How to record multicamera video with iPhones

What you need

• Two or more iPhones or iPads with iOS 17 or later
• A Mac with macOS 26 or later
• All on the same local network

Steps

1. Broadcast from each iPhone

   Camera › Camera Settings › Outputs › Mirage Broadcast on each one.

2. Pair them on the Mac

   Each appears under Devices in Mirage for Mac; pair with its code. Remembered devices reconnect on their own.

3. Make a group

   Drag one source onto another, then add the rest. Switch the main camera yourself, or turn on Follow the Speaker.

4. Record

   The group’s Recording card chooses what a take holds: separate files, the preview as one file, a vertical file, and On devices, where each iPhone also records its own full-quality file.

What a take contains

Each take gets a folder in Movies › Mirage:

• A file for every camera, screen, and microphone, all starting together.
• The arranged picture as one file, and a 1080 × 1920 vertical version if you turn it on.
• A Final Cut Pro timeline (FCPXML) and an OpenTimelineIO timeline for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, with your cuts and markers.
• Captions.srt and YouTube chapters when you use captions and markers.
• Each iPhone’s own full-quality recording, with Settings › Studio › Download device recordings afterwards on.

If it doesn’t work

• A device isn’t under Devices: see Devices can’t see each other.
• The iPhones don’t record on themselves: that needs Settings › Mac Access › Control Camera on each one. When it’s off, the iPhone asks.
• Their files aren’t downloaded: each iPhone needs Settings › Mac Access › Download Recordings and a Mac paired with Remember this device.

Run it alone

Director on an iPad or iPhone, or Apple Watch, starts the recording, adds markers, and switches cameras from where you sit.