Innovative Australian movie and television production hardware and software company Blackmagic Design has announced an exciting new high-end digital movie camera, new colour grading hardware and the addition of two Linux distribution versions of its industry-essential high end colour grading and video editing software in its free and paid variations, DaVinci Resolve and Davinci Resolve Studio.
Blackmagic Design CEO Grant Petty announced the immediate availability of the URSA Mini Pro 4.6K digital cinema camera in three lens mount versions, two new colour grading hardware control surfaces in the DaVinci Resolve Micro Panel and the DaVinci Resolve Mini Panel, and the availability of DaVinci Resolve and DaVinci Resolve Studio in Red Hat and CentOS link distributions.
The URSA Mini Pro 4.6K replaces and advances beyond previous URSA cameras, the URSA and URSA Mini in their 4K and 4.6K versions. It comes in versions for three industry-standard lens mounts, B4, EF and PL, and upgrade schemes are available for owners of its predecessor cameras.
Blackmagic’s URSA Mini Pro 4.6K delivers on the promise of its URSA ancestors and is now, on the basis of specifications, an attractive and affordable camera for independent moviemakers wishing to move beyond current hybrid stills/video cameras and video camcorders into the realm of feature film quality CinemaDNG raw and ProRes image recording, trading their one-person operator status for a small crew.
The addition of the much-requested built-in ND filters boosts the allure of the URSA Mini Pro 4.6K for run-and-gun documentary videographers, while moviemakers working on less frenetic projects may wish to continue using high-end third-party neutral density filters sets attached by screwing on or via matte boxes.
Meanwhile, many independent moviemakers are wondering what has happened to the long hoped-for update to 2013’s Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera, the only affordable Super 16 raw movie-shooting small Micro Four Thirds-lensed pocket camera on the market, able to be used with none to minimal rigging and without external monitor/recorder.
URSA Mini Pro 4.6K
- Press release – Blackmagic Design Announces New URSA Mini Pro 4.6K Camera
- Price – AU$9,295.00 including GST, US$5995.00.
A Basic Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 4.6K Kit
DaVinci Resolve Micro Panel
- Press release – Blackmagic Design Announces Innovative New Control Panels for DaVinci Resolve
- Price – AU$1535.00 including GST, US$995.00.
DaVinci Resolve Mini Panel
- Press release – Blackmagic Design Announces Innovative New Control Panels for DaVinci Resolve
- Price – AU$4649.00 including GST, US$2995.00.
DaVinci Resolve and DaVinci Resolve Studio 12.5 for Red Hat and CentOS Linux
- Press release – Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve 12.5 for Linux Now Available
- Price, DaVinci Resolve for Linux – Free of charge.
- Price, DaVinci Resolve Studio for Linux – Free for customers with current licence.
- Price, DaVinci Resolve Studio for Linux, Macintosh or Windows, new licence – AU$1535.00 including GST, US$995.00.
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