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Today we announced a dramatic price reduction for storage on Blackmagic Cloud! Until now the price has been USD$30 per TB per month, which might have reduced the number of people who could use Blackmagic Cloud services for global post production workflows. The new price has been cut by half and will be USD$15 per TB which should allow a lot more people to use cloud workflows. This reduction has been made possible by improvements in our data center backend and the Blackmagic Design engineers. We think this will allow more talented people to come together and create amazing television shows, feature films and online content, no matter where in the world they live! If you are currently using Blackmagic Cloud storage to sync media between cameras and DaVinci Resolve, then you will see your monthly payments reduced by half from today. Learn more about Blackmagic Cloud at https://bmd.link/imRMgU

Today we released Desktop Video 14.3 which implements camera extensions on Mac platforms for all DeckLink, UltraStudio and Intensity models. This means you will no longer have to follow Apple’s support note instructions to enable legacy video device support on your computer when working with editing software. Your capture and playback device will simply be automatically be detected when plugged in. We have also improved?integration between these models and Apple Silicon computers by adding support for CVPixelBuffer. This means applications can?leverage the computer’s unified memory architecture and eliminate the need for data to be copied between your capture and playback device and the computer. This gives you increased performance,?reduced latency and?lower CPU usage. Desktop Video 14.3 update is available now as a free download from https://bmd.link/i49Rz7

Today we announced a limited time offer of 20% off DaVinci Resolve Studio, DaVinci Resolve Micro Color Panel, DaVinci Resolve Micro Panel or Fairlight Desktop Console, saving you up to $610! DaVinci Resolve is Hollywood’s most popular solution for editing, visual effects, motion graphics, color correction and audio post production, all in a single software tool for Mac, Windows and Linux. DaVinci Resolve Studio adds DaVinci Neural Engine for automatic AI region tracking, stereoscopic tools, more Resolve FX filters, more Fairlight FX audio plugins and advanced HDR grading. The DaVinci Resolve Color Panel and Micro Color Panel give you all the control you need to create cinematic images. The panels give you fluid, hands on control over multiple parameters at the same time, so you have more creative options and can work much faster than is possible with a mouse. The Micro Color Panel includes controls for color grading, wiping stills, image sizing, and adding power windows, and can connect via Bluetooth or USB?C. The Micro Panel for refined color grading includes the DaVinci Resolve Studio activation key and can connect via USB?C. The Fairlight Desktop Console is a full audio control surface featuring a bank of 12 touch sensitive faders and pan knobs and built in LCDs above each channel strip and channel control buttons. There are also automation transport and navigation controls and a HDMI graphical interface output for connecting a monitor. The new special prices are listed below: DaVinci Resolve Studio was $295 now $235 DaVinci Resolve Micro Color Panel was $509 now $395 DaVinci Resolve Micro Panel was $859 now $665 Fairlight Desktop Studio was was $3,055 now $2,445 These offers are available for a limited time only. Learn more about DaVinci Resolve at https://lnkd.in/dzwiJxB?

Today we announced a limited time offer to receive a free Blackmagic Cloud Pod when you buy a Blackmagic Cloud Store 20TB or Blackmagic Cloud Store Mini 8TB. Blackmagic Cloud Store gives you high performance network storage designed for the film and television industry. Plus it understands Blackmagic Cloud media sync and supports DaVinci Resolve proxy files. This means the moment a film crew starts shooting, the camera media will sync within seconds so the post production team can start working. With an incredibly fast flash based memory core, lots of users can all work at the same time. That’s perfect for sharing large media files between editors, colorists, audio engineers and VFX artists! Blackmagic Cloud Pod allows you to instantly convert any USB-C disk into network storage! It includes 10G Ethernet for high performance, HDMI status monitoring, and it also supports Blackmagic Cloud sync for distributing files globally. This offer is available for a limited time only. Learn more about Blackmagic Cloud Store at https://lnkd.in/gJC8micw

What's New in Blackmagic Camera for iOS 2.1! Watch this video to learn what's new in the latest updated for Blackmagic Camera for iOS. Learn how to use new iPhone 16 camera control features with Blackmagic Camera, accessing Blackmagic Cloud organisation for easier syncing and new recording bit rate options for H.264 and H.265 codecs. There are also improved overlays making it easier to know you're recording with the right settings and added compatibility for new accessories. Download now from https://lnkd.in/g6YQfAmH

Today we released Blackmagic Camera for Android 1.5 which adds support for live syncing of media to Blackmagic Cloud and into the bin of all DaVinci Resolve workstations that share the project. The media appears live, even while the camera is still recording, meaning you can start cutting and color grading seconds after footage has been recorded, from any location globally. This update also adds support for Italian so you can easily switch all on screen overlays, setup menus and monitoring information to Italian. This makes it easy to share your device with other crew when traveling to locations worldwide as you can just go into the menu and change to any of the 8 supported languages, including English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and now Italian. Blackmagic Camera for Android 1.5 also adds support for Tilta Nucleus II wireless remote lens control providing hands free control for zoom and focus when your physical camera is not within reach. In addition, there is support for new phones, including Oppo Find X8, X8 Pro and the Redmi Note 13 series. Download now from Google Play, free of charge, at https://lnkd.in/gRRQK8ad

