Philip Bloom has unboxed the Blackmagic Design Camera
Philip Bloom has gotten and unboxed his Blackmagic Design Camera, though not really used it much to test yet. Worth checking out.
Blackmagic Design released DaVinci Resolve 9 Beta and a new Manual
You can download it from their web site right now. It is available for Mac, Windows and Linux operating systems.They have had a significant user interface re-design, automatic 3D eye matching, multi layering timelines, additional xml support, log grading, 16 channels of audio, automatic audio sync, and the ability to have multiple frame rates in a single sequence (if you click a check box). You can read the press release or just download it now.
Marco Solorio is the Blackmagic Cinema Camera the DSLR Killer
Marco Solorio at OneRiver Media has a good article on the possibility of the new Blackmagic Cinema Camera being the DSLR Video killer. He give a compelling argument, and at this price point this camera is going to be huge.
Blackmagic Cinema Camera
FCP.CO has the news on a new Blackmagic Cinema Camera. It is $2995 with 13 stops of dynamic range, a large 2.5K sensor and Canon EF mount lenses. And it comes with a full version of DaVinci Resolve and Ultrascope. It records to SSD in 12 Bit Log as well as CinemaDNG, ProRES and DNxHD, and has a large touch screen for entering Metadata. Check it out at Blackmagic Designs Web site.From what I see the biggest problem seems to be the lack of XLR audio inputs and only 1.4” instead. Certainly not as good. Makes this a good run and gun B-Roll camera, but you would want something with XLR for sync sound. Actually been reading more and it is the same sound as it would be with XLR.Seems people’s biggest complaint is going the Apple rout and having a non-removable battery that takes 3 hours to recharge. This certainly makes it more of a get a shot here and there camera, though it seems that it can actually take many different voltage power, so you can power it from many different batteries and it will be fine, so it is not like this is a huge problem, but you will have to have some sort of mount and extra batteries for any serious shooting.
Blackmagic Announced new Teranex 2D and 2D
Creative Cow has the news on the 2 new Teranex Box, starting at $1995 and a smaller thunderbolt design for $3995 with all the power of the previously $90,000 version to do conversions!
Blackmagic Announces DaVinci Resolve 9
Creative Cow has the announcement of a completely overhauled user interface, that will be available in July and free of charge for all Resolve customers, or $994 full price as it is now.. New features include automatic 3D eye matching, mutli-layer timelines, xml support and more camera and file support. It also includes Log grading, audio playback with 16 tracks per clip, automatic audio sync, clip data burn ins and batch rendering for dailies.
Blackmagic released HyperDeck Update to DNxHD
MacTech has an article on Blackmagic Design having announced a Pulbic Beta of their version 2.0 software for the HyperDeck, which gives Avid DNxHD format to the device.I actually wonder if ProRES will stay as a big format now that FCP X is no longer pro software, looks like AVID and Premiere will be the way to go.
Blackmagic has dropped the price on a Teranex
Creative Cow is reporting that Blackmagic Designs has officially dropped the price on the Teranex VC100 from $90,000 to $19.995! Here’s hoping they also incorporate the technology into future video cards!
Black Magic buys Teranex!
HD Magazine is reporting that Black Magic Design has bought Teranex Systems!Wow first Davinci, now Teranex. It will be amazing to see Teranex products at a more affordable price. They always made the best conversion utilities. Wow! This is certainly good news!
Davinci Resolve Lite 8.1.1 now has unlimited color correction Nodes
Black Magic has updated Davinci Resolve Lite to 8.1.1 and it now has unlimited Color Correction Nodes instead of 2! Wow! So basically the paid version just adds over HD resolution, more than one GPU to process, and more than one RED rocket card, as well as Stereoscopic 3D, noise reduction, power mastering, remote grading and sharing projects with an external database.I really don’t feel so bad that Apple Color is gone now!You can download from the Support section.The Configurator for Mac OS X stills seems to be missing and now links to the PDF manual.