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Blackmagic Design URSA update includes 80 fps 4K recording --
Tue, 25 Nov 2014 14:34
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Blackmagic Design has released a major software update developed in conjunction with the high end cinematographers, which offers multiple new features for its URSA digital film camera. The Blackmagic Camera 1.9.9 can be downloaded from the Blackmagic Design web site.
One of the most powerful new features in Blackmagic Camera 1.9.9 is support for higher frame rate recording combined with the new menu control of recording frames rates for URSA cameras. This new software increases the recording frame rate up to 80 frames per second, which allows enhanced slow motion shooting with a more fluid feel to shots.
The frame rate settings in URSA have been changed and the record frame rate is now not limited by the video frame rate. This means users can select the frame rate they want their work to be done, such as 24 frames per second for a feature film, and then independently select the recording rate from five all the way up to 80 frames per second. The advantage of this is the URSA camera can shoot slow motion or fast motion shots but all the recorded video files are always set to the video rate, and you can see the effect of the higher or slower frame rate when playing. This means you can playback the exact same look on the cameras as the clips will play in a time line of editing software.
When shooting higher frame rates for high end feature films and television commercials, where image quality is critical, the new update includes a new CinemaDNG 12 bit RAW format which uses 3:1 compression to allow RAW files to be recorded in one third of the size of uncompressed RAW files, meaning double the storage capacity on the same sized CFast card. This new compressed RAW format allows higher frames to be recorded in the CFast cards, while retaining all the advantages of RAW recording, where the image processing in software such as DaVinci Resolve can get access to every single bit of quality from the sensor data in the camera.
Blackmagic Camera 1.9.9 also includes in camera formatting of CFast cards so when on a shoot, a computer is not needed to prepare CFast cards for use. Unlike formatting on a computer, the Blackmagic URSA camera technically analyses the CFast card s memory storage structure and will optimise formatting to allow best performance when used for real time digital film data recording. This means a card formatted in URSA can get much better performance than a card formatted on a computer.
The update also adds multiple new user interface changes to the URSA camera, including the new dashboard menu screen allowing features such as formatting and other settings to be selected. Also included in the new user interface is scrolling menus, which allows customers to slide their finger on the touch screens vertically to scroll through a longer list of settings in the menus.
New menu settings featured in Blackmagic Camera 1.9.9 include on screen framing guides allowing a range of common feature film aspect ratios to be displayed on the fold out monitor, such as 2.35:1, 1.85:1 and more. These framing guides are displayed as translucent letterbox overlays and the opacity can also be adjusted by the user. Multiple other framing assistance guides can also be displayed.
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