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Tutorials in the new EDIUS Basics series describe basic functionality of the Grass Valley EDIUS Pro 8 and Workgroup NLE applications.

New York City and Los Angeles-area cinematographers and filmmakers are invited to attend an exclusive first look of Panasonic's new AU-EVA1 cinema camera. The events will include the screening of short films shot with the new cinema camera and a question-and-answer session with the films' cinematographers who will discuss shooting with the EVA1. The New York City event will be held on Monday, September 11th at the Angelika Film Center, while the Los Angeles event will be held on Thursday, September 14th at The Linwood Dunn Theater.

These events represent the first time shooters will be able to get hands-on with the EVA1; Panasonic cinema specialists will be on hand to answer questions. The EVA1 is a 5.7K handheld cinema camera that contains Dual Native ISOs of 800/2500, records footage to low cost SD cards, and captures 14-stops of dynamic range. It is tailor-made for a number of shooting applications, including narrative, documentary, music videos, live events and more. Panasonic recently announced that the EVA1 will ship this Fall with a suggested list price of 7,290 EUR.

Press Release

Blackmagic Design has announced its DaVinci Resolve Studio and DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel were used to complete picture post in Ultra HD 4K on the third season of award winning Canal+ French drama series, “Le Bureau des Légendes.”

Post production for the ten part series now available on Amazon Prime was completed at Paris based Digital Factory by freelance colorist Guillaume Lips. “Not only did we grade the entire series from beginning to end in Resolve, but we also delivered in Ultra HD 4K for the first time,” he begins.



The turnaround for completing the DI on each episode was incredibly tight according to Lips. “With only two days to complete an episode our workflow needed to be both fast and efficient. Not only did Resolve’s realtime performance provide first-class shot tracking but it also meant that we could work with the project native materials in 4K.”

While the main unit captured to ProRes 4444, there was a whole raft of smaller cameras used by the production’s second unit to shoot the action scenes. “Resolve’s extensive format and multi-codec support proved invaluable,” explains Lips. “We carried out a basic technical grade to adjust contrast levels and correct for the differences in color space and that gave us our starting point for the final DI.”

When grading scenes from Syria, Lips drew on DaVinci Resolve’s extensive toolset and a series of power windows to unlock the rich deep tones and add a large amount of contrast while still retaining enough detail in the highlights and shadows.

“In order to achieve that, I used the HDR capabilities in Resolve to finesse the midtones,” he reveals. “And when it came to skin tones I wanted to bring back as much softness as possible to mitigate any over-definition resulting from the 4K delivery which Resolve proved highly adept at handling.”

“As an experienced colorist I have worked with a lot of different grading systems in my career and I firmly believe that DaVinci Resolve remains one of the very best in the market today,” concludes Lips. “Used alongside the DaVinci Resolve Advanced Panel you have a very efficient way of working, which allowed me to complete the grade on this particular project in record time.”



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About Blackmagic Design
Blackmagic Design creates the world’s highest quality video editing products, digital film cameras, color correctors, video converters, video monitoring, routers, live production switchers, disk recorders, waveform monitors and real time film scanners for the feature film, post production and television broadcast industries. Blackmagic Design’s DeckLink capture cards launched a revolution in quality and affordability in post production, while the company’s Emmy™ award winning DaVinci color correction products have dominated the television and film industry since 1984. Blackmagic Design continues ground breaking innovations including 6G-SDI and 12G-SDI products and stereoscopic 3D and Ultra HD workflows. Founded by world leading post production editors and engineers, Blackmagic Design has offices in the USA, UK, Japan, Singapore and Australia. For more information, please go to www.blackmagicdesign.com.

This beta update adds basic HUI protocol support for compatibility with the Mackie Universal Control Surface, as well as support for attaching speakers to Blackmagic Design video I/O hardware or USB audio devices. In addition, it also includes Cineform encoding and decoding on all platforms, improved H.264 compatibility on Windows, and dozens of other fixes and performance improvements.

In addition to the hardware and software required below, it is recommended the PCs have an absolute minimum of 4GB of memory, an accelerated graphics card, and a CPU that meets or exceeds the system requirements of the software application you are planning on using. Apple QuickTime needs to be installed for some applications to function with a Blackmagic capture card.

Supported Operating Systems

Blackmagic Design Thunderbolt devices are compatible with:

Windows 7 64bit

Windows 8 64bit

Windows 10 64 bit

 

The following laptops are compatible with Blackmagic Design Thunderbolt devices:

DELL – Precision 7720

DELL – Precision 7520

DELL – XPS

 

The following Intel NUC is compatible with Blackmagic Design Thunderbolt devices:

Intel Nuc – NUC7i7BNH

 

Supported Hardware

The following motherboards are compatible with Blackmagic Design Thunderbolt devices:

ASRock Z87 Extreme 4

ASRock Z87 Extreme4/TB4

ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac

Asus Z87-Expert

Asus Z87 Deluxe/Quad

Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD7 TH

Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H TH

Gigabyte Z77X-UP4 TH

Gigabyte Z77X-UP5 TH

Gigabyte Z97X-UD7 TH

MSI Z77A-G45 Thunderbolt

SuperMicro X10SAT
SuperMicro C7Z87-OCE (Legacy)

Windows PCI Express System Requirements

Operating Systems

Blackmagic Design Capture cards are compatible with the following Windows-based operating systems:

Windows 7 64 bit

Windows 8 64 bit

Windows 10 64 bit

Certified PC Workstations

The following workstations are certified for use with DeckLink and Intensity capture cards:

