Blackmagic Design IBC news

Effective immediately, we have acquired eyeon Software and it will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackmagic Design. eyeon will continue to develop new products, support its customers and expand its sales channels with the added strength of Blackmagic. This is incredibly exciting for us. eyeon’s Fusion has been used by more than 1,000 Hollywood films and TV shows. With eyeon, very much like with DaVinci Resolve, we now have another powerful software product that has decades of Hollywood success behind it and can be used by anyone. In particular, we feel Fusion’s node based way of working is an amazingly easy and clean way to create. Here are two quotes from the CEO of Blackmagic (Grant Petty) and the CEO of eyeon (Steve Roberts):

“We’re really excited about the acquisition of eyeon,” said Grant Petty, Blackmagic Design CEO. “Fusion compositing, 3D and motion graphics software has been used on some of Hollywood’s biggest visual effects blockbusters. When used together with DaVinci Resolve for editing and grading, Fusion also gives customers the world’s most advanced tools for 3D compositing, visual effects, motion graphics design and more!”

This is a brand new product line for us. The new MultiView 16 lets you see up to 16 SDI inputs on a single display. It is the world’s first native Ultra HD multi viewer that allows customers to use the new large screen Ultra HD televisions and Ultra HD monitors for displaying images at twice the resolution of an HD multi view. With full frame re-sync in each input, it supports the display of up to 16 mixed SD, HD and Ultra HD video sources all at the same time. MultiView 16 will be priced at only US$1,495.

Blackmagic Cinema Camera PL and Blackmagic Production Camera 4K PL: (www.blackmagicdesign.com/press/pressdetails?releaseID=61763) $2,295 and $2,995, respectively. Available now.Two new cinema cameras, the Blackmagic Production Camera 4K PL and Blackmagic Cinema Camera PL. Both cameras now include PL mount models, for using professional cinema lenses or even vintage cinema lenses, and are now available from $2,295. This means cinematographers now have a professional PL mount digital film camera that’s so small, the camera body is only a little larger than the lens mount itself. Customers then get a design that can fit into the tightest locations while still allowing decades of classic professional film lenses to be used.

DaVinci Resolve 11.1 Update: (www.blackmagicdesign.com/press/pressdetails?releaseID=61764). Available now. This new version adds in a number of new editing and color correction features. New editing features include improved Final Cut Pro X integration, improved asymmetric trimming, a new Swap Edit command, the ability to trim gaps in the timeline, editable in/out points in the source viewer, graphical fade sliders for video opacity, action and title safe overlays, independent track heights, a full screen timeline option, the ability to add transitions to multiple clips at the same time, and more. New color correction features include support for object tracking and stabilization of compound clips, second layer input support for OpenFX plugins, the ability to pick colors in the viewer for OFX plugins, and new group menu options to load, delete and rename groups. DaVinci Resolve 11.1 also includes support for visually lossless compressed DNG RAW clips, Panasonic Varicam vRAW and AVC-I, improved color decoding for Phantom CINE RAW files, new Phantom Cine Log gamma selection in the camera raw settings, VFX I/O LUTs for Gamma 2.2 and Gamma 2.4, and more. Linux customers also get OpenCL support for AMD GPUs.

Finally, the new version adds support for Dolby Vision image processing.

SmartView 4K: (www.blackmagicdesign.com/press/pressdetails?releaseID=61761) $1,995. Available December. 

The world’s first full resolution Ultra HD broadcast monitor with 12G-SDI inputs for compatibility with virtually all SD, HD and Ultra HD formats up to 2160p60 for only $1,995.SmartView 4K is a professional Ultra HD broadcast monitor with a native resolution of 3840 x 2160, an amazingly bright LCD screen with a wide viewing angle and broadcast features such as 3D LUTs, adjustable on screen markers, H/V delay, blue only and more. SmartView 4K features multi rate 12G-SDI inputs that automatically switch between SD, HD and Ultra HD formats up to 2160p60. With 12G-SDI, SmartView 4K has an incredible future proof design with unprecedented full resolution Ultra HD high frame rate support all built into the attractive thin rack mount design.

Smart Videohub 40×40: (www.blackmagicdesign.com/press/pressdetails?releaseID=61760) $2,995. Available October. The newest Videohub model of our mixed format routers, Smart Videohub 40×40 includes our visual routing user interface and 6G-SDI technology allowing SD, HD and Ultra HD routing all on the same router at the same time.

DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G: (www.blackmagicdesign.com/press/pressdetails?releaseID=61759) $1,495. Available October.

A new dual Link 12G-SDI capture and playback card that includes an extremely fast 8 lane PCI Express Generation 2 connection to the computer allowing extremely high performance such as dual stream video capture and playback at resolutions up to 2160p60. Dual stream capture and playback at these resolutions allows dual stream 3D as well as simultaneous fill and key capture and playback even when operating in Ultra HD at 60 frames per second.

Mini Converters with 6G-SDI and Ultra HD: (www.blackmagicdesign.com/press/pressdetails?releaseID=61758) $295 and $345. Available October. New Ultra HD compatible Mini Converters and Heavy Duty Mini Converter 4K models that feature 6G-SDI technology, allowing customers to use a single type of converter for all conversion needs in SD, HD and Ultra HD television formats. These new models replace the previous models for each conversion type and all standard models retail at $295 while the heavy duty models retail for US$345.

New Blackmagic Videohub Software: (www.blackmagicdesign.com/press/pressdetails?releaseID=61756) Available now.

A new software suite for the company’s popular Videohub range of SDI routers that provides new client control and setup applications for easier and simpler router operation. Blackmagic Videohub 6.0 is available now for download free of charge.

The new Blackmagic Videohub 6.0 update includes 2 new software applications for both Mac OS X and Windows computers. The Blackmagic Videohub Control features a new user interface that includes elegantly designed buttons that allow users to customize and control their Videohub routing from their desktop. Blackmagic Videohub Control is perfect when customers are working on editing, color correction or other computer based workstations and want to change routing in their facility.