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Vis-A-Vis Video has relied on Blackmagic Design equipment for more than 10 years for its live tours and concerts for world renowned artists including N.E.R.D and OneRepublic. We go behind the scenes at Josh Groban’s ‘Bridges’ tour and find out how Blackmagic Design cameras, switchers and capture cards helps the team create incredible live experiences for arena audiences across the globe.

Panasonic introduced three new interchangeable lenses based on the L-Mount system for the LUMIX S Series Full-frame Digital Single Lens Mirrorless Camera. Specially focusing on professional use, the LUMIX S Series pursues uncompromising photographic expression with its high-quality cameras and lenses.

LUMIX S PRO 50mm F1.4 (S-X50)
A large-aperture fixed focal length lens that forms the core of the LUMIX S Series of lenses

LUMIX S PRO 70-200mm F4 O.I.S. (S-R70200)
A telephoto zoom lens that features high resolution with stunning clarity across the entire zoom range

LUMIX S 24-105mm F4 MACRO O.I.S. (S-R24105)
A versatile standard zoom lens with macro shot capability covering wide-angle to medium telephoto

The L-Mount is a lens mount for mirrorless cameras that was launched by Leica and is equally suitable for both the APS-C format and full-frame cameras. Leica Camera, Panasonic and Sigma are set to offer a user-friendly solution that will allow photographers to ‘mix and match’ any of the three manufacturers’ APS-C and full-frame cameras with any lens from each other’s product portfolios. The aim of the L-Mount Alliance is to provide customers with a diverse and future-proof range of products. The advantages are a large inner diameter of 51.6 mm that enables the realization of extremely fast lenses and extremely compact dimensions. The configuration of the lens-to-camera communication interface is future-proof and the L-Mount also offers an option for the construction of sealed systems that are insensitive to dust and moisture. The L-Mount thereby opens up an almost limitless spectrum of new creative possibilities.

All interchangeable lenses of the LUMIX S Series provide high performance yet the “LUMIX S PRO” lenses further boast ultimate optical performance to be certified by LEICA for clearing stringent LEICA standards. Panasonic is committed to designing and developing 10 or more lenses with a focus on “LUMIX S PRO” lenses by 2020 and further expanding the S Series lens lineup.

New software update for DaVinci Resolve 15 improves performance of video playback on the edit page, including multicam playback. H.265 and H.265 encoding has also been improved on the Mac, the latest version of Intel OpenCL drivers is now supported on Windows, project load and save performance is faster, and 5.1 and 7.1 IMF clip handling is improved. In addition, decode support for different Canon XF-AVC clip formats has been added to DaVinci Resolve Studio, font detection on Windows is improved, and support for Sony Venice 3.0 firmware has been added.

• Improved Edit page viewer playback performance
• Improved performance when rendering H.264 and H.265 clips on MacOS
• Improved stability when using the latest version of Intel OpenCL drivers on Windows
• Improved performance when saving timeline changes in a project
• Improved performance when loading a project with a large number of audio tracks and buses
• Improved handling of 5.1 and 7.1 audio when working with IMF clips
• Improved support for decoding some Canon XF-AVC clip formats in DaVinci Resolve Studio
• Improved font detection on Windows with support for fonts installed in user directories
• Support for the Sony Venice 3.0 firmware update
• General performance and stability improvements

REDCINE-X PRO allows you to open and work with your REDCODE RAW R3D files, and provides an advanced coloring toolset, integrated timeline, and post effects suite works to provide a professional, flexible finishing environment for your R3D files. The new Windows-only v51 Public Beta 3 release adds accelerated R3D decompression on supported NVIDIA CUDA GPUs, new Image Noise Reduction Panel, and more!

The first maintenance update for LightWave 3D 2019, Rev 2019.0.1, is now available for download in Registration. It fixes MacOS 10.11 crashes on launch, crashes related to new UV Display or Gaussian filter, and numerous fixes to the LightWave Bridge to Unreal.