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Blackmagic Camera 10.0 brings fan brains and pre-record tricks
Blackmagic Camera 10.0 adds pre-record, smarter cooling, and new API tools for PYXIS and URSA cameras.
SynthEyes Essentials Training is here and Free for the Holidays
Boris FX unwraps a holiday gift: SynthEyes Essentials, a free, three-hour matchmove training course for VFX artists, free until 31 December.
Mocha Pro 2026: Refined, re-solved, re-edged
AI-assisted mattes, cleaner camera solves, and the return of the curve editor: Mocha Pro 2026 refines your roto and tracking life without reinventing the wheel.
SLAPSHOT promises AI Camera Tracking “in minutes”
SLAPSHOT has released its AI Camera Tracking tool: what used to take a day or more can now take under ten minutes according to the developer.
Datacolor LightColor Meter: Precision in Light and Color
Datacolor’s LightColor Meter provides precise light and color temperature measurements with Bluetooth connectivity and app control.
More ALEXA 35, Less Budget—But Still ARRI
ARRI introduces the ALEXA 35 Base Model, a lower-cost version of its flagship ALEXA 35. The new model offers the same sensor and image quality but trims the price tag by making advanced features available as separately licensed upgrades.
Fly Blender Like a Drone – For Free!
A free Blender add-on turns your camera into a drone-style controller, bringing a new perspective to 3D animation and VFX.
Blackmagic Camera Update: Timecode Sync and More for Android Users
The latest Blackmagic Camera update brings timecode sync, anamorphic de-squeeze, and off-speed recording to Android. Record up to 240fps on Pixel devices. Yaaaay!!
17K Camera from Blackmagic Design on Preorder
Are YOU suffering from empty storage? Do you need EVERY pixel there is? Well, BMD has a camera for that - now on preorder, or live at the IBC.
Obsbot: 4K, CI, Gimbal, ..
In 2022, Obsbot surprised us with its 4K AI model (see issue DP 22:06). Now they're back with Obsbot Tiny 2. Is the upgrade really 2024 fair or just a warm rehash like the next FIFA [year]? Let's find out!
Blackmagic Camera App now also available for Android
The new Blackmagic Camera App for Android offers VFX professionals advanced filming capabilities on Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel devices and integrates seamlessly into modern VFX pipelines.
Film with a Phone?
It's almost 10 years since Austin Reza shot a film for Bentley's luxury cars: on an iPhone 5S. At the time, it was still in stylish black and white and with high contrasts - no doubt also to prevent artefacts from becoming too obvious. Back in 2011, Park Chan-wook and Park
Chan-kyong from South Korea even shot the fantasy horror "Night Fishing" on an iPhone 4 in colour and won a Golden Bear for the best short film. Apple itself, on the other hand, has generally shot its advertising films on cameras such as the Arri Alexa.
Blackmagic Design: Apple Immersive Video
Blackmagic Design has introduced a new workflow that supports the production of Apple Immersive Video for the Apple Vision Pro. The centrepiece is the Ursa Cine Immersive Camera System, designed for 8K, 3D video with a 180-degree field of view and spatial audio. This format is designed to offer an immersive experience, but it remains to be seen how the untested technology will perform in practice.
“Gyroscopes” for image stabilisation in post-production
Why do I put the term in parentheses? Because it actually refers to classic gyro stabilisation. The word is based on the Greek word for "circle" or "turn" - which is why the meat from the spit is also called Gyros in Greek.
Sony presents PTZ full-format camera
The FR7 is a pan-tilt-zoom camera. Such recording devices are primarily used for surveillance - but the new one from Sony can also produce feature films. A product news item.
HDR displays from Atomos synergise with Panasonic’s Lumix GH6!
If you couple the Ninja V and Ninja V HDR displays with your Lumix, you can rely on brilliant ProRes-Raw!
Blackmagic | Triple Release
New from Blackmagic Design: HyperDeck Studio, Studio Camera 4K and Web Presenter 4K!
Blackmagic | Update
The Camera Update 7.3: with Generation 5 Color Science, false colour help, and more!
Blackmagic | Hardware
Exciting technology in a triple pack: Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro, Atem Mini Extreme - and Web Presenter HD.
Blackmagic Design announces Blackmagic Ursa Mini Pro 12K
6K making your workstation gasp? Now there's a Super 35-12K image sensor, Generation 5 Colour Science and BRAW!
Blackmagic Design: New announcements in the livestream
And for those who have nothing else to do tomorrow, 03 April: Blackmagic Design will be presenting new camera and live production innovations at around 7pm.
Blackmagic RAW
At IBC 2018, Blackmagic Design announced the public beta of its new Blackmagic RAW.
Scratch… Scratch Play Pro
The trend towards packaging continues: Scratch Play Pro brings together a universal format player, an immersive media player, look creator, transcoder (Prores on Windows) and QC tool in one package, offering both filmmakers and post-production artists greater efficiency and productivity.