If the content is good, then your smartphone should be perfectly acceptable to get going, and the expensive equipment can come later as the project matures. There is no need to spend thousands of dollars on equipment before uploading your first video. The benefit of using these phones as content cameras is that people can start with what they already have. It is a highly versatile camera capable of creating high-quality videos perfect for YouTube. The newest Samsung Galaxy S23 camera offers a resolution of 200MP with an ultra-wide angle lens and up to 30x zoom. Apple also recently introduced ProRes, an Apple software that optimizes video and is useful for people who use Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro X editing software. It also supports slow motion, time-lapse, and HDR recording. The iPhone 14, for example, offers the capability to record 4K videos and up to 60 frames per send (fps). A locking DC power connector is used so customers won't have to worry about losing power during a shoot. I don't want to use Resolve.Any top-tier smartphone will have the capability of capturing a video of high enough quality to use on YouTube. The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K and 6K use removable LP-E6 type batteries while the 6K Pro model uses larger NP-F570 batteries. braw files into a different folder location (not sure why this would change anything, someone on the Blackmagic forums recommended it).

Updating Premiere and After Effects to the latest version.

they're not helpful and neither are their forums. This also doesn't allow the files to import.

Manually moving the requried files to the /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/7.0/MediaCore file folder.

Installing different versions of Blackmagic RAW.

Braw files also do not open in After Effects. This issue is consistent on both my Mac and PC. This is different than the typical 'file format not supported' message that I recieved before installing Blackmagic's plugins. braw files, Premiere returns a File Import Failure with the error message 'A read from an open file failed'. I went ahead and installed Blackmagic RAW 1.8.2 from Blackmagic support on both my MacBook Pro and my custom-built editing PC. Just purchased a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6k Pro and shot some footage in Blackmagic RAW.

Blackmagic 6k pro used