I first saw this on RedShark News, but if you head over to BlackMagic Design’s URSA page and scroll down you can see the video. It is mostly unlit, and only basicaly color corrected, but not only does it look impressive, but it also seems to solve the horrible black sun problem of the URSA 4K Sensor. This looks impressive!
Stu Maschwitz of ProLost and RedGiant has posted about what he saw and was impressed with at NAB. Worth checking out.
Here are his big hits, and then all of his twitter posts here.
Blackmagic Design has announced it’s new $495 Video Assist video recorder. It records 10 Bit ProRES 4:2:2 and has a 1920×1080 Monitor with touch screen controls on it. Very cool.
Blackmagic Design has announced Fusion 8 for Windows, Mac and Linux. It is currently windows only on Version 7, but version 8 which will be released in quarter 3 of 2015 for Windows, OS X and Linux, and is being shown at NAB.
There will be a free and $995 full version as there are now.
Looking forward to learning a new compositor at a reasonable price. I love what Black Magic is doing!
Blackmagic Designs have released Davinci Resolve 12. It is still Free for the Lite version, $995 for the full version or $29,995 for the full version including the full control surface.
The new version has a new interface that is supposed to be easier on the eyes.
It has multi-cam editing, that allows real time editing.
It has also updated it’s editing mode, with an improved Trim Mode and more.
And it now has a new audio engine for better realtime playback.
And of course grading improvements.
Blackmagic Designs actually announced a thirds camera, the Blackmagic Micro Studio Camera 4K for remote control from a switcher fro $1295.
And the URSA now has 4.6K models for $6995 and $7495 and you will be able to upgrade the sensor in the 4K Models!
BlackMagic have announced two new impressive looking cameras at NAB.
The first is the URSA Mini which ranges from $2995 for the 4K EF Mount, to $5495 for 4.6K PL mount!
Most impressive is that it has a global shutter at 30 FPS, and rolling shutter at up to 60 frames per second, with 15 stops of dynamic range! (I didn’t realize that the 4K sensor does Global Shutter at up 60 FPS, but only has 12 stops of dynamic range, or that the Mini loses it’s upgradeability that it’s big brother has) Wow!
Of course the shoulder kit is another $395 and the full viewfinder instead of the side screen is $1495!
Adam Garstone at Definition Magazine gives a quick overview of these 3 powerful 3D Compositing Programs. Work a read.
After learning Shake years back I would love to get into one of these, but can’t afford either Nuke or Smoke, but once a free Mac version is released of Fusion by BlackMagic Designs I will probably spend the time to learn it, and hopefully they will have added a good 3D camera tracker by then.
BlackMagic Design has done it again, and they have released their recently Purchased Fusion compositing program for free or $995 for the Studio Version with advanced 3D tools, OpenFX plug In support and unlimited distributed rendering.
Awesome news, and I would love to learn this. Going to give me a reason other than gaming to fire up BootCamp and boot into Windows 8 on my Mac, because since learning Shake back in the day I have loved Nodal compositing software. And the true 3D compositing and even 3D model rendering all in one will be pretty amazing.
RedShark has an article on all of BlackMagic Designs exciting new announcements from IBC 2014.
My personal favorites are:
DaVinci Resolve 11.1 is out now.
And BlackMagic has purchased Eyeon Software the maker of Fusion the high end digital compositing, visual effects and Motion Graphics Software! Wow, and lets hope they do to it exactly what they have been doing with Resolve, make it better, and cheaper than ever! Let’s hope they eventually have a free version with full Resolve back and forth for an amazing new free or affordable compositing program! And lets hope for a Mac version very soon!
Fusion looks insane. Node based, but their Sizzle Reel stills looks very very complicated!
It supposedly already supports CUDA for acceleration so it sounds like a great fit with Resolve.