Atomos Ninja Phone
Product Highlights
- Record from Professional HDMI Cameras
- Enables live streaming via 5G or WiFi 6E
- Encode to ProRes or H.265 with Camera to Cloud option
- HDMI Input | USB-C Video Output
- Capture Footage 16:9 or 9:16
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NINJA PHONE
Now your phone can be a Ninja too
Turn your smartphone into a high‑end 10‑bit recorder, monitor and streamer for your pro HDMI video camera.
The ultimate smartphone accessory
Today’s smartphones are technological marvels, with amazing displays, cutting-edge Wi-Fi 6E and 5G connectivity. But how do you connect your pro camera? With Ninja Phone! Attach it to a compatible smartphone, plug in an HDMI-equipped camera, install the app, and you’re Ninja’d up and ready to go!
How does it work?
Ninja Phone takes any HDMI video signal and instantaneously converts it into a high-quality video file format. This video data is then transferred in real-time to USB-C-equipped smartphones and tablets, turning them into professional low-latency video monitors, recorders, and live streamers.
It’s ideal for professional filmmakers, social media content creators, and a wide range of applications like gaming where you need to record or stream a video source without a computer. It also sets you up for hyper-efficient camera-to-cloud workflows.
Monitor, record and stream
with ease
MONITOR
Make your phone display a pro video monitor
Turn your smartphone into a top-notch HDR monitor. Connect your camera, and you have access to some of the world’s best portable displays. Atomos’ Ninja Phone app adds a host of professional monitoring tools and even adapts to vertical orientation. Today’s smartphone displays are incredible OLED devices with extraordinary 2,000,000:1 contrast ratios, 460ppi resolution and, with Ninja Phone, the ability to display the output from any HDMI-equipped camera.
RECORD
Capture 10-bit video from any HDMI camera
Ninja Phone is the only way to connect professional cameras with HDMI to a compatible smartphone and record directly into 10-bit Apple ProRes*, the absolute standard for professional video production and post-production, or 10-bit H.265.
*iPhone only
STREAM
Send via 5G or Wi-Fi 6E to social platforms
You won’t find a more compact set-up for streaming professional-grade video directly from your camera. Ninja Phone and an iPhone Max weigh only 335 grams, and the combination is packed with the latest technology, including pristine 10-bit, H.265 encoding, Wi-Fi 6E, and low-latency 5G for the ultimate in mobile live streaming.
A billion more colors and shadows
Stunning, 10-bit, HDR pipeline
Atomos uses its unparalleled experience in video encoding to pass 10-bit, 1080P HDR video from your camera’s image sensor over HDMI to Ninja Phone, then through USB-C to your smartphone or tablet’s processor. The result is stunning, professional-quality images on your device’s incredible screen, with virtually no latency.
10-bit video preserves massively more picture information, both in terms of color and brightness, than 8-bit formats. The number of colors goes from millions to billions and the brightness range – the highlights and shadows in the image – is more than 4 times that of 8-bit.
Today’s camera sensors all capture more than 10-bit, and all modern TVs, smartphones and tablets have advanced 10-bit HDR screens too, so with Ninja Phone you can deliver the best possible video quality on every shoot!
8-bit vs 10-bit
With Apple ProRes encoding, Ninja Phone sends 10-bit color and brightness information from your camera to your smartphone’s screen. Professionals demand 10-bit, because it shows accurate colors, highlights and shadows, and removes contours between similar colors. So, a blue sky looks real, or a candle looks vivid in the dark, with no washed-out painting-by-numbers pictures. With 8-bit, you’re throwing away the subtlety and nuance, often leaving visible steps and flat imagery that can’t be repaired in editing. We solve this problem by not causing it in the first place.
In the same way 10-bit video encoding and compression preserves color, it also preserves shadows and highlights to give depth and nuance in the image, just like our eyes can see. This is High Dynamic Range, or High Brightness Range. 10-bit gives a billion levels of shadows and highlights in an image, to recreate all the depth and reality of real life. All on your smartphone – and direct from your professional camera and lens.
Superb monitoring tools
Ninja Phone comes with a comprehensive set of monitoring tools for greater control over image, exposure, and composition. It has everything you need to keep in focus, frame your shots perfectly — e.g. for social media platforms — and get the right exposure. It comes with a choice of waveform, zebra, and false color displays.
Get the Ninja Phone App
Atomos isn’t new to touchscreens – the original Ninja had one. But smartphones take them to another level, so we’ve written an app to run natively on your smartphone that controls and configures your Ninja Phone. We’ve made it work the way you’ll want to use it – so if you’re shooting portrait vertical 9:16 video, the app goes vertical too. It’s easy to use in either Landscape or Portrait. It’s slick, responsive, and makes Ninja Phone and your smartphone feel like they’re a single, integrated device.
Super light, super silent
Ninja Phone is designed around AtomIC 5, the next generation of Atomos silicon that allows for low power, silent operation while encoding 10-bit ProRes and H.265 with exceptional USB-C connectivity. Drawing just 2.4W in full flight, Ninja Phone combined with your smartphone is silent in operation, even while performing complex video processing tasks. The powerful IC allows for a super lightweight footprint – Ninja Phone weighs in at just 94 grams!
