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Blackmagic Design announced that DP Vance Burberry used its URSA Mini Pro digital film camera and Video Assist 4K monitor/recorder to shoot the music video for songwriter and performer Van William's song “Revolution,” which features Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit. Burberry, who has shot music videos for Guns N' Roses, Pearl Jam, Santana, Coldplay and more, also used DaVinci Resolve Studio and the DaVinci Resolve Mini Panel for color grading.

If you have worked with the Foundry's Nuke compositing software in the past, and would like to switch to Blackmagic Design's Fusion 9 Studio -- which is now available for an amazingly low price! -- you can use nuke2fusion, a set of defaults for Fusion 9 that makes transitioning from Nuke easier. It is available on GitHub, and includes familiar Layouts from Nuke, a set of symlinked names/nodes for Nuke that creates Fusion equivalent nodes and hot-keys to mimic Nuke's default settings.

Trapcode Suite 14 is a major update to Red Giant's industry standard toolset for creating motion graphics and visual effects in Adobe After Effects. Trapcode Suite 14 includes 11 tools, including new version of Trapcode Particular 3, Trapcode Form 3, and an updated Trapcode Tao plug-in. All of the tools work in Adobe After Effects for Windows or Mac OS X, Trapcode Shine, Starglow, and 3D Stroke also work in Premiere Pro.

Both Trapcode Particular 3 and Trapcode Form 3 feature the newly overhauled Designer. It allows to add adjustable blocks with preset behaviors and styles for emitters, particles, physics and aux particles. Or add complete, customizable particle effects with a single click. The Designer gives instant visual feedback, making the building and previewing of effects an intuitive and creative experience. Both plug-ins also enable to use 3D models and animated OBJ sequences as particle emitters (Trapcode Particular 3) or as particle grids (Trapcode Form 3). Now it's also possible to use any image in your composition as a particle by assigning it to a 2D sprite or textured polygon. Particular 3/Form 3 now include over 270 still and animated sprite images, easily loaded directly within After Effects or in the Designer.

Also new in Trapcode Particular 3 is a GPU acceleration through OpenGL. Depending on your system and setup, you could see speed boosts of up to 4x or more over previous versions. The Particular enables to explore endless creative possibilities when you combine multiple particle systems in the same 3D space. Create beautiful, complex effects through the interaction of different systems, all within one instance of Particular. Emitters in Multi-system setups can share parameter settings (such as turbulence, gravity and more), and can be saved as a single preset.

The updated Trapcode Tao introduces Depth of Field effects, which allow you to create camera-realistic blurs for your Tao objects, based on their distance from the After Effects 3D camera. The new Depth of Field effect makes it easy to integrate Tao into your live action shots and motion graphics.

This update adds tally support and a new solo view mode to Blackmagic MultiView 4 so you can clearly see which video source is currently “on air” when used with cameras and switchers that support the Blackmagic SDI tally protocol. It also allows you to switch from multi view to full screen view of any connected video source.

Panasonic today disclosed additional information, including pricing and specification data, about the upcoming AU-EVA1 5.7K handheld cinema camera. Previewed this spring at Cine Gear Expo, the EVA1 will ship this autumn with a suggested list price of €7,290.

Technical specifications now include a pixel count of 5720 H x 3016 V (17.25 million), confirmed dual native ISO ratings of 800 and 2,500, and 14-stops of dynamic range. The newly-designed EVA1 sensor is Super-35 sized (24.60mm x 12.97mm) with 5.7K resolution. With an active resolution of 5720 x 3016, the EVA1 delivers more than 17.25 million photosites, nearly double the 8.8 million for 4K DCI (4096 x 2160). By starting at a higher native resolution, the 5.7K sensor yields a higher resolving image when down-sampled to 4K, UHD, 2K, or even 720p. Additionally, the increased colour information results in a finer, more accurate finished image.

A key feature of the VariCam cameras, dual native ISO utilizes a process that allows the sensor to be read in a fundamentally different way, extracting more information without degrading the image. This  results in a camera that can switch from a standard sensitivity to a high sensitivity with almost no increase in noise or other artefacts. Dual native ISO has allowed cinematographers a greater variety of artistic choices as well as the ability to use less light on set, saving time and money. The EVA1's dual native ISOs are 800 and 2,500, which will allow cinematographers to shoot in almost any lighting environment.

The EVA1 delivers 14-stops of dynamic range, enabling fine gradation in exposure from bright to dark. The ability to capture accurate colours and rich skin tones is a must for any filmmaker. The EVA1 features full V-Log/V-Gamut capture to best utilise high dynamic range and broad colours. V-Log has log curve characteristics that is HDR ready and V-Gamut delivers a colour space that will cover BT.2020.

The camera can record in several formats and compression rates, and offers up to 10-bit 4:2:2 even in 4K. For in camera recording, you can capture in 4K (4096 x 2160), UHD (3840 x 2160), 2K (2048 x 1080), Full HD (1920 x 1080), and HD (1280 x 720). In a future firmware upgrade, EVA1 will offer ALL Intra compression for in camera recording and 5.7K RAW output to third party recorders. For high-speed capture, the EVA1 offers up to 59.94fps/50fps for 4K/UHD, up to 120fps/100fps for 2K/Full HD, or 240fps/200fps (cropped area). On first release, available bit rates will range from as low as 8Mbps up to 150Mbps, depending on frame rate, resolution, and codec. In a future firmware update, 400Mbps recording will be added.