Virtual production innovators Andre Dantzler and Ryan Somerfield, of SociallyU and Tiny Giants AV, wanted to show what is possible with virtual production technology and the Blackmagic Ultimatte workflow. They were able to create perhaps the ‘longest over-the-shoulder shot’, with Andre sitting in Chattanooga and Ryan in Sydney, 9,000 miles apart! “Ryan also has a Blackmagic Design Ultimatte ecosystem that perfectly matches ours at SociallyU, where we have eight Blackmagic cameras, each with its own Ultimatte. The two over-the-shoulder shots we created, I’ve never seen shot and composited all in real-time! We were also able to add two moving shots in each studio for extra realism by having them on sliders and compositing those camera angles in real-time. So, we had a bunch of firsts for this virtual production test.” “With this virtual production, we were striving to create a realistic cinematic look. A lot of virtual studios use only PTZ cameras, which means they are super ‘in-focus’ on every shot. We wanted this to look real, as if both Ryan and I were in the same studio. This meant we needed a shallow depth of field for the over-the-shoulder shots, shooting at around F2.” “What's cool about the Ultimatte 12 is that you can ‘layer in’. We used the ‘layer in’ and composite feature to make Ryan and myself look like we're on the exact same layer. To get this to work I had one Ultimatte just keying Ryan’s feed from Sydney, while I was sending out my fill and key to a second dedicated Ultimatte for the wider shot. To make this one scene, we needed two cameras and two Ultimattes! For the over-the-shoulder shots, it’s the same idea where we needed another Ultimatte to take the over-the-shoulder key and fill and then bring that into yet another Ultimatte.” “The flexibility the Ultimatte provides, pushes the boundary of how future remote interviews can look, and we hope to see more creators do similar setups. In the past, setups like this would often have to have complex renders done in post-production, but the real-time keying capabilities of the Ultimatte 12 models are so high-quality, that it enables live streams like this to be possible.” Watch the video and read the full story at https://bmd.link/VvuckR

Today we announced Blackmagic Camera 9.1.2 update which adds new REST API commands for remote camera control. This enhances the already existing REST API functionality in URSA Cine which allows you to control the camera over a network via secure and easy to use commands. It also fixes a bug where focus markers on the 1st AC page would disappear when the camera was power cycled. This means you can now power cycle the camera or switch between playback and shooting modes and the user added focus markers will be retained. Blackmagic Camera 9.1.2 also adds support for the Blackmagic PYXIS Monitor as well as for third party display port monitors. This means you are able to use PYXIS Monitor or display port USB-C monitors with your Blackmagic URSA Cine 12K LF with full touchscreen support and menu controls. In addition, this update includes a number of small improvements when using URSA Cine 12K LF with Blackmagic Cloud, enhanced playback performance, improved button lock behaviors and a newly revised manual with 12K LF dynamic range chart and additional information. Blackmagic Camera 9.1.2 also adds improved updating via Ethernet, better lens support and fixes a brief display glitch on startup. Blackmagic Camera 9.1.2 update is available now as a free download from https://bmd.link/XPTHau

Today we released DaVinci Resolve 19.1, which includes a range of features and improvements that will give you more control and significantly speed up your multicam, audio and visual effects workflows. On the edit page, there is a new trim slider for the audio menu of the inspector, allowing channels of a source clip to be trimmed independently. You can trim one or more channels at once, allowing you to balance the audio of a multichannel recording before editing it in the timeline. There are also new menu actions to select nearest in, out or roll edit points, and improved audio ducker support allowing you to select multiple tracks to trigger the ducking. For Fairlight, audio tracks can now be duplicated or disabled from the track header context menu, while duplicated tracks will make an identical copy, including all media, settings and automation. You can also reorder tracks and busses by dragging their name in the mixer and when trimming audio you will now see the waveform overlays of the clip being worked on and the clip next to it. These improvements will make it clearer and easier to make adjustments to your audio. There are new Fusion effects, including generators so you can quickly create backgrounds such as stage curtains, a star field and gradient or radial lines. There are also new title templates to make it easy to add more interesting titles to your work including those with a glass effect, rainbow style or a gradient outline. In addition, Fusion media inputs will now honor upper or lower field dominance for interlaced footage. There is also a new tool in Fusion which lets you export USD assets and scenes from compositions, including all geometry, lighting and cameras. When color grading, you can now copy the active node stack layer from timeline clips in the gallery and apply to clips on your current timeline. If you're working with a DaVinci Resolve Mini Panel there is now a dedicated setting in the menu that allows you to more easily edit custom curve control points using your panel. For DaVinci Resolve Studio, there are improvements to object mask caching, so you can edit clips prior to the object mask node and the mask will be retained. There is also new support for decoding and playback of spatial photos and videos. This means you can now edit, color grade and apply effects to this footage and render it for playback on your Apple Vision Pro. This update also adds reorder functionality to jobs in the render queue. This means you can now drag and drop jobs in your render queue to change the order when your priorities change and you need to render something quickly. There’s also the ability to encode 10 bit H.265 Main10 formats in DaVinci Resolve on Windows, giving you higher quality rendered images, as well as a new context menu option on the media page to automatically sync bins from file folders. DaVinci Resolve 19.1 update is available now as a free download from https://bmd.link/u3J9Vz

Today we released Fusion Studio 19.1, which adds new Fusion effects including generators so you can quickly create backgrounds such as stage curtains, a star field and gradient or radial lines. There are also new title templates to make it easy to add more interesting titles to your work including those with a glass effect, rainbow style or a gradient outline. In addition, Fusion media inputs will now honor upper or lower field dominance for interlaced footage. This means the effects you apply will display and render correctly based on the original scan pattern. There is also a new tool in Fusion which lets you export USD assets and scenes from compositions, including all geometry, lighting and cameras, speeding up your post production visual effect workflow. This update also includes support for USD 24.08 with improved MaterialX performance and polygon and B-spline viewer toolbar controls. Fusion Studio 19.1 update is available now as a free download from https://bmd.link/TcsYqw