CAMERA TO CLOUD
Direct to cloud high speed workflows
Dual record 10-bit ProRes and H.265 for Camera to Cloud
Ninja Phone is your gateway to hyper-efficient cloud production workflows. You can choose to work with production quality 10-bit master files and H.265 proxies for full cinematic images or encode 10-bit H.265 only from Ninja Phone for the simplest, fastest workflows. If you record directly to 10-bit H.265 with a higher bitrate, you can use these files for Camera to Cloud and publish them directly to social media or news and sports channels, without having to re-confirm the original camera files. It’s literally the fastest way from lens to likes.
Powerful cloud services
The connectivity of your smartphone makes it easy for Ninja Phone users to access to Atomos Cloud Studio and its services. This gives you the means to work collaboratively with other video professionals. Start editing while you shoot. Get almost instant approval from clients. Publish to social media within minutes of taking the shot. Share video with Atomos’ cloud partners including Frame.io, Sony Ci Media and MediaSilo. And even produce multi-camera live TV from anywhere, to anywhere, with Atomos Live Production.
Better Image Quality
Ninja Phone’s 10-bit HDR pipeline lets you see your images the way they mean to be seen.
Better Cloud Integration
Ninja Phone is the perfect gateway to Atomos’ hyper-efficient cloud workflows.
Better User Experience
Ninja Phone is made for video on the go. A tiny footprint, cutting edge technology and an intuitive app that knows when you’re shooting in landscape or portrait.
What's in the box?
- 1 x Atomos Ninja Phone
- 1 x USB-C Video Cable
- 1 x USB-C Power Cable
- Video I/O
Video Input Format
1080p 60 / 59.94 / 50 / 30 / 29.97 / 25 / 24 / 23.98fps
720p 60 / 59.94 / 50fps
Video CODEC
ProRes* HQ / ProRes* 422 / ProRes* LT / ProRes* Proxy / H.265 Main 10 / H.265 8b / H.264 8b
Video Input Port
HDMI-A
Video Output Port
USB 3.1 Gen1
ProRes* HQ / ProRes* 422 / ProRes* LT / ProRes* Proxy / H.265 Main 10 / H.265 8b / H.264 8b
1080p 60 / 59.94 / 50 / 30 / 29.97 / 25 / 24 / 23.98fps
720p 60 / 59.94 / 50fps
*iPhone only
- Audio
HDMI
2 Channel 48KHz PCM
USB-C Mic
Matches Microphone Sample Rate
Locks Audio to Video
- Power
USB Power In
USB-C 5V 3A – Ninja Phone charges phone and accessories when attached
Accessory Port
USB-C 5V/1A + USB 3.0 Data
Battery Compatibility
NP-F550 / F750 / F970 – Ninja Phone charges phone and accessories when attached
2.4W (without charging iPhone)
4W (with iPhone 15 Pro)
Power Consumption
10W (with iPad Air Gen5)
Operating Environment Temperature
0℃~40℃
Recommended 35℃ operating with iPhone
- Dimensions
Height
110.7mm
Width
85.4mm
Depth
42.4mm
- Weight
Ninja Phone
149g / 5.2 ounces
iPhone 15 Pro
187g / 6.6 ounces
iPhone 15 Pro Max
221g / 7.81 ounces
- Silicon
Chip
AtomIC 5
iPhone Silicon - A17 Pro
New 6‑core CPU with 2 performance and 4 efficiency cores
New 6‑core GPU
New 16‑core Neural Engine
- Mounting
Aluminium
1/4″/20 with guide pins
- Screen
iPhone Monitor Specs
Super Retina XDR display
6.7‑inch (diagonal) all‑screen OLED display
2796‑by‑1290-pixel resolution at 460 ppi
Dynamic Island
Always-On display
ProMotion technology with adaptive refresh rates up to 120Hz
HDR display
True Tone
Wide color (P3)
Haptic Touch
2,000,000:1 contrast ratio (typical)
1000 nits max brightness (typical); 1600 nits peak brightness (HDR); 2000 nits peak brightness (outdoor)
Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating
Support for the display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously
iPhone Splash, Water, and Dust Resistant
Rated IP68 (maximum depth of 6 meters up to 30 minutes) under IEC standard 60529
- Video Recording
iPhone Recording - Video recording w/Ninja Phone
Video formats recorded: HEVC, H.264, and ProRes
1080p HD video recording at 25 fps, 30 fps, or 60 fps
720p HD video recording at 30 fps
ProRes video recording up to HDp60 Internal
Log video recording
- Connectivity
iPhone Connectivity - Wireless
5G (sub‑6 GHz and mmWave) with 4×4 MIMO
Gigabit LTE with 4×4 MIMO and LAA
Wi‑Fi 6E (802.11ax) with 2×2 MIMO
Bluetooth 5.3
*Ninja Phone has no wireless connectivity