Blackmagic Design at NAB 2013: an overview

The new products announced included:

• Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera
• Blackmagic Production Camera 4K
• DaVinci Resolve 10
• ATEM Production Studio 4K
• Blackmagic Audio Monitor
• SmartScope Duo
• ATEM Studio Converter 2
• DeckLink Mini Recorder and DeckLink Mini Monitor
• Blackmagic MultiDock
• New low prices for the Universal Videohub Family

The new products announced included:

• Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera
• Blackmagic Production Camera 4K
• DaVinci Resolve 10
• ATEM Production Studio 4K
• Blackmagic Audio Monitor
• SmartScope Duo
• ATEM Studio Converter 2
• DeckLink Mini Recorder and DeckLink Mini Monitor
• Blackmagic MultiDock
• New low prices for the Universal Videohub Family

 

The tiny Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera is a true digital film camera with a Super 16 size 1080HD sensor with 13 stops of dynamic range with images that look virtually identical to the original camera. It features a Micro Four Thirds™ lens mount so you can use low cost lenses, but also Super 16 cine lenses via an adapter. 

 

It has built-in stereo mic's, LANC, micro HDMI with overlays for monitoring, solid grip handle that holds a removable battery and built in recorder to SD cards. It records lossless CinemaDNG RAW and ProRes 422 (HQ).

 

 

 

6G-SDI technology lets users connect Ultra HD resolution video using a single SDI cable. New products that support Ultra HD include a new camera, live production switcher, audio monitoring, optical fiber, a broadcast deck, and capture and playback solutions that all operate in Ultra HD with 6G-SDI connections. HyperDeck Studio Pro, UltraStudio 4K and DeckLink 4K Extreme are shipping now with 6G-SDI support built in, which makes them the first products in the world to support 6G-SDI for Ultra HD. HyperDeck Studio Pro is also getting an update that supports recording direct to Ultra HD ProRes 422 (HQ) files.

 

 

 

The new Blackmagic Production Camera 4K features a large Super 35 size sensor with a global shutter. This makes it easy to get shallow depth of field shots as well as shots with fast motion. The Blackmagic Production Camera 4K is housed in the same chassis as our current Blackmagic Cinema Camera so all EF compatible lensese and third party accessories that have been developed will fit perfectly. 

 

This new camera features recording to solid state disks in visually lossless compressed CinemaDNG RAW and ProRes 422 (HQ) formats, built in Thunderbolt and 6G-SDI output to allow Ultra HD video out. The sensor features 12 stops of dynamic range.

 

Blackmagic Production Camera 4K also includes 6G-SDI output for monitoring on Ultra HD displays and includes overlays. However this output can be down converted to regular HD when you want to use a more common and smaller monitor. The 6G-SDI output supports Ultra HD down the single BNC cable so it’s perfect for use with a live production switcher.

 

 

 

Version 10 includes new on-set tools for sound sync, as well as Resolve Live which lets you grade from your camera in real time. There are new editing features, support for OpenFX plug-ins and new delivery tools that let you render in Resolve direct to a Digital Cinema Package file for digital cinemas when purchasing a license from EasyDCP. This means you can online to a cinema file direct from the camera RAW files all in one pass for amazing quality.

 

There are also new editing features in DaVinci Resolve 10 including full multi track editing with 16 channels of audio per clip and unlimited video and audio tracks in the timeline. Audio can be synced or trimmed and dragged independently to the timeline. Other new editing features include extensive ripple, roll, slide and slip clip trimming support which display dynamically on the timeline and viewer. The viewer also allows split screen display to show in and out points of adjacent clips.

 

Editing in DaVinci Resolve 10 also includes a built in title tool with static, lower third, scroll and crawl titles with multiple fonts, size, drop shadow and XY positioning. Timelines in DaVinci Resolve 10 also include the support of compound clips with multiple elements including multiple video and audio tracks. Version 10 can edit stereoscopic 3D projects with full support for left and right eye clips in the media pool and the edit timeline. Using timecode and reel name, DaVinci Resolve 10 will automatically associate the left and right eye of the stereoscopic clips.

 

Color correction has been upgraded and includes new OpenFX plug-ins as well as unlimited windows in a node, recursive noise reduction and lots of other new features.

 

The new Resolve Live feature lets you grade live from the camera and then save those grades and relink them to the media files from the camera at the end of the shoot. You can even grade from the Thunderbolt connection of the Blackmagic Cinema Camera. Resolve Live lets you add as many nodes and color corrections as you like.

 

DaVinci Resolve 10 will be available as a free update to all DaVinci Resolve customers in Q3. DaVinci Resolve Lite will also include new on set, editing enhancements, plug in support and color correction updates. 