Dell Precision 7910

Dell T7610

Hewlett Packard Z420

Hewlett Packard Z440

Hewlett Packard Z620

Hewlett Packard Z640

Hewlett Packard Z820

Hewlett Packard Z840
Hewlett Packard XW8600 (Legacy, not recommended for DeckLink PCI or PCI-X cards)

Hewlett Packard XW9300 (Legacy)
Hewlett Packard Z400 (Legacy)

Hewlett Packard Z600 (Legacy)

Hewlett Packard Z800 (Legacy)

Recommended Motherboards

The following motherboards are recommended for use with DeckLink, Multibridge and Intensity capture cards:

ASRock Z87 Extreme 6

ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac

ASRock Z87 Extreme4/TB4

ASRock Z87 Extreme4 (not recommended for DeckLink Studio 4K)

ASRock Z87E-ITX

Asus Z87 Deluxe/Quad

Asus Z87-Expert

Asus Z87-Gryphon

Asus Z87-A

Asus Z87-PLUS

Asus Z87-PRO

Gigabyte H81-D3

Gigabyte GA-H87M-D3H (not recommended for DeckLink Duo)

Gigabyte Q87M-D2H

Gigabyte X170 Extreme ECC

Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF

Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3

Gigabyte Z77MX-D3H TH

Gigabyte Z77X-UP4 TH

Gigabyte Z77X-UP5 TH

Gigabyte Z87X-UD4H

Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD7 TH

Gigabyte Z97-UD5H

Gigabyte Z97-WIFI

Gigabyte Z97X-UD7 TH

Gigabyte Z170X GAMING 5

MSI Z77A-G45 Thunderbolt

SuperMicro C7H170-M

SuperMicro C7X99-OCE

SuperMicro C7Z170-SQ

SuperMicro C7Z87-OCE

SuperMicro C7Z97-OCE (not recommended for DeckLink Studio 2)

SuperMicro X10SAT (not recommended for DeckLink Studio 4K)

SuperMicro X10SLV (not recommended with DeckLink SDI)

SuperMicro X10SLV-Q (not recommended with DeckLink SDI)

The following motherboards have been discontinued but are known to work in legacy configuration.

3DBoxx 4920

Asus P5B

Asus P5E

Asus P5Q Pro Turbo

Asus P6T

Asus P6X58D

Asus P6X58D-E WS

Asus P8P67 PRO (Rev 3.1)

Asus P9X79 WS

Gigabyte EP45-DS3

Gigabyte G1.Sniper (X58 chipset)

Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7-B3 (rev. 1.0)

Gigabyte x48DQ6

Gigabyte X79-UD5

Intel D975XBX

Intel DX58SO

Supermicro C7Z97-M

XFX 790i Ultra

Windows USB 3.0 System Requirements

Operating Systems

Blackmagic Design USB 3.0 devices are compatible with the following Windows based operating systems:

Windows 7 64-bit

Windows 8 64-bit

Windows 10 64 bit

Certified PC Workstations

The following workstations are certified for use with UltraStudio Pro, UltraStudio SDI, Intensity Shuttle, ATEM 1 M/E, ATEM 2 M/E and Pocket UltraScope devices with USB 3.0 Expander cards:

Hewlett Packard Z420

Hewlett Packard Z620

Hewlett Packard Z820

Hewlett Packard Z400 - (discontinued)

Hewlett Packard Z600 - (discontinued)

Hewlett Packard Z800 - (discontinued)

 

Certified Notebook Computers

Notebooks certified for use with UltraStudio Pro, UltraStudio SDI and Intensity Shuttle.

MSI GE620 - (discontinued)

 

Presently there are no certified notebook computers for use with Pocket UltraScope. Testing is being conducted on several new notebook models and the results are expected soon. We will update this support note when we find new notebook models which can be reliably used with Pocket UltraScope. We advise against purchasing notebook computers for use with it until certification testing has been successfully completed.

 

The following notebook computers have not been verified by Blackmagic Design but have been reported by end-users as working with UltraStudio Pro, UltraStudio SDI, Intensity Shuttle, ATEM 1 M/E, and ATEM 2 M/E. Blackmagic Design cannot guarantee full compatibility.

 

Alienware M18x r2

ASUS G75VW

ASUS G74SX

ASUS G55VW

ASUS G53SW

ASUS K75

ASUS N56VZ

Lenovo P580-308725U

Lenovo W520

Lenovo T420

HP ProBook 4740S

Dell Precision M6600

Dell Precision M4600

MSI GT683 DXR

MSI FX720

MSI GS627 Core2 Quad Q9000

Acer 5755G i7-2670QM

Samsung RC512

Samsung SF411

Toshiba Satellite P775-S7215

Custom built - Clevo P170EM, HM77 Express Chipset, i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor, GeForce GTX 680M

Recommended Motherboards

The following motherboards have onboard USB 3.0 and have been tested to work with UltraStudio Pro, UltraStudio SDI, Intensity Shuttle, ATEM 1 M/E, ATEM 2 M/E, and Pocket UltraScope.

ASUS P6X58D-Premium

ASUS P6X58D-E

ASUS Crosshair IV Formula

Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7

Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5

Gigabyte G1.Sniper (rev. 1.0)

 

The following motherboards have not been verified by Blackmagic Design but have been reported by end-users as working with UltraStudio Pro, UltraStudio SDI, Intensity Shuttle, ATEM 1 M/E, ATEM 2 M/E, and Pocket UltraScope. Blackmagic Design cannot guarantee full compatibility.

 

ASUS P8Z77-M

ASUS P8Z77-V LK

ASUS P9X79

ASUS P6T Deluxe (with Renesas PCIe expansion card)

Intel DX58SO (with Renesas PCIe expansion card)