPhone 15 Pro - Unknown Error Message

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BMC App - iPhone 15 Pro - Unknown Error Message

PostFri Jan 03, 2025 1:11 am

Hello there!

I have been enjoying the BMC App on my iPhone 15 Pro for a little bit now but recently came across an issue I thought would be good to bring up. That and the Blackmagic support group recommended I go here ;) .

I was testing filming with the settings on Apple ProRes 422 HQ 4k@60 and was getting the attached error message.
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Doing some troubleshooting, I realized it was due to insufficient write speeds on the external drive. The recording would stop after 10-20 seconds, the timecode would flash for a while, and then stop and the pop up would appear. I confirmed this was the problem by using a drive with speeds faster than Apple's recommended speeds of ~220MB/s with continuous recording of 3min+.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/109041

Easy enough, problem solved, right? While I was able to quickly deduce the root cause on my own, it might be useful to others and the future if the BMC app would be able to tell the user that the recording was stopped due to insufficient write speeds. Is this a known problem? Is it something that can be put on the roadmap if not? I am happy to provide any other details if it would help. It's a great app and this is all in the spirit of helping to make it even better. Thank you!
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Re: BMC App - iPhone 15 Pro - Unknown Error Message

PostSat Jan 04, 2025 2:23 am

If it’s really due to write speed, you can tell the app to stop on dropped frames.
But I wonder why you didn’t get at least the related message.
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Re: BMC App - iPhone 15 Pro - Unknown Error Message

PostMon Jan 13, 2025 4:03 am

Yeah that's good suggestion to use that setting. Though I still feel like some message of "Hey, you probably want to use a faster drive if you want to record longer clips" or something, could go a long ways to the end user.

To your second point, are you suggesting that I should have gotten a message like that anyways? Anything I can provide to help investigate that?

(Sorry for the slow reply, I was out of town for a work conference)

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