 

 

 

The new ATEM Production Studio 4K is the world's first Ultra HD production switcher and the whole switcher operates natively in Ultra HD, regular HD or SD.

 

The switcher has a total of 8 inputs, 4 of them 6G-SDI and 4 of them HDMI. The switcher features frame sync on each input, an upstream keyer, transitions, two downstream keys, a media pool with 20 RGBA stills, 2 media players, Photoshop™ Plug-in and much more. 

 

The switcher also has a built in multi view for monitoring 8 sources, preview and program feeds. The multi view output is in regular HD so you can use any HD television or monitor even when working in Ultra HD.

 

The switcher has program and a down converted program output. If you’re operating in Ultra HD then the down converted output provides a regular HD program feed. The switcher has an aux output and the front panel is made from machined metal and has buttons that let you do live aux switching direct from the front panel. There is also an LCD for monitoring the aux output, useful for setting up jobs.

 

 

 

Good quality rack mount audio monitoring has aways been a problem because other solutions are complex to use and don't have the features most people working in video need. The Blackmagic Audio Monitor includes all the features video industry people need. It includes great quality sound with dual subwoofers for a wide frequency response.

 

To make it the perfect audio monitoring solution for video, it also has SDI inputs, an LCD screen and a HDMI monitoring output built in. The SDI is not just any SDI, but 6G-SDI so it can handle Ultra HD as standard. It switches automatically between SD, HD and Ultra HD and you can select to de-embed audio from any of the SDI audio channels using simple front panel buttons.

 

The design is all machined metal, and even the speaker grills are machined metal for an amazing look and super tough design. The level meters can be customized to different types of metering and they are a nice large RGB LED based design that looks incredible. The volume knob is contact-less so there's zero crackling as the volume control can never wear out.

 

The unit also monitors balanced analog input, HiFi analog audio input, and AES/EBU input. The HDMI monitoring output supports Ultra HD televisions but supports down conversion to HD.

 

 

 

SmartScope Duo is a rack mount solution for live production, color correction and general broadcast. It uses an extremely high speed processor and features all the scopes available in UltraScope in any variation on each of the dual 8” LCD's.

 

For example, users could select RGB Parade and Vectorscope with picture view on the left side and audio scope on the right side for general broadcast rack monitoring. 

 

All the scopes are broadcast accurate and you can choose from waveform, vectorscope, RGB parade, YUV parade, histogram and audio levels and phase display. The SmartScope Duo is the same size as SmartView Duo and they mix and match in a rack perfectly. SmartScope Duo supports SD, HD and 3G-SDI video formats.

 

 

 

We are releasing a new model of the ATEM Studio Converter at this NAB with an attractive machined metal design with built in power supply. It features more popular analog connections on the rear panel for audio, plus new 6G-SDI technology. It has a control on the front panel for operating the talkback without an external microphone.

 

As soon as 6G optical fiber modules are released, the SD/HD modules in the converter can be changed out and it can then be used for Ultra HD.

 

 

 

The UltraStudio Mini Recorder and UltraStudio Mini Monitor are tiny monitoring and recording products. The UltraStudio Mini Recorder featured capture from SDI and HDMI inputs and the UltraStudio Mini Monitor allows playback to SDI and HDMI outputs. We are now introducing PCIe plug in card versions of these models - DeckLink Mini Recorder and DeckLink Mini Monitor. 

 

These cards are extremely tiny so they fit into both regular PCIe slots, and also the smaller low profile PCIe slots found on rack mount servers. Even though they are very tiny, they are still a full broadcast quality spec solution. Both models work in SD and HD, plus support Mac, Windows and Linux software.

 

DeckLink Mini Recorder is a perfect solution when you need small, portable, low cost capture. DeckLink Mini Monitor is great for monitoring with editing software such as DaVinci Resolve, Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro 7 and X, and Adobe Premiere Pro.

 

 

 

This is an exciting solution that makes transfering, managing and editing media from disk recorders and cameras simpler.

 

It's a one rack unit sized Thunderbolt disk dock that includes 4 independent 2.5 inch disk docking slots for inserting and mounting hard disks and SSD’s. It’s a simple and attractive design with built in power supply and a single Thunderbolt connection to the computer. It features an independent SATA chip per slot for maximum speed.

 

It makes docking disks very easy and you can simply mount and then edit or color correct direct from the disks. If you want a disk array, the disks can be striped together to get extra speed and storage space. Blackmagic MultiDock Thunderbolt is compatible with Thunderbolt connected Mac OS X and Windows devices.

 

 

 

Universal Videohub is now much lower cost, and you can even build a fully populated 72 x 72 card based Universal Videohub for less than the cost of a Broadcast Videohub now.